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Then write a paper on what collaboration means in the juvenile justice system?  What

challenges do collaborative efforts face in juvenile justice? 

Collaboration in Juvenile Justice System means the involvement of community-based

multi-disciplinary organizations for working together for the betterment of youth who becomes

in contact with the above mentioned system. Collaboration is a methodology for providing the

juveniles as well as their families with a variety of services that could be more cohesive as well

as efficient in providing support and guidance as compared to the traditional separatist approach.

Considering the complexity of the Juvenile Justice System, an approach of involvement of multi-

agency that are multi-disciplinary who can bring expertise from different fields have the

potential of bring successful outcomes for all the juveniles who have been in contact with the

above mentioned system. However it can be considered that the potential usefulness of working

as a team can be time as well as resource intensive and sometimes emotionally draining too.

Among all these collaborative ventures, the achievement of one can be seen as a positive

energy and a common purpose as well as a mutual togetherness among all these contributors.

The juvenile is desired to be recognized for their positive results and outcomes. As a youth

intervention, you should include a team with an educator, physician, social worker, or others.

Studies have shown that teens who are associated with the criminal justice system or are

newly released prisoners would be more likely to have myelopathy. The (Shufelt & Cocozza,

2016; Wasserman et. al., 2014) study indicates that the youth involvement in the criminal justice

system is largely attributed to the mental health disorders associated with the young person who

are often manifested in a lot of physically intractable ways as well. In addition to criminal justice

institutions and their programs for individuals dealing with the eating disorders, there is also
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access to care and counselling institutions and facilities that are not available within the human

society. Youth volunteer services like youth courts are unable to deny youth with care needs.

Indeed, children need to get into the criminal justice system because it is the only way they get

the help they need (Skowyra & Cocozza, 2017).

If you want to deal with a psychiatric patient, you should be ready for a cooperative

attitude as well as work in a demanding situation. We can overcome these obstacles to

cooperation by adopting any of the following methods or techniques.

Notice the metaphysical issues that can keep you from promoting mental health services.

Every organization each comes to the meeting room with their assigned legal mandate, their

specified aim, and their objectives (Osher, 2012). The criminal justice system has agreed to come

together with other interesting changes to meet the demands necessary for public safety and

delinquency. Mental health systems care for developing positive life outcomes, including

becoming a happy family member or a healthy employee. However, to do this, you will need to

finance organizations in a way that is not consistent with other organizations, have several

additional employees that are funded as well as support staff in order to execute. The partnership

would benefit both organizations, which would enable both of them to successfully do their

missions.

You will both best work through your target divisions by having everyone speak to each

other, and, what better way to work together as equal partners, than as a team. And you can bring

this with you at work and introduce it during job interviews, or even during office meetings with

other coworkers. In addition to traditional strategies, such as services for identification as well as
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programs of mentoring, other community organizations are considering intervening such as

courses or other community centers.

Things that go up. The public health department and the criminal justice department

should collaborate to work together to strengthen public health and juvenile justice health as a

whole. The agencies or services are financed differently, and it is important that they be handled

in a way that is fully autonomous. Even though there are many people participating in the

discussion, they are very much based on their own resources and self, they do not seem to be

working together for the common goal (Osher, 2012). Sharing of specific information between

agencies may be a difficult thing to do as it is very difficult to find out which information is

going to be necessary to ensure that the data in question meets all relevant legal categories but at

the same time protecting the youth's Constitutional right against self-incrimination (remember, if

you care about youth protection, you might also want to consider Youth Law). There are several

different methods by which people decide to identify mental disorders, including by self-

reporting, personal assessments, evaluation of actions, and blood test.

When these organizations have courses of mutual contact with each department, it may

be for each department to send messages to each other and it is very important for each

department to rely on their online profiles to communicate. If acronyms and jargon are being

used, there is a greater likelihood that an organization is perceived as being solely centered on its

mission. Because of this, it will be a challenge to connect with the audience (Leone, et al., 2012).

In criminal justice, "at risk" means being potentially arrested, while "risky" means facing arrest

or prosecution. In social security, "at risk" means being at a risk linked with one one's moral

responsibility, while "risky" means being at a high risk linked to one's behavior. Ensuring the
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systems are mutually compatible is a very difficult and time consuming task. There are a variety

of methods to get rid of the problem which include:

Patients that are resistant to the medication. There are times where two people or two

organizations are forced to split up and operate separately because one person or one will needs

to fulfil the demands made by the other person or organisation. Based on past changes to other

organizations, we would expect these changes to affect those in our organization by raising

concerns and generating a lot of work and responsibilities. Agencies like the FDA start with a

group of experts, many of whom have tones of expertise in specific fields. They then have an

organization that is built around the concerns and issues that will arise (Osher, 2012). Within a

collaborative work culture, people's roles and functions might stretch beyond their normal

boundaries and new contexts that they look at to learn how to collaborate with people from

different distinctions and cultures. Staffs plan in particular the protocol by the following

methods.

This service, which aims to support adolescents who are at risk of being juvenile justice

system participants, is very difficult to work with, especially in a criminal context, but if it works

correctly, it can have long term benefits because it builds community and buys youth a second

chance at a healthy and positive future. We have to tackle many different topics while we

continue to work together on these items. There are things we can do to jump-start the

development of AGWs. Approaches that can help children be returned to their families can help

these children resolve what may be causing them to be kept in the criminal justice system.

Jesus has mentioned about teamwork in several places that has been mentioned in the

Bible at several places though nothing has been mentioned for the juvenile justice in direct form
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however if considered in wider terms these versus could be implemented anywhere and for any

case or situation. For instance:

It is mentioned in Peter 4: 8-10, “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers

a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a

gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace”.

This verse emphasizes for focusing on the requirement of the teammates. How to use

their talents and positivity in order to serve others and how to adapt their skills to bridge the gaps

within the organizations. Furthermore it has been emphasized to work together with patience,

while being kind and happy and not to complain.

Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 stated: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their

labor: if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has

no one to help them up”.

In this verse again the emphasis has been laid on the teamwork and togetherness. It is a

famous proverb that “Mount Everest cannot be climbed being alone”. Means, nothing can be

done alone no matter how big or small the act may be. It is necessary to look for opportunities

for working up together and being cooperative with each other to solve the problems and have

peaceful life.

Although none of these versus is directly related to the Juvenile justice system however it

can be interpreted and linked/related to the juvenile justice system as well because Jesus has

talked about the youth at several places and this could be found in Bible at several places. Jesus

has told the youth to follow the righteous path and had emphasized on the parents and the

support system to take good care of the children and the youth to keep them on the right path.
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