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JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK PROGRAMS

Award Information

Award #
2002-JS-FX-0009
Location
Awardee County
Douglas
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2002
Total funding (to date)
$4,324,466
Original Solicitation

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2002, $1,350,000)

Father Flanagan's Boys Home (Girls and Boys Town) will continue to implement its short term staff-secure residential program for Female Juvenile Offenders Center in two sites, Newark, New Jersey and New Orleans, Louisiana. The program provides a safe staff secure placement for female juvenile offenders who do not require placement in a detention facility and cannot return home. Generally, the length of stay in these facilities is expected to range from fourteen to ninety days. The youth are individually treated with a focus on long and short-term goals, including teaching of life skills, promoting behavior change in targeted problematic areas, and imparting of academic curricula. The center relates these skills through a community-based philosophy, as it creates a family-style atmosphere including family-style meals, sharing of chores and an emphasis on relationships with staff. There is a greater goal of community reintegration and equipping the female juvenile offenders with the skills and tools to prevent recidivism. The program is dedicated to gender-specific policies and programming in response to a growing young female offender population.Impact/Focus: Project impact and focus is dedicated to equipping young female offenders with the skills and tools to prevent recidivism. The goal of the program is to assess a females needs and provide appropriate gender specific skills to successfully reintegrate the youth into a family type setting or a longer term community based placement.

NCA/NCF

Date Created: August 22, 2002