ArticleHealth & justice2018
Using Goal Achievement Training in juvenile justice settings to improve substance use services for youth on community supervision.
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Juvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System: Multi-site Implementation Study
Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network II TCU Hub: TCU Building Resilient Initiatives for Deflection Through Greater Engagement Project (TCU BRIDGE to Deflection Project)
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- The comparative effectiveness of Core versus Core+Enhanced implementation strategies in a randomized controlled trial to improve substance use treatment receipt among justice-involved youth.BMC health services research · 2022Trial
- Policy Changes to Improve Service Access: Best Practices for Researchers Engaging With Criminal Justice Partners.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2025Article
- Implementation of Substance Use Services to Justice-Involved Youth: Examining Barriers, Facilitators, and Best Practices.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2023Review
- Impact of implementation interventions to improve substance use service delivery on recidivism among justice-involved youth.Health & justice · 2023Article
- Association of pregnancy attitudes and intentions with sexual activity and psychiatric symptoms in justice-involved youth.Children and youth services review · 2022Article
- A System-Level Intervention to Encourage Collaboration Between Juvenile Justice and Public Health Agencies to Promote HIV/STI Testing.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2020Article
- Improving Substance Use Services for Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: Complexity of Process Improvement Plans in a Large Scale Multi-site Study.Administration and policy in mental health · 2020Article
- Juvenile justice staff endorsement of HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment linkage.Health & justice · 2019Article
- A novel application of process mapping in a criminal justice setting to examine implementation of peer support for veterans leaving incarceration.Health & justice · 2019Article
- A model for rigorously applying the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework in the design and measurement of a large scale collaborative multi-site study.Health & justice · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe link between substance use and involvement in the juvenile justice system has been well established. Justice-involved youth tend to have higher rates of drug use than their non-offending peers. At the same time, continued use can contribute to an elevated risk of recidivism, which leads to further, and oftentimes more serious, involvement with the juvenile justice system. Because of these high rates of use, the juvenile justice system is well positioned to help identify youth with substance use problems and connect them to treatment. However, research has found that only about 60% of juvenile probation agencies screen all youth for substance involvement, and even fewer provide comprehensive assessment or help youth enroll in substance use treatment.
methodThis paper describes an integrated training curriculum that was developed to help juvenile justice agencies improve their continuum of care for youth probationers with substance use problems. Goal Achievement Training (GAT) provides a platform for continuous quality improvement via two sessions delivered onsite to small groups of staff from juvenile justice and behavioral health agencies. In the first session, participants are taught to identify goals and goal steps for addressing identified areas of unmet need (i.e., screening, assessment, and linkage to treatment services). In the second session, participants learn principles and strategies of data-driven decision-making for achieving these goals. This paper highlights GAT as a model for the effective implementation of cost-efficient training strategies designed to increase self-directed quality improvement activities that can be applied to any performance domain within juvenile justice settings. Efforts to monitor implementation fidelity of GAT within the specific context of the juvenile justice settings are highlighted. DISCUSSION: Challenges to setting the stage for process improvement generally, as well as specific hurdles within juvenile justice settings are discussed, as are next steps in disseminating findings regarding the fidelity to and effectiveness of GAT in this unique context.
trial registrationClinical Trials Registration number - NCT02672150 .
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