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Grantsmanship Proposal
Project Description
Mental health disorders in the last year have increased as uncertainty about job security and isolation from social interactions has increased. While these challenges have greatly affected adults, children are disproportionately affected if their parents suffer a mental health disorder. These challenges in children go undiagnosed and often result in delinquent behavior and result in juvenile incarceration. According to Underwood and Washington (2016), 80% of the children who have been incarcerated or in the juvenile justice system have a mental health disorder. Recently, the rate of juvenile incarceration has been on the rise with low tolerance by the education system for defiant behavior (Paternoster & Bachman, 2013). Before 1980, rehabilitative measures were used to address juvenile offenders; however, due to a surge in delinquency, punitive measures were adopted. However, this approach was strategically a mishap since this led to 40% incarceration of adults who have been in the juvenile system by age 25 that disproportionately affects individuals from minority communities. Consequently, this project aims to establish systematic changes in the approach adopted to handling children with delinquent behavior.
Project Goals and Objectives
1. Integration of a screening procedure for mental illness for delinquent children at school and in the juvenile system
a) Objectives
i. Screen for mental health illness among delinquent children before these cases can be forwarded to the juvenile justice system.
ii. Adoption of the Massachusetts Youth Screening InstrumentVersion 2 in school counseling departments.
iii. Early identification of mental health disorders among juvenile offenders.
2. Establishment of an effectively working management of mental health illness in the juvenile justice system.
b) Objectives
i. Establish a collaborative plan for the treatment of childrens mental health illnesses with parents and healthcare providers.
ii. Design of a functional family therapy system for children with defiant behaviors.
iii. Implementation of an intensive supervision program for juvenile probationers who display low conduct and mental health disorders.
Implementations Strategies
Integration...…to stabilize the family.
Supervision and Treatment
The treatment approach for the mentally ill children will involve cognitive-behavioral interventions to equip the teenagers with skills, such as awareness of social cues, and promotes delaying, nonaggressive responding strategies, and problem-solving. Other methods of treatment will be Functional Family Therapy and Multidimensional Family Therapy. The multidimensional approach to treatment complements changed law enforcement categories to increase referrals to juvenile review boards to lower the incarceration rates (Paternoster & Bachman, 2013). After the onset of treatment, the State Department of Social Services will allocate some of its personnel to follow up with the progress of the students academic performance and discipline commentary from their teachers to ensure the measures taken to help them are effective.
Table 1: Budgetary Estimates
Expenditure
Estimate
Formation of the oversight committee
$3,000
Change of law enforcement
categories to increase referrals
$6,000
Adoption and implemented
legislation by the police department and
the school board of education
$15,000
State Department of Social Services housing and supervision
$20,000
Treatment Expenses
$75,000
Total
$119,000
These funds will be solicited from…
References
Collective Impact Forum. (2018). Collective Impact Case Study: Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance [Ebook]. Collective Impact Forum. Retrieved 24 July 2021, from https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/sites/default/files/Case%20Study_Juvenile%20Justice%20Alliance.pdf.
Underwood, L., & Washington, A. (2016). Mental Illness and Juvenile Offenders. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 13(2), 228. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13020228
Paternoster, R., & Bachman, R. (2013). Labeling Theory. Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0078
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