Youth Services CenterAbout UsMission Statement Our mission is to respond to the community's needs with a continuum of care, programming, services and advocacy for minors in settings that are safe for both the community and the youth. We will treat each youth with respect and dignity, holding them to appropriate behavioral expectations through a system of rewards and consequences that are applied in a fair, firm and consistent manner which is conducive to their personal growth and development. History The Bartholomew County Youth Services Center was established by the Bartholomew County Board of Commissioners in 1992. The Youth Services Center is operated under the authority of the Bartholomew Circuit Court which has jurisdiction over juvenile cases. Program Information The Bartholomew County Youth Services Center offers an eighteen bed secure detention, a ten bed shelter, and a ten slot day treatment program. All three programs are co-educational. The center provides an intake officer twenty-four hours daily, capable of authorizing placement into detention and shelter. These certified Indiana Probation Officers, along with our counselor and team of dedicated youth care workers, implement a group- based intervention program designed to reduce recidivism and minimize the negative impact of short-term placement. Donations The Center will accept donations of the following:
SHELTER Shelter is designed for the abused, neglected or status offender who is in need of short term placement. Shelter residents are typically problematic youth who need redirection, intervention, and advocacy if they are to have a better chance of successful reintegration into the community. See the form center for the Shelter Visitation Policy. DETENTION Detention is designed for youth who are placed by court order or who are being charged with an offense which is a significant danger to public safety. Detention residents may also be post-adjudicated youth serving a sentence. Sentenced youth see our counselor on a regular basis and are offered transitional services upon release. See the form center for the Detention Visitation Policy. DAY TREATMENT The day treatment program is designed for Bartholomew County Youth who without immediate intervention will be placed into a more costly out-of-county placement. These youth are typically repeat offenders, on probation, with a multitude of legal, educational, and family issues. While in day treatment the youth remain in the home and continue to attend their schools. The youth also participate in individual, group, and family therapy while completing a system of ten competencies designed to provide the youth with the skills needed to make better choices in the future. The primary goals of day treatment are preserving the family and teaching the youth that they can be a successful and valuable member of the community. Juvenile House Arrest Youth placed on electronic monitoring typically face challenges in the areas of appropriate parental support and monitoring and other areas critical to positive youth development. Juvenile House Arrest has a maximum caseload of twenty youth, less any youth placed in the community transition program. Supervision of youth placed on house arrest falls under the authority of the Aftercare and Community Liaison. Youth will be seen by the Aftercare and Community Liaison a minimum of four times per week. Contacts will be made in the home, at work and at school. Youth can be placed on Juvenile House Arrest by order of the Juvenile Court. Youth may be placed on house arrest pre-trial, as a disposition, or as a requirement of the Day Treatment Program. COMMUNITY TRANSITION PROGRAM Young people sentenced to the Department of Corrections have been removed from the community for anywhere from 30-180 days or more. These young people have been separated from family, school and the community. While work has been done to assist the young person in learning skills to assist them in making better choices, but little work if any has been done with the family. As a result of this many young people face difficulties reintegrating with the family. The Aftercare and Community Liaison will work with youth placed in the Community Transition Program for a 90-day period. The youth will begin the program on House Arrest and supervision will be lessened, as the youth is transitioned back into the community. |
