Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services

The Behavioral Health and Justice Division (BHJD) of the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) is officially launching a new Forensic Equity Unit.

The new unit will address the deep racial inequality within the justice system for people with serious mental illness by preventing incarceration for those at risk of justice involvement, reducing the length of stay for incarcerated individuals, reducing re-incarceration for the justice-involved, increasing connections to treatment and support for those returning to the community from institutional settings, and targeting social determinants of health.

Heading this new unit is our new Forensic Associate Director, Dr. Brittney Bryant who comes to us with years of experience in this area.