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Incarceration of Youth Who Are Waiting for Community Mental Health Services in California
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Incarceration of Youth Who Are Waiting for Community Mental Health Services in California
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The responses of California juvenile detention facilities to a national survey (2004) that "assessed the inappropriate detention of youth with mental illness" are analyzed (p. i). Five sections follow an executive summary: introduction; methods; findings; potential for underestimation; and conclusion; Some of the findings are: children as young as eight are incarcerated while waiting for mental health services; waiting youth have attempted suicide or attacked others; California detention facilities do not, in general, have adequate services to provide care to waiting youth; and over $10 million is spent a year by juvenile facilities to house waiting youth in California