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Some Get Help, Others Receive Only Punishment

Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2002;288:566-568.

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Philadelphia—An innovative program in Santa Cruz County, California, keeps juvenile offenders at home with their families when possible. It provides day treatment centers where repeat offenders attend school, receive help for mental and/or substance abuse disorders, undergo counseling, and participate in art therapy and recreational activities. The program, which operates 6 days a week, involves the youths' families and requires participants to make restitution, where appropriate, to their victims and their community.

The county's probation, education, and mental health departments jointly developed the program in 1999, establishing two Placement Alternative Resources for Kids (PARK) centers. Each now serves 18 minors, about four boys to every girl. More than 130 boys and girls have participated in the program so far. A comparison group of youth with similar offense records receives the same services at diverse sites in the county.

Before entering either program, only 70% of all participants . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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