The Detention Center operates by creating legitimate, alternative pathways to adulthood through equal access to services that are least intrusive, culturally sensitive, and consistent with the highest professional standards. The facility operates in a safe and secure manner that provides protection for the youth, staff, and community. It preserves children's individual rights, dignity and encourages adolescent development. The facility's environment fosters physical, intellectual, social and emotional growth. The structured program offers academic education programming in life skills, drug and alcohol counseling and social skills.
Detention strives to teach children how to behave among themselves and in society.
It is a source of educational, psychological and social information for the Courts. The Cambria County Juvenile Detention Center provides temporary, 24-hour maximum secure care for juvenile between the ages of 10 and 18 years of age. The Detention Facility, with intensive supervision and its structured programming, attempts to minimize the negative effects of confinement for juveniles alleged to be delinquent or have been adjudicated delinquents. The Court places youth in detention when there is a clear and convincing need to protect the community, as well as the Juvenile. Juvenile Detention provides more than mere custody.