• Reduce juvenile crime by providing an appropriate continuum of services based upon risk/needs, supporting juvenile crime prevention efforts, and continuously seeking program and service improvements, using research and quality assurance as guides.
  
  
• Ensure accountability of the juvenile justice system by creating an open agency that uses data and research to guide practices, uses performance measures, and evaluates its programs and practices for efficiency and effectiveness.

 
OYA Issue Brief: Treatment services for youth in OYA close custody

Case Planning provides the youth’s roadmap to reformation by identifying specific treatment targets.  Treatments focus on thinking, beliefs, behaviors and skills the youth needs to develop to become productive, non-criminal members of society.  Within each domain (see them listed under Risk Needs Assessment), the case planning system identifies long-term goals and skills (competencies) youth need to work on, as well as evidence-based interventions designed to help youth learn and practice the identified skills.

•  What Got Me Here?

This curriculum entitled is part of the Change Company Curriculum “Changing Offender Behavior”.  It begins with introducing cognitive skill building through reframing risky thinking.  Focus is also on reinforcing pro-social behavior through modeling.  This curriculum helps to teach group behavior and process expectations and help in the assessment of the youth’s placement on the stages of change continuum.

• Changing Offender Behavior #1 and #2 

In this curriculum from Change Company, youth are introduced to “key” skills for recognizing, avoiding, and/or coping with situations, thoughts, feelings that lead to behaviors that put youth at high risk for criminal activity.  They then have opportunities to practice and apply the knowledge and skills in order to help them avoid and cope with high-risk behavior in the future.

• Skill Streaming

This program is a series of pro-social psycho-educational competencies designed by Arnold Goldstein specifically for adolescent youth.  It teaches interpersonal skills to aggressive, anti-social youth using a step by step structured format.

• Core AOD Treatment (CYT-MET/CBT12)

This is a 12-session program focused on the internal and external triggers surrounding chemical use, management of “high-risk” situations and development of pro-social skills.

• Social Skills / Boys Town

This is a set of social skill trainings that can be used to augment any of the cognitive curriculums.  These social skill trainings have been mapped to the major mental health diagnoses.  This allows the youth’s treatment to focus on skill trainings that are most necessary given their mental health condition(s).

• Coping with Depression

Coping with Depression is a cognitive-behavioral curriculum that focuses on the cognitive restructuring of adolescent thought patterns related to depression, while providing social skill-building related to better familial, peer and social relationships.

• Dialectical Behavior Treatment (DBT)

DBT is a specific treatment for youth with a history of suicidal behavior and difficulty regulating their emotions.  This treatment requires further assessment and evaluation before implementation.

• Core Sex Offender Treatment

This curriculum is being refined and expanded with the intent that testing will take place in late 2007.  Areas addressed include:  attitudes and beliefs about sex and sexuality; healthy sexuality; sexual history disclosure; behavioral, cognitive and emotional modulation skills; patterns of offending behaviors; effects of victim awareness and understanding; ownership or taking responsibility for sexual offending behaviors.

• Street Smarts

Street SMARTS (Self-analysis of Mentality and Attitude through Reformative Treatment Services) is a gang intervention group dealing primarily with educating youth through skill development and working with them to identify criminogenic risk and risking thinking that prevents them from coping with barriers to successful living a crime free lifestyle.

• Seeking Safety

Young females having both a history of trauma and substance abuse is common.  The Seeking Safety program integrates the treatment of both of these problems.  The treatment focuses on the five key principles of:

1. safety is a priority
2. integrating both treatments at the same time
3. a focus on ideals
4. four content areas of cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal and case management
5. attention to the therapeutic process

• Pathways to Self-Discovery (Pathways)

Pathways helps youth gain freedom and strength by learning how to control the most important parts of their mind—their own thoughts.  Youth learn to gain control over their thoughts and feelings and that leads to their being able to adjust their actions.  The focus includes:

• deciding what to change
• using the tools to change
• ownership to change or calling the shots

• Aggression Replacement Training (ART)

ART focuses specifically on the problems associated with a youth’s aggressive behaviors and gives them skills to choose an alternative behavior.  The core components of the program include:

• skill streaming
• anger control training
• moral reasoning training
• special emphasis is placed on motivation and resistance to change

• Cognitive-behavioral restructuring
• Gang intervention
• Substance abuse treatment
• Aggression replacement training
• Mental health treatment
• Offense-specific treatment
• Functional family therapy in the community
• Multidimensional treatment foster care

• substance abuse
• mental health
• education/school
• use of free time
• family/parenting
• interpersonal relationships
• criminal/delinquency history
• employment
• attitudes and beliefs
• aggression
• social skills

• Assessing youth risk and needs
• Developing and implementing evidence-based programs
• Conducting interventions in appropriate settings
• Providing services which take into account factors that affect how individual youth respond to treatment
• Evaluating programs and controlling quality
• Targeting treatment to risk level
• Using cognitive behavioral and social learning approaches in treatment services
• Ensuring that programs are delivered as designed
• Planning for community reintegration
• Providing program support by leadership and staff
• Recognizing cultural needs of youth

 
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Treatment and registration information for juveniles adjudicated for a sex offense
What happens after you are adjudicated?

Registration and reporting requirements for juveniles adjudicated for a sex offense
Follow these rules if you are required to register and report for a sex offense

Registration and reporting requirements for youth convicted as adults for a sex offense
Follow these rules if you are required to register and report for a sex offense

Tratamiento y registro información para menores de edad condenados por un delito sexual
¿Qué pasa si estás condenado?

Requisitos de registro y reporte para menores de edad condenados por un delito sexual
Sigue las siguientes reglas si se requiere que te registres y te reportes por u delito sexual

Requisitos de reporte y registro para menores condenados como adultos por un delito sexual
Sigue las siguientes reglas si se requiere que te registres y te reportes por un delito sexual

Leveling and assessment information

General information