Community Support Programs Branch

Partnerships for Women, Violence, and Trauma Initiatives

The Community Support Programs (CSP) Branch has partnered with the Council of State Governments (CSG) to coordinate a two-phased project that is meant to draw attention to the unmet needs of women with mental illness who are victims of crime. It will also construct a core set of policy and practice recommendations for serving this population within the contexts of both the criminal justice and mental health systems. Through this contract, CSG published an issue brief in 2006 that:

• Reviewed existing literature,
• Provided information on existing programs and resources, and
• Recommended the elements of a national agenda to be advanced by Federal agencies.

To view the "Violence Against Women with Mental Illness" issue brief see:
http://consensusproject.org/projects/vwmi/