Objectives
Youth Services
- Maintain low recidivism rates for new felony offenses.
- Maintain security to ensure escapes from secure facilities are kept to a minimum.
- Conduct annual licensing audits for all juvenile detention facilities using a standardized audit instrument.
- Measure outcomes for secure facility CD Treatment program.
- Measure outcomes for secure facility Sex Offender Treatment program.
- ACA Accreditation at Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility.
- Maintain ACA Accreditation for Juvenile Parole.
- Track appropriate placements for youth with mental illnesses who enter Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility and Riverside Youth Correctional Facility.
- Maintain access to the Criminal Justice Information Network at Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility for use by the Youth Services Division’s employees to perform criminal background checks for prospective employees and to issue warrants for youth under Department of Corrections' supervision as necessary.
- Increase academic achievement of youth within six months while in secure facilities. Conduct pre and post tests for academic level measuring change in academic scores.
- Maintain community placement options for serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders including specialized foster home placements.
- Maintain a faith based component for community programs.
- Maintain a pre-mentoring program for youth in correctional facilities and a mentoring program for youth placed in remote communities.
- Continue using evidence based practices: cognitive approach and effective communication to motivate offender change.
- Continue offering culturally appropriate spiritual opportunities for all youth supervised.
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Continue appropriate policy and procedure meeting Prison Rape Elimination Act requirements and youth PREA standards as they relate to youth.
- Increase the number of community service hours worked, the amount of hours worked and amount paid to victims.
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Provide training on Interstate Compact Procedures for Juvenile Probation Officers, Juvenile Parole Officers, Correctional Facilities' Case Managers and pertinent staff at the Supreme Court Administrator's Office.
- Provide continued suicide prevention and mental health training.
