Holly Hills
For a variety of reasons, children must be placed outside their own homes. For some, the need is short-term; problems can be resolved quickly and there is a relatively fast return home. For others, however, there is a need to plan for long-term placement. This program allows for a stable placement until more permanent plans are developed. By providing a safe, out-of-home placement, social workers and juvenile court counselors are afforded time to interact with families to address and resolve family problems such as management, conflict, and disruption.
The Holly Hills Program operates under the umbrella of the McDowell County Department of Social Services. It is staffed with four full-time cottage parents, two on duty each shift, who are responsible for day-to-day operations and for the care of children. The central program goal is to provide a stable, home-like environment in the community that is short-term and that meets the individual needs of each child placed with the service. For many the service provides an alternative to detention and gives counselors an additional option in dealing with the pre-delinquent/delinquent child.

Juvenile Mediation Program
The Juvenile Mediation Program provides effective diversion and dispositional options to address juvenile justice problems such as truancy, vandalism, assault, theft, shoplifting, and family conflict that are referred by the courts, law enforcement, and the schools. Through participation in mediation, youth learn social skills, empathy, communicaiton skills, and to take responsiblitiy for their actions, feelings, and lives. The goal of the program is to reduce recidivism by quickly and efffectively intervening to providemediated resolution of undisciplined and delinquent acts which result in a documented agreement that satisfies the interests of all parties (youth, juvenile courts, parents, school, law enforcement, and juvenile crime victims). The program gives priority to youth who are court identified by intake, contractual diversion, petition, adjudication, or as part of a level I or II disposition in juvenile court.

Project Challenge
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Juveniles can only discern the impact of the damages or injury caused by their own offenses if they have had the opportunity to provide restoration to the victim or community through their own effort. Project Challenge provides this opportunity. Through community service participants are introduced to the spirit of helping those in need. During this phase of the Project Challenge System, the youth participate in many community-oriented activities such as working with Habitat for Humanity, sponsoring canned food drives for donation for local food banks, visiting elderly, and giving support to the needy in their community. The program provides a dispositional structure for restitution and rehabilitation in delinquent and undisciplined cases, and it provides participants and local communities with a program that increases self-esteem and civic awareness. Project Challenge facilitates mindfulness in participants that they can make a positive difference in their homes.

Project Rise
Project Rise helps families of participating youth to receive components identified as significant in reducing conflict, disruption and illegal and dangerous behavior and environment. This program will help families to become more connected with the school and build better communication between school and home. Rise will help to link families to appropriate services in the community including health, mental health, parent support and safe and nurturing environments for the children such as the YMCA, sports, summer camp and services to the community.

Positive Parenting
Positive Parenting is an 8 session parent education program that supports parents in developing family management skills. Each session focuses on topics such as Anger Management, When to Say No, Promoting Academic Success, Substance Abuse Education, Community Resources, Family Meetings and Managing Family Finances. Presenters are staff members from different community agencies including McDowell Health Department, McDowell Hospital, Cooperative Extension, Early Childhood Center and agency and private mental health professionals. Positive Parenting is based on effective practices which are shown to reduce substance abuse and family disruption.

Psychological Evaluations
JCPC funds are used by Juvenile Court counselor to secure psychological evaluations, counseling and consultations. This service will be performed by a licensed Psychologist on a contractual basis. This will consist of one or two sessions with the juvenile and any other necessary family members. Frequently undisciplined and delinquent youth are brought into court with a need for further placement and treatment outside of their current home or county. This program addresses the root of some of the behavior that juvenile are experiencing.

Youth Sex Offender Treatment
The youth sex offender program is designed to reduce and eliminate sexually aggressive/sexually inappropriate behaviors by changing distorted thinking, reducing deviant interests, developing healthy, pro-social patterns of behavior and assisting families in developing skills in effective management and support.