Post-Gazette Completes Series on Teens and Mental Illness
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today completes its special four-part series on mentally ill teenagers "trapped" in juvenile detention centers. The two latest pieces in the series are:
- Part III -- "Juvenile Justice Faces Growing Crisis: What Can We Do About the Girls?" -- points out that although fewer girls are housed in juvenile detention centers, girls "are far more likely" than boys to enter the system with "serious" mental health problems (Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7/17).
- Part IV -- "Wrapping Troubled Teens in a Blanket of Support" -- examines a Milwaukee County program that "keeps mentally ill teens out" of the juvenile justice system by pooling funding for mental health services, juvenile justice, children and youth services and federal grants "into one pot" (Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7/18).
