Indianapolis Juvenile Information
Programs
2. “Substance Abuse”
The substance abuse education lasts one week and provides a brief educational aspect of what substance abuse is and how it can affect your body. This is important because many of our offenders do not understand the short-term as well as long-term affects substance abuse can have on our bodies.
Substance Abuse Treatment
We provide substance abuse treatment to all of our offenders who are showing signs of substance abuse upon arrival. This treatment is ongoing and helps the offenders cope with their withdrawals and cravings as well as recognize what led them to their substance abuse. The treatment is more in depth to help the offenders recognize dangerous situations they could be placed in by engaging in these activities. We also teach the offenders drug and alcohol refusal skills while providing other more positive activities for them to engage in. At the end of the treatment the offenders are able to come up with a recovery plan and how to cope if something were to happen.
Relapse Prevention
The relapse prevention group focuses on support groups and helps the offenders role play different scenarios regarding substance abuse. The offenders practice saying no and there is more focus on the individual’s success once they are released from our facility.
3. “Healthy Relationships”
Our Healthy Relationships Group is outlined in twelve lessons and focuses on the different types of relationships our offenders have with the people around them such as parents, siblings, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. The group explains how to deal with these relationships and the issues that may arise from having a relationship with a certain person or group and how to better understand their point of view. Healthy Relationships focuses also on sexual relationships to explain how you know you may love someone and what manipulation is. The three types of abuse (physical, sexual and emotional) are also covered to educate our offenders to recognize when abuse is occurring coin their own lives.
4. “Employability Skills”
All of the offenders at the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility will eventually be released back into society. This is why our re-entry initiatives are so important to the success of these offenders upon leaving our facility. We have partnered with the AIM Support Center to help our offenders receive orientation through classes about reentry. The AIM Academy provides a class on Employability Skills, which is a two week course for Marion County students to attend, to help the offenders with their re-entry process.
5. Community Supervision School
The Community Supervision School is a program which helps orient our offenders on how parole supervision will work after they leave our facility. A Youth Services Transition Specialist comes to our facility on the third Tuesday of the month for our male offenders and the last Tuesday of the month for our female offenders to explain this process.
Community Service
1. Project Linus
In June 2006, the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility restarted Project Linus, a community service project for the female offenders of the facility. The project participants crochet blankets and send them to ‘Better Indy Babies’, a non-profit organization, for distribution to infants and teen mothers. For more information please contact Sandra Beecher, the project’s coordinator, at IJCF. (244-3387 x259)
2. Offender Work Program
Students who have passed their GED pre-test with a 480 or higher, has a high school diploma, or passed the GED exam are eligible to work with this program. The Offender Work Program allows students to leave the facility to work off grounds in various locations such as schools, churches, etc. This helps our students receive their community service credits, which are necessary to complete before leaving our facility.
Volunteer Information
The Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility is a male and female facility that houses juvenile offenders between the ages of 13-18 years old. Our offender population requires a variety of needs that include mentors, volunteers, personal hygiene items, etc. If interested in donating items or becoming a volunteer or mentor, please contact Donna Totten at 317-244-3387 ext 254, program director. Our volunteers are given an orientation on the last Thursday of each month and every volunteer is required to attend annual training each year to continue their volunteering services.
IJCF "Wish List"
Toothpaste
Toothbrushes
Soap
Deodorant
Lotion
Shampoo and Conditioner
Brushes
Combs
Underwear (white only)
Socks (white only)
Pencils
Erasers
Folders
Journals
Notebook paper (non-spiral)
Blow Dryers
Curling Irons
Yarn
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