Supporting students returning to school after a mental health crisis often involves more training than many school staff members receive. With the increase in youth mental health diagnoses, there has also been an increase in the number of youth requiring psychiatric emergency department visits and hospitalizations. As such, this study employed a…

On a given day, more than 43,000 youths who largely identify as students of color and are disproportionately male are held in residential placement facilities as a result of involvement with the juvenile justice system. More than two-thirds of youths living in placement facilities who participated in a national survey shared aspirations to…

Juvenile detention and correctional facilities, in collaboration with state agencies and local school districts, have adopted a number of practice and policies to promote educational re-enrollment and advancement following release. Informed by limited research and the accounts of practitioners and clients in the field, this article discusses…