Sentences with phrase «justice involvement»

I have worked with diverse populations including those diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse, children and families at risk, and individuals with criminal justice involvement.

The outcomes for these young people are dire: higher rates of homelessness, criminal justice involvement, teenage pregnancy, and lack of an education and skills to meet their financial needs.

Joined as Youth Specialist, managing a caseload of 40 - 60 youth with juvenile justice involvement, mentoring and building lasting relationships with at - risk youth.

Children gain from participating in high - quality care in the short and long - term, as demonstrated by improved cognitive and social outcomes, better academic performance through school, and better health, employment outcomes, and criminal justice involvement reduction as adults.

Thus, there is a strong public health need for effective treatment to reduce AOD abuse and justice involvement in EAs.

Sexual risk behavior and STI contraction among young women with prior juvenile justice involvement.

Added Laurie Parise, the executive director of Youth Represent, «We applaud the Senate Democratic Conference for championing Raise the Age legislation that will make us all safer by promoting successful reentry after criminal justice involvement and treating kids like kids.»

Not only do these practices fail to make schools safer, but they also lead to academic failure, disengagement, dropout, and criminal justice involvement.

Extensive research evidence shows that a short - term injection of funds and efforts in prevention and early intervention will lead to enormous long - term savings, not just in child protection, but across a broad range of service systems that respond to the lifelong negative outcomes that result from child neglect, abuse, and removal, such as criminal justice involvement, welfare dependency, drug and alcohol misuse and poor health.

Multisystemic therapy for emerging adults (MST - EA) with serious mental illness and justice involvement.

Some of those outcomes include; negative outcomes relative to employment, educational attainment, access to healthcare, safe and stable housing and also criminal justice involvement,» said Kara Foley the policy analyst for RI Kids Count.