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Chart 7 depicts the current and anticipated FWSN Centers. CHART 7 FWSN CENTERS Program Type Provider/ location Beds FWSN Center for Girls St. Francis Home for Children 651 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 6 FWSN Center for Boys TBD 6 • Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care is among the services available to children who are in FWSN Centers who cannot return to their home. MTFC is a specialized foster care program in which the foster home receives intensive training and is provided an array of support services by a team of professionals. DCF is currently using MTFC for children in juvenile detention in lieu of their placement in a residential facility, and has agreed to offer MTFC services as an option for FWSN children who are in respite CARE or FWSN Centers and cannot return home. Other states have found this type of service to be effective with status offending children. 21 3. Imminent Risk P.A. 07-4, Section 32 (b) provides a mechanism for dealing with children who exhibit the most high risk behaviors. If a child adjudicated as a child from a family with service needs is believed to be at risk of immediate physical harm from his/her surroundings or circumstances, a petition alleging the imminent risk of physical harm, accompanied by affidavits, may be filed by the juvenile probation officer. The court, ex parte, (without a hearing), upon finding probable cause to believe the child is at imminent risk, may issue an order directing the placement of the child in the staff-secure CSSD facility, the FWSN Center (See Chart 7). To do so, the court must first make a probable cause finding that the child is at imminent risk as alleged in the petition and as a result, the child’s safety is endangered, immediate removal is necessary and no less restrictive alternative is available. Once admitted to the FWSN Center, a release hearing must be held within twenty-four hours (excluding weekends and holidays.) If the child is not ordered released by the court, the child may be held in the FWSN Center for up to forty-five days with a review 21 Source: “Program puts runaways first: Care for girls becomes foster parent’s only job” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (July 24, 2007) 47
hearing held every fifteen days. At the end of the forty-five days, the child must either be released to the community for services or committed to DCF for up to eighteen months. Since the opening of the first FWSN Center in October 2007, some police departments and probation officers expressed concern related to the manner in which they will execute a court’s placement order due to the lack of the term “take into protective custody” in subsections 31(a) and 31(b) in P.A. 07-4, although such language exists in other areas of the FWSN law which address police intervention with runaways. Police and probation officers are concerned that the law as it is now written can be interpreted to prohibit the use of restraints during transports, even when necessary for the protection of the child or the officer. At this time, the Advisory Board is not recommending any changes in the statutory language surrounding placement orders in FWSN Center. It is presumed the police will act professionally when transporting these youth. The Advisory Board is recommending changes to other portions of subsection 32(b). This subsection lacks specification as to service of process and appears to allow for a commitment of a child or other disposition without an adjudicatory hearing, based on nothing more than a probable cause finding. Again, no standard of proof, such as clear and convincing evidence, after a hearing, is set forth. There also are no provisions that a child returned to the community may be subject to a new or existing order of supervision or commitment in order to allow for follow up. The absence of language in this subsection addressing orders to a peace officer to place a child in a staff-secure facility when the child is found to be at imminent risk is also problematic. (The proposed statutory amendments to address the statutory deficiencies in the new FWSN law are set forth in Appendix IX of this report.) 48
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