exercise his own decision making ability. Freedom extended to the youth is built on a privilege system which he earns by fulfilling demands of residence, responding he earns by fulfilling demands of residence, responding to therapy and becoming a meaningful member of the therapeutic environment. More freedom is accorded, without staff observation, including weekends home, as the youth illustrates responsible decisions concerning his own behavior as well as that of his peers. (b) The second phase is to assimilate the youngster back into the community by involving him in an educational and/or vocational program as well as initiating family therapy groups. This is establishing a "State of Readiness" in the family for the child to return to the home when discharged. (c) Eventually his behavior, as seen in total ie. ability to handle himself in therapy groups, with his family and in school or on the job, will determine his readiness to return home or be placed in a long term treatment program. The individual understands that he determines his own behavior, is capable of establishing his own limit-setting mechanisms and ultimately this determines his date of discharge. ACID staff maintains an on going relationship for at least 4 months after the youngster leaves the program. The supportive aftercare services will be arranged according to individual needs. Groupways-Region 6 Boys Program-12 Boys (15 to 21 years). This program is unique in that Groupways has four facilities in the same neighborhood all of which embrace both long-term and short-term placements, youth desiring to remain with the program at the conclusion of their short term stay may have the opportunity of doing so. This mixing of both committed and non-committed youth has the advantage providing positive pcer models beginning the first day of residence. Groupways, having been established in 1963 has been working with local vocational, educational and recreational programs that the youngsters will participate in while living there. Family therapy will be continued after the youngster leaves the program to aid in the transition from the group home environment to the home. Everett House, New England Home for Little Wanderers-Region 6 Girls Program-12 girls (14 to 16 years). The goal of this program is to help girls in their pursuit of maturity and responsible independence. Generally the girls behavior patterns and methods of coping have been counter productive to date. Realizing this, it is necessary to help the girls develop alternate approaches of coping that capitalize on their strengths and those of their families in a way that establishes a pyramid of positive accomplishments. The girls are aided in identifying available alternatives and developing positive decision making abilities. In this way, they slowly learn to be accountable to themselves and others. The program includes extensive educational, vocational and family adjustment programing. Libra-Region 3 Boys Program-12 boys (12 to 16 years). The youngsters are seen as full scale participants in the activities and the decision-making of the home; the initial group will participate in drawing up the operating roles for the house. Each youth will be involved in the total planning for his stay at LIBRA. The house will operate on a progressive scale of priviledges earned by illustrating the ability to accept responsibility and act in a constructive manner. Staff will act as counselor advocates for the youngsters while working out their problems with their families, school systems, and other community resources. Youngsters will be contacted on a regular basis for as long as one year after discharge to assure smooth transition from the home, back to the community. Hyde Park House-Region 5 Boys Program-12 Boys (12 to 16 Years). This program is initiated by an interview with the boy's family and at this time a general treatment program would be outlined for both the youngster and his family. For the youngster this would be the residence and for the family it would involve weekly parent groups, family therapy or individual therapy. Recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of the boy ane his relations with his family and chosen peer group, the program can be designed to help the boy learn positive decision making. Each resident will undergo evaluation of his educational needs, including establishing the achievement level as well as the cognitive development level. Youngsters will begin with limited goal settings which will include writing weekly self evaluations which are matched with staff attitude reports. It is in this way priorities for programming are established. The youngsters are offered non-delinquent patterns of behavior and educational programs which will help them on discharge. Roxbury Medical Technical Institute-Region 6 Boys Program-12 Boys (6 to 18 Years). Experimental and innovative approaches to presenting academic material will be explored in depth. There will be a strong emphasis on interweaving all aspects of educational, vocational, recreational and counselling programs for youth. Debating, creative writing, club activities, special interest groups and keeping journals will be some of the tools used in the educational component in order that the youth can more easily identify the immediate relevancy of learning in his day to day life. Efforts are being made to build the academic and vocational programs with materials which would enhance minority group ethnic identity and pride. When a youngster leaves the program, he will be encouraged to continue taking part in the programs. The parent involvement, too, will be maintained as the location is central. Walker Home-Region 3 Boys Program-12 Boys (7 to 13 Years). Mainly for young boys with severe school adjustment problems. Walker School has developed an excellent program of teaching appropriate school behavior which helps the youngster cope with that system which