Behavioral Health Resources for Criminal and Juvenile Justice This work is designed to increase access to services and improve education and awareness about mental health and substance use disorders These resources help address individuals’ needs in the community, during incarceration, and upon reentry
Health Care Funding for Youth in Custody (2025) That support includes essential health care services, such as early diagnosis and treatment for acute and chronic diseases and mental health challenges The likelihood that needed health care will be provided postrelease is contingent upon the availability of funding for those services
How to Address Behavioral Health in Detention Centers Below, we have explained five effective methods for improving behavioral health outcomes in detention centers, ensuring that youth in care have the best chance at rehabilitation and long-term success
Ensuring Youths Access to Medicaid to Support Healthy Reentry after . . . Most youth express plans to succeed upon their reentry, and most qualify for Medicaid in the community Connecting youth to health care during reentry, such as family-based behavioral health interventions, improves their health and educational outcomes and reduces recidivism
Access in Brief: Health Care Needs and Use of Services by . . . - MACPAC With few exceptions, Medicaid is the payer of health care services for eligible and enrolled individuals living in the community, while correctional institutions, including juvenile detention facilities and local jails, must pay for health care costs while youth are confined to these facilities
Coordinating and Improving Care for Young People who are Incarcerated Youth in juvenile detention centers typically have more unmet health care needs than their peers Data shows that incarcerated youth are more likely to be diagnosed with dental problems and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), while as many as 70% of these young people struggle with mental health disorders
Medicaid and CHIP Changes for Youth in the Justice System Since the 1960's states and local jurisdictions have not been able to draw down federal Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding to treat youth who are held in local detention centers or state-run commitment facilities do to the "Inmate Exclusion" policy