Program Scan Programming for Youth Who Commit Serious Violent Offenses Prepared for: Provincial Child and Youth Forensic Program, IWK Mental Health and Addictions Program December 2, 2008 Prepared by: Horizons Community Development Associates Inc. P.O. Box 2404 Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2S3 Phone: (902) 542-0156 Fax: (902) 542-4765 E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS DEFINITIONS ............................................................................................................................................1 TYPES OF PROGRAMS................................................................................................................. 1 Primary Prevention/Early Intervention ............................................................................. 1 Secondary Prevention/Risk Reduction ............................................................................... 1 Tertiary Prevention/Risk Reduction................................................................................... 1 SOURCES OF PROGRAM RECOGNITION ..................................................................................... 2 Blueprints for Violence Prevention ..................................................................................... 2 Centre for Disease Control and Prevention........................................................................ 2 Centre for Substance Abuse Treatment ............................................................................. 2 Centre for Substance Abuse Prevention............................................................................. 3 The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention............................................. 3 National Alliance for the Mentally Ill ................................................................................. 3 National Institute on Drug Abuse........................................................................................ 3 National Institutes of Health................................................................................................ 4 National Mental Health Association.................................................................................... 4 President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health ............................................... 4 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices ........................................................ 5 Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General ........................................................... 5 TERTIARY PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES .........................................................6 AGGRESSION REPLACEMENT THERAPY/TRAINING .................................................................. 6 BOSTON STRATEGY TO PREVENT YOUTH VIOLENCE .............................................................. 8 BOSTON TENPOINT COALITION............................................................................................... 14 CALM – CONTROLLING ANGER, LEARNING TO MANAGE IT ............................................... 18 CENTERPOINT PROGRAM......................................................................................................... 21 COLLABORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT ....................................................................................... 23 COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION PROJECT ................................................................................ 26 COMMUNITY SUPERVISION PROGRAMS .................................................................................. 30 ENVIROS WILDERNESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ...................................................................... 34 EQUINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY....................................................................................... 37 ETHAN ALLEN SCHOOL............................................................................................................ 40 FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCING............................................................................................. 45 FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY.............................................................................................. 48 HINCKS-DELLCREST ................................................................................................................ 52 INTENSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM ............................................................................................. 55 INTENSIVE PROBATION SUPERVISION ..................................................................................... 58 INTENSIVE PROTECTION SUPERVISION PROGRAM ................................................................. 61 INTENSIVE REHABILITATIVE CUSTODY AND SUPERVISION SENTENCE.................................. 63 ISLAND YOUTH PROGRAMS ..................................................................................................... 67 JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF PEEL-HALTON-DUFFERIN......................................................... 72 JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES, CLARK COUNTY NEVADA....................................................... 78 Programs for Violent Youth Offenders Horizons Community Development Associates Inc. KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE................................................................... 84 KINARK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES .................................................................................. 88 MAPLES ADOLESCENT TREATMENT CENTRE ......................................................................... 92 MENDOTA JUVENILE TREATMENT CENTRE............................................................................ 99 MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES................ 101 MORAL RECONATION THERAPY............................................................................................ 106 MULTIDIMENTIONAL TREATMENT FOSTER CARE................................................................ 109 MULTISYSTEMIC THERAPY.................................................................................................... 112 NEIGHBORHOOD SOLUTIONS ................................................................................................. 116 NORTH CAROLINA INTENSIVE PROTECTIVE SUPERVISION PROGRAM ................................ 121 NOVA SCOTIA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAM ................................................................ 124 OPERATION SPRINGBOARD .................................................................................................... 128 PA TREATMENT AND HEALING ............................................................................................. 132 PACE CENTRE FOR GIRLS ...................................................................................................... 139 PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS PROGRAM .............................................................................. 142 PRINCE ALBERT OUTREACH PROGRAM INC.: YOUTH ALLIANCE AGAINST GANGS........... 145 RESPONSIBLE YOUTH CULTURE............................................................................................ 148 RIDEAU CORRECTIONAL AND TREATMENT CENTRE: INTEGRATED SERVICE DELIVERY MODEL (ISDM)...................................................................................................................... 151 ROBERTS/SMARTS CENTRE ................................................................................................... 154 SAFEFUTURES INITIATIVE ..................................................................................................... 157 SKOOKUM JIM FRIENDSHIP CENTRE, TAN SAKWATHAN YOUTH DIVERSION AND FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER PROGRAM............................................................................................... 162 TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE YOUTHFUL OFFENDER PROGRAM ............... 164 TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION.................................................................................................. 167 TORONTO ARGONAUTS YOUTH CENTRE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM ..................................... 173 VIOLENT OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM (VOTP) ........................................................ 176 WASHINGTON STATE JUVENILE REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION (JRA) ..................... 178 WRAPAROUND MILWAUKEE.................................................................................................. 181 YOUTH FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES .......................................................................... 184 YOUNG OFFENDER PROGRAMS.............................................................................................. 188 YOUTH HIGH RISK TREATMENT PROGRAM ......................................................................... 192 YOUTH TREATMENT PROGRAM: NEW BRUNSWICK ............................................................. 194 TERTIARY PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES IN NOVA SCOTIA ...................197 ADOLESCENT CENTRE FOR TREATMENT (ACT) .................................................................. 197 CENTRE 24-7........................................................................................................................... 199 HALIFAX YOUTH ATTENDANCE CENTRE (HYAC)............................................................... 201 HOMEBRIDGE YOUTH SOCIETY (HBYS).............................................................................. 204 INTENSIVE COMMUNITY BASED TREATMENT TEAM (ICBTT)............................................ 208 INTENSIVE REHABILITATIVE CUSTODY AND SUPERVISION (IRCS) ORDERS .....................