Advancing the National Standard for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation
The Leifman Group is the premier national consulting firm that helps state and local governments, courts, and communities transform behavioral health and justice systems. Inspired by the nationally recognized Miami Model, we design and implement data-driven strategies that reduce incarceration, strengthen public safety, save critical taxpayer dollars, and create sustainable pathways to treatment, recovery, and improved outcomes.
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Services for System Transformation
Diversion & Competency System Reform
Design and implement evidence-based diversion frameworks that create pathways away from incarceration to effective, community-based care for individuals with mental illnesses.
Crisis Response System Planning
Assist jurisdictions in designing and implementing integrated crisis-care infrastructure, including receiving centers, stabilization units and coordinated response teams for both law enforcement and civilian responders.
Stakeholder Facilitation
Lead strategic convenings that bring together traditional and non-traditional stakeholders to align courts, law enforcement, health agencies, and community partners around sustainable, system-wide reform.
Housing Integration Strategies
Design and implement a continuum of housing solutions for high-acuity behavioral health populations, aligning individuals with the appropriate level of care to support stability and recovery.
Justice Reform Consulting
Provide strategic technical assistance, legislative and policy guidance to state and local governments, courts, and communities on behavioral health and justice reform initiatives, including Special Master services.
Data & Impact Evaluation
Execute rigorous cost-benefit analyses, data sharing strategies, and data-driven evaluations to measure the fiscal and social impact of reform initiatives.
Nationwide Leadership in Systems Transformation
Extensive experience across multiple states and local justice systems
Trusted advisor on federal and national behavioral health and justice initiatives
Advancing diversion strategies that reduce incarceration, save critical tax dollars, improve public safety, and enhance treatment outcomes.
The Leifman Group is the premier national strategic partner to state and local governments, courts, and communities advancing behavioral health and justice system reform. Informed by the nationally recognized Miami Model, we design and implement evidence-based, data-driven strategies that reduce incarceration, enhance public safety, save critical tax dollars, and create sustainable pathways to treatment, recovery, and long-term stability—ultimately saving lives.
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Leading National Reform in Behavioral Health and Justice Systems
The Leifman Group provides trusted strategic expertise to state and local governments, courts, and communities—advancing data-driven reforms that reduce recidivism, enhance public safety, save critical tax dollars, and create meaningful pathways to treatment, recovery, and hope.
Decriminalizing Mental Illness: The Miami Model Workshop
These two-day workshops in Miami provide an opportunity to hear directly from Judge Steve Leifman and his colleagues about Miami’s innovations in crisis response, diversion, civil off-ramps, competence to stand trial alternatives, and the effective use of peers. Attendees also visit the new model wraparound services facility, the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery. Most importantly, attendees learn how to engage in meaningful system change and leave with a plan to implement new strategies in their jurisdictions.