Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 049 - Family Services, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0010 - Workforce Development Training Fund › Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1-4 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) At-risk youth means a child under the age
				of majority, who presently has a high risk of contact with the criminal justice
				system or has had contact with the criminal justice system.
(b) Community Assessment is a comprehensive
				process of identifying community assets and needs to effectively plan and
				develop a community based service system for at-risk youth. This process must
				involve key population groups and constituencies.
(c) Community Juvenile Services Board (CJSB)
				means a community based board which may receive funding, employ staff and
				expend resources to provide or contract for the provision of juvenile services
				for at-risk youth. The Community Juvenile Services Board must enter into Joint
				Powers Agreements, pursuant to
				W.S.
				16-1-105, if applying for State
				funding.
(d) Criminal Justice
				System means a system of practices and organizations directed at maintaining
				social control, deterring and controlling crime, and sanctioning those who
				violate laws with penalties/sanctions, consisting of law enforcement, courts
				(municipal, circuit, and juvenile), and corrections.
(e) Criminogenic needs mean dynamic risk
				factors (those risk factors that can potentially change) that have been
				clinically proven to be predictive of future criminal behavior.
(f) Graduated interventions are
				evidence-based services, programs and procedures intended to protect the
				community, hold at-risk youth accountable for their behavior and address their
				assessed criminogenic needs in the area of education, mental health, substance
				abuse, attitudes, peers, family and social needs without the need for formal
				juvenile court petitions, municipal citations or prosecution in criminal court
				when possible. Interventions are intended to divert at-risk youth from a formal
				court process when appropriate or provide evidence-based habilitation for youth
				under court jurisdiction.
(g)
				Graduated sanctions for the purposes of W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				14-9-107(b)(v) are court
				ordered sanctions imposed as part of a sentence or disposition. Referral for
				court involvement shall be based on objective criteria outlined in the
				Community Juvenile Services Board's strategic plan. All recommendations for
				court ordered sanctions shall be consistent with W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				14-6-245 through
				14-6-252, progressive sanctions
				guidelines.
(h) Joint Powers
				Agreements are agreements between any two (2) or more agencies for joint
				cooperative action under W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				16-1-105.
(i) Juvenile Services means programs or
				services provided to children at-risk of coming under the jurisdiction of the
				juvenile court, which include youth at-risk of coming under the jurisdiction of
				the criminal justice system. Programs or services shall be provided based on
				assessed need and shall be evidence-based or approved by the Department of
				Family Services. Programs and services may include:
(i) Needs screening and evaluation;
(ii) Case planning and follow-up;
(iii) Case management;
(iv) Family preservation services;
(v) Mental health treatment;
(vi) Substance abuse treatment;
(vii) Mentor services;
(viii) Tracker services;
(ix) Community service and restitution
				programs;
(x) Out-of-home
				placement;
(xi) Education services
				including special education and remediation; and
(xii) Pretrial diversion programs and
				graduated sanctions.