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Address
2727 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Eugene, OR 97401

Hours
Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm

Phone 541-682-4700
Fax 541-682-4732

Patti Robb
Lane County Juvenile Department Director, Community Justice Principle Manager - Youth Services Division

Our Mission

Improving community safety and creating meaningful change for justice-involved youth by providing community-based services to reduce youth crime and recidivism; Improving youth resilience and creating meaningful and long-term connections in the community.

Our Vision

Positively impacting youth and families and preventing future involvement with the justice system; Improving resilience as it relates to the family environment, local communities, systemic solutions, and the justice system.

What We Do

Lane County Youth Services (YS) provides assessment, probation, training, counseling, and detention services for all youth, ages 12-17 years old, referred by local law enforcement because of criminal behavior. It is the branch of Lane County government responsible for services to youth accused of law violations or judged delinquent by the juvenile court. YS is staffed by groupworkers and counselors specializing in juvenile corrections. YS staff are county employees and are all experienced in working with youth. YS is funded from the Lane County general fund, along with some state and federal grant funding for new programs.

Administration Services

Youth Service Administration provides planning, leadership, management, budget, records and information systems and other support services as required by the department. This division houses the Division Manager, Research and Grant writing program, Volunteer program and Department records.

Detention Services

Detention Services provides temporary care in a physically-restricting, 24-hour facility for delinquent youth who pose a danger to others and who are ineligible for placements offering a lesser degree of restrictiveness. This temporary care protects three principle rights:

The Community's right to immediate protection from the youth
The youth's right to be detained in an environment conductive to normal growth and development; and
The court's right to immediate access to the youth for court hearings

Detention offers mandated levels of programming, including group work, education, recreation, counseling and medical services.

Supervision Services

Supervision prepares disposition (sentencing) reports and probation agreements for the courts and supervises youth placed on probation by the court for person and property crimes. Included in Supervision is the Resource Team which supervises youth in out-of-home placements and those on parole from state training facilities, provides monitoring and special programming for juvenile sex offenders, and develops competency classes. Some staff work for the state (See Oregon Youth Authority).

Clinical Services

At intake, the youth meet with a QMHA to complete ten screenings that offer a holistic view of the services needed to best support the youth and family. YS has two licensed QMHPs on staff who can provide full mental health assessments and individual or family counseling as well as a licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) on staff who can provide formal mental health diagnoses and prescribe psychiatric medication as needed.

Neurofeedback Services

Lane County Youth Services offers Neurofeedback to all referred youth. NFB is a safe, non-invasive and non-verbal approach. It works by engaging the brain’s own mechanisms of self-regulation. It can be done with clients of any age, from infants to the elderly. It is compassion-informed, non-judgmental and non-triggering.
Neurofeedback is supported by scientific research and extensive clinical experience worldwide for treating conditions such as Anxiety, Depression, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Dementia, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Catering Services

We offer youth the opportunity for hands-on experience in all aspects of food service and catering. Students learn how to use institutional and commercial kitchen equipment safely. They use these skills daily to prepare meals for youth in the residential treatment program and for the MLK Ed. Center. Students are immersed in all aspects of catering. These include preparing food, setting up, taking down, and serving customers. Students also learn how to provide great customer service. The students gain experience in gardening and sustainable living. They are active in the harvesting, composting, and recycling of many of the foods they use. Each student receives the Oregon Food Handlers Certification training that is used to obtain their Food Handlers Card. This gives them eligibility to work in the food service industry for three years.

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