Attendant Care
CCYS is one of the few Judicial Districts that still has an attendant care facility. The facility is licensed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and inspected annually by KDHE, Cowley County Health Department and the Winfield Fire Department. Attendant care is a non secure facility and consists of a day room and two bedrooms. It provides short-term care with one-on-one direct supervision of juveniles between the ages of 10 and 18 who have been taken into police custody as either an alleged juvenile offender or child in need of care. The attendant care facility is primarily used for youth that do not meet the criteria for detention, but that can not immediately return home.
Alcohol and Drug Safety Action Program (ADSAP)
ADSAP is a 6 hour drug and alcohol awareness class that clients of any CCYS officer or Court Services officer may be referred. Each participant will be required to have a parent present during the class, thus educating not only the youth but also the responsible adult. The class is broken down into four segments. The first segment educates the participants on identifying the symptoms of addiction and how to determine the difference between use, abuse and dependency. The second segment focuses on the difficulties that the adolescent population faces in terms of making substantial lifestyle changes at such a difficult and tumultuous time. The third segment is designed to help participants understand the effects of addiction and shame based behaviors on the family as a whole. All participants should walk away from this session with a better understanding of how to improve the quality of their family life. This segment will briefly introduce parents to the tough love concepts. Since some participants have an ongoing problem with substance abuse the information in this session is provided more in an attempt to stimulate ideas for the parents who are dealing with adolescent addiction in the home. The class ends with a wrap-up session to allow participants to process the information they have received and to ask any additional questions they may have.
The ADSAP program requires parental attendance and participation, thus educating not only the youth, but also the responsible adult.
Aggression Replacement Training (ART)
ART is a research based cognitive behavioral intervention focused on training youth to cope with their aggressive and violent behaviors. ART is a multimodal program and has three components; Social skills, Anger Control Training and Moral Reasoning. Each of the three components use a process to insure youth learn the skills in class and transfer such skills to new situations outside of the group. The model also focuses on the concept of peer learning. It has been shown that youth learn best from other youth. ART has been successful throughout the US and Canada. The training is an intensive 10 week program, meeting three times a week for one hour and is co-facilitated by trained group facilitators. Youth are referred to the program by their Community Supervision Officers based on their YLS/CMI and supervision plan.
Choices
This program teaches youth to think before they act. It was developed to help preteens/teens consider consequences, understand that they are not alone in their feelings, and discover how to overcome obstacles standing in the way of happiness. It focuses on teaching youth to understand how values, attitudes, peer/family pressures, responsibilities and goals influence the choices we make. The Choices program is a resource for multiple disciplines and areas of concern. It is appropriate for all children, not just those who are facing consequences of their poor choices. The Choices program has been successfully used with private, public and home schools, after school programs, foster care programs, diversion programs, shelter / residential / detention programs, SED programs and with resource families. Youth are referred to this program by any of the CCYS programs, court services or school officials. Groups meet once a week for 6 weeks and are co-facilitated by trained group facilitators.
Thinking For a Change
T4C is an evidence based curriculum that integrates three approaches: cognitive restructuring, social skills and problem-solving. Focusing on these three areas help juvenile offenders learn to change their behavior. It begins by teaching youth an introspective process to examine their ways of thinking, feelings, beliefs and attitudes. This process continues and is reinforced throughout the program. This is combined with explicit teaching of interpersonal skills relevant to youths’ present and future needs. The goal is to provide contextual instruction and related experiences so that youth are confident and motivated to use pro-social skills when faced with interpersonal problems and/or anti-social situations. Social skills training provides youth as an alternative to anti-social behaviors. T4C concludes by integrating the skills youth have learned into steps for problem solving. Thus, problem-solving becomes the central approach they learn that enables them to work through difficult situations without engaging in criminal behavior. The training is a 22 session program, but is designed to continue indefinitely depending on the need. Youth meet twice a week for a 1 to 2 hour group session co-facilitated by trained group facilitators. Youth are referred to the program by their Community Supervision Officers based on their scoring moderate to high risk on their YLS/CMI.
Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change
This is a 3-phased, 32 session evidence based cognitive behavioral substance abuse program targeted for youth with co-occurring problems with criminal conduct and substance abuse. The curriculum was specifically developed for juvenile offenders with a substance abuse problem. The youth’s interest is engendered through the use of richly illustrated narrative stories of youth who struggle with multiple elements of risk. Role-playing, modeling, action skits and small group discussions provide the basis for practicing an arsenal of thinking and action skills designed to promote comfortable and responsible living, free of substance abuse and crime. The goals of the program are to improve communication, deal with cravings and urges, develop a sense of empathy and personal responsibility to others, overcome prejudice, zero in on negative thinking, manage feelings, and develop a sense of personal identity and understand the importance of intimacy in our lives. Pathways to self-discovery is currently used in residential, outpatient and drug court settings and is being implemented in the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Facilities as well.
