Community Services Boards (CSBs) see many individuals who have serious mental illnesses. However, we estimate a large number of additional adults with SMI who may not already receive services at the CSBs. CSBs can use the information below to gauge the prevalence of SMI in their community and the potential for collaboration and capacity-building. This visualization shows the individuals served by CSBs, [...]
The following visualization shows the most serious offenses of jail populations diagnosed with a mental illness. Each color on the bar represents a type of offense. The length of the bar chart represents the population size. The longer the bar, the greater number of inmates with a mental illness. This visualization can provide insight into the type [...]
Substance use, particularly drug poisoning, issues are now at the forefront of recent health care policy discussions. The graphic shown below displays a trend analysis of drug poisoning deaths by drug (cocaine, heroin, methadone) from 2010 - 2013 for each Health Planning Region (HPR). As shown below, deaths involving Heroin drug overdose have increased in all HPRs [...]
Seeing CSBs Series: #2 Virginia CSBs serve a number of individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Substance use, particularly drug poisoning, issues are now at the forefront of recent health care policy discussions. The graphics shown below display the number and type of drug poisoning hospitalizations in 2013 by residents of each CSB service area. [...]