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Continuous Case Management With Violent Juvenile Offenders (From Violent Juvenile Offenders - An Anthology, P 255-271, 1984, Robert A Mathias et al, ed. - See NCJ-95108)

NCJ Number
95173
Author(s)
J Lindgren
Date Published
1984
Length
17 pages
Annotation
Continuous case management is a proactive, youth-centered, decentralized, publicly accountable, and heuristic model for change with violent juvenile offenders.
Abstract
The model uses diverse resources drawn from our pluralistic democracy while maintaining organizational efficiency and accountability. Seven functions must be provided by the case management team: assessment, planning, referral, service monitoring, youth followup, documentation, and evaluation. Some decisions depend on local circumstances; these decisions are direct service versus brokering of service, line authority versus staff monitoring, private or local versus State management, and autonomous versus integrated organization. Organizational realities may force those implementing a model in a particular site to choose less than the ideal option. Services provided these violent youth must continue for as long as it takes to achieve positive results. Movement to either more or less restrictive settings must be carefully structured. The value of this model is that control and treatment are provided in a climate compatible with principles essential to a youth moving toward responsible adulthood within a pluralistic democracy. Figures and footnotes are provided.