he must deal with the most hours per day. By providing the child with a repertoire of socially appropriate behavioral responses early in life, he will be much better able to cope with those aspects of school life which he acted out against in the past. The child is taught early the importance of recognizing emotions and expressing them in a constructive manner. Constant interaction with the boy's family will be maintained throughout the boy's stay at the group home to avoid a difficult transition upon return to the family. The parents will be contacted on a regular basis after discharge to supply support to the total family unit as needed. St. Ann's Home-Region 4 Boys Program-12 Boys (8-14 Years). Acting out character disorder boys, many of whom have been identified as emotionally disturbed. The group home will operate on the principle that all behavior, including the most flagrant sort of acting out is learned and the dysfunctional learing pattern must be interrupted and substituted with a more constructive learning experience. The members of the home will be inolved in rule making, household organization and will be responsible primarily to the group as to their behavior and its consequences. A variety of models for the group to learn from and identify with will be provided by the staff. Educational support programs will be provided to help the youngster return to school at the level of his age group. At least once a week the child will have a family meeting with either one or more members of his family in order to maintain and strengthen family ties while in the group home. Share-Region 3 Boys Program-12 Boys (15 to 17 Years). Seen as necessary for admission to this group home is a willingness on the part of the family to take part in the family counselling component of the program at regular intervals. An adult-structured environment is seen as a need. However, the adolescent in-put will be solicited at specific levels of decision making and growth. The goal is to provide an environment with clearly defined roles and expectations. Orientation in the program includes defining the levels of accomplishment which must be passed through for discharge. Advancement from one level to the next is a house member and staff decision made in one of the daily meetings. The group makes recommendations, and if the youth is unable to maintain the stated criteria of behavior, he is put back a level for a period of time until he exhibits the ability to accept additional responsibility required until he is able to function successfully in the community with his family and job or school. (D) STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS ACT OF 1969 CHAPTER 838 ESTABLISHING THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES Chapter 838-Acts of 1969 Provides: SECTION 65. The youth service board, the division of youth service and the advisory committee on service to youth are hereby abolished, and the offices of the members of the youth service board, and director, first deputy director for administrative services, second deputy director for field services, and third deputy director for institutional services of the division of youth service are hereby terminated. All powers and duties exercised by said board and division are hereby transferred to the department of youth services established under section one of chapter eighteen A of the General Laws, as appearing in section one of this act; all powers and duties exercised by the advisory committee on service to youth are hereby transferred to the advisory committee in the department of youth service established under section nine of said chapter eighteen A; and all powers and duties of said offices of chairman, member, director and deputy director are hereby transferred to the commissioner of youth services appointed under the provisions of said chapter eighteen A or to other officers and employees of said department in accordance with the provisions of said chapter eighteen A. SECTION 66. All officers and employees of the division of youth service who immediately prior to the effective date of this act hold positions classified under chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, or have tenure in their positions by reason of sections nine A, nine B and nine D of chapter thirty of the General Laws, shall continue to be employees of the department of youth services without impairment of civil service status, seniority, retirement and other employment rights, and without interruption of service within the meaning of said chapter thirty-one or said section nine A, nine B or nine D, and without reduction in compensation and salary grade, notwithstanding any change in title or duties made under this act. All officers and employees of said division who immediately prior to said effective date do not hold positions classified under said chapter thirty-one, or do not have tenure in their positions by reason of said section nine A, nine B or nine D, shall continue to be employed in the department of youth services under this act without impairment of seniority, retirement and other rights, and without interruption of service within the meaning of said section nine A, nine B or nine D, and said chapter thirty-one, and without reduction in compensation and salary grade. Upon the effective date of this act the status of any employee of any board, division, bureau, section or other administrative unit under the division of youth service, except those persons and officers appointed by the governor, or the status of any employee of the advisory committee on service to youth, including the position of executive secretary to the advisory committee on service to youth, who immediately prior thereto did not have tenure under section nine A of chapter thirty or chapter thirty-one of the General Laws shall be transferred to the department of youth services, established by section one of chapter eighteen A