Children of Color With Mental Health Problems: Stuck in All the Wrong Places – While nationally, one out of every five youth suffers from mental health problems, in juvenile justice facilities the numbers grow to one out of every two. An average of 17,000 incidents of suicidal behavior occur each year in juvenile justice facilities in this country.  In Maryland, in 1998, 53% of the youth in the 15 juvenile justice facilities had mental health problems.