Fayetteville Cumberland County Juvenile Assessment Center

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Our Mission                                       

The Juvenile Assessment Center is a centralized receiving, processing, and intervention facility that brings together community services for youth and families who have, or are likely to have, come into contact with the legal system. This is done in a multi-agency collaborative manner at a single location. Youth between the ages of 6-17, and their families, from throughout Cumberland County are served.

Brief History

In a 1996 quality of life study conducted by the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce through the Metro Visions process, Cumberland County residents identified "juvenile crime" as a red flag issue, one that demanded immediate attention. The study also indicated that a fragmented delivery system existed in the community that gets in the way of rational, effective services and the most effective utilization of state and local funds. Cumberland County spends more than $3,000,000 annually in local and state dollars to detain our youth in state-operated training schools and detention centers. No single location for receiving, processing and intervention services was available for juveniles and their families until the proposal to plan and implement the Juvenile Assessment Center.

The planning phase was an ongoing process since January of 1997, when a mufti-agency planning team was formed to begin planning for the Juvenile Assessment Center. The planning team was divided into 4 subcommittees, each focusing on an issue critical to the success of the Juvenile Assessment Center.  

Goals

To improve prevention and intervention services for delinquent and at-risk youth and their families. This is done by establishing partnerships with juvenile justice agencies, youth service providers and private youth programs and providing a central intake point for youth who have been referred for services.


Our goals:

  •  To provide more comprehensive assessment of the needs of youth referred.

  •  To improve case management and prevent future problem behaviors in youth served.

  •  To make more efficient use of law enforcement, juvenile justice, and treatment resources.

  •  To avoid unnecessary detention.

  •  To enhance information sharing across agency lines.

  •  To enable better monitoring of system performance.

This is done by offering the following:

  •  A single point of entry to services for youth and their families

  •  A management information system (MIS) that can be used to monitor a youth's progress in treatment and document previous intervention attempts.

  •  Integrated case management that provides a care management (e.g., service) plan, referral and monitoring of service delivery and reassessment, if needed.

  •  A provision for input to the policy making process

NOTE: if you are seeking counseling services from a licensed or certified therapist, click here or on the "Resources" link to the left and scroll down to the Counseling Resources paragraph for two local options that assess fees based on the ability of a family or client to pay.

Contact Information

You may reach us at the Juvenile Assessment Center by using any of the following methods.

Address
         711-B Executive Place, Fayetteville, NC 28305 
Telephone

(910) 829-9017

FAX

(910) 485-4752

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Last modified: May 13, 2008