SUMMARY - Mental Health and Youth Justice
A youth with untreated ADHD struggles with impulse control, acts without thinking, and ends up charged with assault. A teenager self-medicates trauma with substances and faces drug possession charges. Someone experiencing a mental health crisis responds to police commands erratically and is arrested for resisting rather than connected to care. A young person whose behavior stems from developmental disorders they have never been diagnosed with cycles through detention repeatedly without anyone recognizing the underlying condition.