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Juvenile Justice
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Project Description REACH staff (while formerly at Columbia) worked in partnership with the Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice. This Center and its collaborators, under the leadership of Gail Wasserman, Ph.D., work to promote efficient means for comprehensive and reliable mental health assessment. In addition, they assist juvenile justice programs in determining how to implement these procedures and how to map appropriate mental health services onto them. They develop products to move information and knowledge between the fields of juvenile justice and mental health and we provide recommendations for practice. For more information, please visit their website at the above link. With the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, REACH staff are currently with several states and Policy Research Associates, Inc. (Joseph Coccoza, PhD), to develop parent empowerment interventions to assist parents and families with youth in the juvenile justice system to advocate for their children with mental health disorders. This novel effort is based on an adaptation of REACH's parent empowerment programs that have been successfully used to help parents advocate for their children and obtain needed services in other settings, such as schools, mental health clinics, and the child welfare system.
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