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In 2008 the Center for Mental Health Service of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) convened a conference with the goal of looking at ways to decrease the involvement of Veterans with the criminal legal system and to provide them with mental health treatment. The conference was attended by representatives from law enforcement, corrections, the courts, community organizations, Federal agencies, and Veterans’ health and advocacy organizations.

In recent years, programs have been developed to avoid unnecessary incarceration of Veterans who have deployed to war and subsequently developed mental health problems. The programs aim to assist Veterans who become involved in the criminal legal system to get treatment for mental health problems that may exist. These programs are especially needed given the numbers of Veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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If you or someone in your family gets health coverage through ARHOME — Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program — a change quietly started on July 1 that’s worth understanding now, while there’s still time to prepare. Nobody’s losing coverage yet. But the clock has started, and what you do between now and January could matter a great deal.

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