Services

The IRC team at JTDC has grown from a handful of staff to more than 30 professionals.

Our services at Cook County’s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) include a range of efforts that are designed to provide coordinated mental health care to residents. Included are:

• comprehensive mental health evaluations for residents
• medication management
• regular monitoring of treatment
• psycho-educational groups
• one-on-one counseling
• behavior management
• coordination of care with community service providers
• referrals for hospitalization
• linkages to aftercare treatment, where available