Table 3. Percent of shelters, group homes and halfway houses, and residential treatment facilities providing access to mental health services, by type of service and proportion of offenders

  Proportion of offenders*
Type of service All facilities Less than 25% 25%–75% Greater than 75%
  Shelters
  (n = 269) (n = 99) (n = 73) (n = 97)
Any service 81.0 83.8 82.2 77.3
Screening 53.8 53.7 66.8 43.2
Evaluation 44.7 47.5 52.6 35.1
Emergency 61.6 61.7 61.4 60.8
Medication 55.9 55.2 61.4 51.7
24-hour 15.0 15.3 14.0 15.1
Separate residential 9.3 8.9 8.8 9.8
Therapy 41.0 48.6 42.0 31.8
  Group homes and halfway houses
  (n = 1,022) (n = 263) (n = 157) (n = 602)
Any service 95.8 94.4 97.0 96.0
Screening 84.6 78.6 86.5 86.7
Evaluation 82.0 77.1 86.0 83.2
Emergency 81.8 76.7 83.1 83.7
Medication 87.4 86.9 90.5 86.8
24-hour 46.2 42.2 52.0 46.4
Separate residential 39.7 39.1 52.0 36.8
Therapy 82.6 81.7 89.9 81.0
  Residential treatment facilities
  (n = 673) (n = 118) (n = 115) (n = 440)
Any service 98.7 100.0 100.0 97.9
Screening 28.9 19.9 16.2 34.7
Evaluation 87.0 89.0 91.7 85.2
Emergency 84.5 85.6 89.1 82.9
Medication 90.2 96.6 91.7 88.1
24-hour 34.7 37.7 44.5 31.4
Separate residential 63.3 70.8 84.3 55.9
Therapy 79.7 83.9 86.0 77.0

Source: 1998 Inventory of Mental Health Services in Juvenile Justice Facilities, from the Survey and Analysis Branch, Division of State and Community Systems Development, Center for Mental Health Services
*On a one-day count.
Table based on 2,798 facilities.

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