1. PROPOSED
CONTINUUM FOR
JUVENILE JUSTICE
Probation and Community
Corrections
June 28, 2002
Gregory Kurth, Senior Vice President, Florida Operations
2. VISION
Central Baptist Family Services seeks to
establish a comprehensive juvenile justice
system of your services to reduce
fragmentation in service delivery. Our vision
is to provide a full continuum of treatment
options including the principles of Balanced
and Restorative Justice (BARJ), specifically
focused on accountability, public safety and
community reintegration. CBFS facilitates the
development of a full continuum of juvenile
justice programs focusing six intensity levels
with these five goals:
4. INTENSITY
♦ Prevention ♦ Transitional Residential
♦ Diversion ♦ Community Reintegration
♦ Intervention ♦ Secured Care
5. GOALS
♦ Deflection from Further System
Involvement
♦ Assessment & Responsiveness
♦ Life Skills Attainment
♦ Pro-Social Development
♦ Family-Based Community
Support
6. PREVENTION
Our prevention programs are designed to
keep juveniles from entering the justice
system. We create activities that target
youth before involvement with law
enforcement and the courts.
7. DIVERSION
These programs are designed to divert
youth from further legal involvement,
increase the successful completion of court
supervision and to increase skill
competencies in areas that will prevent
youth from further involvement in criminal
activities.
8. INTERVENTION
These programs are designed to prevent
further penetration into the juvenile justice
system or additional violent repeat offenses
and thus reduce the number of juveniles
entering the Department of Corrections.
9. TRANSITIONAL
PLACEMENT
These programs serve as either a step-down
facility for formerly incarcerated youth, or
as a last chance for habitual youth/young
adult offenders. These programs are
intensive and short-term within a non-
locked residential facility. Our programs
begin the process of reintegrating the
youth, but with more of a treatment focus
in a residential environment.
10. COMMUNITY
REINTEGRATION
Community Reintegration encompasses
three distinct yet similar models of service
delivery.
11. ♦ Family-Based Treatment is
designed for youth/young adults
in need of a structured but less
restrictive environment.
♦ Supervised Independent
Living/Day Treatment is
designed to prepare
youth/young adults for
autonomous and social
acceptable functioning.
♦ Supervised Family
Reunification is designed to
return clients to a family setting.
13. HISTORY
REBOUND, a not-for-profit United
REBOUND
Way funded agency, was founded in
1966. The Lake County Interfaith
Chaplainry Service and caring
members of the Judiciary and
community felt that genuine concern
and assistance to young offenders
could make a difference in helping
them turn their lives around.
14. MISSION STATEMENT
REBOUND, in partnership with the
REBOUND
community, is dedicated to directing
at-risk youth toward productive and
lawful lives through prevention and
community corrections programs.
15. TYPICAL CLIENT PROFILE
♦ The majority of REBOUND clients
come from backgrounds of
illiteracy, poverty, substance abuse
and neglect.
♦ Referrals come from the Illinois
Department of Corrections-
Juvenile, Lake County Court
Services-Adult and the Department
of Children and Family Services.
16. TYPICAL CLIENT PROFILE
♦ They have had limited
opportunities to reform; Rebound is
usually their last alternative before
lengthy incarceration.
♦ The average age of the clients in
the residential program is 18-years
old.
17. TYPICAL CLIENT PROFILE
♦ Clients are on probation or parole
resulting from delinquent behavior.
♦ On Average, clients have had three
to five offenses.
♦ 65% are homeless.
♦ The majority of clients have
income levels at or below the
United States poverty line.
18. BENEFITS
REBOUND clients:
Learn to work together and accept
responsibility for their actions;
Receive feedback from counselors
and peers;
Reinforce newly learned
acceptable behaviors,
Design individual Program Plans.
19. COUNSELING
Drug/Alcohol
Mental Health
Family Issues
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
GED Preparation
Computer Training
Job Seeking Skills
20. LIFE MANAGEMENT
PERSONAL GROWTH
Budgeting and Money Management
Health and Safety
Grooming and Personal Hygiene
VOCATIONAL
Maintenance
Building Repair
Work skills Development
22. What is MST?
MultiSystemic Therapy (MST) is a unique, goal-
oriented comprehensive program designed to
serve multi-problem youth in their community.
MST is described as follows:
♦ is the only family-focused and community-
based treatment program that has been the
focus of several major research studies;
♦ has demonstrated clinical and cost-
effectiveness for youth with complex
emotional, social and academic needs; and
♦ is listed as one of the Blueprints for Violence
Prevention recommended by the U.S. Dept. of
Justice.
23. Who should receive MST?
MST is effective in helping youth with chronic,
violent, delinquent behavior and youth with serious
emotional problems, including
♦ truancy and academic problems;
♦ serious disrespect and disobedience;
♦ aggressive behavior (fighting and property
destruction);
♦ criminal behavior;
♦ drug and alcohol problems; and
♦ running away.
24. What makes MST work?
Research studies on youth who break the law
repeatedly and/or abuse illegal substances reveal
that family relations, neighborhood and
community relations, school performance and
peer relations contribute to juvenile offending.
MST interventions focus on key aspects of a
youth’s life. All interventions are designed in full
collaboration with family members and key
figures in each area of the youth’s live – parents
or legal guardians, schoolteachers and principals
etc.
25. What does MST do?
♦ Provide a complete functional assessment of
youth in the context of their family, school and
community
♦ Seeks to understand the “fit” between the
youth’s problems and the factors that contribute
to them
♦ Focuses on helping parents build supportive
social networks
♦ Empowers parents to address the needs of the
youth more effectively
♦ Emphasizes long-term change that families can
maintain after the program
26. How does MST use a
“home-based model?
♦ MST Therapist are available 24/7;
♦ Services are provided in the home, school,
neighborhood and community
♦ Caseloads are small (4-6 families per therapist)
and treatment is intensive, including multiple
contacts a week;
♦ Length of treatment averages 2-5 months
♦ Therapist are fully trained in MST and work in
teams
♦ Each team has a supervisor and an expert
consultant from MultiSystemic Therapy
Services, Inc. in Charleston, SC.
27. What can I expect from
my MST Therapist?
Any combination of the following services could be
provided to the youth and her/his family, as needed,
within the MST program:
♦ family and marital therapy
♦ individual sessions with youth and parents
♦ chemical dependency assessment and treatment
♦ evaluation of the youth’s peer network and
arranging alternative activities
♦ coordinating activities with school systems,
court and /or other social service agencies;
♦ arranging a psychiatric consultation
28. MST Programming
Recently launched MST with the
Delinquency Division of the Cook County
(IL) Juvenile Court, the oldest juvenile court
in the country
Successfully implemented in rural
Southern Illinois
30. Description
The “Rural Gang Initiative” model is aimed
at reducing violent crime through
educational efficacy, vocational readiness
and pro-social activity involvement. CBFS
acts as an oversight agency to provide gang
outreach and case management services to
older youth/young adults.
31. Eligibility
Individuals eligible for services in the RGI
program must be gang involved or
considered by the law enforcement and
social service communities to be at high risk
for gang involvement. The target population
is youth and young adults between the ages
of 17 to 24.
32. Access
Referrals to this program are made through
the RGI intervention team consisting of
representatives from the legal, judicial, law
enforcement, education and social service
communities.