Kate Vesely

Kate Vesely is the Director of Pima County’s Department of Justice Services (DJS). She has a dual Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Legal Studies from the University of Arizona. Kate has working in each intercept of the justice system – and was the first to coin the term “Intercept 0” in 2016, and aided Policy Research Associates to incorporate it into the full Sequential Intercept Model (SIM). In 2018, she was the primary author of the Consolidate Misdemeanor Problem Solving (CMPS, pronounced “compass”) court program, the first consolidated, regional co-occurring treatment court program in the country. Kate has been the lead facilitator for the Southern Arizona Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) since 2008, and sits on several expert panels for both SAMHSA and BJA.