Roundup: Obama's 2011 Budgets for Juvenile Justice and Drug Control; AZ Governor's Budget Eliminates State Juvenile Justice Department ; and More

Federal Budget - Juvenile Justice and Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment

• Here's Youth Today's summary of Obama's 2011 budget for juvenile justice; and Join Together's take on Obama's 2011 drug-control budget, via @Phoenixhouse.

 
Other Juvenile Justice News

• The Arizona Governor proposes to eliminate the state's juvenile corrections department, turning over those functions to the counties. (Hat tip to the National Juvenile Justice Network [NJJN].)
• And Massachusetts' Citizens for Juvenile Justice is supporting passage of a bill that would "mandate that all juvenile justice agencies collect basic, statistical, non-identifying juvenile justice data at all key points in the system and then share it annually with the public. (Another hat tip to NJJN).

 
Adolescent Mental Health News

• According to The New York Times, "The State of New York does not have a single full-time staff psychiatrist charged with overseeing the treatment of the 800 or so young people who are detained in state facilities at any given time." What about your state?
• Ten youth under age 21 have filed a class action lawsuit against the state of Washington for failing to provide adequate community-based mental health care.
• The draft changes to the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) have been posted. There are some interesting changes that affect diagnoses of alcohol and drug use and dependence, as well as oppositional defiant disorder. The manual will also contain new scales for assessing adolescent risk of suicide. (Hat tip to @drugnews.)

 
Resources

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation's long-time juvenile justice reform effort, the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, is summarized in Two Decades of JDAI: from Demonstraton Project to National Standard.
• Thanks to a unanimous Senate resolution, February 2010 is "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month." More information about teen dating violence is available from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
• Are you on LinkedIn? Then you might be interested in the following LinkedIn groups.
  • Juvenile Justice Reform and Adolescent Substance Abuse, established by Reclaiming Futures;
  • a group run by The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ); and
  • another on evidence-based practices in corrections.

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