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The Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Services Cascade: A new framework for measuring unmet substance use treatment services needs among adolescent offenders
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Belenko, Steven Knight, Danica Wasserman, Gail A. Dennis, Michael L. Wiley, Tisha Taxman, Faye S. Oser, Carrie Dembo, Richard Robertson, Angela A. Sales, Jessica |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Journal: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment Overview Substance use and substance use disorders are highly prevalent among youth under juvenile justice (JJ) supervision, and related to delinquency, psychopathology, social problems, risky sex and sexually transmitted infections, and health problems. However, numerous gaps exist in the identification of behavioral health (BH) problems and in the subsequent referral, initiation and retention in treatment for youth in community justice settings. This reflects both organizational and systems factors, including coordination between justice and BH agencies. Methods and results This paper presents a new framework, the Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Services Cascade ("Cascade"), for measuring unmet substance use treatment needs to illustrate how the cascade approach can be useful in understanding service delivery issues and identifying strategies to improve treatment engagement and outcomes for youth under community JJ supervision. We discuss the organizational and systems barriers for linking delinquent youth to BH services, and explain how the Cascade can help understand and address these barriers. We provide a detailed description of the sequential steps and measures of the Cascade, and then offer an example of its application from the Juvenile Justice – Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System project (JJ-TRIALS), a multi-site research cooperative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Conclusion As illustrated with substance abuse treatment, the Cascade has potential for informing and guiding efforts to improve behavioral health service linkages for adolescent offenders, developing and testing interventions and policies to improve interagency and cross-systems coordination, and informing the development of measures and interventions for improving the implementation of treatment in complex multisystem service settings. Clinical Trials Registration number – NCT02672150 |
| Related Links | https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=sociology_facpub https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298399/pdf http://www.journalofsubstanceabusetreatment.com/article/S0740547216301246/pdf |
| Ending Page | 91 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 80 |
| ISSN | 07405472 |
| e-ISSN | 18736483 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jsat.2016.12.012 |
| Journal | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment |
| Volume Number | 74 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Publisher Date | 2016-12-31 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment Social Work Substance Abuse Treatment Juvenile Justice Delinquent Youth Barriers To Treatment Access Continuum of Services Evidence-based Practices |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Clinical Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health |
