Chaplaincy Services supports the Department of Juvenile Justice mission by ensuring First Amendment Rights to religious worship and through Pastoral Care to youth and staff by providing spiritual guidance, counseling, support and education, and crisis intervention. Bob Richards RYDC provides Pastoral Care throughout the facility by assigned chaplains who provide services in the following areas: Bereavement, Religious Practice, and Spiritual Health. Bob Richards RYDC Promotes Teaching Spiritual Disciplines: 1) Prayer, 2) Meditation, 3) Study & 4) Service The four spiritual disciplines above may be embraced and taught to youth who are detained in a DJJ facility by DJJ certified volunteers in all DJJ RYDC’s and YDC’s. The teaching of these disciplines offers an opportunity to the youth to embrace and “own” their own spirituality; to be responsible for their own decisions. Teaching Spiritual Disciplines as opposed to Doctrine significantly reduces proselytizing. Presently Bob Richards RYDC religious teachings are mainly Bible Studies. Planning and Preparedness: The Office of Planning and Preparedness (OPP)—provides leadership within DJJ in all phases of disasters (preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation). The OPP Director serves as the primary point of contact with the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency and provides timely emergency management information to local facilities and executive staff. The primary function of the Office is to plan, direct, and administer agency-wide emergency operation plans and procedures. The Office also works closely with DJJ Engineering to provide technical assistance in fire and life safety code compliance. The Director of OPP serves as the Fire Marshal for the agency through the State Fire Marshall’s Office. The Office of Planning and Preparedness staff conducts routine inspections to the local facilities to ensure that the emergency response plans and procedures are up to date and compliant. Recreational Services A complete recreational assessment, which includes recreational interests, becomes a part of each youth’s service plan. We offer basketball, kickball, volleyball and other extracurricular recreational activities. Residential Youth are assigned to a dorm which houses up to 16 youth. One room on each dorm can accommodate handicapped youth, if necessary. The dorms are staffed with two specially trained Juvenile Correctional Officers during waking hours. Furniture includes a TV, chairs and 1 table. 48
Support Services Bob Richards RYDC Support Services provides assistance with building and ground maintenance, utilizing groundskeepers, and through participation in construction trades. Security Operations Staffing for security operations includes an Assistant Director/Security, Captain, 5 Shift Lieutenants, 12 Sergeants and 45 Juvenile Correctional Officers. Security personnel are responsible for operation of the control center, perimeter security, and transportation services. Volunteer Services and Community Engagement Bob Richards RYDC offers opportunity for community engagement through volunteer programs and services to young offenders detained. The programs are designed to empower young offenders to live safe, healthy, and productive lives. Volunteer opportunities include but are not limited to: • Chaplaincy and Religious Services • Mentoring • Recreation • Art and Cultural Activities • Animal Services • Specialized Activities and Service Learning • Internships 49
ACA Compliance Talley Number of Standards in Manual MANDATORY NON-MANDATORY Number Not Applicable 31 390 Number Applicable 0 19 Number in Noncompliance 31 371 Number in Compliance 0 0 Percentage (%) of Compliance 31 371 100 100 Number of Standards minus Number of Not Applicable equals Number Applicable Number Applicable minus Number Noncompliance equals Number Compliance Number Compliance divided by Number Applicable equals Percentage of Compliance 50
Standard # Non-compliant Standards 1 2 Reason for Non-compliance 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 51
Not Applicable Standards Standard # Reason for Non-applicability 1 3-JDF-1A-02 By way of Statute, the facility does not require license to operate 2 3-JDF-1A-07 Services are only provided to Juveniles; therefore, policy, philosophy, 3 3-JDF-1B-18 programs and procedures don’t have to distinguish between adults and 4 3-JDF-1B-21 juveniles. 5 3-JDF-1C-05 Facility does not operate canteen or commissary. Financial transactions are not allowed. Policies establish that money is considered contraband. Affirmative action is N/A. Affirmative action is a federal program. 6 3-JDF-1C-06 DJJ staff is not covered by Merit System. DJJ staff are at will employees of the state of GA. DJJ staff are however, selected, retained 7 3-JDF-1C-10 and promoted based on qualifications, experience, interview results, 8 3-JDF-1C-11 etc. in accordance to DJJ 3.51. N/A by SPB Rule 478-1-24. No Probationary period. DJJ employees 9 3-JDF-1F-05 are unclassified. Termination after probationary period, N/A for DJJ operations. 10 3-JDF-1B-04 Termination process is in accordance with DJJ progressive discipline 11 3-JDF-2B-02-1 practices and it does not require a formal hearing of specific charges 12 3-JDF-2B-03 conducted by a civil service commission or other career service 13 3-JDF-2B-04 organization. 14 3-JDF-2B-05 Facility research projects are reviewed / approved by the parent agency 15 3-JDF-3A-26 research review committee and not by Facility directors. 16 3-JDF-3E-03 The agency does not charge per diem. 17 3-JDF-4B-09 Facility does not meet criteria of new construction, additions or new Protective clothing construction. The Facility is not located on the grounds of any other facility. Bob Richards RYDC is neither a newly constructed facility nor contemplating expansion. Community involvement in selection of community location is not applicable based on 2B-04. Chemical agents and related security devices are only to be used by trained staff according to policy DJJ 8.30. Bob Richards RYDC does not have any staff trained to handle chemical agents. In the event of need, facility has protocols in place driven by policy 8.30 and LOP . DJJ policy prohibits the use of isolation as an approved sanction. Youths at Bob Richards RYDC are not assigned to work detail. and equipment to juveniles assigned to FS, hospital, 52
maintenance, etc. Vocational programs are only available in long term facilities like 18 3-JDF-5C-07 YDCs. Youths in RYDCs don’t remain in the facility long enough to complete courses. The required vocational program labs or classrooms 19 3-JDF-5C-08 are located in the long term facilities. The facility does not have a work plan for juveniles with disabilities. 20 Youths detention time is expected to be of short duration, pending 21 outcome of court process, placement or transfer after disposition. 22 Comments: _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 53
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