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Table 1 Data Availability and Rates of Youth Characteristics by Type of Provider\a

From: Juvenile justice systems of care: results of a national survey of community supervision agencies and behavioral health providers on services provision and cross-system interactions

 

Community Supervision Providers

Behavioral Health Providers

Youth Characteristic

Data Available

Prevalence

Data Available

Prevalence

Demographics

 Male

84%

73%

80%

67%

 Female

84%

27%

80%

33%

 Under age 14

76%

12%

77%

18%

 Age 14–15

79%

36%

77%

27%

 Age 16–17

79%

44%

77%

39%

 18 or older

81%

8%

78%

12%

 White/Caucasian

81%

53%

77%

50%

 Black/African American

80%

26%

77%

19%

 Other or Mixed Race/Unknown

70%

6%

75%

16%

 Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity

79%

18%

77%

21%

Substance Use Problems

 Any substance use problems including alcohol

46%

51%

71%

66%

 Marijuana use problems

35%

49%

65%

59%

 Alcohol use problems

40%

25%

66%

41%

 Prescription drug misuse

25%

19%

50%

16%

Other drug use problems (e.g., amphetamine/methamphetamine, cocaine/crack, opioids/heroin, hallucinogens/K2/Salts)

35%

18%

53%

18%

Tobacco use problems

24%

32%

48%

51%

Mental Health Problems

 Serious Family Problems (e.g., substance use, serious mental illness, domestic violence, incapacitating chronic illness)

31%

60%

58%

67%

 Internalizing Mental Disorders (e.g., Mood, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychosis)

30%

35%

70%

57%

 Externalizing Mental Disorders (e.g., Attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct, pathological gambling, or other impulse control disorder)

26%

35%

67%

52%

 Learning Disabilities or Other Cognitive Impairment

25%

28%

47%

28%

 Suicide Risk (e.g., self-mutilation, thoughts, plans, means, attempts)

31%

13%

56%

22%

Other Behavioral Health Problems

 Risky sexual activity (e.g., unprotected sex, sex under the influence, multiple sex partners, sex trading, sex with high risk partners)

17%

51%

39%

44%

 Physical, Sexual or Emotional Victimization

29%

39%

57%

44%

 Violence towards other

32%

25%

46%

36%

 Physical Health Problems

21%

11%

56%

12%

 Needle related risk activity (e.g., use, old or unclean needles, sharing, sharing with risky partners)

14%

2%

40%

3%

  1. \a Data are weighted to reflect the estimated national population estimate of the 3202 CS agencies and 4252 BH service providers and in the U.S. and have been adjusted for survey non-response at the state level