Seven Wicomico County citizen volunteers who evaluate local agency practices, such as Social Services and Law Enforcement, to ensure they are fulfilling their duties in accordance with child protection laws. The board is subject to Ethics Law as set up by the State Ethics Commission, and is restricted from sharing case information. Community Conferencing is a meeting of community people affected by behavior that has caused serious harm. Community Conferencing is being piloted in Wicomico County as a method of making youth accountable for their actions where guilt is admitted and more serious sanctions are not appropriate. The Comprehensive Strategy for Balanced and Restorative Justice is a process for local communities to design and implement a plan to reduce juvenile violence and delinquency.
Academy is a program to refocus troubled youth into community contributors.
When it opens Fall 2001, the Academy will provide on-site addiction and mental health services, classrooms with computer labs, and the opportunity to learn life skills. The residential program at the Academy is complimented by family counseling as the youth enters the program, and continued after-care services, and family counseling to complete the transition back into the community. A Local Management Board is responsible for strengthening families and the community through leadership, coordination, decision making, administration and Oversight of funded services, fiscal management of funds, planning, and public awareness activities. Salisbury joins with communities around the country who have discovered the impact of neighborhood residents and law enforcement combining to strategically reshape community life. Westside, Camden, and Church Street neighborhoods .