- (1) The Alabama Department of Youth Services is committed to the concept of effective rehabilitation of Delinquent Youth through the development and utilization of community operated programs and facilities.
- (2) These minimum Standards for Comprehensive Youth Services Centers, or day treatment programs, were developed in order to bring about well planned, coordinated and cooperative local-state efforts to increase and improve Programs for Delinquent Youth.
- (3) Comprehensive Youth Service Centers are emerging as a form of day treatment programs for youths who live at home. The centers provide in one Agency: education, counseling, career guidance, job development, recreation, and skills for independent living. The general Program goal is to provide a community based Youth Facility with treatment and rehabilitative educational services. The Comprehensive Youth Services Center should not be considered a panacea of care for all youths. It is a distinct resource in its own right that is a part of the whole broad spectrum of resources available to troubled youth.
- (4) These minimum Standards represent the first guidelines established which address the specific programmatic, fiscal, and administrative area necessary to establish sound Comprehensive Youth Services Centers. We hope that through a state-1ocal cooperative effort, communities will be encouraged to develop and enhance these type Programs.
Author: Alabama Department of Youth Services, Office of Licensing and Standards
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§44-1-27(a)(b), 44-1-24(4)(6), 38-13-4.
History: New Rule: Filed December 17, 2004; effective January 21, 2005. Amended: Filed November 6, 2018; effective December 21, 2018.