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Agency official credits 'teamliness' for better juvenile justice outcomes, urges inpatient, multidisciplinary care

Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) · March 30, 2026
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An agency official said "teamliness," a term the department coined from staff surveys, correlates with better youth outcomes and argued the Juvenile Justice Department must adopt a more inpatient, multidisciplinary approach so education, case management, medical and mental-health teams work together rather than in silos.

An agency official at the Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) said the agency coined the term “teamliness” from staff surveys and that teams with higher levels of teamliness produced better outcomes for youth.

The official said, "So the word teamliness is something we made up. It came from data from some of our early on staff surveys about collective efficacy. And what we saw was when we had teams operating with high…

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