Residential Alternatives to Juvenile Detention - Executive Summary

• NCJ Number: 86000
• Author(s): N F Dussault; R D Knudten; L H Bowker; M S Knudten; W J Gingerich; D R Buckholdt
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 43 pages
• Grant Number(s): 78-JN-AX-0021
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice
• Corporate Author: Socio-Environmental Research Ctr, Limited
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Based on site visits and interviews with staff and administrators of projects providing residential alternatives to juvenile detention, this summary focuses on the management issues related to the operation of such programs.

Abstract

It discusses the public and programmatic issues of providing juvenile shelter care as a framework for establishing such residential alternatives to juvenile detention. In addition, it identifies the major management concerns at the initial stages of program development. These include identifying support and opposition, analyzing community needs, defining program goals, and obtaining support from the juvenile justice and social service communities as well as the neighborhood. Managing client services in a newly founded residential program is addressed in terms of recruiting and training staff, providing professional services, client management, operational issues, management of residential facilities, community relationships and resources, and basic survival issues for programs. Four types of residential alternatives, based upon the variables in the local community are described: grassroots organization, the publicly-funded-community base network, the grant-service-cluster, and the publicly operated agency. The appendix contains sample residential alternative project models. For the full report, see NCJ 86001.