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Youths in custody finds half have mental health problems
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 153064" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Sheila,</p><p></p><p>I am so glad more courts are recognizing this. In my city they started a mental health court for juveniles just for this reason. It is headed up by a judge who has experience and training in dealing with mental health issues in juveniles. They built a network with mental health professionals and programs in our area that she refers juveniles to instead of sending them to detention, if the juvenile qualifies. It just so happened that my difficult child's case was assigned to this judge and I was hoping to get difficult child's case to go this route but was told her mental issues were not severe enough and we already had a lot of mental health supports in place for her. But I do think that this was a major reason why she didn't get sent to detention.</p><p></p><p>I hope many more courts go this route and more services open up for our kids.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 153064, member: 59"] Sheila, I am so glad more courts are recognizing this. In my city they started a mental health court for juveniles just for this reason. It is headed up by a judge who has experience and training in dealing with mental health issues in juveniles. They built a network with mental health professionals and programs in our area that she refers juveniles to instead of sending them to detention, if the juvenile qualifies. It just so happened that my difficult child's case was assigned to this judge and I was hoping to get difficult child's case to go this route but was told her mental issues were not severe enough and we already had a lot of mental health supports in place for her. But I do think that this was a major reason why she didn't get sent to detention. I hope many more courts go this route and more services open up for our kids. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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