UTAH JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES

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UTAH JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES

• Tim Lane, Manger STD Program, Utah Department of
  Health
• Penny Davies, Director of Clinical Services,
  Planned Parenthood Association of Utah

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UTAH JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES
Presentation

• Justice System Review
• Screening Process
• Projects/Data
• Next Steps

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Utah Facilities

• Created in 1981- Division of Youth Corrections
• Detention Centers, Receiving Centers, Day-Night
  Reporting Centers, Multi-use Facilities and Youth
  Services.

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Utah Facilities

• July 1, 2004 -The Division of Youth Corrections
  becomes the Division of Juvenile Justice Services
• Work with youth and families
• Divert youth through Youth Services

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Statewide Facilities

• 13 Receiving Centers
• 11 Detention Facilities
• 6 Secure Facilities
• 5 Observation and Assessment Locations
• 4 Community Programs
• 1 Work Camp

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State Law

• State Law
• Utah State Code - 26-6-19
• Venereal Disease examination and treatment of
  persons in prison or jail.
• All persons confined in any state, county, or
  city prison or jail shall be examined, and if
  infected, treated..

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Juvenile Justice System (JJS) Process Description

• A juvenile enters the system - arrested by
  police.
• 1st Stop - receiving center
• Released Home
• Referred to Youth Services counseling

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JJS Process Description cont

• Held up to 48 hrs-
• Judge decides
• Home release, counseling -delinquent and truancy
  offenses
• Detention Center-pose danger to self or others

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JJS Process Description cont

• HEARING
• Judge rules on guilt or innocence
• Release
• Community Service
• Observation and Assessment 45-60 day program
• Secure Care Jurisdiction of Youth Parole
  Authority

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SL Youth Detention Center

• Those entering a receiving center
• 25 are there lt 24 hrs
• 30 are there lt 72 hrs
• 30 are there lt 14 days
• 15 are there 30 days or longer

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Medical Flow Process

• All youth are screened on paper-immediate needs
  (injury, suicide, allergy)
• If kept medical history (infections, pregnancy)
• Those with positive responses are seen by nurse
  within 24 hrs

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Medical Flow Process cont

• Those in centers 7-14 days, ½ have physicals
• Those in centers gt 30 days all have physicals
• STD TESTING ONLY IF MEDICALLY INDICATED

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Screening Program

• 1998-Planned Parenthood Association of Utah
  (PPAU) begins screening females
• CDC National Infertility Prevention Project
• Providing education and medical services to
  females ½ day per week.

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Partnership

• August 2000
• Utah Department of Health (UDOH) STD Program
  expanded the project with the CDC Adolescent
  Womens Reproductive Health Monitoring Project
  (AWRHMP).

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AWRHMP

• The AWRHMP targeted adolescent females in
  high-risk settings.
• Participants received education, tested for CT,
  GC and pregnancy.

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Implementation

• PPAU provides the medical services utilizing
  volunteers
• UDOH Staff
• Increases service sessions - 2-3 mornings per
  week, UDOH followed up with positives

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SUCCESS

• From August 2000 through August 2003 1,757
  adolescent females participated.
• Females Tested Positive
• 1,757
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Since 2003

• Planned Parenthood expands testing-
• 4 Detention centers
• 1 Observation and Assessment
• 2 Secure Facilities
• 1 Work Program
• Staff from facilities receive training to do
  testing and treatment

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Since 2003 cont

• 2003 Male CT/GC Testing DHHS Title X Special
  Initiative Grant Male Involvement
• 2005 - HIV Testing- Title X HIV Integration
  Grant

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Performance Measures2005 Data

• 2 sites (gt500 admits) Females
  Only
• Admits Tested tested
  pos
• SL 1237 262 21 12.6
• Weber 476 182 38 22

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YOUTH CORRECTIONS 2004 Male and Female Data

• Rural Detention Facilities
• Admits tested tested
• Farmington 680 480 70
• Cache 430 95 22

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YOUTH CORRECTIONS 2004

• Admits tested tested
• SL O A 160 127
  79
• Secure Facilities
• Decker 36 24
  66
• Wasatch 42 33 79
• Work Program
• Genesis 281 69 25
• tested in detention facilities

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Next Steps

• Meet with Juvenile Justice administrators
• Goal test more admittees
• Look at current data
• Goal target to centers with higher
  positivity rates
• Identify grant opportunities