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Juvenile Probation Officers (JPO) assess the needs and risks of youth entering the juvenile justice system.
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Services
Children In Need of Services (CINS)/Families In Need of Services (FINS): An adjudication status for a child or a family for whom there is no pending investigation into an allegation or suspicion of abuse, neglect, or abandonment; no pending referral alleging the child is delinquent; or no current supervision by the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Department of Children and Family Services for an adjudication of dependency or delinquency. A family in need of services is not an adjudicated status.
The child must also:
(Florida Statute Chapter 984)
The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit statewide association representing agencies which serve lockouts/homeless, runaway, and troubled youth ages 10 to 17 and their families. Services include: shelter, non-residential counseling, Case/Service Plan, Case Management Services, Adjudication Services, CINS Petition Process, Staff Secure Services, Physically Secure Services, and Case Termination.
Mission: The Florida Network values young people and therefore creates safe pathways to their future by building strong families and communities.
Vision: Florida will be a safe place where all young people reach their full potential.
Practical Academic Cultural Education (PACE) Center for Girls is a Florida-based, nationally recognized not-for-profit organization that provides non-residential, prevention, intervention, and diversion services for at-risk girls and young women ages 12 to 17. PACE uses a comprehensive and holistic model that integrates social services, education, and career readiness in a safe, gender-responsive environment that reflects an understanding of the lives of girls and responds to their strengths and challenges.
Mission: PACE provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy.
Philosophy: PACE values all girls and young women, believing each one deserves an opportunity to find her voice, achieve her potential and celebrate a life defined by responsibility, dignity, serenity and grace.
ALL Center Contact List
FLYCA is a 17 1/2 month voluntary program geared toward Florida's 16 to 18 year old at-risk youth. The program consists of a 5 1/2 month residential phase and a 12 month post-residential phase. The residential phase of the program takes place in a highly disciplined and motivational environment promoting structure and academics along with leadership, health, community service, life skills, job skills, physical fitness and citizenship. The post-residential phase takes place after graduation from the residential phase and is a time when the cadet uses the skills learned in the residential phase through their placement in either a job, further education, or the military. The cadet is matched with a mentor during the residential phase and this mentor helps to guide the cadet during the 12 month post-residential phase.
Mission: To provide a high disciplined and motivational environment, free from outside distractions, which fosters academics, leadership development, personal growth, self-esteem, and physical fitness for qualifying high school dropouts.
NCOBS helps teens and their families transition their lives in more meaningful and positive directions. NCOBS emphasizes character development, academic achievement and social responsibility to reduce the risk of dropping out of school, substance abuse and future delinquency. Programs consist of 20-day wilderness expeditions and a 20 to 24-day follow up component that takes place in the students’ home and school environments. Parent involvement is required.
Since 1983, Families in Need of Services (FINS)- Community programs have provided prevention services to youth and families. This program targets at-risk youth and status offenders ages 13-17 who live in communities with high rates of juvenile crime. The program serves youth who are exhibiting risk factors such as problems specific to family, school and substance abuse. We emphasize character development, academic achievement and social responsibility to reduce the risk of dropping out of school, substance abuse and future delinquency.
Outward Bound-Scottsmoor 3500 Sunset Ave Mims FL 32754
Toll free: 800-673-3096 Telephone: 321-268-5666 Fax: 888-240-3512 dcaldwell@ncobs.org
Note: Only students in the following counties are served: Brevard, Osceola, Orange, Seminole, Volusia, and Flagler.
Outward Bound-Key Largo 100693 Overseas Highway Key Largo FL 33037 Toll Free: 800-327-2995 Telephone: 828-239-2106 Fax: 888-230-0048 Wroberts@ncobs.org
Note: Only students in the following counties are served: Monroe, Dade, and Broward.
Florida Alliance For Boys & Girls Club, Inc.
The Boys & Girls Clubs (BGC) of America has developed the Gang & Delinquency Prevention through Targeted Outreach and Re-Entry Program to help young people recognize and avoid the lure of gang life.
This is comprehensive gang and delinquency prevention initiative uses effective techniques and strategies to direct at-risk youth to positive alternatives. This effort will begin at the local community level, by mobilizing community leaders and Club staff to discuss local gang issues, design a community-wide strategy and clarify each organization’s or person’s role in providing services to youth. At the local level, through a referral network with courts, police, other juvenile justice agencies, schools, social service agencies and community organizations, as well as through direct outreach efforts, young people identified as at-risk will be recruited and main-streamed into Boys & Girls Club program activities as a diversion from anti-social gang activity.
The Program’s approach acknowledges that the youth most at risk of gang involvement, are not seeking the constructive environment that Clubs have to offer. Through this initiative, programs are created to excite and attract targeted at risk youth. The Boys and Girls Clubs can provide positive, constructive activities that address the interests, needs and strengths of targeted at risk youth.
The Program is comprised of four major components:
The three individualized curriculums within the Gang & Delinquency Prevention through Targeted Outreach and Re-Entry Program Components:
By altering juvenile behavior, Prodigy prevents and diverts youth from moving deeper into the juvenile justice system, thus saving the state money, improving our communities and transforming young lives.
The Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Florida, Inc. is the coordinator of statewide services through thirteen (13) Big Brothers Big Sister member agencies throughout Florida that provide community and site based mentoring services to at-risk youth that have an incarcerated parent and/or guardian with a history of incarceration, on parole and/or probation following incarceration. Services are to reduce the risk factors for negative behavior and enhancing protective factors for positive behavior.