Brush Dance Clinic

Juvenile youth teens

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.  You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.

– Anne Lamott

Turning Leaf Services – Outpatient Process

Turning Leaf ServicesSM provides juvenile sex offender evaluations and a comprehensive out-patient treatment program for youth 18 years old or younger with sexually aggressive behaviors.

The goal of JSO specific treatment is “No More Victims,” through therapeutic interventions and external accountability. A juvenile that has demonstrated behavior that is sexual in nature could be brought before the court system and charged with certain violations of the law. We have the ability to work within that system to educate and support the juvenile and their family through that process.

On the continuum of care, juvenile correction is the last point where the youth has been removed from the home and placed in a highly structured and secure facility with the goal of community safety. Our aim is to provide intervention before that becomes necessary.

If the family of the youth receiving JSO services is working to prevent their child from being removed from the home, by receiving intensive in-home services, then we participate and coordinate our services with other providers and agencies.

Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment Objectives

Turning Leaf ServicesSM Juvenile Sex Offender (JSO) outpatient treatment program provides offenders the following major learning objectives:

  • Learn about the sexual offending cycle. Discuss concepts of cycle phases: build-up, acting-out, justification, and pretend-normal. Explore the individual sexual offending cycle.
  • Learn about victims and victim empathy. Discuss concepts of boundaries, immediate and long-term effects of sexual abuse, and the impact on victims.
  • Produce a personal relapse prevention plan. Discuss concepts of warning signs, lapse vs. relapse, and community support building.
  • Therapeutic family sessions to support youth with changes. JSO specific treatment is based on a systems approach with the idea that youth are part of a system and it would be highly encouraged for family participation.

Successful Completion

Upon completion of the Turning Leaf ServicesSM Juvenile Sex Offender (JSO) outpatient treatment program the youth will undergo an exit panel. Here the youth is asked questions to demonstrate knowledge of treatment material, take full responsibility for behavioral choices, and make full disclosure of victims. The youth will be asked to explain his/her personal sexual abuse cycle and relapse prevention plan.
An exit panel is an oral evaluation given by a certified juvenile sex offender treatment provider and two other mental health providers. Other people may attend, with permission (e.g. family members, probation officer, etc.).

Length to Completion

An outpatient juvenile sex offender treatment program usually takes 12 to 18 months to complete. Completion is based on the pace of treatment with the youth and can take longer if the youth is not motivated.

Duration of treatment is not the measure of success. The exit panel is used as a measure of competence to distinguish the successful completion of the treatment program verses how long a youth is in treatment.

Please contact us to discuss the specific needs of your agency and our current availability to accept new cases.

 

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