Budget
$161,000.00
Description
The sole program of the Foundation is to provide financial support for the Davidson County Mental Health and Veterans Courts. With the Foundation's assistance, these courts restore lives by providing psychological treatment, monitoring, mentoring, and transitional housing as an alternative to incarceration.
Program Successes
Mental Health Court Program Graduates have an 83% success rate and Veterans Court Program Graduates have an 88% success rate compared to a greater than 50% failure rate in the traditional justice system. Success is measured by maintaining sobriety and no re-engagement with the justice system for one year post-graduation.
Category
Crime & Legal - Related  - Criminal Justice & Corrections 
Beneficiaries
People with psychosocial disabilities
People with substance use disorder
Veterans
Long-term Success
Long term success results from reducing/eliminating contact with the justice system for successful program graduates allowing them to obtain employment, safe and stable housing, reuniting with families and becoming contributing members of society.
Short-term Success
Short term success results from getting prospective program participants screened for suitability, stabilized if they are suffering from mental health challenges, into a substance screening regimen and into stable housing.
Program Success Monitored By
The Courts of Davidson County General Sessions Division II.
Program Areas Served
Nashville/Davidson County and surrounding areas.