Table 4. Percent of juvenile justice facilities providing access to mental health services, by facility type and discipline of on-site mental health professional

        Any psychologist
Type of facility Number
of
facilities
Psychiatrist All Ph.D. only Masters
only
Masters in
Social Work
All facilities 1,193 60.6 68.7 56.4 49.6 61.4
Detention centers 456 61.0 70.4 58.2 50.3 67.1
Shelters 201 32.4 49.6 36.2 38.5 54.4
Reception/diagnostic centers 26 54.6 67.5 59.8 33.8 60.9
Ranches/camps/farms 108 47.7 56.4 47.0 34.6 47.7
Residential treatment facilities 257 76.5 78.0 64.6 56.5 64.6
Training schools 145 80.8 82.9 70.9 64.8 58.2

Source: 1998 Inventory of Mental Health Services in Juvenile Justice Facilities, from the Survey and Analysis Branch, Division of Community and Systems Development, Center for Mental Health Services.
Excludes 979 group homes and halfway houses not asked this question. Table based on 1,193 facilities, the number providing at least one mental health service and completing the long form. (See technical appendix table C1 for detail.)
Facilities may be in more than one category; therefore, the total number of facilities is not the sum of the number of each type.

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