Assessment and Referral Technologies in Juvenile Justice

描述（由申请人提供）： 弗吉尼亚联邦大学（VCD）和马里兰州大学帕克分校（UMCP）与马里兰州青少年服务部（DJS）合作，提议测试一项新协议的有效性，该协议旨在增加进入青少年司法系统的高风险青少年对药物滥用治疗和相关健康服务的使用。使用随机分组设计，拟议的研究还将比较两种技术转让策略的影响，用于培训DJS工作人员在新的青少年评估，转诊，安置和治疗计划（J-ARPP）协议。DJS研究地点将被随机分配到无培训、标准培训或增强型创新管理培训条件下，以评估J-ARPP技术对青年服务利用率等结果的影响（例如，放置、服务使用、保留和完成）和系统集成（例如，机构间沟通，增加安置的多样性）。在组织评估的最新进展的基础上，VCU/UMCP将进一步评估这些影响如何根据当地DJS办事处采用创新的能力而有所不同，进行J-ARPP实践，并将治疗服务作为青年的优先事项。这项研究建立在研究人员和DJS之间长期合作的基础上，为马里兰州的少年犯建立了一个综合评估和服务联系系统。本研究的长期目标是评估一个概念模型，该模型规定了组织因素在各个阶段中的作用|在公共机构中实施保健服务创新，并向少年司法系统提供实用知识，使其了解不同战略的影响，以转移循证议定书，增加高风险、高需求青年对药物滥用服务的使用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCD) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) in partnership with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS), are proposing to test the effectiveness of a new protocol aimed at increasing use of substance abuse treatment and related health services by high-risk youth entering the juvenile justice system. Using a randomized blocked design, the proposed study would also compare the impacts of two technology transfer strategies used to train DJS staff in the new juvenile assessment, referral, placement, and treatment planning (J-ARPP) protocol. DJS study sites would be randomly assigned to no training, standard training, or an enhanced innovation management training condition to assess the impact of the J-ARPP technology on outcomes such as youth service utilization (e.g., placement, service use, retention, and completion) and systems integration (e.g., interagency communication, increase diversity of placements). Building on recent advances in organizational assessment, VCU/UMCP would further assess how these impacts differ based on capacity of local DJS offices to adopt innovations, conduct J-ARPP practices, and make treatment services a priority for youth. The study builds on a longstanding collaborative effort between the researchers and DJS to build an integrated assessment and service linkage system for juvenile offenders in Maryland. Long-term objectives of the research are to evaluate a conceptual model specifying the role of organizational factors in the stages | of implementing health service innovations in public agencies, and to provide practical knowledge to juvenile justice systems about the impacts of different strategies for transferring an evidence-based protocol for increasing the use of substance abuse services by high-risk, high-need youth.