Innovation on the Last Frontier: A Conversation about the Anchorage Mental Health Court

Summary: <p><a href="http://www.ajc.state.ak.us/judges/judgemain.html#rhoades" target="_blank">Judge Stephanie L. Rhoades</a>, who helped found and has presided over the Anchorage Mental Health Court since 1998, and <a href="http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/socialwork/Directory/Faculty/krtrawver.cfm" target="_blank">Kathi R. Trawver</a>, associate professor of the School of Social Work at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, discuss the court's origins, accomplishments and lessons. They co-authored "<a href="http://abs.sagepub.com/content/57/2/174.abstract" target="_blank">Homesteading a Pioneering Mental Health Court: A Judicial Perspective from the Last Frontier</a>" for <em>American Behavioral Scientist</em>.</p>