Again this is my personal opinion, but a mental health court could be used in areas that wouldn't traditionally be considered to be divertible, for example, domestic assault. It's very common in our court to see a couple who both have mental health issues. They've been living together. There may have been previous incidents and the police have been called. The person, even though he or she was obviously ill, was arrested instead of being hospitalized, perhaps because it didn't work before. Now we have someone who needs special provisions, because both partners want the person to be back in the home. But we need to be able to make sure that person's mental health is treated and monitored.
So this is a good example of the kind of thing a mental health court would do that another court wouldn't necessarily be willing to do.