Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 22 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part I - Corrections › Chapter 7 - Youth Services › Subchapter B - Classification, Sentencing, and Service Functions › Section I-723 - Educational and Work Assignment Experience Incentive Program

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Purpose- to provide youth the opportunity
				  to acquire employability skills, and to develop a good work ethic through work
				  assignments on-campus and off-campus, and to provide pay incentives for
				  accomplishment of specific academic goals; and to integrate restorative justice
				  by assessing a percentage of a youth's incentive compensation in order to make
				  payment toward restitution.
B.
				  Applicability- deputy secretary, undersecretary, assistant secretary, deputy
				  assistant secretaries, deputy undersecretary, facility directors, principals,
				  and all OJJ secure care youth.
C.
				  Policy. It is the deputy secretary's policy that there shall be an Educational
				  and Work Experience Incentive Program to provide educational incentives, job
				  assignment training and work opportunities to youth in secure facilities to
				  facilitate their reintegration into the community as responsible citizens upon
				  release from commitment.
D.
				  Definitions
Education Program Coordinator (EPC)
- an
					 educational employee appointed by the Principal who is charged with the
					 responsibility of initial start up, coordination and oversight of the
					 Educational Incentive Program.
Global Positioning System (GPS)-Active
- a
					 constellation of orbiting satellites put in place by the US Military, and now
					 used for many tracking services. In the OJJ application of GPS, a youth shall
					 wear a GPS receiving device, most likely an ankle bracelet, which will allow a
					 remotely-located person to monitor the youth's exact location 24 hours a day, 7
					 days a week.
Off-Campus Work Assignment Program Board of
					 Directors (Work Assignment Program Board)
-a board of directors at
					 each facility where youth are participating in the Off-Campus Work Assignment
					 Program, who shall meet twice a month to discuss the progress of youth assigned
					 off campus, and shall meet as necessary to consider requests for new youth
					 off-campus assignments, and who shall make final decisions regarding off-campus
					 youth assignments, except for those youth adjudicated for offenses falling
					 under Children's Code Article 897.1 as noted in Section IX of this policy. The
					 Board shall be comprised of the following members:
a. facility director;
b. principal/assistant principal;
c. work assignment program coordinator
				  (WAPC);
d. vocational education
				  teachers;
e. SSD regional
				  coordinator (if applicable)
;
f. youth's probation officer;
g. program manager;
h. youth's assigned case manager.
Off-Campus Work Assignment Supervisor
-work assignment supervisor responsible for supervising and evaluating
					 youth assigned off-campus.
On-Campus Work Assignment Supervisor
-an
					 employee who supervises and evaluates youth assigned to on campus work
					 assignments.
Restitution-Court-Ordered
- money that a
					 youth has been ordered to pay by a court.
Restitution-Owed to the Facility
- money a
					 youth has been ordered to pay through the disciplinary process to reimburse the
					 facility for financial loss due to his misconduct.
SCR/Contren modules
-student competency
					 record as established by a particular trade/Contren Learning Series provides
					 the training curricula in more than 30 trades. Contren modules are groupings of
					 classes vocational students must complete to receive credentials in their trade
					 that are nationally recognized.
Work Assignment Placement Staffing
-a
					 staffing held to place, remove or reassign youth in the on-campus work
					 assignment program. Required participants are as follows:
a. work assignment program coordinator
				  (WAPC);
b. on-site work assignment
				  supervisor;
c. program
				  manager;
d. case manager.
Work Assignment Program Coordinator (WAPC)
-an employee appointed by the director, after receiving
					 recommendations from the Principal, who shall be supervised by the
					 director/designee, and who is charged with the responsibility of initial start
					 up, coordination and oversight of the Work Assignment Incentive Program.
Youth Portfolio
- the portfolio is used as
					 a purposeful collection of student work assignment that exhibits the student's
					 efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas.