LINKING HIGH RISK YOUTHS WITH NEEDED SERVICES

将高危青少年与所需服务联系起来

• 批准号: 3215094
• 负责人: RICHARD DEMBO
• 金额: $ 27.81万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-30 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3215094
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); child (0-11); child mental health service; criminal behavior; drug abuse therapy; drug detection; ethnic group; family therapy; functional ability; health care model; health care referral /consultation; health care service evaluation; health care service utilization; health system agency; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; interview; juvenile delinquency; longitudinal human study; patient care management; psychological adaptation; substance abuse related disorder

This project addresses the critical need to link troubled youths entering the juvenile justice system with needed substance, mental health and other services. Large proportions of these youths and their families do not become engaged in needed services; and, hence, cannot benefit from these services. This project will implement and test an innovative service connection strategy, based on a case management model. The five year randomized experimental, prospective longitudinal study will address three research aims: (1) identifying the relationships between youths' substance abuse, mental health or other service needs and their referrals to substance abuse, mental health or other agencies/programs, (2) using a design with random assignment, evaluating the impact of an intensive case management service for improving troubled youths' and their families' linkage with, placement into, and utilization of substance abuse, mental health or other services, and (3) evaluating the outcome of case management and the youths' substance abuse, mental health or other service experiences in regard to their substance use, delinquency/crime and other areas of psychosocial functioning. Youths entering a centralized Juvenile Assessment Center in Tampa, Florida on felony charges or misdemeanor firearm charges are the target group for this project. Youths whose preliminary screening results indicate potential problems needing in-depth assessment will be randomly assigned to two experimental groups: Intensive Case Management or Business as Usual. Approximately 324 White male, 216 Black male, 108 White female and 72 Black female youths will be involved in the study. Extensive demographic, substance use, psychosocial functioning and official record data will be collected over a four year period. Numerous project research and practitioner reports will be prepared. The data will enable us to test a number of hypotheses regarding the usefulness of the innovative service linkage strategy in improving service connection and utilization, as well as the impact of service experiences on improvements in the youths' functioning over time. The project's findings will improve our understanding of how high risk youths and their families can be involved in needed care.

该项目解决了将问题青年与进入 为少年司法系统提供所需的物质、精神健康和其他 服务 这些年轻人和他们的家庭中有很大一部分人 从事所需的服务;因此，不能从中受益 服务 该项目将实施和测试一项创新服务 连接策略，基于案例管理模型。 五年 随机实验，前瞻性纵向研究将解决三个 研究目的：（1）确定青少年物质与心理健康之间的关系 虐待、精神健康或其他服务需求，并将他们转介至 药物滥用，精神卫生或其他机构/计划，（2）使用 随机分配设计，评估密集病例的影响 改善问题青少年及其家庭的服务 与药物滥用、精神疾病和精神疾病的联系、 健康或其他服务，（3）评估案件的结果 管理和青少年的药物滥用，心理健康或其他服务 关于其药物使用、少年犯罪/犯罪和其他 心理社会功能的领域。 进入佛罗里达坦帕一个集中的青少年评估中心的青少年 重罪指控或轻罪枪支指控的目标群体， 这个项目 初步筛选结果显示， 需要深入评估的潜在问题将被随机分配 两个实验组：强化案例管理或业务作为 往常 大约324名白色男性，216名黑人男性，108名白色女性， 72名黑人女青年将参与这项研究。 广泛 人口、药物使用、心理社会功能和正式记录 将在四年期间收集数据。 众多项目研究 并将编制从业人员报告。 这些数据将使我们能够 测试一些关于创新的有用性的假设 服务联动策略在提高服务连接和利用率方面， 以及服务经验对改善 青少年的功能随着时间的推移。 该项目的研究结果将改善我们的 了解高危青少年及其家人如何参与 在需要的照顾。