Treatment Services
Choice Program
These services involve the Choice Treatment Specialist in collaboration with Intake/Probation staff to provide services to divert at-risk youth who are already in the court system from further escalation into the court system. The counseling services provide:
- Individual/family/group counseling
- Crisis Intervention
- Runaway, truancy, and incorrigibility intervention
- Intensive case management services
- Community-based
Juvenile Community Justice (JCJ)
This initiative was born out of a need to better serve those high-risk youth being placed in costly state programs. JCJ is a program that employs a network of local agencies that provide services for count involved youth. It provides community-based treatment and surveillance for those youth who are at-risk for residential placement and those returning early to their communities after release from placement.
- Juveniles at risk for residential placement
- Court ordered
- Contracted lead agency provides community-based treatment and services
- Juvenile Justice Institute as appropriate
- Holistic and restorative approach
- Foster care, if necessary
