GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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SENATE BILL 91

Short Title:  Build Residence/Juv. Offdrs.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Tally, Walker; Ward, Gulley, and Edwards.
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Referred to:  Juveniles/Prevention.
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February 15, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A RESIDENTIAL FACILITY TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TREATMENT SERVICES TO CERTAIN JUVENILES.
Whereas, Cumberland County has numerous youth who are adjudicated through the courts but for whom there are no or few dispositional options; and
Whereas, for many of these youth training school and detention centers are either inappropriate or unavailable due to space limitations; and
Whereas, training school does not provide appropriate educational and treatment programs, often resulting in returning the youth to the home, neighborhood, and lifestyle environment that fostered the unlawful behavior; and
Whereas, the absence of appropriate treatment and rehabilitation programs for youth offenders often results in escalation of the inappropriate and unlawful activities of these youth; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Youth Services, the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the construction and one year's operating cost of a 75-bed locked/secure residential facility to house juvenile offenders ages 16 to 18 years.  This facility shall be constructed in Cumberland County and shall be used to provide on-site education and treatment services to juvenile offenders as an alternative to training schools and detention centers.  Residents of the facility shall be juveniles between the ages of 16 and 18 years who have been sentenced to the facility by the court system.  Treatment services available to residents of the facility shall include mental health and substance abuse services provided by the county mental health center.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.