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Whether speaking with
our employees or reading materials from the Department of Juvenile Services you
may encounter unfamiliar terms. Many words and phrases we use are not heard outside
of the juvenile justice system. The following glossary is provided to familiarize
you with some frequently used terms.
- American Bar Association
- American Correctional Association
- Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990
- American Society of Addiction Medicine
- A proceeding
before a juvenile judge or master to determine the truth of allegations made against
a youth. If the allegations concerning the commitment of a delinquent act are
found to be true, the youth is "adjudicated delinquent."
- Individualized
services provided to a youth who is discharged from a residential program.
- Balanced and Restorative Justice (a vision for juvenile justice, endorsed by OJJDP, that emphasizes skills in accountability, basic competency skills development, and public safety)
- Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center
- University of Maryland Bureau of Governmental Research
- Baltimore Mental Health Systems
- Edward J. Byrne Justice Assistance Grant
- Child and Adolescent Level of Care Utilization system, a multi-dimensional rating system that is used to determine the resource intensity of services and supports necessary to address a youth's assessed treatment needs. Also known as CASII (Child and Adolescent Services Intensity Instrument).
- Child Abuse, Neglect and Delinquency Options
- A criminal offense punishable by death and, in Maryland, a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
- J. DeWeese Carter Center
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument, also known as the CALOCUS (Child and Adolescent Level of Care Utilization System). See CALOCUS
- Cheltenham Youth Facility
- Community & Family Resource Center Located at the BCJJC, the Center brings together youth families, community-based family and mental health advocacy organizations, and DJS staff, and is the first of its kind in juvenile services.
- Established to help develop child welfare policies, the Cabinet is working with the Governor's Office for Children on a three-year plan to deliver services to children and families in need. Members include the Secretaries of Budget & Management, Disabilities, Health & Mental Hygiene, Human Resources, Juvenile Services, the State Superintendent of Schools, and the Executive Director of the Governor's Office for Children.
- A signature
program of UMBC and The Shriver Center, the Choice Program is a nationally recognized
initiative that serves youth in Maryland's child service system, focusing on a
community-based, family-centered case management approach to delinquency prevention
and youth development. www.choiceprograms.org
- A Child In Need of Supervision. A youth who commits an offense that, if committed by an adult, would not be a crime. For example; truancy, run-away or "ungovernable."
- Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators
- This tool guides decision-making regarding the level of supervision for all youth on probation and aftercare.
- Care Management Agency
- Code of Maryland Regulations
- Transfer of a
youth's legal custody.
- A program
monitored by the Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) in which a delinquent child
or a child alleged to be delinquent is placed in the home of a parent, guardian,
custodian, or other fit person, or in shelter care, as a condition of probation
or as an alternative to detention. "Community Detention" includes electronic monitoring.
- A written statement
made by any person or agency to a DJS intake officer, which if true, would support
the allegations of a juvenile petition.
- Beds designated
by DJS for a short term residential program of up to thirty days that would provide
structure to stabilize a youth for a quick return to the community. These beds
are designed to achieve the goal of providing immediate structure and consequence
for adjudicated delinquent youth who failed to respond to probation, court ordered
activities, aftercare conditions or other non-residential intervention requirements.
- Certificate of Placement (the document which reflects youth's location, services, and authorizes payment for services.
- Department of Budget & Management
- Development Disabilities Administration
- A youth who has
been adjudicated for an act which would be a crime if committed by an adult and
who requires guidance, treatment or rehabilitation.
- Temporary, short-term
(1-30 days) care of youth who are awaiting court disposition. Detention facilities
are physically secure.
- Settings
and services that could be provided to a youth that would satisfy the detaining
court's requirement to keep the youth and the public safe and to be able to produce
the youth to court. The Juvenile Judge/Master orders detention and therefore must
approve alternatives. Alternatives to detention may include: home; home with additional
services; home under community detention and/or electronic monitoring; family
shelter care; structured shelter care; acute care hospitals; and psychiatric respite
care programs.
- A court
proceeding to determine whether a youth shall be placed in or continued in detention.
- Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.
In keeping with the Ehrlich-Steele Administration's "child-first" culture, DJS, in collaboration with the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, is working to expand mental health and substance abuse services to youth in custody so that comprehensive treatment plans, appropriate to each youth, can be implemented to treat those with intensive needs.
- Department of Human Resources (State level department of social services)
- The action taken
by the juvenile court that outlines whether the youth requires guidance, treatment,
or rehabilitation and, if so, the nature of such assistance that an adjudicated
youth will receive. (Note: In adult courts, this is known as a "sentence.")
