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Crossroads -
Delinquency Intervention
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Crossroads is an intervention
program for juvenile offenders that provides youth with the opportunity for
choosing a new direction by enhancing their accountability and competency
levels.
Focus:
- Juvenile offender
accountability
- Restitution to the victim
and the community
- Juvenile competency
development
- Community protection
through supervision
- Family strengthening
- Reduction of repeat
juvenile offenders
Benefits:
- Troubled youth are given a
second chance
- Troubled youth are helped
to become responsible community members
- Families are assisted with
their troubled youth
- The Court and District
Attorney's Office are provided with diversionary programs to which
they can refer juvenile offenders
- The community benefits by
reduced crime rates
- Research shows that
approximately 90% of the youth completing the program do not re-enter
the juvenile system within a year and over 80% do not re-enter the
system over the course of three years
- Community savings … $350
per youth in Crossroads per year vs. $40,000 per youth in detention per
year
- Approximately $20,000
returned to victims of juvenile crime in St. Tammany annually
- Law Education Classes
- Approximately, 30,000 hours
of community service performed by the youth annually
- Access to affordable
counseling services and educational groups and classes
- Access to information and
referral services
Referrals
Most referrals are made
through the District Attorney's Office or local judges. Some services may
be available through self-referral. Please call for more information
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