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Juvenile Services
Since 1973, Cornell has been a leading provider of innovative and quality treatment programs for delinquent and dependent juveniles. We offer specialized services for hard-to-place juvenile populations including fire starters, sex offenders, habitual offenders, drug sellers and females. We also provide educational services for at-risk juveniles in residential and community settings.
Our juvenile operations include residential and community based settings. We develop customized treatment plans for every juvenile client. They are based in three key treatment areas.
- Cognitive behavior therapy encourages juveniles to accept responsibility for their behavior choices.
- The Balanced and Restorative Justice model supports delinquent and dependent juveniles:
- acquiring competencies that will help them remain out of the juvenile justice system,
- including all parties into the restoration of the victim and community, and
- holding juveniles accountable for their actions.
- Cornell’s Seven Key Principles® of Care establishes an environment conducive to personal change.
Behavioral health services are fully integrated into treatment planning and all programming in Cornell’s juvenile line of business. 
Juvenile Residential Services
Cornell’s juvenile residential programs are in physically-secure and staff-secure environments. The safety and security of the public, staff and juvenile clients is the foremost critical element in our programs. We achieve this through extensive staff training and use of technology.
The continuum of care Cornell provides to juvenile clients helps them gain the knowledge and skills to live in the community as responsible, productive individuals. The services included in the continuum of care are broad and far reaching.
- Diagnosis, assessment and treatment planning
- Individual, group and family counseling
- Anger management counseling
- Substance-abuse treatment and relapse prevention planning
- Aftercare planning
- Alternative and special education
- Life skills training
- Employment training and assistance
- Community service projects and restitution programs
- Parenting academies for clients' parents
- Accredited ropes course challenges
- Wilderness training programs
Juvenile Community-based Services
Cornell's juvenile community-based programs serve as a diversion programs in lieu of residential placement. They also provide a transitional opportunity for juvenile clients who are returning to the community after completing a residential placement.
The programs are designed to build competencies in juvenile clients and their families, protect the community and hold both youth and families accountable. This goal is achieved by providing the comprehensive treatment services within the clients’ communities. The services include:
- Individualized case management
- Individual, group and family counseling
- Substance-abuse treatment and relapse prevention planning
- Crisis prevention and intervention
- Comprehensive in-home, family-based services
- Alternative and special education
- Life skills training
- Parenting academies for clients' parents
- Employment training and assistance
- Community service projects and restitution programs
- Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) model: treatment team works with youth, family and peers in home and community settings
- Physical improvements of home-environment
- Surveillance and curfew checks
- Juvenile day reporting
Alternative Education Services
For more than three decades, Cornell has met the educational needs of at-risk and high risk juvenile clients in a variety of settings, including public-private partnerships, staff-secure and physically- secure residential facilities and community-based day treatment programs.
We have earned a reputation for successfully helping some of the most difficult students in the public education and child welfare systems.
Students who typically benefit most from our services are:
- at-risk of dropping out of school or who have already dropped out,
- suspended or expelled from their school district of residence,
- needing additional support and work with the family, or
- returning to the community from a residential placement.
We provide a continuum of services in the areas of education, counseling and mental health. The customized group of services is designed to meet the needs of the school district and students, including those young people experiencing emotional difficulties and learning disabilities.
Our small class size and in-class intervention specialist support the success our students experience. Additionally, our trained, experienced school administrators are equipped to support local school districts in designing, implementing and operating customized alternative education services. Among the key aspects of Cornell’s Alternative Education service line are:
- Academic diagnostic testing
- GED preparation and testing
- Special education programs
- Academic enrichment and remedial programs
- Multiple sensory approach to learning: kinetic, visual and auditory
- Life skills training and cognitive restructuring
- Individual, group and family counseling
- Substance abuse counseling
- Work-study and part-time school program
- Summer school
- Case management and transition services
Our licensed and accredited schools range in size from 30 to 500 students who are between the ages of eight and 20.
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