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The Department offers services for youth by establishing and maintaining a seamless comprehensive juvenile justice system that promotes juvenile delinquency prevention, intervention, and treatment.

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KARMA GARDEN - We Will Reap What We Sow Annie Hadgkiss, LPC-Senior Mental Health Practitioner at the Guilford County Juvenile Detention Center had a vision for juveniles at the detention center learning important life lessons through true hands-on experience in a garden at the Guilford County Juvenile Detention Center. Her work to make this vision become a reality began in August of 2009 with discussions with Eric Naglee, Title I Program Specialist with Guilford County Schools.		Lenoir Youth Development Center Pilots Facility Review “You know you are witnessing a high quality program when the list of best practices is longer that the list of areas in need of improvement,” stated Dave Hardesty, Quality Management (QM) Consultant for the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention after completing the Pilot Facility Review at Lenoir Youth Development Center.
Department Embarks on PREA Training Effort In a collaborative effort, The North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and American University’s Washington College of Law, presented the Train the Trainer curriculum for “Building Staff and Youth Capacity to Address Sexual Violence Against Youth in Custody.”  The training was conducted at the North Carolina Justice Academy in Salemburg, NC from August 2 through August 4.		District Reviews: Encourage Quality to Be Job One What is the role of a court counselor in the juvenile justice system and how can the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention improve how court counselors provide services to youth and their families? These are the complex questions that a group of your peers has been trying to answer over the last year.