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Providing Mental Health Training to State and Local Juvenile Justice Systems
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for training and technical assistance to organizations that OJJDP designates.
The Center for Mental Health (the Center) will deliver an expanded mental health training curriculum for juvenile correctional and detention trainers in selected sites. The Mental Health Training Curriculum for Juvenile Justice (MHTC-JJ), developed and tested by the Models for Change Mental Health/Juvenile Justice Action Network, is an eight hour training focused on adolescent development, mental health, substance use and trauma disorders and treatment, the important role of families, and practical strategies for engaging and interacting with youth. The Center will deliver and teach an expanded MHTC-JJ to new sites and states using a train the trainer model. To enhance the impact of the training strategy, a modified approach to the program design has been developed to increase the amount of support available to participating sites before and after a training; increase the amount of time the expert trainers spend on site; and to provide additional support to trained trainers to enhance their efforts to deliver the MHTC-JJ.
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