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 and transportation priorities.

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.

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.

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.

Ohio’s Behavioral Health Juvenile Jus ce (BHJJ) ini a ve was designed to provide youth aged 10-18 evidence- and community-based behavioral health treatment in lieu of deten on. BHJJ was funded through a partnership between the Ohio Departments of Youth Services (ODYS) and Mental Health and Addic on Services (OhioMHAS).

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).

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.

OHIO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH / JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE [ BHJJ ] 2006— present Treatment led to significant improvements in problem severity and functioning July 2018 Grades improved and school suspensions/ expulsions were greatly reduced 53% were non-white On average, BHJJ costs about $5,000 per youth compared to $180,000 to commit a youth to ODYS

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 …