Your Resource as a Youth Justice Grantee
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) recently funded community partnerships to divert youth from justice referrals. The funding was allocated under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. The purpose of the program is to develop diversion alternatives in communities from the youth justice system.
The goals of this program are to enhance collaboration and coordination of substance use screening, assessment, intervention, and treatment among schools/school districts, mental and substance use health specialists, law enforcement, and youth justice officials at the local level; to ensure families have the support and training necessary to divert youth from the justice system; to develop a shared evidence-based process for screening, assessment, intervention, and treatment before delinquency; and avoid referring students with mental health and substance use disorders to law enforcement.
The goals of this program are to enhance collaboration and coordination of substance use screening, assessment, intervention, and treatment among schools/school districts, mental and substance use health specialists, law enforcement, and youth justice officials at the local level; to ensure families have the support and training necessary to divert youth from the justice system; to develop a shared evidence-based process for screening, assessment, intervention, and treatment before delinquency; and avoid referring students with mental health and substance use disorders to law enforcement.
Website Purpose
As specified in the GFO, grantees will be required to engage in the following training activities:
This website will be your resource to access training events and activities as well as find training recordings and materials after each event.
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder screening, training, and outreach activities.
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome screening, training, and outreach activities.
- Project evaluation.
- Addressing health concerns in the juvenile population such as underage drinking, opioid use, methamphetamine use, and lead paint toxicity.
This website will be your resource to access training events and activities as well as find training recordings and materials after each event.
Topic Areas
Click on each button below to access topic related training resources.
2024 Meetings
Youth Justice Grantees have monthly meetings. Every other month is a grantee meeting or a training meeting. The grantee meetings are closed for grantees only, and the public is welcome at trainings.
All Meetings and Trainings
11am-12pm CST
All Meetings and Trainings
11am-12pm CST
Youth Justice Grantee Meeting |
Youth Justice Trainings |
October 8 All Day In-person meeting at the 2024 Alcohol Policy Seminar |
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November 12 Topic: Starting New |
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December 10 Topic: Welcome New Grantees |
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Resources
Culturally and Linguistic Appropriate Services (CLAS) Materials
Collaboration Tools
Updated Client Right Materials
The Client Rights Office has published new materials on the DHS website.
Collaboration Tools
- From Handshake to Compact: Guidance to Foster Collaborative, Multimodal Decision Making. This is a self assessment tool for existing collaboratives.
- A Collaboration Self-Assessment Checklist
- Collaboration Self-Assessment Checklist (another option)
Updated Client Right Materials
The Client Rights Office has published new materials on the DHS website.
- Rights of Minors: Outpatient Behavioral Health Treatment (Brochure)
- This brochure replaces the "Rights of Children and Adolescents in Outpatient Mental Health Treatment" publication. It is available in English, Hmong, and Spanish.
- Rights of Minors: Outpatient Behavioral Health Treatment (One-Page Flyer)
- This one-page flyer is a new publication. It highlights the key points in the "Rights of Minors: Outpatient Behavioral Health Treatment" brochure. It is available in English, Hmong, and Spanish.
- Client Rights Specialist Training
- The client rights specialist training has been updated. Thank you for your patience and understanding while the client rights specialist training was not available.
Meeting Archives
Please click on the + sign to the right of the date to access any archived materials.
Please click on the + sign to the right of the date to access any archived materials.
February 16, 2021
March 16, 2021
April 20, 2021
May 18, 2021
June 15, 2021
July 20, 2021
September 14, 2021
November 14, 2021
February 8, 2022
June 14, 2022
February 14, 2023
May 09, 2023
July 11, 2023
August 15, 2023
October 10, 2023
Febraury 13, 2024
