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I. Introduction The DCF-CSSD Girls’ Programs Standards and Certification Project is intended to support the development of a system of care for girls involved in Connecticut’s juvenile justice system that is characterized by creative, cutting-edge practice and widespread adherence to best practices in female specific programming and approaches. The project is designed to move the system toward a unified female responsive approach so that girls have access to a cohesive system of care that honors their strengths and effectively meets their needs across service settings. This first phase of system improvement focuses on the development of Program Guidelines for Girls’ Services across the Juvenile Justice System. On September 18 & 19, 2005, CSSD, DCF and CORE Associates facilitated a retreat on gender-specific services for girls. The purpose of the retreat was to discuss the shared CSSD-DCF framework and philosophy of gender-specific programming and work with providers of 24-hour care facilities to draft guidelines of care for gender-specific programs for girls. During the retreat, gender-specific practices were discussed in relation to the following eight program components 75 : 1) Philosophy/Conceptual Framework, 2) Facility, 3) Management and Staffing, 4) Program Culture, 5) Behavior Motivation, 6) Programming and Services, 7) Treatment/Service Planning and Review, and 8) Total Quality Improvement (TQI). Each of these Program Components is defined in Section II of this document. Participants agreed on the following definition of Gender Specific Services for Girls: “Gender-specific programs intentionally allow research and knowledge on female socialization, female psychological development, female strengths, female risk factors for system involvement, females’ pathways through systems, female responses to traditional interventions and females’ unique program/service needs to affect and guide ALL aspects of the program’s design, processes, and services.” At minimum, this means that each program component integrates, where possible, an understanding of the following practice areas at both a conceptual and practice level: • Physical and psychological/emotional safety • A relational-cultural approach • A strengths-based approach • A trauma-informed approach • A holistic approach • A culturally competent approach” Guided by this framework, retreat participants developed a number of program guidelines that represent the minimum practices and approaches that must exist in order to be 75 CORE GSPA-II, CORE Associates, LLC 2004 101
considered “gender-specific” or “female responsive”. These recommended “female responsive” guidelines are listed in Section III. Purpose and Suggested Use of This Document The process by which these guidelines were developed was intentionally designed to model an inclusive, strength-based process. These guidelines were not developed “behind closed doors” but rather in a collaborative, provider-driven manner. In this sense, the guidelines are truly provider-owned and guided in every way by the existing expertise and eager questioning of the provider community. These guidelines should be considered basic service delivery practices for girls’ service providers. They are not designed to be clinically specific. They are best understood as the initial phase of unifying female responsive practices across the Judicial and DCF Juvenile Justice System. Later phases of development will be designed with intentional specificity. The guidelines are designed to: 1. Educate providers and system personnel while also initiating important enhancements for girls at the program and system levels. 2. Balance an ideal vision of programs and services for girls that is grounded in research and best practices while acknowledging the current parameters of our systems. 3. Coexist with system-level principles and policies that will support program-level enhancements, not to resemble policies, protocols or training content. 102
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RECOMMENDATION THREE PROVIDE FUNDS
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RECOMMENDATION FIVE MAKE NEEDED CHA
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The Advisory Board is recommending
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D. System-wide Prevention Strategie
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Intervention for DCF youth residing
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gender responsive programming to as
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C. Young FWSN Children In 2006 ther
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are truant. The focus is to provide
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Juvenile probation officers provide
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achievement and reentry. The progra
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DCF may petition the court for an e
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hearing held every fifteen days. At
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