Residential Treatment Facilities
Mary McCleary
Residential Treatment Facilities
CJ1210
Ryan Sharp
June 7, 2013
Residential Treatment Facilities provide a vast range of services for troubled youth such as; drug and alcohol treatment, discipline, counseling, basic living skills, structure, and so much more. These Residential Treatment Centers also provide organization skills that training schools provide as well and they are; obedience/conformity, reeducation/development, and treatment. These are three very important factors in a juvenile’s recovery and success. Most of the time when a child turns to crime/drugs it is a cry for help, but no one around them seems to hear until it is too late. This doesn’t mean give up on them it means try harder to assist them to better themselves before they become another statistic. Residential Treatment Programs started in the 1940’s by the early 1970’s the National Institute of Mental Health surveyed that there were 261 Residential Treatment programs. (Magellan) Over the years it became more common for troubled youth to go to Residential Treatment Centers as an alternative to jail/detention center. In the 80’s the number of children in Residential Treatment Facilities was 125,000 by 2000 it had increased to a quarter million. In Magellan Health Services, Inc. the research shows the reported returning to placement after one year was 32%, 53% after 2years and 59% by end of the 3rd year. This was due to lack of services, poverty, lack of community programs and lack of community support. Here are some very important key steps for success in and out of treatment; family involvement, aftercare, discharge planning, community services, and community support. (Magellan) According to David Gotteman and Suzan Wile Schwartz in the article Juvenile Justice in the U.S. states “that residential treatment centers do not work and make things worse not better in some cases”, they state that “residential facilities are ineffective at providing services for troubled
Residential Treatment Facilities
CJ1210
Ryan Sharp
June 7, 2013
Residential Treatment Facilities provide a vast range of services for troubled youth such as; drug and alcohol treatment, discipline, counseling, basic living skills, structure, and so much more. These Residential Treatment Centers also provide organization skills that training schools provide as well and they are; obedience/conformity, reeducation/development, and treatment. These are three very important factors in a juvenile’s recovery and success. Most of the time when a child turns to crime/drugs it is a cry for help, but no one around them seems to hear until it is too late. This doesn’t mean give up on them it means try harder to assist them to better themselves before they become another statistic. Residential Treatment Programs started in the 1940’s by the early 1970’s the National Institute of Mental Health surveyed that there were 261 Residential Treatment programs. (Magellan) Over the years it became more common for troubled youth to go to Residential Treatment Centers as an alternative to jail/detention center. In the 80’s the number of children in Residential Treatment Facilities was 125,000 by 2000 it had increased to a quarter million. In Magellan Health Services, Inc. the research shows the reported returning to placement after one year was 32%, 53% after 2years and 59% by end of the 3rd year. This was due to lack of services, poverty, lack of community programs and lack of community support. Here are some very important key steps for success in and out of treatment; family involvement, aftercare, discharge planning, community services, and community support. (Magellan) According to David Gotteman and Suzan Wile Schwartz in the article Juvenile Justice in the U.S. states “that residential treatment centers do not work and make things worse not better in some cases”, they state that “residential facilities are ineffective at providing services for troubled