DCS Breakout Group

The DCS breakout group noted that it served two different populations of youth: the dependent/neglected and children in court. The group listed the following items as barriers, with the first four ranked in order of importance.

• Minority Providers, Resource Coordination & Community Partnerships: The system lacks sufficient numbers of both. Recruitment of minority providers and licensure issues are among the problems faced ["We need startup cost to get the person to train the person, licensure."].
  
  
• Co-occurring services: The system (providers?) lacks training in co-occurring problems ["issue is payor sources"] and difficulties with youth who have conduct disorders specifically, but mental health problems generally.
  
  
• Transitional living/services: Youth need these supports because of issues around homelessness, unemployability, and their addiction/MH issues. [Could not interpret: "Adult DOC"--Dept of Corrections?].
  
  
• Funding sources: [no notes listed]
  
  
• JJ youth-No standard screening across courts: [no notes listed]
  
  
• Time constraints: [no notes listed]
  

Editors note: If anyone from this group has details of the discussion on these items, please email robert.c.saunders [at] vanderbilt.edu, and I will flesh out these items.