The Behavioral Health Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) initiative is a cohort of evidence-based programs designed to identity and divert justice-involved youth with mental health and substance abuse disorders into community-based treatment.

The Brooke Hancock Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission (BHJ MPC) is in the forefront of the region of the Northern West Virginia and Jefferson County, Ohio’s, Planning activities …

Ohio’s Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) Initiative is a diversion program for juvenile justice-involved youth between the ages of 10-18 who also suffer from mental or behavioral health issues. In lieu of detention, the BHJJ program diverts youth into more comprehensive, community-based behavioral health treatment.

Ohio's Behavioral Health Juvenile Justice Initiative. The BHJJ program was created to provide detention alternatives for juvenile justice-involved youth with behavioral health concerns. The program targets young people ages 10-18 who have at least one psychiatric diagnosis.

Juvenile justice-involved youth with serious behavioral health issues often have inadequate and limited access to care to address their complex and multiple needs. Ohio’s Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) initiative was designed to provide these youth evidence and community-based behavioral health treatment in lieu of detention.

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BHJ along with Ohio Department of Transportation and West Virginia Department of Transportation oversee traffic counting as the foundation of a performance measurement-based planning program consistent with FAST Act planning requirements. This program provides a sound and factual basis to support ongoing transportation planning work.

As the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Area, the BHJ-MPC mission is to fulfill the federal transportation planning requirements of the most current authorized surface transportation legislation, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21).

The Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Linkage Programs (BH/CJ) initiative encourages communities in Ohio to create relationships between the behavioral health and criminal justice systems so that individuals with mental illness and/or …

Ohio’s Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice (BHJJ) Initiative Twenty years ago, Ohio’s juvenile court judges met with representatives from the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH) and the Ohio Department of Youth Services (ODYS) to address a growing and serious concern.