Even though Juvenile delinquent behavior and crimes is at its lowest in 38 years there is still a need for continuous effort and case management to keep our youth off the street (Paulson, 2013). Over the last thirty eight years, juvenile crime is at its lowest level, yet there is still a significant need to find and retain resources and commitment. Even with this change in delinquent deviancy we would still like to see an effort on the deterrence towards juvenile deviancy with still bigger commitments for those of professional case management on juvenile delinquency. Those working in Juvenile Case Management must still posse a level of knowledge required to become a skilled social worker who contains knowledge of not only family and their environmental settings but also in juvenile justice, family law and practice, youth education and awareness, with an array of so many other personal attributes to keep these youth off the street.
According to the National Institute of Juvenile Justice Research in Action Newsletter (1999), traditional case management consists of a social or mental health worker who secures and coordinates continued social, mental health, medical, and other services for a client (Healey). With the deinstitutionalize of inmates in 1970 the mental health workers found new ways and initiative to coordinate efforts in an attempt to connect social services while monitoring recent released inmates where different agencies were able to derive distinct programs and agencies for within the criminal justice system. Alongside these programs the case managers begin to differentiate programs for youth vs. adults. Yet, each service consist of different treatment plans to assess the client in an effort to reduce alcohol and substance abuse , parole and probation monitoring, and other developed service plans (Healey, 1999).
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