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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Equity Health. 2009 Nov 1;2(1):61–71.

Table 1.

Socio-demographics (n = 60)

Male 90% Family member ever in prison 70%
Mean age 18.1 Ever expelled from school 35%
Latino 66.7% Ever arrested 93.3%
African American 30% Ever in jail/juvenile hall 70%
Ever homeless 26.7% Ever in ‘camp’/DJJ/CYA/prison 28.3%
Not able to eat at some point 20% No health insurance 31.7%
‘Poor’/’very poor’ growing up 25% ‘Miserable’/’not very happy’ 36.7%
Raised by both parents 45% Ever seen a mental health therapist 53.3%
Family in a gang 68.3% Prescribed mental health meds 28.3%
Family member arrested 90% Physical health as ‘fair’/’poor’ 21.7%
Family member ever in jail 86.7% Current physical health problems 43.3%