Your child’s proceedings may go straight to charges filed, then the following:
Summons and complaint issued
Arraignment
Plea
If the plea is guilty, the case will go to a dispositional hearing, then a post-dispositional hearing.
If the plea is not guilty, then the case will go to a pretrial hearing, preliminary issue hearing, adjudicatory hearing, pre-dispositional assessments, then to the dispositional hearing and post-dispositional hearing.
If charges are not immediately filed, there could be an arrest, admission to Juvenile Detention Center, and a detention hearing.