Juvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS)

NIDA’s Juvenile Justice Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) was a multisite cooperative agreement that launched in 2013 and ended in 2018. JJ-TRIALS was a seven-site cooperative research program designed to identify and test strategies for improving the delivery of evidence-based substance use and HIV prevention and treatment services for justice-involved youth.

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Health and Justice: A Continuum of Care for HIV and Substance Use for Justice-Involved Youth (010)

Overcoming barriers to substance use (SU) screening and enrollment in SU care is, therefore, central to decreasing JIY’s negative HIV-related outcomes. Intensive efforts to increase screening and improve linkage to HIV (including PrEP for HIV– youth who are behaviorally eligible) and SU services for JIY are needed that address youth as well as justice and health/behavioral health system-level barriers. This project studied the impact of embedding HIV testing outreach workers from a youth focused medical and HIV treatment program into and alternative sentencing program (ASP) to deliver a new service delivery model (Link2CARE) that integrates evidenced-based protocols for justice-involved youth to a) promote HIV and STI testing, HIV and SU risk screening; b) provide onsite intervention; and c) cross-system linkage to HIV, STI and SU care.

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