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Juvenile services emphasize family-based therapy and community placements; request heating-plant repairs at Youth Correctional Center
Summary
Lisa Bearguard, director of the Division of Juvenile Services, told the Senate appropriations committee that juvenile arrest rates have declined from 1990s peaks but the system still needs family-based therapy and brief residential placements to keep youth safe and close to home.
Lisa Bearguard, director of the Division of Juvenile Services, told the committee the juvenile arrest rate in North Dakota peaked in the mid-1990s and has generally declined, but that the state still needs a mix of community-based services, family therapy and brief residential capacity for some youth.
"The juvenile court act in North Dakota had not been significantly updated since 1969," Bearguard said, and she credited the Juvenile Justice Commission and recent policy work for modernizing responses. Bearguard told the committee the division is emphasizing intensive family therapy and evidence-based in-home approaches to reduce out-of-home placements.
Nut graf: Bearguard said the division is expanding Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) and other community treatments, using Title…
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