Center for Behavioral Health and Youth Justice

Publications

The Center for Behavioral Health and Youth Justice's recent publications

Faulkner, R N., Arnold, A., Sarapas, C., Ryan, M. E., Sichel, C.E., Wasserman, G. A., Taxman, F. S., Dennis, M. L.& Elkington, K.S. (2025) Exploring the Impact of Juvenile Probation Officer’s Individual and Organizational Characteristics on e-Connect Performance. Journal of Correctional Health Care. 31:4, 241-251.

Sichel, C..S., Galbraith, K. H. & Elkington, K. S. (2025). Breaking the Cycle: Connecting Youth Involved in Juvenile Justice to Effective Behavioral Health Services. Health and Justice 13, 42.

Molfenter, T; Ducharme, L., Stein, L., Belenko, S., Mitchell, S., Watson, D.,Aalsma, M., Friedmann, P., Becan, J., Garner, B., Vechinski, J., Bouris, A., Claypool, E., & Elkington, K. S. (2024). A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Implementation Strategy Integrity. Implementation Research and Practice, 5, 26334895241297278.

Cohall, A.T., Tross, S., Wilson, P., O’Grady, M., Cohall, R. T. &  Elkington, K. S., Screening for STIs among Criminal Legal System Involved Youth of Color in Community Settings (2024) Health & Justice, 12(1), 38.

Elkington, K. S., Ryan. M., Basaraba, C., Dambreville, R., Alschuler, D., Wall., M., Garcia, A., Christofferson, M., Andrews, H., & Nunes, E. (2024). Examining the Impact of the Innovative Opioid Court Model on Treatment Access and Court Outcomes for Court Participants. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 18(6), 635–642.

Achebe, I., Campos, S., Watkins, J., Jones, A., Hickson, R., Siras, T., Lee., J., & Elkington, K. S. (2024) Understanding Perceptions to Improve Intervention: HIV Risk Behavior, Testing and PrEP Uptake Among Male African-American and Latine Justice-involved Young Adult (In press). Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 35(3), 837–851.

Ertl, M., Wainberg, M., Pinho, V., McKinnon, K., Cournos, F., Elkington, K., Ertl, M., Singh, A., & Tross, S. (2025). Listening to Adolescents in Substance Use Treatment: A Qualitative Study of Perspectives on Sexuality and Substance Use. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion, 6(2), 238-274.

Cadet, T., Elkington, K. S., Ryan, M., Jalali, A., Wasserman, G. A., Taxman, F., Dennis, M., & Murphy, S. M. (2025). The cost of implementing and sustaining an evidence-based, behavioral-health electronic screening system in probation departments. Health & Justice, 13(1), 24.