Complaints may be taken at this locationin addition to the Greensburg Office, in order to better serve the citizens from the surrounding municipalities. This program supervises juveniles in need of a more structured supervision option in order to remain in the community. Juveniles attend a minimum of 20 hours mandatory group sessions with other clients involved in the program at a frequency of one every other week to allow for groups of no more than 25 each. Groups are a minimum of two hours per session and focus on their goals as well as provide the opportunity for clients to learn pro-social interactions within peer situations. Victims of juvenile crime and victim sensitivity issues are involved in the group process.
Victim input plays a vital role within the group setting.
Where victim issues are discussed, a representative from the Westmoreland County Victim Services is in attendance. This program provides juvenile offenders the opportunity to perform work without pay for the benefit of their community and it has proven to be beneficial to the juvenile offenders and to the community. The program is fiscally sound, yet responsive to the needs of the clients. It provides needed services to non-profit organizations and local governmental agencies within the community where the juvenile lives and commits the offense. It furnishes a tangible consequence to probation, and a possible alternative to restitution and fines.