- Department of Juvenile Services
- Disproportionate Minority Contact (no longer Confinement)
- Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
- Juvenile drug courts are serving our youth in ten jurisdictions, including Anne Arundel, Baltimore City, Baltimore, Harford, Caroline, Dorchester, Prince George's, Talbot, St. Mary's and Wicomico Counties.
- Department of Social Services
- Evening Reporting Centers, an alternative to detention. Operating in Baltimore City and Prince George's County.
- Prepared by each state agency for each bill before the General Assembly, fiscal notes describe the effect of the bill and estimate the fiscal impact the State would incur should that bill become a law.
- Family League of Baltimore City, Local Management Board (LMB) for Baltimore City
- Facilities Master Plan
- A matter
that results when charges against a youth are prepared and filed. This formally
requests that court action be taken.
- The study to develop a Facilities Master Plan for DJS.
- Governor's Office on Crime Control and Prevention
- Governor's Office for Individuals with Disabilities
- Governor's Office for Children (formerly Office of Children, Youth & Families)
- Governor's Office of Community Initiatives
- A long-term,
community based residential program that provides a youth with a group living
experience, counseling, supervision and support services.
- Governor's Workforce Investment Board
A group comprised of representatives from many of the major businesses in the State looking into ways to develop our workforce, specifically focusing on individuals coming out of the correctional system.
- Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School
- Inter-Agency Rate Committee
- Intergovernmental Agreement
- Counseling
and/or supervision by a case manager of a youth who lives at home.
- The process for reviewing
a complaint against a youth and determining whether the juvenile court has jurisdiction
and whether jurisdiction judicial action is in the best interest of the public
or the youth. During intake, case managers provide services to youth and their
family.
- A DJS program for reintegration of youth back into their homes, schools, and communities.
- Information Technology Governance Committee
- Interdisciplinary Treatment Team
- Initial (Residential) Treatment Service Plan
- Joint Chairmen's Reports required by the Legislature
- Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
- Juvenile Grant Planning and Review Council, formerly known as the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board (JJAC), subcommittee of the SAB
- Juvenile Justice Advisory Board, subcommittee of SAB
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
- Juvenile Justice Family Advocacy Initiative & Resources
- Judicial Proceedings Reports prepared for the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
- A division
of the Circuit Court in Maryland.
- Lower Eastern Shore Children's Center
- Local Management Boards (local, county organizations which oversees funds, programs)
- multi-agency review team
- Maryland Association of Residential Facilities for Youth
- In addition to providing better care, better education, and better
MODEL opportunity to the youth in our care, "The Maryland Model" of juvenile services will be 1) Balanced with large and small facilities; public and private services and programs; and cooperation and collaboration between State agencies - a "Kids, Incorporated" effort; 2) Accessible with state-wide programs for most-needy youth and programs and facilities in each region to meet the needs of their youth; 3) Community Based with regional advisory boards, facility advisory boards; and communities with the services and programs to take care of their youth; and 4) Treatment Centered to ensure thorough and high quality assessments leading to the right plan for each youth.
- Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument, Second Edition (an initial mental health-screening instrument utilized to identify suicidality or other acuity among newly detained youth)
- Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children
- Montgomery County's Health and Human Services Department
- Maryland Correctional Training Commissio
- Maryland Detention Model of Care (an interdisciplinary approach requiring behavioral health, direct care, education, and somatic health coordination. The MDMC incorporates detention standards from Maryland statutes, COMAR, DJS policies, American Correctional Association, National commission on Correctional Health Care, and Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative into an organized and coherent continuity of care model.
- Mental Hygiene Administration
- Maryland Health Partners
- Management information system
- Named after the successful committed programs in the State of Missouri. The three key features of the Missouri Process are: Long-term juvenile justice professional leadership; strong State and local partnership with local responsibility in many juvenile justice functions; and an upgrading of the level of skills and abilities from senior management to front line workers.
- Memorandum of Agreement
- Memorandum of Understanding
- Moral Reconation Therapy (reconation is the conscious decision to change - spiritually, etc.)
- Maryland State Department of Education
- Maryland Youth Residence Center
- Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (a suicidality assessment tool)
- National Council on Crime and Delinquency
- National Juvenile Detention Association
- Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention's Notice of Funding Availability
- Non-traditional service providers are
considered to be small, grass roots community-based programs currently serving youth with little or no grant funding. This may include programs provided in an informal setting, often after school, including arts, sports, hobby or recreational activities; employment development; entrepreneurial, leadership development; mentoring activities, etc.
