Blog Apr 13, 2010
Model Community Mental Health Programming
The “Blueprint for Change ” report released by The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice in 2007 highlights the need to address mental health treatment from a unified approach that includes both the juvenile justice system and mental health agencies. The report mentions several important cornerstones in the treatment of youth with mental disorders. One of the key points is that all juvenile justice involved youth should be “systematically screened for mental illness”. …
Daniel Macallair, MPA, CJCJ’s co-founder and Executive Director was featured in the Los Angeles Times. Read “Getting the state out of juvenile justice ” and learn how “shifting responsibility for youth correctional facilities to the counties could cut the budget deficit and move young offenders out of a system that ‘is broken almost everywhere you look.’ ”
Apr 12, 2010
Getting the state out of juvenile justice
Getting the state out of juvenile justice Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2010
Apr 9, 2010
Column: Phoebe Prince, Bullying, and Me
Column: Phoebe Prince, Bullying, and Me The Boston Globe, April 9, 2010
Blog Apr 9, 2010
The epidemic of abuse continues
In my most recent post I said that I would continue my investigation of what I termed an “epidemic” of abuse inside juvenile institutions. This led me first to the state of Mississippi. In Mississippi the situation has become so bad that a special web site has been set up devoted to following the issue. It is called “A Mississippi Gulag .” Back in 2002 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began an investigation of the conditions inside the Oakley Training School in Raymond,…