NCJ Number
139647
Date Published
1989
Length
44 pages
Annotation
Crockett State School, a Texas Youth Commission facility, housed an average population of 104 male students in 1988.
Abstract
The population is 19 percent white, 57 percent black, 23 percent Hispanic, and 1 percent Asian. The typical student is black, comes from an inner city area of Houston, and committed burglary. Students are housed in dormitories, each designed for a maximum capacity of 25 youth. Other school buildings include a Family Involvement Center, an education building, and a staff training building. The Security Unit consists of eight individual rooms for isolating students. In 1986, school staff adopted the concept of a therapeutic milieu as the basis for treatment program development. Key program elements were defined as staff training and development; the individualization of treatment within a therapeutic milieu; components specifically designed to develop self-control, law-abiding values, and academic and employability skills; and linkages between the school and aftercare placement. The treatment program is currently organized around orientation, repeat offender, first offender, little boys, apprenticeship, transitional living, and reorientation groups. Treatment program components include academic education, affective education, apprenticeship training, recreation, and aftercare. Program operation, daily student routines, and staff development procedures at the school are described.