Mental Health, Juvenile Justice (MH,JJ)

provides screening, assessment and linkage services to youth in the juvenile justice system who are identified as experiencing a major mental illness. The focus of services is to intervene with an array of intensive, community-based services to link the youth and support his or her family with appropriate referrals / intervention, with the goals of maintaining the child or adolescent at home in the community, and preventing more serious involvement with the Detention Center and Juvenile Justice System.