Improving Mental Health Care in Teen Justice System Each year, more than 1.5 million youth enter the juvenile justice system. Experts say a large percentage of these teenagers are mentally ill ...

When a dormant coalition to examine the juvenile justice system in DuPage County began meeting again this spring, Shannon Hartnett pulled some statistics on the roughly 350 to 400 youths who were ...

Mental Health Screenings, Risk Behavior Interventions Needed In Juvenile Justice System. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 01 / 080128113200.htm ...

More: For juvenile lifers, justice shifts slowly The mental health needs of youth involved in the juvenile justice system are greater than in the general population of adolescents. About 80 ...

Members of the Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform said the legislation will create a more equitable system that accounts for children’s mental health, expands options for diversion, and ...

A new report from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention set off alarm bells for some Douglas County ...

Depression, substance abuse and other mental health problems account for a much larger share of hospital stays for children and teenagers in the juvenile justice system than for other hospitalized ...

Why one of Clark County’s largest mental health providers is juvenile justice system Mikayla Whitmore Judge William O. Voy in his courtroom on October 15, 2015.

“Delinquent: Our System, Our Kids” is a special series examining Cuyahoga County's juvenile justice system through the eyes of the kids who go through it. The majority of justice-impacted ...

Young Marylanders with severe mental health needs are being “inappropriately” sent to detention settings that are struggling to help them, according to the state’s Juvenile Justice ...

ND's juvenile justice system getting less money, ... "If we don't get their mental health, substance abuse, behavioral health turned around once they turn 18 and have the freedoms of an 18-year ...