Juvenile Rehabilitation and Mental Health

Another outcome indicator for the strategic priority to improve the quality and availability of provider services is mental health need and parole aftercare availability for youth and young adults released from Juvenile Rehabilitation facilities. Post-release aftercare services increase the likelihood that youth and young adults will reenter their communities and live socially responsible and stable lifestyles. About half of youth and young adults with identified mental health needs are released with no parole aftercare services. DCYF continues to strive to find creative ways to service the unfunded post-release needs of this group. Each year, among the youth and young adults who are released to Intensive Parole services, more than half have identified mental health needs.

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Youth and Young Adults Released from Juvenile Rehabilitation, by Identified Mental Health Need and Parole Aftercare, SFY 2016-2023

 

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Youth and Young Adults Released from Juvenile Rehabilitation, by Identified Mental Health Need and Parole Aftercare, SFY 2016-2023

Source: DCYF. (October 2023). Automated Client Tracking System (ACT) [July 2016-June 2023]. 
Notes: This measure has been updated to indicate mental health need based on the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs - Short Screener (GAIN-SS). Approximately 2% of clients who release each year were not assessed by the GAIN-SS. Mental health need is identified using the Internalizing Disorder Screener in the GAIN-SS. A score of 1 or more was used as it suggests a need for mental health treatment (Dennis, M. L., Feeney, T., & Titus, J. C. (2013). Global Appraisal of Individual Needs–Short Screener (GAIN-SS): Administration and scoring manual, version 3. Bloomington,IL: Chestnut Health Systems.)