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| Significant Steps, and Gaps, in Cook County’s Drive for Mental Health Care for Delinquent Youth |
| By jjie.org - Ed Finkel & Dick Mendel |
| Published: 04/25/2013 |
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CHICAGO — A century after Cook County, Illinois launched the world’s very first separate court system for juveniles accused of delinquency, Northwestern University scholar Linda Teplin initiated a groundbreaking study to examine the mental health status of young people confined in the county’s juvenile lock-up. mentalhealth squareThe results were alarming: Among a random sample of 1,829 young people taken into custody in Cook County from 1995 to 1998, 66 percent of boys and 74 percent of girls were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder, and most of these youth had two or more disorders. Half had a clinically significant substance abuse problem. Depression, anxiety, and attention deficit disorder were all widespread. Read More. |
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