It's here. A proven strategy for implementing your county's Stepping Up Program
Our jails have become defacto psych wards. Changing that saves lives and money.
Stepping Up — the national initiative to reduce the number of people with mental illness in jails by collecting and sharing data that connects them to treatment and services — can be a challenge to implement. Especially for counties that find themselves understaffed, overworked, and possibly in need of some extra help when it comes to HIPPA compliance and cyber security.
Know for sure you're taking the right steps
To implement a Stepping Up program, look to Touchstone’s cyber-compliance experts to help you:
- Identify what needs to be done
- Coordinate buy-in and consensus among your county’s stakeholders – from law enforcement to behavioral health
- Smoothly integrate diverse data systems
- Evaluate potential risks from a HIPAA, technical, and operations’ standpoint
- Ensure the privacy and security of health information shared across multiple platforms
- Develop contingency and mitigation plans
- Train your people in the program’s new protocols
- Access extra staffing, if needed
The expertise we needed
“Before we brought Touchstone in to help, our team struggled with the inter-department collaboration and compliance Stepping Up requires.
With fairness and impartiality, they helped us work together to overcome the stumbling blocks to matching data between different departments and agencies.
Don’t go it alone. Bring in Touchstone at the beginning.”
Ryan Lamb
IT Project Manager
County of San Luis Obispo
Download our
Basic Guide for Successfully Implementing Stepping Up
With tips and resources for gathering data crucial to reducing the number of mentally ill people in jail, this helpful ebooklet is yours — FREE.