Discuss the challenges that community-based interventions face. How do secure residential programs fare in comparison?

What will be an ideal response?

Answers may vary.Residential programs face specific challenges to effective rehabilitation of youth. These include mental health disorders (a number of youth may have particular treatment needs for mental health symptoms), deviancy training (the process by which deviant peers positively reinforce antisocial communication and behavior), attitudes toward rehabilitation (both youth and facility staff may be less than fully committed to rehabilitative goals), and difficulty of involving families due to more remote locations. Residential programs that are more effective must recognize and address these challenges.When should juveniles be placed in the community, and when should they be assigned to secure residential placements? This decision depends on several considerations. Higher risk juveniles, often with a history of prior offenses, may require more secure placement. A judge may decide that a single offense, if it is very serious, merits a secure placement. Sometimes it can be important to remove a juvenile from extremely problematic circumstances (involving family, peers, gangs, and the like) that would continue with a community placement. However, there are substantial costs (both to the individual adolescent and to society) associated with secure placements. Juveniles very often respond better to correctional interventions when they are delivered in the community and can involve important influences such as family and school.There are some important questions about where juvenile correctional interventions should be made. When there are no proper resources and procedures in the community, interventions can be ineffective and put the public at continued risk. When there are no proper resources and procedures in secure settings, interventions are also ineffective and conditions can be brutal and dangerous.