Community Services & Public Policy
Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy
Critical Incident Analysis Group
The Community Services and Public Policy Section (CSPP) comprises five groups that interface with the community (from the local to international levels) and which are either involved in public policy or have the potential to impact on public policy.
1) Improve the capacity of mental health disciplines to provide sound, reliable clinical and scientific information to civil and criminal courts. The ILPPP is the primary site for UVA’s Dept. of Psychiatric Medicine’s training programs in forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology.
2) Develop and shape laws and public policies related to mental health and human development;
3) Understand, assess, prevent, and manage violence in society, with particular emphasis on violence among people with mental disorders; and
4) Promote human rights by developing and strengthening the ethical and legal foundations of the rights of persons who have, or are perceived to have, mental illnesses and disabilities.
- Virginia 's School of Medicine dedicated to improving the public’s and the government's ability to understand and cope with critical incidents and the government’s capacity to anticipate, prevent, and manage them effectively.
- The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is a research group within the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System . The Division’s main purpose, and the raison d’être for its foundation, is the scientific investigation of phenomena that suggest that currently accepted scientific assumptions and theories about the nature of mind or consciousness, and its relationship to matter, may be incomplete.
- Emergency and Outreach Services addresses innovative systems and means of coordinating clinical care and planning with other agencies and divisions relating to mental health service needs. This includes working with local community resources to improve the continuity of services, diffuse the cost of providing care, and increase training opportunities for medical students and residents across a spectrum of clinical settings and practices. Dr. Kantor is Director of the UVA Medical Reserve Corps project, a service learning outreach activity of the School of Medicine supporting the regional response to disaster. He also coordinates the NIMH Outreach Partner Project for Virginia attempting to link science- based discovery in mental health to practice via education of community members and practitioners.
- Prevention Research Analysis group has a primary focus to address the negative consequences of health-related behaviors in children, adolescents and adults with a goal toward developing, testing and/or evaluating interventions to reduce or prevent these consequences. A secondary focus is to develop, test and/or evaluate interventions related to emotional response to illness.