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18-8. Juvenile justice facility screening

Treatment Expansion

ORIGINAL OBJECTIVE
18-8. (Developmental) Increase the proportion of juvenile justice facilities that screen new admissions for mental health problems.
Potential data source: Inventory of Mental Health Services in Juvenile Justice Facilities, SAMHSA.
OBJECTIVE WITH REVISIONS
18-8. (Developmental) Increase the proportion of juvenile justice residential facilities that screen new admissions for mental health problems. 
Target: 55 percent. 
Baseline: 50 percent of juvenile residential facilities screened admissions for mental health problems in 2000. 
Target setting method: 10 percent improvement. 
Potential dData source : Inventory of Mental Health Services in Juvenile Justice Facilities, SAMHSAJuveniles in Residential Facilities Census (JRFC), National Center for Juvenile Justice. 
REVISED OBJECTIVE
18-8. Increase the proportion of juvenile residential facilities that screen admissions for mental health problems.
Target: 55 percent.
Baseline: 50 percent of juvenile residential facilities screened admissions for mental health problems in 2000.
Target setting method: 10 percent improvement.
Data source : Juveniles in Residential Facilities Census (JRFC), National Center for Juvenile Justice.

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