Bay Pines Center Intervention Program for Juveniles

Bay Pines Center Intervention
Program for Juveniles




















Bay Pines Center
Intervention Program
for Juveniles
Strayer University
Professor – Lori Baggot
Assignment #5
CRJ 180
Online Summer 2012
Felicia McCaw

Bay Pines Center
Intervention Program
for Juveniles
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One of the programs that the State of Michigan utilizes are detention intervention facilities that are programs that serve as safety nets for youths in trouble. Consisting of treatment programs that put emphasis on community safety, victim restitution and offender accountability or responsibility is the mission of this facility. These programs that are utilized to assist youth have been researched with the primary focus on rehabilitation and reduction of risks of a youth getting into trouble or going the route of prison and based upon that enhancing the goal that adolescents can change in their behavior is primary especially if relationships are established to challenge their assumptions they have when entering Bay Pines Center and help modify behavior based on intake basis and culminated and desired exit entry basis.
Because every youth has a choice and option they are allowed to choose Bay Pine with the thought they can make a change in their lives and with that thought in mind this facility supplies treatment to youth to make those changes and take their newly acquired tools with them. Each youth that comes in is assessed individually to know the level of assistance needed and a plan is devised to meet the need to help prevent future delinquency.
This residential detention service for youth is licensed to accept 45 youths (of either gender) from the age of 12 to 20 for adjudicated criminal offenses. The average stay of each youth enrolled is 13 months and all are placed in treatment groups limited to 10 youths and are separated into living quarters. The treatment consist of utilizing educational and vocational initiatives to help change and alter negatively ingrained behavior and this is done by using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Bay Pines Center
Intervention Program
for Juveniles
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is therapy that is used on a conscious level basis to alter behavior that is in a conscious state and which is relayed and utilized in a subconscious level later. By approaching on a conscious level which is the way all educational levels are approached and changed in the subconscious this is allowable and enabled to be facilitated and retained. Using a direct approach with subtlety is easier to deal with youth because they know the approach is up-front and a honest entreaty to assist them and help them modify changes in their self for the better and they are allowed 40 hours of treatment per week.
The vocational initiatives are great and they can learn to be self-sufficient and are enabled to stand on their own because they are learning something that is not ordinarily offered on the outside and this serves as good references on applications and just good reports can follow and help support them in the future. In the vocational and educational levels they spend 30 hours per week on campus and are involved in year round schooling and are involved in the Habitat for Humanity and has built eight homes in the Escanada Community. Through this program they are eligible for their high school diploma upon completion of necessary credits and have optional college courses available through Bay Community College.
Other activities that are available are physical conditioning, medical and dental services, psychiatric and psychological services, religious and spiritual and support services and Native American and spiritual and other support services.



REFERENCE

Department of Human Services. Bay Pines Center. Retrieved August 13, 2012, from
http://www.michigan.gov/dhs/0,4562,7-124-5453_34044_34049-109085--,00.html
Hsia, H. (2001). An Overview of the Title V Community Prevention Grants Program. Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention #19. Retrieved from
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/fs200119.pdf