Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES › Division 110 - Division of Youth Services › Chapter 7 - Juvenile Court Diversion › Section 13 CSR 110-7.010 - Community-Based Diversionary Programs

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule establishes standards of
				  eligibility and operation of Community-Based Diversionary Programs funded
				  through grants from the Division of Youth Services pursuant to section
				  219.041,
				  RSMo.
(1) The Division of
				Youth Services (DYS) is authorized under section
				219.041,
				RSMo, to administer a Juvenile Court Diversion Grant Program (JCD Grant
				Program) for the purpose of assisting local units of government in the
				development and implementation of community-based treatment programs for the
				care and treatment of youth.
(2)
				The goal of the program is to support juvenile courts to serve youth on a local
				level so that youth may be afforded the necessary services through their local
				courts in order that they can remain in the community rather than being exposed
				to a larger segment of the juvenile justice system.
(3) The Director of DYS may designate an
				employee of the division to act as the authorized representative of the
				division for the purpose of entering into and administering contractual
				services agreements between the division and a local juvenile court.
(4) The local juvenile court shall not
				supplant funds because of the implementation of the JCD Grant Program in
				accordance with section 219.041.8, RSMo.
(5) The standards for the JCD Grant Program
				shall be-
(A) Preference will be given to
				programs that are consistent with the evidence-based and promising-practices
				approach described in the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
				Prevention's Model Programs Guide
.
(B) Each program initiated with JCD Grant
				Funds shall contain projects within one (1) or more of the following focus
				areas:
1. School and education support
				programs, including day treatment services and other community-based programs,
				that provide educational and treatment services to youth to keep them
				productively involved in their local communities;
2. Counseling/treatment services, including
				sex offender treatment and supervision services providing community-based
				sex-offense specific treatment groups, parent support groups, and in-home
				therapy and supervision to pre-and post-adjudicated juvenile sex offenders;
3. Family support/preservation,
				including family therapy and support services, to assist youth in working
				through family issues and providing tools to resolve conflict;
4. Supplemental court
				services/supervision/gang prevention, including community-based supervision of
				assigned youth during the evenings and weekends when youth are at the greatest
				risk to engage in unproductive and unlawful behavior. This includes the
				monitoring of assigned youth to ensure that they are complying with the
				conditions of their community placement and the provision of supportive
				services such as parent education, crisis intervention, mentoring, and
				skill-building as needed; and it includes mentoring services by which volunteer
				mentors are recruited, trained, matched with troubled youth, and supported in
				their work with them. Participating youth may be under either formal or
				informal supervision by the court during their time in the program;
5. Restorative justice services by which
				juvenile offenders are held accountable and educated as to the far-reaching
				impact of their behaviors; and
6.
				Private care diversion services designed for those youth who require structured
				residential services specialized in providing treatment for their complex
				needs. Under this program, youth are served in alternative living centers
				without committing them to the care and supervision of DYS.
(C) Projects shall fall within a
				general program description sup- ported by organizations such as the Office of
				Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Projects may provide for
1. Educational services/tutoring;
2. School/court liaisons;
3. Day treatment/alternative schools;
4. Jobs/vocational training/job
				placement;
5. Recreational/after
				school programs;
6. Truancy
				prevention;
7. Suspension/expulsion
				alternatives;
8. Violence
				prevention;
9. Community group
				counseling;
10. Anger management;
11. Mental health services;
12. Substance abuse prevention;
13. Sex offender therapy;
14. Prevention
				education/treatment;
15.
				Mentoring/advocacy;
16. Family
				therapy;
17. Family support
				preservation;
18. Parenting
				skills;
19. Family mediation;
20. Teen court;
21. Electronic monitoring/intensive
				supervision;
22. Gang
				prevention/intervention;
23. Drug
				court;
24. Gang education;
25. Restitution program services;
26. Community service;
27. Victim mediation;
28. Community accountability program
				services;
29. Alternative
				residential placement;
30.
				Purchased residential care (foster/shelter); and
31. Other model programs providing probation,
				supervision, family support, or restorative justice services