of the General Laws, inserted by section one of this act. Said incumbent executive secretary to the advisory committee on service to youth in order to provide continuity for the newly created advisory committee in the department of youth services shall continue to serve and shall fill the position of full time executive secretary to the advisory committee in the department of youth services. SECTION 67. The term of the commissioner of the department of youth services first appointed by the governor under the provisions of section one of chapter eighteen A of the General Laws, inserted by section one of this act, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of said section one, terminate on the second day of January, nineteen hundred and seventy-five. SECTION 68. The commissioner of youth services, in consultation with the advisory committee, shall study and review the effectiveness of the administrative structure of the department of youth services as provided in sections one through nine, inclusive, of chapter eighteen A of the General Laws, inserted by section one of this act, and within one year of the effective date hereof shall report to the governor and the general court the results of such study and review and his recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry such recommendations into effect. SECTION 69. The terms of the eight members of the advisory committee in the department of youth services first appointed by the governor shall be as follows: two members shall be appointed for terms of one year each; three members for terms of two years each; and three members for terms of three years each. SECTION 70. All books, papers, records and documents in the custody of or maintained for the use of any board, division, committee or office abolished by this act are hereby transferred to the custody of the department of youth services. All petitions, applications, hearings and other proceedings duly pending before and all prosecutions and legal and other proceedings duly begun by or against such board, division, committee or office, abolished by this act or before or by any member, officer or employee thereof, shall continue unabated and remain in full force and effect notwithstanding passage of this act, and may be completed before or by the department of youth services. All duly existing contracts, leases and obligations of any board, division, committee or office abolished by this act shall be performed by the department of youth services or by an administrative unit, officer or employee thereof acting under authority of law. All rules and regulations adopted by the youth service board and division of youth service abolished by this act shall remain in effect as rules and regulations of the department of youth services until amended or repealed by said department. This act shall not affect any renewal provisions or option to renew contained in any such lease in existence on the effective date of this act, all of which on the effective date of this act shall be transferred to and thereafter may be exercised by the department of youth services. All property held in trust by any board, division, committee or office abolished by this act, or by members thereof, shall continue to be held in trust, and be administered in accordance with the terms of such trust, by the department of youth services or, if such department shall decline such trust, by trustees appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction upon application of nay interested person for such appointment or for instructions in connection therewith. SECTION 71. All unexpended balances of moneys heretofore appropriated for the youth service board and the division of youth service shall be available for expenditures by the department of youth services on the effective date of this act. SECTION 72. The provisions of this act are severable and if any provision shall be held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decisions of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions. SECTION 73. Physicians and registered nurses permitted by law to treat inmates at any state institution shall be allowed to treat youths committed to the department of youth services in cases of emergency. SECTION 74. This act shall take effect in October first, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, or upon the qualification of the commissioner of youth services appointed under the provisions of section one of chapter 18A, of the General Laws, inserted by section one of this act, whichever is the later. Chapter 6 SECTION 17. (Amended by Ch. 859, Acts of 1969). Certain officers to serve under governor and council. The army commission, the art commission, the executive office for administration and finance, the commissioner of veterans' services, the commissioners on uniform state laws, the public bequest commission, the state ballot law commission, the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, the milk regulation board, the alcoholic beverages control commission, the trustees of the state library, the state racing commission, the Metropolitan area planning council, the Port of Boston commission, the Massachusetts commission against discrimination, the state airport management board, weather amendment board, commission on aging, the boxers' fund board, finance advisory board, medical, dental and nursing scholarship board, retirement law commission, the Massachusetts aeronautics commission, the obscene literature control commission, the mobile homes commission, the consumers' council, the municipal police training council, the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission, the service corps commission, the World War II Memorial commission, health and welfare commission, advisory council on home and family, state council on juvenile behavior, and the commission on employment of the handicapped shall serve under the governor and council and shall be subject to such supervision as the governor and council deem necessary and proper. SECTIONS 65 to 67. Repealed, St. 838, Acts of 1969. SECTIONS 69 to 69B. Repealed, St. 838, Acts of 1969. SECTION 122. (Amended by St. 838, Acts of 1969). Service Corps Advisory Council. There shall be a service corps advisory council, hereinafter called the council, consisting of ten members who shall be appointed by the governor for terms of two years each, and the commissioners of public welfare, mental health, correction, probation, public health, natural resources, education, labor and industries, rehabilitation, and youth services and the chairman of the parole board, or their authorized representatives, and the director of the service corps, as members ex officio. The director of the service corps shall serve as chairman of the council. The council shall meet at least twice a year upon call of the chairman and shall meet at any time upon the call of the governor. Its members shall receive no compensation for their services on the committee but shall receive their expenses necessarily incurred in rendering such service. The council shall study social needs in the commonwealth in areas where services may be rendered by the service corps, shall evaluate programs and projects of the corps and shall make recommendations based on its findings to the commission. Chapter 859, Acts of 1969, which establishes juvenile courts in Worcester and Springfield, includes the following: SECTION 32B. Said chapter 6 is hereby further amended by adding the following three sections: SECTION 159. State council on juvenile behavior.-There shall be a state council on juvenile behavior in this section and in section one hundred and sixty called the council, to consist of the attorney general or his designee, the commissioner of youth services and thirteen persons to be appointed by the governor, one of said appointees shall be experienced in law enforcement in the field of juvenile delinquency, one shall be trained in child psychology, one in the education of delinquent children, one in social welfare, families and juvenile problems, one shall be a psychiatrist with a knowledge of the juvenile and adolescent mind, one shall represent the juvenile courts, one shall represent the federal office of economic opportunity as it affects juveniles and adolescents, one shall represent public child welfare agencies, one shall represent private child welfare agencies, and one shall be a member of the bar experienced in the law and court procedures relating to juvenile delinquency or juvenile behavioral problems. The governor shall designate one of the appointive members as chairman of the council. Upon the expiration of the term of an appointive member his successor shall be appointed for a term of five years. The council shall appoint an executive secretary who shall have had at least ten years' experience in juvenile delinquency work. The executive secretary shall receive a salary of sixteen thousand dollars. SECTION 160. Council to examine laws and procedures relating to correction and prevention of juvenile delinquency.-The council shall from time to time examine the laws and procedures relating to the correction and prevention of juvenile delinquency and the degree of rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, with a view to advising the justices of the juvenile courts of matters affecting juvenile behavior, and to revising the laws relative to the treatment and disposition of juvenile offenders. Said council shall be provided with quarters in the state house or in the state office building, and may appoint such clerical assistants as may be necessary. SECTION 161. Filing of annual written report.-The council shall annually, not later than the fourth Wednesday of April file a written report with the respective clerks of the senate and house of representatives which shall contain a reporting and analysis of the incidence and disposition of juvenile offenses during the preceding calendar year in every court in the commonwealth in which said matters are heard. Said report shall indicate the types of offenses charged together with the number of each such offenses heard in each of the several courts, with particular emphasis on providing data for the determination of the need for the establishment of additional juvenile courts and any changes in the needs of those juvenile courts already in existence. SECTION 32C. Of the first appointed members to the state council on juvenile behavior, established by section one hundred and fifty-nine of chapter six of the General Laws, as appearing in section thirty-two B of this act, four shall be appointed for terms of three years, four for terms of four years, and five for terms of five years, as the govenor may designate. Thereafter, upon the expiration of the term of any such member, his successor shall be appointed for a term of five years, as provided in said section one hundred and fifty-nine. SECTION 33. This act shall take effect upon its passage, so far as the appointing, commissioning and qualifying of the justices and the clerks of the courts hereby established, and probation officers are concerned; and it shall be in full force and effect, and the authority and jurisdiction of the courts hereby established and of the probation officers thereof shall begin on the first day of September in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, except that the district court of Springfield, and the central district court shall retain jurisdiction of all cases of juvenile offenders under seventeen and cases of neglected, wayward or delinquent children which are pending therein on said first day of September or upon the qualification of the justice of each court, whichever is later, until final disposition thereof. Chapter 17 Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Board SECTION 12. Repealed, St. 889, Acts of 1969. |