New facility, system for detained children with extreme behavioral disorders created in bill advancing in Ky. legislature

New facility, system for detained children with extreme behavioral disorders created in bill advancing in Ky. legislature

Republished from WEKU. Kentucky’s Department of Juvenile Justice has no system to address the significant needs of children with behavioral disorders that can include high-levels of aggression and violent behavior, according to bill sponsor Sen. Danny Carroll, a Republican from Benton. Carroll said the failure to appropriately help these kids is the source of many of DJJ’s woes. “[The bill] provides a higher level of mental health treatment,” Carroll said. “We all agree that that’s imperative at this point, and we can’t let things that have been happening in the past continue to...

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