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I ................ Page'~ a ..... GOAL OF PROGRA~i: To provide during a 12 month period, shelter care facilities ~or up to 30 children (depending on length of stay) to meet immediate separation from their families. The shelter care facility will serve as an alternative to and diversion from present or future involvement in the criminal justice system and/or detention. ~e ultimate goal sill be to reduce the incidents of juvenile crime in the community. STATEMENT OF ~IEASURABLE OBJECTIVES: 1. Provide an emergency residence for 75 percent of all children determined by service workers to need such care (5 children will be cared for at one time and 20 will be cared for on an annual basis). 2. For 60 per cent of all children who enter the program, prepare for long-term placement within 90 days of tile entry date (preparation is defined as stabilization of tile child's behavior to a point where he is read), for placement and development of a long~terntare plan - preferrably in the child's o~m hone). 3. Of the children involved in this program 50 per cent will achieve ................... ~~' s~en or ' onths o~koF~loILerT,~__D~.ac~mant ...... attention of the Juvenile Court; 2. the child, the social worker, and his legal guardian agree that placement was successful six 4. Family Counseling for 50 per cent of the residents to enhmice parent/child relationships in an effort to underscore greater possibility of success in preparation for long-term placement in tile home. II~FOP3~TION b~INTAINED FOR EFFECTIYEN~SS MEASURE~IFJ~: The Cabarrus County Department of Social Services will keep a listing of all residents of the Tenrporary Shelter Care including placement date, discharge date, behavior descriptions, ffequency and type of court involvement, after care placements, school achievement and attendance, run-away behavior, cost of care and evaluations by DSS staff of tile effectiveness of the placement, as well as CBA client tracking forms. In addition, Lutheran Family Services will keep a file nn each child to monitor his-placement at the Shelter Care and will prepare a behavior/ attitude summary on each-resident following termination of placement. For each resident who stays long enough, Lutheran Family Services will fornulate a Plan of Care stipulating Purpose of Placement and including time oriented goals. The Department of Social Sen, ices' staff will make contact with tile child and/or his family six months after the child leaves the Shelter Care to determine if the child bas'~dhieved stabili~" ' in his long-terra placement according to the measurable objectives as stated above.