This webinar was offered to states participating in the initiative "Improving Diversion Policies and Programs for Justice Involved Youth with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders: An Integrated Policy Academy/Action Network Initiative." This initiative, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is an effort to increase the number of youth with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders diverted out of the juvenile justice system to appropriate community-based behavioral health services, and to reduce the inappropriate and unnecessary contact of these youth with the juvenile justice system.
This webinar provides an overview of evidence-based and efficient methods of screening and assessment to identify youth in need of trauma-informed services or trauma-specific treatment in juvenile diversion programs. Evidence-based or evidence-informed trauma-specific treatments to which youth diverted from the juvenile justice system can be referred are discussed.
Julian Ford received his PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Director of the University of Connecticut Health Center Child Trauma Clinic. He has developed the TARGET (Trauma Affect Regulation: Guide for Education and Therapy) treatment model for adult, adolescent, and child traumatic stress disorders, and conducts research on psychotherapy and family therapy, health services utilization, psychometric screening and assessment, and psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. Ford has prepared expert white papers on trauma and mental health for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, and the Child Health and Development Institute.
Monique Marrow holds a doctorate Degree in Child Clinical Psychology from The Ohio State University. She currently serves as a psychologist for the State of Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities. She also currently serves as a Juvenile Justice consultant for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and co-project director for the Cincinnati Children's Hospital child trauma grant which focuses on developing and disseminating training and trauma focused interventions for youth in the Juvenile Justice system. In 2010, Dr. Marrow was appointed to National Child Traumatic Stress Network's National Steering Committee and has served several years on the Affiliate Advisory Board and as co-chair of the Juvenile Justice Trauma Treatment Training Committee for NCTSN.
