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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Findings 3 findings
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Approximately 160 juveniles per month need crisis intervention. Additionally, 132 juvenile wards need daily mental health services. Limited facilities are available to house youths with mental health and psychiatric needs in the juvenile justice system of Sacramento County. This inability frequently requires sending juveniles out of the area to San Francisco, Vallejo, Modesto and Los Angeles in order to house them within a psychiatric facility at significant additional cost to the county.
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There are currently vacant staff positions and an urgent need for additional mental health positions within the juvenile justice facilities of Sacramento County that should be immediately filled. In spite of a demonstrated and urgent need for mental health staff, Sacramento County proposes to decrease the number of mental health positions for FY 2002/03.
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Clinical staff is forced to work in limited space within the existing juvenile justice facilities. This environment is not conducive to mental health counseling and treatment. Sacramento County Grand Jury June 30, 2002
Recommendations 3
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R1Page 34The 2000-2001 Grand Jury recommended Sacramento County build a 25-bed free standing` secure facility for juveniles. In its response DHHS indicated they had initiated a feasibility study for such a facility. This Grand Jury reaffirms that recommendation. Further, Sacramento County should now move forward and build such a facility.
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R2Page 34The Board of Supervisors, DHHS, and the Mental Health Division should find the financial means to hire additional staff willing to work in a detention facility. This may require a restructuring of the pay scale or offering other incentives in order to recruit additional qualified staff.
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R3Page 35Sacramento County needs to provide adequate and sufficient space in the juvenile centers for clinicians to provide mental health services.