Sedgwick County Department of Corrections
Juvenile Field Services
961 S. Glendale | Wichita, KS 67218-3210
316-660-5380 | Fax 316-685-4229

Steve Stonehouse, Administrator
Background

This division was formed in 1998. The purpose of the Juvenile Field Services (JFS) Division is to provide supervision and/or case management for adjudicated juvenile offenders in Sedgwick County. Juvenile offenders served by this division include: those at risk of entering state's custody, those placed on intensive supervision probation, those in the custody of the state, those directly committed to a state juvenile correctional facility (JCF), and those on conditional release (CR) from a state JCF. Funding for these programs is provided by contractual agreements with the State of Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority (JJA).

General Information

JFS places emphasis on public safety, preventing future offenses through the use of evidence-based correctional practices and services, education, employment and enhancing positive family impact on the offender's behavior. Offenders are supervised on level systems based on their level of risk to reoffend as determined by evidence-based correctional risk assessments. Urinalysis and breath analysis tests detect drug use. Contacts with employers, educators, treatment providers, caregivers and the offender are characteristic of these programs. In some cases, electronic monitoring is used to restrict freedom and provide sanctions for minor violations of the conditions of supervision. This restricts the offender's mobility to the home or other approved locations. If the offender violates the rules, staff are quickly notified and can take action.

Core Programs

Juvenile Intensive Supervision Program (JISP)
JISP is an intensive community based program providing services to offenders at risk of entering state's custody and placed on intensive supervision probation by the Court.

Juvenile Case Management (JCM)
This program provides supervision and case management for youth in the custody of the State of Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority. Some juveniles served by this program are placed outside their family homes in a variety of settings including: detention, resource homes, residential treatment facilities, independent living programs.

Conditional Release (CR)
This program provides supervision and case management for youth returning to the community from juvenile correctional facilities on conditional release. Juveniles served by this program are placed in their family homes, detention, resource homes, residential facilities, treatment programs, independent living programs and independent living programs.
 

Grant Programs

Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM)
Juvenile Field Services was recently awarded U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs' Bureau of Justice Assistance grant funds under the Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management Program. This program assists jurisdictions in establishing collaborative multi-system comprehensive strategies to manage sex offenders under community supervision. Focus is placed on to improving juvenile sex offender management policies and practices by critically examining existing approaches to managing the population; identifying significant gaps and needs; and developing strategies to address the needs. Other goals to be met during this grant include: formalizing a Multidisciplinary Team Policy Group for the Sedgwick County Juvenile Sex Offender Multidisciplinary Team; improving attendance at the Juvenile Sex Offender Multidisciplinary Team meetings and the variety of agencies attending; increasing the use of evidence-based programming in the treatment of juvenile sex offenders, implementing the use of empirically guided risk/needs assessments for juvenile sex offenders prior to sentencing; reducing the size of Juvenile Field Services juvenile sex offender specific intensive supervision officer caseloads; increasing assistance available to juvenile sex offender specific intensive supervision officers; arranging affordable regional juvenile sex offender specific trainings; and building support for the long-term sustainability of the Juvenile Sex Offender Multidisciplinary Team and its activities. This program covers the time frame of October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2009.

Sedgwick County Offender Reentry – Juvenile (SCOR-J)
The Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority was recently awarded an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention grant to implement effective reentry practices for youth reintegrating from the juvenile correctional facilities. The mission of Juvenile Justice Authority’s Project STAR (Success Through Achieving Reentry) is to reduce recidivism by implementing evidence-based practices throughout the system’s continuum from the juvenile correctional facilities, community reentry facilities, and community reentry officers. The project will improve the quality of services within the juvenile correctional facilities, develop a community reentry facility that will serve as a step-down facility, and implement evidence-based services within the community pilot sites. Sedgwick County Juvenile Field Services is one of three sub-grantee pilot sites in the state, and SCOR-J is the name of Juvenile Field Services’ local program. This program covers the time frame of March 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011.
 

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