Examples of Programs and Intervention Models  

• Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center
  The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center (MJTC) is a unique residential facility that specializes in providing mental health treatment to extremely “hard cases” within the juvenile justice system. Unlike most secure, State-funded correctional facilities, MJTC is housed on the grounds of a State mental health center. The staff are experienced mental health professionals (including a fulltime psychologist, fulltime psychiatric social worker, and a fulltime psychiatric nurse manager) rather than security guards or corrections officers. Residents in the program are housed in single bedrooms within small inpatient units (with about 15 youths per unit). Within this private, clinical setting, youths undergo intensive individualized therapy designed to treat their underlying emotional problems and to “break the cycle of defiance” triggered by normal institutional settings. Whenever youths in treatment act out or become unruly, they receive additional therapy as well as
  
• Aggression Replacement Training
  Aggression Replacement Training is multi-modal psycho educational intervention designed to alter the behavior of chronically aggressive adolescents and young children. This technique uses skill streaming, anger control training and training in moral reasoning to assist youth to move through these problems. This 10-week 30-hour curriculum is delivered to groups of 8-12 youth three times per week that relies on repetitive techniques to impact anger and impulsiveness.
  
• Virginia Sex Offender Treatment Program
  The Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice has 11 self contained sex offender treatment programs in its juvenile correctional centers. The offenders are categorized as to the severity of their offense pattern with treatment lasting 14-18 months. Individualized and group therapy techniques are employed with this population.
  
• Moral Reconation Therapy
  This cognitive behavior treatment program leads to lower recidivism, improvements in personality variables, enhanced treatment compliance and higher staff satisfaction. This technique is in use in 40 states. Research has demonstrated that male participants (averaging 16 years of age) showed significant and desired shifts from pre- to post test in locus of control, life purpose, enhanced support from family, friends, and a significant other, and less overall problem areas.
• Capital and Serious Violent Offender Program
  This program is designed to help youth understand the emotional and cognitive contributors to criminal behavior, to hold youth accountable for their criminal behavior, to promote individual responsibility, to foster victim empathy, and to teach youth to interrupt negative behavior cycles to reduce future offending. Family involvement is an integral part of the program. The program requires up to five months to complete.
  
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