Sentences with phrase «justice system involvement»

Juvenile offenders with mental health problems are more likely to continue to experience justice system involvement.

Sonja is the Deputy Director of Program Innovation & Strategic Partnerships and a founding staff member of Root & Rebound, a reentry legal resource center that provides expertise in all areas of reentry law to individuals with past justice system involvement, families with incarcerated loved ones, and community - based organizations and agencies, so that the United States can become a society that supports opportunities for all.

«The exclusive focus on test scores as the measure of educational quality should be replaced with the use of multiple performance measures including rates of graduation, college attendance, post-school employment, criminal justice system involvement, etc.,» Schaeffer said in an email.

These experiences often place them on a pathway from school misbehavior to juvenile justice system involvement, resulting in a range of poor outcomes.

Reducing recidivism and symptoms in emerging adults with serious mental health conditions and justice system involvement.

Eighteen percent of children had criminal justice system involvement and 42 % had elevated levels of externalizing behaviors (mother report).

The NMRC Research Board also helps develop a repository of mentoring program resources (e.g., training guides, handbooks and curricula) that are intended to promote positive youth outcomes, particularly those relating to the prevention of delinquent behavior, victimization and juvenile justice system involvement.

In a subsection entitled, «When Victims Have a History of Physical Violence,» the guide instructs that such abuse cases, and especially those with «a history of police or criminal justice system involvement - almost always warrant a [custody] evaluation» to subject the history «to careful review and to supplementation.»

African American youth (n = 638) completed self - administered questionnaires on parenting factors (i.e., monitoring and warmth), mental health, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, school engagement, and sexual risk behaviors.

Foundation for a temperament - based theory of antisocial behavior and criminal justice system involvement.

African American youth in urban centers often reside in poorly resourced communities and face structural disadvantage, which can result in higher rates of poor behavioral health factors such as mental health problems, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, risky sex and lower school engagement.