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A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
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A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Dec. 04, 2006
ANNOTATION: This brief describes a comprehensive model "designed to capture the current activity of the [juvenile justice] field and present it in a way that examines the juvenile justice system as a continuum, identifying the best ways to respond to youth with mental disorders at key points of contact and providing recommendations, guidelines and examples for how best to do this" (p. 2). Sections contained in this document are: setting the stage; Blueprint for Change -- key features of the model (e.g., underlying principles, cornerstones, and critical intervention points); and what happens next? -- affecting change.