This publication of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) presents highlights from the 2022 Juvenile Residential Facility Census.
In this brief, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) summarizes and illustrates highlights of the 2022 Juvenile Residential Facility Census. The proportion of facilities that evaluate youth for service needs increased. Despite a 10% increase in the number of youth in placement between 2020 and 2022, the number reported in 2022 was 75% below the number reported in 2000. The proportion of facilities that evaluated all youth for service needs increased between 2000 and 2022. In 2022, juvenile residential facilities reported the fewest number of deaths since 2000. Of reporting facilities (1,277), nearly all (99%) said they evaluated all youth for suicide risk in 2022, a 27 percentage point increase since 2000. Over 90% of reporting facilities said they evaluated youth for service needs within one week of admission in 2022.