Public Health Approach Being Adapted for Kids in Trouble with Substances, the Law [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 1/26/154:00 AM

Many of the kids in juvenile detention with substance abuse disorders get poor or no treatment, according to Reclaiming Futures, a nonprofit that helps young people in trouble with drugs, alcohol and crime.

It’s now experimenting with a public health approach to the situation.

With a $2 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, it is setting up a three-year pilot program using SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment.)

SBIRT was originally developed for medical settings such as health clinics and doctors’ offices, but “our setting is the juvenile justice system,” said Jim Carlton, deputy director of Reclaiming Futures.

[For more of this story, written by Stell Simonton, go to http://jjie.org/public-health-...with-the-law/108257/]

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