Department of Juvenile Justice Legislative Budget Request

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Juvenile Justice Challenges

The Juvenile Justice System faces an array of challenges:

▫Juveniles with extraordinary mental health and physical health needs

▫Large residential institutions lacking optimum conditions for rehabilitation

▫Intake and risk-assessment tools that are inconsistent from county to county

▫Inadequate resources for community prevention and intervention efforts


	Before we address our findings, and some key recommendations, some perspective on the problem facing our State seems appropriate…