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1 results foundAuthor: McDonald, Theodore W. Title: A Statewide and Multimodal Assessment of the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections' Clinical Services Program Summary: During 2007, a pilot program was established that housed, for the first time, an on-site mental health clinician in one of the 12 juvenile detention centers (JDCs) in Idaho. This clinician worked with juveniles detained in the JDC in Bonneville County, and a principal component of his work was to screen detained juveniles for mental health and substance abuse problems, and to make provisional diagnoses of these problems when warranted. The clinician also recommended services in the community for juveniles with provisionally diagnosed mental health or substance abuse problems when they were released into the community. An internal evaluation of this program suggested that it was successful in identifying mental health and substance abuse problems (83% of the screened juveniles were provisionally diagnosed with a mental health problem, a substance abuse problem, or both) and in linking juveniles with these problems with community-based services upon release. Some preliminary data also suggested that the resources provided by the clinician helped reduce future recidivism (as measured by subsequent bookings of previously detained juveniles) and reduced problem behavior (most notably assaults) in the Bonneville County JDC. The project appeared well received by judges and juvenile probation officers in eastern Idaho, both of whom received contact and recommendations from the clinicians as they worked with juveniles from the JDC; 100% of these law enforcement personnel who completed a survey on the pilot project recommended that it continue. The pilot project appeared so successful that it was expanded in 2008 to all 12 JDCs in Idaho; in addition to the JDC in Bonneville County, clinicians were hired to serve in the JDCs in Ada, Bannock, Bonner, Canyon, Fremont, Kootenai, Lemhi, Minidoka, Nez Perce, Twin Falls, and Valley counties. This expanded clinical services project was conducted as a partnership among the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections (IDJC), the Juvenile Justice Children’s Mental Health Workgroup (JJCMH), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW). IDJC, which was responsible for oversight of the project, contracted with researchers from the Center for Health Policy at Boise State University (BSU), to evaluate the expanded project. The evaluation consisted of data collected in three waves. The first wave involved the collection of data from clinicians at the JDCs; this information included booking charges, mental health and substance abuse screening information, information on previous and provisional diagnoses of mental health and substance abuse problems, and information on service recommendations made by the clinicians. The second wave of data collection involved information gleaned from surveys that were mailed to parents of juveniles recently released from the JDCs; these surveys asked questions about whether the parents had been contacted by clinicians and given recommendations for services for their children, and whether their children had accessed any recommended services. The third wave of data collection involved information captured from surveys of judges and juvenile probation officers, which asked questions about contact by JDC clinicians, the value of recommendations made and information provided, and the value of the program as a whole. Details: Boise, ID: Center for Health Policy, Boise State University, 2009. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 2, 2012 at http://www.idjc.idaho.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TApyIjt9bV4%3D&tabid=92 Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.idjc.idaho.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TApyIjt9bV4%3D&tabid=92 Shelf Number: 127098 Keywords: Juvenile CorrectionsJuvenile Justice (Idaho)Mental Health, Juveniles |