Support To Reunite, Involve and Value Each Other (STRIVE)

每年有超过20，000名主要是少数民族/种族的犯罪青年通过洛杉矶被监禁。 洛杉矶县少年缓刑制度。以前被监禁的犯罪青年面临重大 在过渡到2010年之前， 社区许多人在获释后的几年内多次与少年或成人司法系统接触。 本应用程序检查了以家庭为基础的干预措施，以提高重返前额叶皮质激素的疗效。 通过减少药物滥用，其他艾滋病毒风险行为和精神病， 改善家庭功能。对许多人来说，家庭的参与和支持往往减少， 被监禁的年轻人家庭支持，包括提供结构化的家庭环境和照顾他们的 儿童的教育、身体健康和心理健康需求对保持重返社会的青少年犯罪至关重要 按部就班进行：中国国家努力通过少年司法系统加强家庭对重返社会的犯罪青年的支持和作用 司法系统有限。家庭干预已被证明可以降低心理健康的严重程度 预防青少年的犯罪行为。这个研究小组已经成功地开发出 并为无家可归的青年及其父母/监护人实施了简短的五次家庭干预 这是一个名为“支持团聚，参与和重视彼此”的组织。在一项随机对照试验中， 减少药物滥用、性风险和犯罪。它将被调整和实施，以减少 精神病发病率和改善刚从监狱释放的犯罪青年的家庭功能 分两个阶段进行：1）为重返社会的犯罪青年及其父母/监护人调整《反暴力和自愿教育法》; 2）一项随机对照试验 与400名青少年及其父母/监护人在出狱后重新接触。参与者将 完成基线检查，然后随机分配至常规干预条件或治疗组 并在3、6和12个月时进行评估。目标是：1.检查THEOVE减少精神病的有效性 症状和行为障碍（犯罪、破坏性和行为问题），减少关键的艾滋病毒风险 行为（物质使用，性风险行为），并减少累犯。2.检查THEOVE对 青少年和家长的冲突解决，积极的互动，解决问题和应对;并澄清 家庭作为犯罪青年重返社会的角色。3.检查调解家庭的改善是否 功能因素将改善目标1中描述的主要结局。4.探索BASEVE是否改善 利用保健和心理保健服务。

Over 20,000 mostly ethnic/racial minority delinquent youth are incarcerated annually through the Los Angeles (LA) County juvenile probation system. Formerly incarcerated delinquent youth face major challenges to achieving successful, healthy developmental trajectories when transitioning back to the community. Many have repeat contact with the juvenile or adult justice system within a few years of release. This application examines the efficacy of a family-based intervention to improve the reentry of formeriy incarcerated delinquent youth by reducing substance abuse, other HIV risk behaviors and psychiatric disorders, and improving family functioning. Family involvement and support are often attenuated for many incarcerated youth. Family support, including providing a structured family environment and attending to their children's educational, physical health and mental health needs is vital to keeping reentry delinquent youth on track. Efforts to enhance family support and functioning for reentry delinquent youth through the juvenile justice system are limited. Family interventions have been shown to decrease severity of mental health symptoms and prevent delinquent behaviors of adolescents. This research team has successfully developed and implemented a brief five session family intervention for homeless youth and their parents/guardians called STRIVE (Support To Reunite, Involve and Value Each Other). STRIVE has been efficacious in a RCT in reducing substance abuse, sexual risk and delinquency. It will be adapted and implemented to reduce psychiatric morbidity and improve family functioning for delinquent youth newly released from incarceration in two phases: 1) Adaption of STRIVE for reentry delinquent youth and their parents/guardians; 2) An RCT of STRIVE with 400 youth and their parents/guardians upon reentry from incarceration. Participants will complete the baseline and then be randomized to the STRIVE intervention condition or treatment as usual and assessed at 3, 6 &12 months. Aims are to: 1. Examine the efficacy of STRIVE to reduce psychiatric symptoms and behavior disorders (delinquency, disruptive and conduct problems), reduce key HIV risk behaviors (substance use, sexual risk acts), and reduce recidivism. 2. Examine the effect of STRIVE on youth's and parent's conflict resolution, positive interactions, problem solving and coping; and clarifying the role of families as delinquent youth reenter. 3. Examine whether improvements in the mediating family functioning factors will improve primary outcomes described in Aim 1. 4. Explore whether STRIVE improves utilization of health & mental health services.