TOPIC: Youth

Caring For Youth With Behavioral Health Needs In The Juvenile Justice System

A series of resources providing training and strategies for juvenile justice staff to effectively care for and supervise youth with mental health and behavioral health needs, enhancing knowledge and skills for better outcomes.

Fact Sheet

Need to Know: A Fact Sheet Series on Juvenile Suicide

The Need to Know: A Fact Sheet Series on Juvenile Suicide explains juvenile suicide and offers practical guidance for those working with youth in the juvenile justice system.

TOPIC: Youth

Caring For Youth With Behavioral Health Needs In The Juvenile Justice System

Need to Know: A Fact Sheet Series on Juvenile Suicide

Learning for Collective Impact

Guide to Developing and Revising Suicide Prevention Protocols for Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System

Screening and Assessment for Suicide Prevention: Tools and Procedures for Risk Identification among Juvenile Justice Youth

Suicidal Ideation and Behavior among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Review of the Literature

Mental Health Screening Tools for Children and Youth

Strengthening School-Family Community Partnerships Through the School Responder Model

Juvenile Diversion Guidebook

Improving Diversion Policies and Programs for Justice-Involved Youth with Co-occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders

Providing and Receiving Technical Assistance: Lessons From Models for Change

Preventing Suicide: Working With Youth Who Are Justice Involved

Preventing Juvenile Suicide Through Improved Collaboration: Strategies for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Agencies

Law Enforcement-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network

Workforce Development: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network

School-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network

Family Engagement and Involvement: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network

Intake-Based Diversion: Strategic Innovations from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network

A Primer for Mental Health Practitioners Working With Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System

Diverting Youth With Behavioral Health Needs From the School-Justice Pathway

Augmenting Restorative Approaches with Behavioral Health Supports in School

Children’s Behavioral Health and Implementation of the School Responder Model

The Intersection Between the School Responder Model Framework and Special Education Law

Family Resources Inventory: An Overview of Resources for Family, Youth, and Staff

Systems of Care Programs That Serve Youth Involved With the Juvenile Justice System: Funding and Sustainability

Successfully Collaborating With the Juvenile Justice System

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System in System of Care Communities

Sustaining Change: A Models for Change Guidebook

Advances and Innovations Emerging from the Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network: 2009 Update

Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations for Juvenile Drug Courts

Mental Health Screening within Juvenile Justice: The Next Frontier

Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions

Better Solutions for Youth with Mental Health Needs in the Juvenile Justice System

Diverting Youth at Probation Intake: The Front-End Diversion Initiative

New Directions to Effectively Address Co-Occurring Mental Disorders

Providing Effective Treatment for Youth with Co-Occurring Disorders

Policy Statement on Indiscriminate Shackling of Juveniles in Court

Opportunities to Pursue Trauma-Related Work in the Every Student Succeeds Act: A Product of the Defending Childhood State Policy Initiative

Guidance for Trauma Screening in Schools: A Product of the Defending Childhood State Policy Initiative

Family and Youth Engagement to Keep Kids in School Podcast Series

Blueprint for Change: Funding Mental Health Services for Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System

Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System

Youth With Mental Health Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System: Results From a Multi-State Prevalence Study

A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth With Mental Health Needs Involved With the Juvenile Justice System

Juvenile Mental Health Courts: An Emerging Strategy

Juvenile Diversion: Programs for Justice-Involved Youth with Mental Health Disorders

Adolescent Girls with Mental Health Disorders Involved with the Juvenile Justice System

Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Involving Families of Youth Who Are in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System

Funding Mental Health Services for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Challenges and Opportunities

Policy Research’s eNewsletters

Program to Achieve Wellness Archive

SSI for Children Fact Sheets

Connecting Unaccompanied Youth Experiencing Homelessness to Social Security Disability Benefits

Juvenile Mental Health Courts