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Adults with Behavioral Health Needs under Correctional Supervision
is an objective. However, these characteristics (gender, ethnicity, and age) must be considered as specific responsivity factors to be accommodated in the development and provision of programs and services.102 With this section’s background about the principles that guide mental health, substance abuse, and corrections professionals in identifying and prioritizing recipients for interventions, it is easy to see that a collaborative approach to focusing on a shared population and determining how resources will be allocated to them can be quite complex. The section that follows introduces a framework that reflects the principles from the various disciplines, applies the research on effective interventions, uses resources to their greatest effect, and encourages creative thinking about coordinated system responses.