Arkansas Children's Behavioral Health Care Commission

The primary purpose of this report is to underscore the urgent need to reform Arkansas’s costly juvenile justice system.  It explains how the system works, and profiles the demographics of committed youth.  It is also intended to serve as a conceptual framework to assist DYS and stakeholders in Arkansas in building a reform plan.  This report was prepared in collaboration with DYS, Pat Arthur and Tim Roche and funded through a generous grant from the JEHT Foundation.