Facility Practices and Services |
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Q: |
Suicide Risk: Are youth in residential placement evaluated for suicide risk? |
A: |
More than 9 in 10 (96%) facilities reported evaluating youth for suicide risk in 2018. |
Facilities evaluating youth for suicide risk, by facility operation and facility type, 2018
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Total facilities |
Reporting facilities |
All youth |
Some youth |
None |
Total |
1,510 |
1,437 |
95% |
1% |
4% |
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Facility operation |
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Public |
903 |
883 |
97% |
1% |
3% |
State |
331 |
325 |
96% |
1% |
3% |
Local |
572 |
558 |
97% |
1% |
3% |
Private |
607 |
554 |
92% |
2% |
7% |
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Facility type1 |
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Detention center |
625 |
609 |
99% |
0% |
1% |
Long-term secure |
164 |
163 |
100% |
0% |
0% |
Reception/diagnostic center |
37 |
35 |
100% |
0% |
0% |
Group home |
240 |
221 |
81% |
1% |
18% |
Residential treatment center |
553 |
514 |
96% |
2% |
2% |
Ranch/wilderness camp |
27 |
24 |
83% |
0% |
17% |
Shelter |
116 |
115 |
92% |
1% |
7% |
Notes: Counts include evaluations conducted either on or offsite the facility location.
Percent based on number of reporting facilities.
1 Facility type counts sum to more than the total number of facilities because facilities could select more than one facility type.
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- The majority of facilities (95%) reported evaluating all youth for suicide risk in 2018.
- A larger proportion of public facilities (97%) than private facilities (92%) reported evaluating all youth for suicide risk. Nearly all locally (97%) and state-operated facilities (96%) reported evaluating all youth.
- All long-term secure and reception/diagnostic facilities and 99% of detention centers evaluated all youth for suicide risk in 2018. Group homes accounted for the smallest proportion to do so (81%).
Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/corrections/qa08550.asp?qaDate=2018.
Released on May 15, 2020.
Data Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Authors' analysis of Juvenile Residential Facility Census 2018 [machine-readable data files]. Washington, D.C.: OJJDP.
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