Background Youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system have high needs for
behavioral health services, especially related to substance use and mental disorders. This …

Youth with serious emotional disturbance involved in juvenile justice systems have complex
needs that often are best addressed through collaborative systems that coordinate the efforts …

Overview Substance use and substance use disorders are highly prevalent among youth
under juvenile justice (JJ) supervision, and related to delinquency, psychopathology, social …

Background This study examined the national availability of substance use prevention
(SUP) within juvenile justice (JJ) and their primary behavioral health (BH) providers, and the …

Objectives: Youths in the juvenile justice system often do not access needed behavioral
health services. The behavioral health services cascade model was used to examine rates …

Data are from the Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents
in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) cooperative agreement funded in 2013 by the National …

The purpose of this review was to detail the human or social service needs and service use
patterns (ie, healthcare, education, social services, child welfare, mental health, and …

Unmet need for behavioral health care is a serious problem for crossover youth, or those
simultaneously involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Although a large …

This study examined profiles of involvement in four systems (education, child welfare, legal,
and treatment) in a sample of 253 high-risk urban adolescents with unmet behavioral health …

Objective: Nonincarcerated (community-supervised) youths who are first-time offenders
have high rates of mental and substance use disorders. However, little is known about their …