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Changing the Status Quo for Status Offenders: Efforts to Help Troubled Teens

Changing the Status Quo for Status Offenders: Efforts to Help Troubled Teens. Sara Mogulescu The Vera Institute of Justice May 10, 2007. Status Offenders?. Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) Children in Need of Services (CHINS) Conduct Indicating a Need for Supervision (CINS)

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Changing the Status Quo for Status Offenders: Efforts to Help Troubled Teens

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  1. Changing the Status Quo for Status Offenders: Efforts to Help Troubled Teens Sara Mogulescu The Vera Institute of Justice May 10, 2007

  2. Status Offenders? • Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) • Children in Need of Services (CHINS) • Conduct Indicating a Need for Supervision (CINS) • Families with Service Needs (FWSN) • Families in Need of Services (FINS) • Unruly Children

  3. History of PINS Assistance Project: Vera State-wide PINS Report Changing the PINS System in New York: A Study of the Implications of Raising the Age Limit for Persons in Need of Supervision By Jesse Souweine and Ajay Khashu Vera Institute of Justice September, 2001

  4. Findings of Vera’s PINS Report • New York State expected to experience a increase in new PINS intakes under current system; • Projected costs of for increased use of detention and placement. 69-105% $29 million

  5. New York State PINS Assistance • Prompted by: • New PINS Legislation • Vera State-wide PINS Report • OCFS contracted with Vera to help the state and its counties prepare for the influx of youth entering the system under the new law.

  6. New York State PINS Assistance

  7. New York State PINS Reforms Two Central Trends: • Front end – Strategies to improve intake and diversion; • Back end – Development of community-based alternatives to detention and placement.

  8. Intake and Diversion Issues: • Lack of immediate crisis response (delay in services) • High number of court referrals • Immediately • Upon termination of diversion services • High use of non-secure detention and placement

  9. EVALUATION HOSPITAL ACCESS TO CLINICAL APPOINTMENT WITHIN 5 DAYS POINT OF ENTRY Intake and Diversion: Orange County MENTAL HEALTH FOLLOW-UP SERVICES FAMILY KEYS INTENSIVE SER VICES NETWORK INTERVENTION FAMILY REFERRAL TO PROBATION COURT DEPARTMENT

  10. Intake and Diversion: Chemung County New Agency: Children’s Integrated Services • First Response Team • Interdisciplinary Staffing • Not just PINS – Centralized and Streamlined Services for Youth and Families

  11. Intake and Diversion: New York City Family Assessment Program (FAP) • ACS point of entry • Immediate response • Reduction in in PINS intakes • Reduction in PINS court referrals • Reduction in PINS placements

  12. Alternatives to Detention and Placement Issues: • Cost • Overcrowding • Poor outcomes • Focuson keeping youth and families together – at home and in the community

  13. Alternative to Detention: Albany County Juvenile Release Under Supervision: • DSS Funded • Daily contact with youth • Service referrals • PINS and JDs • Reduction in non-secure detention costs

  14. Alternative to Detention: Erie County Evening Reporting Centers • Modeled after ERCs established in Chicago • Transport to location after school • Tutoring, counseling, group programming • PINS and JD populations • Probationviolators and detention alternative

  15. Alternative to Placement: Onondaga County Probation Rehabilitation Intensive Services Management (PRISM) • Partnership between Probation, Social Services, and the Salvation Army • Comprehensive treatment planning • Every PRISM case staffed by FFT therapist • Pre-placement youth are eligible

  16. Alternative to Placement: Onondaga County

  17. Alternative to Placement: Adolescent Portable Therapy • Strength-based, family-centered intervention • Portable across systems • Treatment travels with the adolescent • Also preventive application

  18. New York State Family Court Act 2005 • Mandated diversion services; • Emphasized immediate crisis response; • Changed detention eligibility criteria.

  19. National Models • Florida • Cook County, Illinois • San Francisco, California • Maricopa County, Arizona

  20. Florida • 13,709 children received services (CINS + FINS) • TOTAL SERVED: 16,035 • 689 petitions (CINS) for court-ordered services were filed statewide in 2004-05 • The number of court ordered children (CINS) has decreased each year for the past 6 years

  21. Illinois Youth Police 60-90 Minutes CCBYS Court MRAI Petition Placement < 21 days Family Preserved

  22. San Francisco: Huckleberry House Day 5 Day 2-5 • FAMILY REUNIF. • REFERRAL TO IND. • THERAPY • REFERRAL TO FAM. • THERAPY • REFERRAL TO • RESOURCE SPEC. • EDUCATION • RECREATION • DAILY CHECK-IN • H.E. GROUP or AA • MEDICAL APPT • DAILY LIVING Housed 59% Day 1 Intake/ Housing Assessment • FAMILY THERAPY • IND. COUNSELING • MEDICAL • HEALTH ED Home CPS, YGC 300, 602 SERVICES

  23. Court Unified Truancy Suppression (CUTS) • Program Agreement between school official and juvenile probation official • CUTS hearing on school campus • Range of services and accountability • Unintended positive consequences • Next Generations of CUTS • Goal: To help our students be successful by attending school on a daily basis

  24. Changing the Status Quo for Status Offenders: Efforts to Help Troubled Teens Sara Mogulescu The Vera Institute of Justice smogulescu@vera.org 212-376-3157 May 10, 2007

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