Juvenile Services

Intensive Delinquency Diversion Services (IDDS)

The Intensive Delinquency Diversion Services (IDDS) Program provides a cost effective alternative to judicial handling for youth under 15 years of age who have been charged with an offense, which if committed by an adult, would be a criminal act.  All youth served by this program have been assessed by the Department of Juvenile Justice as being at high risk of becoming serious, chronic offenders based on factors identified by the book, ” The 8% Solution Preventing Serious Repeat Juvenile Offenders”. This program provides intensive supervision and program services to forty-five (45) high-risk diversion eligible juveniles, six days per week, including after school hours for a period of five to seven months. 

Program supervision includes multiple face to face contacts with each youth weekly, weekly parental contact, weekly school contact as well as contact with each service provider involved in the youth’s individualized treatment plan.  These contacts are made in the youth’s home, school, and various other community sites.