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Summary: This report aims to improve the professional knowledge and skills of all stakeholders in contact with young offenders with mental health problems. It contains an advocacy toolkit which encourages countries to develop an advocacy program to improve the provision for young offenders with mental health problems, illness, and disorders. The document entitled "MHYO Manual for improving professional knowledge and skills, and developing advocacy programme" was released by the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) in November 2011. The European Comparative Analysis and Transfer of Knowledge on Mental Health Resources for Young Offenders (MHYO project), is an innovative project aimed to share knowledge and expertise concerning young offenders with mental health issues, who are at the same time offenders and victims of their own mental health. The MHYO project paid special attention to young offenders with mental health issues who are in contact, on the one hand, with the judicial system which considehttp://crin.org/cms/info/report/add.asprs them only as an offender, and on the other hand, the health system which recognises the same child as a victim of a mental disorder. The Volume II aims to improve the professional knowledge and skills of all stakeholders in contact with young offenders with mental health problems. It also contains an advocacy toolkit which encourages countries to develop an advocacy program to improve the provision for young offenders with mental health problems, illness, and disorders. Available in English, 156 pages. More Information: