Week 7 Discussion 1 JUVENILE D.

1. Referenced and excerpt of information from: http://www.michigan.gov/dhs/0,4562,7-124-5453_34044_34049-109085--,00.html

Bay Pines Center is located in the State of Michigan.

Bay Pines Center is a secure residential detention service for youth of either gender awaiting a court decision
as well as residential treatment programs for youth adjudicated for criminal offenses.

Residential and licensed to treat 45 youth - ages 12 to 20.

Mission - Focus on community safety victim restitution, and offender accountability or responsibility. Belief in
adolescents to make changes in behavior, especially establishing relations to nurture and change behavior.

Average length of stay - 13 months

Treatment group size - 10 youths (own living quarters or section to work with youth)

Field of treatment - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Treatment activities - 40 hours per week

Educational instruction - 30 hours per week on campus - year round school youths involved in Habitat for Humanity - built 8 homes in the Escanada Community

Employment opportunities - available at appropriate points in treatment program

Education program - endorsed by Escanada Public High School

Eligibility for high school diploma upon completion of necessary credits

College courses available through Bay Community College

Physical conditioning

Medical and dental services

Psychiatric and Psychological services

Religious and spiritual and support services

Native American spiritual and support services

Narcotics Anonymous and Al-Anon teen groups

Housing facilities for visiting families with resources to make family history arrangements for visiting youth in treatment.

2. The treatment facilities educational and vocational initiatives are utilized to help change and alter negatively ingrained behavior and this done by using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which 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. By approaching in this manner . this is a direct approach with subtlety and 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.
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The vocational initiatives are great...they can learn so much to be self-sufficient and enable them 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.

Thank you.

Felicia