Symposium

Pediatric Rehabilitation

Brain Injury

Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System

Brain Injury in Justice Involved Youth: Translating Research into Policy and Practice (826578)

Presenter(s)

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  Drew Nagele, PsyD, CBIST, FACRM

  Clinical Professor
  Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
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  MJ Schmidt, MA, CBIST

  Training and Outreach Coordinator
  Brain Injury Association of PA
  Hatboro, Pennsylvania

Non-presenting Author(s)

• JD

  Judy L. Dettmer

  Director of Strategic Partnerships
  National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
  Fort Collins, Colorado
• KG

  Kim Gorgens, PhD, ABPP

  Professor
  University of Denver
  Denver, Colorado

Non-presenting author(s)

• MV

  Monica Vaccaro, MS, CBIS

  Director of Programs
  Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania
  Chester, Pennsylvania
• JM

  Julie Myers, MPH

  Public Health Program Administrator
  PA Department of Health
  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Recent research has demonstrated that up to 49% of justice-involved youth have evidence of a lifetime history of brain injury. The medical/physical, neurocognitive, and behavioral challenges that result from these brain injuries factor into the youths' success in school and transition to adult roles, and become intertwined with their destiny when they start offending and becoming justice-involved. This symposium will demonstrate how to set up systems of brain injury screening, neurocognitive assessment, neuroresource facilitation, for the purpose of providing neurorehabilitation services and supports that can help the youth be successful in school and to make a successful transition to adult life. Brain injury rehabilitation professionals have a responsibility to advocate, educate, and implement change in the systems that serve justice-involved youth, and this presentation will arm you with skills to make that knowledge translation in your communities.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe research evidence of over-representation of brain injury in the juvenile justice population and how untreated brain injury contributes toward adult offending
• Define basic elements of intervention within juvenile justice, including brain injury screening, neurocognitive assessment, neuroresource facilitation, integration with school/ transition to adult services
• Develop skills to be able to advocate, educate, and implement change with juvenile justice systems with which they interact.