Training

Training new hires and veteran staff at JTDC involves them pro-actively in our mental health efforts and improves the quality of care and enhances relationships among the detained youths, IRC, and JTDC and staff.

Training, a crucial element of IRC’s services at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC), is part of the team approach that IRC is known for. The training program, geared to JTDC staff, is practical, relevant, and real-world. For example, IRC psychiatry and mental health staff discuss such topics as managing the mentally ill, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and communication.

The benefits of such training are many. Detained youths benefit by receiving greater continuity of care and more positive and consistent interaction with the professionals working at JTDC.

In addition, training new hires and veteran staff at JTDC involves them pro-actively in our mental health efforts. That kind of hand-in-hand involvement improves the quality of care and enhances relationships among the detained youths, IRC, and JTDC and staff.