McDowell County
JCPC
Funded Programs (proposed)
Temporary Shelter Care
Temporary Shelter Care enables court counselors, DSS, and other
agencies to locate alternative living arrangements for youth
at risk for placement in secure detention. Utilizing services
including Crossnore School Inc., South Mountain Children’s
Home, and therapeutic foster care, this program has succeeded
in placing youth in appropriate temporary care as an alternative
to detention or youth development centers. Youth between the
ages of 7 and 17 are able to remain closer to family and community
while working through the juvenile court process. Project
Challenge
http://www.projectchallengenc.org/
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.
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