TOPIC: Juvenile Justice Systems - Mental Health Needs

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Guidance Notes

• Dropout Prevention
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School

Introductory Packets

• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School-Aged Youth

Quick Finds

• Gangs
• Hate Groups: Helping Students and Preventing Hate Crime
• Prevention for Students "At Risk"
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools
• Youth Development
• Zero Tolerance

Newsletter

• Labeling Troubled and Troubling Youth: The Name Game (Summer, '96)
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative

Practice Notes

• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others
• Working with Disengaged Students

Quick Training Aid

• Behavior Problems at School
• Violence Prevention

Policy & Practice Analysis

• Youth Gangs and Schools
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role Schools

Relevant Publications on the Internet

Delinquency

• Aftercare Services - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Can Control Theory Explain the Link Between Parental Physical Abuse and Delinquency? A Longitudinal Analysis (2005) C. Rebellon & K. Van Gundy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 42, (3) 247-274
• "Child Delinquency: Early Intervention and Prevention" (2003) R. Loeber, et al. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Comparison of the Educational Deficiencies of Delinquent and Nondelinquent Students (2005) X. Wang, et al, Evaluation Review, 29(4) 291-312
• Co-occurrence of Delinquency and Other Problem Behaviors (PDF Document, 180K)
• Cost-Effective Delinquency Prevention Programs
• The Girls Study Group—Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Model Programs Guide
• Risk and Protective Factors of Child Delinquency (2003)
• Tool Kit Offers Practical Guidelines for Creating Truancy Reduction Program
• "Tools for Success" Seeks to Reduce Delinquency Through Educational Stability
• Training Curriculum for Working With Girls Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
• Mental Health Treatment for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
• Working Together for Change: Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System Cross-Training Curriculum


Facts, Studies, and Statistics

• Annual Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families
• "Addressing the Needs of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Current State of Knowledge" (2003) D. Mears & L. Aron
• "Derailed: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track" (2003) J. Browne, Advancement Project
• "The Dimensions, Pathways, and Consequences of Youth Reentry" (2004) D. Mears & J. Travis
• Introduction to the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement
• Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report
• Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2006: Selected Findings
• Overcoming Barriers to School Reentry: Fact Sheet (2004) C. Roy-Stevens. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Psychiatric Disorders of Youth in Detention (2006) L. Teplin et al,
• A Review of Mood Disorders Among Juvenile Offenders (2004)
• Test, Punish and Push Out: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Youth Courts: An Empirical Update and Analysis of Future Organizational and Research Needs

General

• GAINS Cross-Training Curriculum
• Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP)
• Juveniles: Consensus Project
• Making the Right Turn: A Guide About Improving Transition Outcomes for Youth Involved in the Juvenile Corrections System
• Meeting the Educational Needs of Youth Exposed to the Juvenile Justice System.
• National Center for Youth in Custody
• No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration
• Reducing Juvenile Delinquency through Community Programs
• Restoring Classroom Justice
• School Reentry of Juvenile Offenders (From CSMHA)
• Teacher connectedness and health-related outcomes among detained adolescents
• Tools for Promoting Educational Success and Reducing Delinquency
• Victims of violent juvenile crime (2004) C. McCurley & H. Snyder, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Violent Victimization as a Risk Factor for Violent Offending Among Juveniles

Juvenille Justice

• Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
• The Dangers of Detention: the Impact of Incarcerating Youth in Detention and Other Secure Facilities
• Journal of Juvenile Justice
• Justice Policy Institute
• Juvenile Corrections and the Exceptional Student (ERIC Digest)
• Juvenile Court-controlled Reentry: Three practice models
• Juvenile Jailhouse Rocked: Reforming Detention in Chicago, Portland, and Sacramento
• Juvenile Justice (The Future of Children)
• Juvenile Justice (OJJDP): Mental Health Issue
• Juvenile Justice & Mental Health Working Together for the Best Outcomes for Youth With Serious Emotional Disorders
• Juvenile Justice: New Models for Reform (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation newsletter Fall 05)
• Juvenile Justice: Restoring the Balance: Juvenile and Community Justice
• Juvenile Law Center
• Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice
• State Juvenile Justice Legislation Review
• State Juvenile Justice profiles

