NCJ Number
77391
Date Published
1981
Length
50 pages
Annotation
This employee handbook and operations manual describes the advocacy model, policies, programs and services, and job descriptions and qualifications for personnel of the Ohio Youth Advocate Program (OYAP). OYAP uses community-based services as alternatives to juvenile incarceration.
Abstract
The services provided by OYAP are based on an advocacy model of one-to-one relationships between the youths and the advocates, concerned stable persons assigned to clients on the basis of mutual interests and compatibility. Programs are (1) home advocacy -working with a youth at his/her home; (2) foster home residential advocacy -working with youth in a foster home or residential facility; and (3) independent living -- working with a youth in a constructive environment with a view toward emancipation from an unsatisfactory situation. Additional services are special residential advocacy, which provides a short-term behavioral stabilization program for youth with special problems and emergency foster care. The appendix contains an organizational chart.