- Alfred D. Noyes Children's Center
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers
- Performance-based Standards
- Public mental health systems
- Youth
who have been adjudicated delinquent and at disposition are court ordered to an
out-of-home placement. Youth may be pending placement in a variety of settings
including: home; home with additional services; home under community detention
and/or electronic monitoring; family shelter care; structured shelter care; acute
care hospitals; or psychiatric respite care programs.
- A formal, written
request filing filed with the court alleging that a child is delinquent or in
need of supervision is a Child In Need of Assistance (CINA).
- Prison Rape Elimination Acts
- Court ordered
supervision of a youth in the community; it can include assignment to community
service, counseling, etc.
- Risk Assessment Instrument (classification instrument for youth placement)
- Defined as, or measured by, the amount of time within a one year period in which a youth released from commitment returns to commitment. More information....
- The conscious decision to change spiritually, etc.
- The single best source of information for most community-based organizations in Maryland, the Red Book Online catalogue of State assistance programs (www.mdredbookonline.com), maintained by the Maryland Department of Planning, includes current information on over 800 grants, loans, and technical assistance programs that may be available for community-based organizations.
- A method of making better use of State resources by dividing them among geographically and culturally related regions thus involving and engaging the community in a more significant way than the current centralized model.
- Residential
programs which provide temporary residence for youth who may be experiencing problems
maintaining an acceptable level of self control or may be noncompliant with placement/services
and need to be stabilized so that they can return to the previous placement/services.
Respite programs also maintain youth who may need a longer or more intense level
of service. Respite programs serve as safety net for youth on the verge of removal
from their program.
- Request for applications
- Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents
- Refocus and Opportunity Program
- Relative Rate Index
(successor to DRI, Disproportionate Representation Index)
- Residential treatment center
- Residential Treatment Service Plan (tool used to encapsulate and define the goals and objectives that behavioral health staff and other disciplines will work on during a youth's confinement. Also anticipates the linkages needing to be established upon the youth's release to the community (or residential treatment program).
- State Advisory Board on juvenile services
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory. (a substance abuse screening tool used to identify youth who have or are at risk of a substance abuse impairment.
- William Donald Schaefer House
- Serious emotional disabilities
- State Employees Risk Management Administration
- 24-hour care
for youth in physically unrestricting facilities.
- Spotlight on Schools Program
- Programs where
a youth's movement is controlled by staff supervision rather than by restrictive
architectural features.
- A DJS program for the reintegration of at-risk youth back into their homes, schools, and communities.
- A skill set to help staff better understand the affects of trauma on youth and how it affects their behavior and how to appropriately respond to this behavior. This training and program initially targeted girls but has been successful in reducing use of restraint and acts of aggression, such as assaults, among male and female populations.
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Serves youth who have been removed or displaced from their homes and families
and are in need of short term care for up to 90 days. The age range is 12 to 18
years of age. These youth may be Children in Need of Supervision (CINS) and need
not be adjudicated delinquent or committed to the DJS. However, the placement
is authorized by a court order. For many youth, placement in shelter care is their
first contact with DJS. The emphasis of the program is on supervision, case planning,
short-term intervention strategies, access to health care, and emotional support
while the youth is awaiting return home, a court hearing or more permanent placement.
- Also known as Time Dollars. Created in 1980 by Dr. Edgar Cahn, TimeBanking is a local, tax-free currency that rewards people for their participation in rebuilding their communities. To gain a better understanding of the TimeBanking concept, visit The History of Time Banking or refer to Dr. Cahn's books, No More Throw Away People and TimeBanking in Twelve Lessons.
- A skill set to help staff better understand the affects of trauma
Care on youth and how it affects their behavior and how to appropriately respond to this behavior. This training and program initially targeted girls but has been successful in reducing use of restraint and acts of aggression, such as assaults, among male and female populations. Traumatic Experience and the Brain: a Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized as Children, by Dr. Dave Ziegler, offers help and insight to clinicians, pediatricians, school personnel, parents, and all who work with children damaged by trauma.
- Treatment service plans
- Thomas J.S. Waxter Children's Center
- Western Maryland Children's Center
- An interagency system of care reform to better serve all youth
- The preferred term
for individuals under 18 years of age as used by the Department of Juvenile Services.
Upated January 2006
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