Shifting Gears: Therapeutic Environment Training Wraps-Up at Youth Development Centers; Planning for Court Services Kicks into High Gear; Detention Center Planning Begins
The Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is now wrapping up its Therapeutic Environment Training (TET) for staff at all five youth development centers and shifting gears to plan for implementation. Meanwhile, court services staff continue to plan the training structure for TET within court services. In addition, detention center staff have begun to modify the curriculum in order to address specific needs within the detention center setting.
The TET training within court services will incorporate similar tools as well as focus on developing a standardized service planning format within the training curriculum. The detention center training will focus on development a curriculum that applies to a short-term custody environment. Overall, the TET training is a curriculum that delivers skills and knowledge and gives staff tools to create a therapeutic, teaching environment, will result in the implementation of an environment in which youth receive education and treatment in ways that allow for the development of skill competency and behavior and life changes.
Staff from the Eastern, Western, Central, and Piedmont areas have been trained to teach the therapeutic environment model. These trainers are currently instructing staff at Dillon, Dobbs, Samarkand, Stonewall Jackson, and Swannanoa as well as selected court services and detention staff. Each trainer delivers content through various activities as well as through lecture.
The Department plans to have all five youth development centers fully operating in a therapeutic environment by May 2007.
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