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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Juvenile Offenders

Relias

To help professionals in this system, let’s explore the intersection of rehabilitation and mental health and cover the keys to providing trauma-informed care for juvenile offenders. Juveniles with behavioral health issues may experience problems: In relationships with family members, friends, and authority figures At school (e.g.,

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US. Maybe there isn’t enough available medication to subside these symptoms people are enduring and they end up turning to other substances.

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Social Work Registration: Is it Necessary and How to Get it Done

Social Work Haven

They also work in schools doing assessments for special needs students. They run programs to give people with substance abuse issues the tools necessary to stop them from abusing drugs or alcohol and are involved as court-appointed advocates who try to guide individuals through their legal situation.

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Criminal Justice Reform is Not Dead

Beyond Advocacy

Hailed as a bipartisan effort to ease harsh sentences, promote rehabilitation, and reduce recidivism in the federal prison system, The First Step Act lowered sentences by making the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive. I first connected with Dr. Pettus while she was at the Brown School at Washington University in St.