Seems stupid to me, too. It's apparent that when you learn the hx of this place and that they have just rec'd fed funding to deal with a re-entry problem for boys coming from Department of Juvenile Justice, when they've never done that before, that they are trying to apply a diversion program to a re-entry situation and they are really trying to model it after the adult re-entry program- which would explain why they think all this monitoring will help. An adult male coming from prison isn't going to have a parent or anyone to touch base with them on a daily basis, usually. And for a kid who's just starting to go out of control and they are trying to keep from being committed to Department of Juvenile Justice, this would make sense. And they tell you up-front that they are just now trying to get this in place and figure out how to tailor everything. They are just now trying to get off the ground. To me, I still think the best thing is to determine what factors contributed to the boy getting committed to Department of Juvenile Justice and tailor any plan and length of stay around that. If you have all that staff for 12-13 boys, you ought to be able to handle that. The sd can handle accommodating IEPs, right?
I have to be careful though- I sure don't want to be on record at this juvie court as 'having denied offered services'.
