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Examines the impact of psychosocial program, Pyramid House membership on the criminal justice system involvement of mentally ill in Harris County, Texas. Components of an effective mental health system; Significance of Pyramid House to Community Mental Health Center psychiatry unit; Benefits of voluntary psychosocial programs.

This article focuses on the Houston Advance DATAR Follow-Up project, a project that had follow-up as its sole purpose. The project achieved unanticipated success despite some early difficulties and the special population of the project. This success is being credited by workers to the triage system of the project for applying techniques utilized by private detectives to locate missing persons, although specific techniques are in line with those used by similar projects elsewhere. A survey schedule was used by Houston Advance DATAR Follow-Up workers to conduct reassessments. Workers were offered by the project with all the necessary tools to do their tasks.