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Juvenile Offenders Community Health Services (JOCHS)

Juvenile Offenders Community Health Services (JOCHS) is an initiative to promote the positive role of health care in the lives of children and adolescents who are brought to juvenile detention facilities. JOCHS' goal is to connect youth who are brought to detention centers with health care services provided by community health care centers. They encourage partners and policymakers to view detention as an opportunity to rethink health care delivery for all children and youth in their jurisdiction, and to provide care that is age-appropriate and culturally sensitive, and reflects local standards. By bringing community health care providers into juvenile detention centers, JOCHS seeks to build bridges between juveniles and their communities and to establish stable medical homes for juveniles in their communities.

Available online

http://www.jochs.org/