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5/16/1994
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Board of Commissioners
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PROGRAM SUMMARY <br /> <br />STA',-~u~ENT OF PROBT.~f: <br /> <br />Many families in Cabarrus County are experiencing significant life stressors that <br />are translating into significant family problems. Many of these are single-parent <br />families or blended families. Parents may exhibit a lack of parenting skills and <br />children may not receive proper supervision because of parent's work shifts. There <br />may be increased drug and alcohol abuse by the parents and/or children as well as <br />increased school difficulties by the child. Within this type of environment youth <br />may develop socially inappropriate behaviors and criminal behaviors which result in <br />involvement and could result in out of home placement in a training school, <br />psychiatric hospital, child caring institution, group home, or foster home. It <br />appears that some of these delinquent and undisciplined behaviors reflect the <br />structural and relationship problems that are occurring with the youth's family unit. <br /> <br />PROGRAM GOAL: <br /> <br />The overall goal of Home-Based Services is to help keep families together while, 1) <br />assisting identified youth in changing their delinquent and pre-delinquent <br />behaviors, and, 2) assisting families in learning how to effectively manage <br />behaviors and issues that are affecting the behaviors. CBA guidelines define <br />Home-Based Services as "a method of service delivery that focuses on families of <br />children." CBA standards further state that the home-based concept assumes that <br />"(1) children need permanency in their family relationship for healthy development; <br />(2) the family should be the primary caretaker of its, child; (3) social services <br />programs should make every effort to support families in this function." <br /> <br />To help decrease inappropriate behaviors by youth the Home-Based Services program <br />acknowledges that one of the best ways of preventing further court involvement is by <br />working with the youth and his family in the home setting. Intensive counseling <br />with the youth and his family is an effort to prevent expensive out-of-home <br />placement in foster care, group care, or training school. Home-Based Services may <br />help to remedy dysfunctional families through counseling and referral to other <br />community agencies. This intervention may also help to prevent further <br />deterioration of family functioning which could eventually produce additional <br />delinquent or undisciplined behaviors by the youth. <br /> <br />TARGET POPITLATION: <br /> <br />The population served by this program is those youth adjudicated delinquent and/or <br />undisciplined and youth-at-risk. Referrals to the program are made by District <br />Court Judges and Juvenile Court Counselors. This program can serve between two and <br />ten clients at a given time depending upon the severity of the cases. It is <br />estimated that 30 youth can be served during a one year period with the average <br />length of service being 120 days. Some youth may require less service and others <br />more depending upon the service plans. Some cases may be carried for a period of <br />time following intensive treatment in order to allow for follow-up monitoring of the <br />youth's behaviors and the families' functioning. Furthermore, this program may have <br />a positive influence on the younger siblings of the identified youth and thus have <br />an even greater long-term effect. <br /> <br />Youth referred are between the ages of ten to seventeen and must have at least one <br />parent, guardian, or custodian who will agree in writing to participate in the <br />Home-Based Program. Referral forms and procedures have been developed with the <br />Juvenile Court Staff. A social history is required from the referring agency. <br /> <br /> <br />
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