Skip to main content

Tagged With "Incarceration"

Blog Post

How Trauma-Informed Care Can Prevent Youth Incarceration

Adrian Alexander ·
Last week we looked at 'Punishing Abuse', a report which showed that the majority of youth offenders in a research done in West Midlands, UK had a history of childhood abuse and trauma. Today's post examines this from a US state perspective, through the audio accounts of former juveniles in conflict with the law. Please take a listen to them as they discuss their childhood adversities and later criminal involvement. Also interviewed is a clinician who shares how Trauma-Informed Care can...
Blog Post

'Incarceration should be a last resort for youth,' researcher says.

Adrian Alexander ·
Research from Northwestern Medicine shows nearly 2/3 of males and more than 1/3 of females with 1 or more existing psychiatric disorders when they entered detention, still had a disorder 15 years later. The findings are significant because mental health struggles add to the existing racial, ethnic and economic disparities as well as academic challenges from missed school, making a successful transition to adulthood harder to attain.
Copyright © 2023, PACEsConnection. All rights reserved.
×
×
×
×