Fostering Partnerships: The JOCHS Approach to Community-Based Health Care for Young Offenders
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 26, 2011
ANNOTATION: “The information in this paper is meant to support county probation and health care agencies and their community partners as they assess and consider changes to their local juvenile health care system” (p. 2). The Juvenile Offenders Community Health Services (JOCHS) project aims to develop partnerships between local juvenile justice systems and community-based health care services utilizing “a promising approach for delivering integrated physical and mental health services to vulnerable youth that maximizes the use of existing institutions and funding streams” (p. 3). Sections of this report include: purpose; the JOCHS project; the JOCHS approach—community, connectivity, and continuity; funding connectivity; implementing the vision—how to make the JOCSH approach work; and summary discussion.
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