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Mental Health Issues In Juvenile Detention Centers

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How should mental health be handled in juvenile detention centers? How important is mental health in Juvenile Detention Center? Should mental health be addressed in juvenile detention centers? How should mental health be addressed? Is it important for correction officers to be aware of mental health issues? As a corrections officer at South Regional Ohio Juvenile Detention Center, I honestly don’t know how to answer the questions above. I will give my opinion before I start my research and then I’ll give you my personally opinion after my research. As a corrections officer I think it would be very important to address any mental health problem within a juvenile. Addressing any mental health problems allows facility and juveniles create …show more content…

Being able to identify mental health issues and addressing them can help juveniles stay out of the adult justice system. Most of the time mental health issues that aren't addressed can lead to juvenile getting in trouble in their adulthood. It’s sad to think this has happened for years. The fact that juvenile detention center could have started screening for mental health issues year and addressed the juvenile needs right way could have kept a lot of children from growing up and going to jail or prison. We also need to address they fact that once this juvenile get out of detention are they going to be able to get the correct help they need? I feel juvenile courts should make it where juvenile that come into the detention center to receive help should also get help outside of the detention center. It does detention centers no good to help juveniles if they get released and they don’t have the correct help they need. Juvenile are more likely to get in trouble again if they can’t receive the help in the inside and outside of the bars. According to the “Effects on Incarceration on Mental Health” juvenile lack support outside of the detention centers. To me this is sad to hear. Juvenile should receive as much help as possible because one day these juveniles will grow up and run this …show more content…

If officers and teachers were aware of mental health issues and could address them at a young age they could change a child’s life. I can personally say after screening a juvenile a few times at the South Regional Ohio Juvenile Detention Center it honestly helps the officer know how to act with a juvenile and how to treat them. It makes the center a better place and makes me feel like a better person because I know how to work with the juvenile to meet their

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