ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Winnebago County Juvenile Detention Center is set to expand to improve mental health services.
“It’s important to me. We want our juveniles who are in the detention center to get the best services they can,” said Court Services Director of the 17th Judicial Circuit Debbie Jarvis.
We have three full-time therapists who are funded through the Mental Health Board. We’re so incredibly grateful for them, but we don’t have space for them,” Jarvis explained. “They are literally in a cell. They are in a pod, and that’s where their offices are because we don’t have room for them.”…