The Impact of Juvenile Justice System Involvement on the Health and Well-Being of Youth, Families, and Communities of Color Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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6 Possible Future Directions
6 Possible Future Directions
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The final panel session of the workshop moved beyond healing to what can be done to reduce and prevent the need for healing. Three presenters, Keenon James, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; Joe Kelroy, Director, Division of Juvenile Services, Arizona Supreme Court; and Michal Rudnick, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, looked at measures that can be taken at the state, 53
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SOURCE: As presented by Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins at the workshop on The Impact of Juvenile Justice System Involvement on the Health and Well-Being of Adolescents, Families, and Communities of Color on September 26, 2019; Jenkins slide 1.
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A Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative that started in 2004 is now operating in nine counties, Kelroy observed. In addition, a Crossover Youth Practice Model, which began in 2012, has involved all of Arizona's counties in considering the protocols applied to dually adjudicated juveniles.
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The cross training of specific skillsets to workers within the group homes enables them to be better able to address problematic behaviors rather than calling law enforcement." Within Arizona as a whole over the past 25 years, referrals have dropped from as high as 90,000 to under 34,000 annually, Kelroy pointed out. The number of detention centers has gone from 14 to 10, and Department of Juvenile Corrections facilities house fewer than 200 juveniles on an average day.
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"We have to have their voices at the table." ENSURING THE CONTINUITY OF HEALTH CARE Michal Rudnick, project manager at the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) , focused on issues related to access to health care for juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system.
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AVOIDING INVOLVEMENT WITH THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM Just a few weeks before the workshop, a 6-year-old in Orlando, Florida, was handcuffed and taken to a juvenile jail for kicking and punching school employees during a temper tantrum. "If you're 6 years old, you're in the first grade, you haven't even received your first report card, but you've started down that school-to-prison pipeline," said K eenon James, deputy director of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.
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Programs may need to be scaled not up but down to address the problems in a local community. He also called attention to the shifting and often uncertain demands placed on law enforcement personnel.
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"We need to eliminate that, address it in policy, so that we can get those resources to our community." Getting access to mental health services would help address many of what are today seen as public safety concerns. Finally, James pointed to the need to acknowledge and move beyond mistakes.
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