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Differences in Service Delivery for Children – cont’d
- Pediatricians may not be skilled in recognition of psychiatric and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Children and adolescents with these disorders can go undiagnosed and untreated.
- Virginia does not have enough children's psychiatric beds to meet the current needs for these services, even if the services are court-ordered.
Attachments: “Virginia’s Continuing Policy to Take Away State Psychiatric Hospitals for Children without Increasing Community Service Options” “Interim Report of the Virginia Commission on Youth: Youth with Emotional Disturbance Requiring Out-of-Home Treatment”.)