Mental Health

• An Intensive Mental Health Unit for Adolescents in the Correctional Setting
• Arrests of Adolescent Clients of a Public Mental Health System During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
• Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice
• "Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Several Factors Influence the Placement of Children Solely to Obtain Mental Health Services" (2003) C. Ashby, testimony before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
• Highlights
• "Clinical utility and policy implications of a statewide mental health screening process for juvenile offenders." (2003) D. Steward & E. Trupin, Psychiatric Services 54(3) 377-382
• Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Youth in Juvenile Detention
• Focal Point: Research, Policy, and Practice in Children's Mental Health: Corrections
• Handle With Care: Serving the Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders
• Helping Those Who Need It Most: Meeting the Mental Health Care Needs of Youth in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems
• Incidence and Practical Issues of Mental Health for School-Aged Youth in Juvenile Justice Detention
• Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: moving toward more effective systems of care
• Mental Health Needs and Services for Youth in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems (2005) A Dienst & L. Foster
• Mental Health Needs of Youth and Young Offenders
• Mental Health Services for Youth in Juvenile Justice Systems
• Mental Health Needs of Youth Involved with Juvenile Justice
• Mental Health Treatment for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Compendium of Promising Practices. (2004) National Mental Health Association
• OJJDP Mental Health Initiatives
• Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Resource Guide for Practitioners

Strategies and Recommendations

• Back on Track: Supporting Youth Reentry from Out-of-Home Placement to the Community
• Best Practices for Successful Juvenile Reentry
• Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems (2006)
• A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with Juvenile Justice System
• Cradle to prison pipeline initiative. Children's Defense Fund
• Effective Program Services and Models Associated with the Five Graduated Sanction and Intervention Levels for Juvenile Justice
• Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth-Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings
• Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: Framework for Improved Outcomes
• How the Justice System Responds to Juvenile Victims: A Comprehensive Model
• Less Cost, More Safety: Guiding Lights for Reform in Juvenile Justice (pdf version available)
• Models for change: systems reform in juvenile justice
• Prevention and Intervention Programs for Juvenile Offenders
• Toolkit for Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
• Youth With Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: Prevention and Intervention Strategies

• The Center for Delinquency and Crime Policy Studies
• Center for Promotion of Mental Health and Juvenile Justice (V-DISC)
• Colorado MST Support Services
• Helping Young Offenders Return to Communities
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Southern Juvenile Defender Center
• Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
• National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
• National Juvenile Defender Center
• National Youth Screening Assistance Project - MAYSI-2
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

• Affective Disorder in Juvenile Offenders: A Preliminary Study. Pliszka, Steven R.; Sherman, James O.; Barrow, M. Virginia; Irick, Shiela (2000). American Journal of Psychiatry, 157 (1): p. 130-132
• Girls in detention: What are their characteristics? A project to explore and document the character of this target group and the significant ways in which it differs from one consisting of boys. Lenssen, Simone A. M.; Doreleijers, Theo A. H.; van Dijk, Mirjam E.; Hartman, Catharina (2000). Journal of Adolescence, 23 (3): p. 287-303
• Forensic services and people with learning disability: In the shadow of the Reed Report. Kearns, Anthony (2001).  Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 12 (1): p. 8-12
• Interagency collaboration with high-risk gang youth. Okamoto, Scott K. (2001). Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, 18 (1): p. 5-19
• Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System. By Dowd, N. (2011). NYU Press.
• Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument for mental health needs of juvenile justice youths.  Grisso, Thomas; Barnum, Richard; Fletcher, Kenneth E.; Cauffman, Elizabeth; Peuschold, Dawn (2001). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 40 (5): p. 541-548
• Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders: Forging Paths toward Reintegration and Rehabilitation. Kessler, Carol & Kraus, James L. (2007). Cambridge University Press.
• Mental health service needs of juvenile offenders: A comparison of detention, incarceration, and treatment settings. Lyons, John S.; Baerger, Dana Royce; Quigley, Peter; Erlich, Joel; Griffin, Eugene (2001). Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice, 4 (2): p. 69-85
• Mental health problems and service use among female juvenile offenders: Their relationship to criminal history. Kataoka, Sheryl H.; Zima, Bonnie T.; Dupre, Dierdre A.; Moreno, Kathleen A.; Yang, Xiaowei; McCracken, James T. (2001). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 40 (5): p. 549-555
• Multidimensional assessment of young male offenders in penal institutions.  Hinrichs, Guenter (2001). International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 45 (4): p. 478-488
• Prevalence of adolescent substance use disorders across five sectors of care. Aarons, Gregory A.; Brown, Sandra A.; Hough, Richard L.; Garland, Ann F.; Wood, Patricia A. (2001). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 40 (4): p. 419-426
• Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in youths across five sectors of care. Garland, Ann F.; Hough, Richard L.; McCabe, Kristen M.; Yeh, May; Wood, Patricia A.; Aarons, Gregory A. (2001). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 40 (4): p. 409-418
• The correctional officer's role in mental health treatment of youthful offenders. Holt, Carol (2001). Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 22 (2): p. 173-180
• US Standards for psychology services in jails, prisons, correctional facilities, and agencies. American Assn for Correctional Psychology (2000). Criminal Justice & Behavior, 27 (4): p. 433-494

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