Increasing access to substance use treatment for justice-involved youth: Building bridges between the justice, treatment and family systems.

Presenter: Katherine Elkington, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute

Dr. Elkington describes multi-level barriers to treatment for justice-involved youth, explores the integrated use of the Behavioral Health Care Cascade and ecological theory to conceptualize points of intervention, and describes initial findings from two different interventions that target various aspects of the justice, behavioral health, and family/youth-systems to improve treatment
access.