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OYA describes new Safety Intervention Unit, limits on isolation and conflict-resolution strategy
Summary
Danessa Martin, interim assistant director for Facility Services, told the committee on March 25 that OYA repurposed a standard living unit at McLaren into a Safety Intervention Unit designed to support crisis stabilization in a more developmental environment.
Danessa Martin, interim assistant director for Facility Services, told the committee on March 25 that OYA operates nine facilities across the state — five youth correctional facilities and four youth transition programs — and that average facility population ranges from 375 to 410 youth.
Martin said OYA repurposed a standard living unit at McLaren into a Safety Intervention Unit designed to support crisis stabilization in a more developmental environment. She said use of isolation is limited to situations where a youth is in danger of physically harming another, where a serious threat of violence exists, or where…
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