The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice publishes documents on a wide variety of topic areas designed to assist the field. Listed below are all the publications currently available on the website. Please click on each title to download a PDF version of the publication.
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Models for Change Publications
Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network
Research and Program Briefs
- Trauma Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Critical Issues and New Directions
- Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with Mental Health Needs Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
- Juvenile Diversion: Programs for Justice-Involved Youth with Mental Health Disorders
- Juvenile Mental Health Courts: An Emerging Strategy
- Youth with Mental Health Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System: Results from a Multi-State Prevalence Study
- Adolescent Girls with Mental Health Disorders Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
- Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
- Involving Families of Youth Who Are in Contact with the Juvenile Justice
- Funding Mental Health Services for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Challenges and Opportunities
General
- Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System
- Blueprint for Change: Funding Mental Health Services for Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System
- Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Resource Guide for Practitioners
- Youth with Mental Health Disorders: Issues and Emerging Responses
- Improving Policy and Practice for Adolescent Girls with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System 6/1998
- National Resource Kit: Improving Services for Youth with Mental Health and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Involved with the Juvenile Justice System
Miami Dade Juvenile Assessment Center National Demonstration Program Publications
- Procedural Guidelines for Conducting Need and Risk Screening and Assessment
- Composite Need/Risk Index for the Assignment of Services and Supervision
- Training Curriculum for Managing and Supervising Justice-Involved Girls
- Training Curriculum on Physical Custody of Justice-Involved Girls
- Guidelines for the Development of a Program for Justice-Involved Girls