Term	Definition
Aftercare Management	Intensive case management for juveniles recently released from residential placement. Aftercare management includes coordinating services and programming for juveniles immediately prior to release and upon release from a residential facility. Regular supervision received after leaving a residential facility should not be considered aftercare management.
Anger Management/Conflict Resolution	This type of program teaches skills in recognizing the early onset of feelings and signs that lead to anger or conflict and to develop social skills to deal with these feelings.
Animal/Equine Therapy	A program that utilizes animals for therapeutic benefit. The program may involve therapeutic animal training, horseback riding, hippotherapy, having a certified therapist work with the juvenile, using the animal as a therapeutic tool, and/or having animal facilitated psychotherapy in which a certified mental health professional uses the animal in various ways for therapeutic benefit. Animal/Equine therapy is designed to promote improvement in human physical, social, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning.
At-Risk	Programs for juveniles that are not under the jurisdiction of the department or juvenile court. These programs may serve juveniles referred to the department for crisis intervention services, juveniles receiving programming from the department through municipal court involvement and/or siblings of juveniles under department supervision.
Border Children Justice Project	This type of program ensures that all rights are afforded to youth on both sides of the border by diverting juveniles referred to probation departments. These programs target counties directly bordering Mexico and respond to Texan and Mexican juveniles who violate laws across the border from their country of residence. Juveniles from Central and South American countries are eligible for the program.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/Treatment	A program that helps identify and change the dysfunctional beliefs, thoughts, and patterns of behavior that contribute to problems. The program emphasizes acquiring new intrapersonal (thoughts, feelings, impulses) and interpersonal (communication, negotiations, boundary setting) skills and community responsibility. These programs usually emphasize goal-setting.
Community Service/Restitution	Community Service Restitution (CSR) involves performing a prescribed number of hours of service in the community. Services may include such work as public area clean-up and volunteer activities. CSR may be conducted jointly with other civic and governmental agencies.
Counseling Services	Individual, family, or group therapy whose aim is to reduce or eliminate the juvenile’s symptoms of emotional disturbance and increase the juvenile’s ability to perform activities of daily living.
Drug Court	Drug courts provide intensive case management, individualized services, sanctions and incentives to substance abusing juveniles. Typically drug courts will involve a judge, probation staff and treatment staff. The focus of the drug court program is to reduce recidivism by reducing and/or eliminating a juvenile’s substance use. Juveniles may be regularly tested for drug use and are required to appear frequently in drug court so the judge may review their progress.
Early Intervention/First Referral	This type of program diverts status offenders, non-serious criminal offenders and first-time offenders from the formal juvenile court system and provides prevention services to help juveniles avoid re-entering the juvenile justice system. These programs are available for juveniles on temporary supervision, conditional release or deferred prosecution. This type of program is generally not provided to adjudicated juveniles.
Educational	Educational programs are designed to produce gains in academic achievement through structured activities such as tutoring, essay writing, homework sessions and educational games. These programs may also offer counseling, mentoring, and other support services.
Electronic Monitoring/GPS Monitoring	This type of program provides a special condition of supervision under which an offender wears an electronic transmitter that emits a radio frequency or satellite signal to allow the tracking of the juveniles' location. It is intended to assist probation officers in the enhancement of supervision.
Experiential Education	This type of program uses outdoor activities to enhance juveniles' self-esteem through participation in activities that allow them to gain social competencies. These programs are designed to improve cooperation, communication and trust.
Extended Day Program/Day Boot Camp	Boot Camp programs provide a highly regimented schedule of physical training, work, drill and ceremony in a non-residential setting that is designed to teach self-discipline and responsibility. Extended Day programs offer a variety of programming and services to juvenile in a non-residential setting. Extended Day programs may involve academic programming day during school hours or may offer extended hours after school and into the evening.
Family Preservation	This type of program provides intensive services to juveniles and families in an effort to preserve and/or reunite the juvenile with their family. These services are specifically designed to improve family function and cohesion, address juvenile behaviors and focus on juvenile and family strengths.
Female Offender	This type of program addresses the gender needs specific to females through a continuum of care model. Services should take into consideration the unique developmental needs of young women and address those issues unique to adolescent female offenders. Female offender program designation should not be based solely on the fact that only females are served.
Gang Prevention/Intervention	This type of program works with gang- involved juveniles and or juveniles at risk of gang involvement. Programs may provide services that highlight the negative aspects and dangers of gang life as well as highlight personal, family and community factors that contribute to delinquency and gang activity and offer alternatives to gang involvement.
Home Detention	This type of program provides an alternative to detention or secure placement by allowing a juvenile to remain in their home under strict conditions. Juveniles may be allowed to leave their home for school, work and/or programming. Home detention usually involves monitoring to ensure that the juvenile is following the conditions of their detention.
Intensive Case Management	A program that provides intensive case management services to juveniles under supervision. For this program, a JPO or other juvenile probation staff member would be responsible for ensuring that the needs of the juvenile are identified, that the juvenile attend needed services and that follow-up and ongoing monitoring of the juvenile’s case is accomplished. Intensive Case Management is conducted outside of the normal supervision of the juvenile.
Intensive Supervision	This type of program provides services as an intermediate sanctions alternative for juveniles who require a higher level of control than juveniles receiving standard probation services. These programs require frequent reporting to a probation officer who carries a limited caseload.
Life Skills	This type of program provides juveniles with the skills and resources they will need to be healthy, productive, responsible and independent adults. Life Skills programs teach general personal and social skills, and may also include drug resistance skills and education.
Mental Health	A program that provides treatment and services to juveniles with a diagnosable mental health disorder referenced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Programs may involve a variety of services including case management, therapy and counseling for the juvenile.
Mental Health Court	A court with a specialized docket for certain offenders with mental illnesses. Mental health courts provide the juvenile with the opportunity to participate in targeted mental health treatment services. Mental health courts typically involve participation by a judge, probation staff and a treatment team, all working to provide intensive case management, individualized services, sanctions and incentives to juveniles involved. Judges routinely review the progress of program participants.
Mental Retardation	This type of program provides services to juveniles diagnosed as mentally retarded. Program eligibility shall be limited to those juveniles meeting the state defined mental health priority population criteria or the state service definition for mental retardation.
Mentor	This type of program involves a mentor to bond and/or create an emotional support system for the juvenile by demonstrating appropriate behavior, support and assistance. Secondary activities in the process of mentoring may include tutoring and academic assistance, vocational counseling and training.
Other	This shall include any program that does not fit by definition into another program type category.
Parent Training(for parents)	Programs that provide services to the parent(s)/guardian(s) of juveniles under the jurisdiction of the department. These programs are for parents only. Programs which include both juveniles and their parent(s) should be categorized under the program type that most closely matches the purpose of the program.
Parenting(for juvenile)	This type of program may offer a variety of elements including prenatal health care and education, childbirth classes, parenting classes for expecting and/or current teen parents, paternity education and fatherhood services, family planning services, and education on the demands and requirements of being a parent. Both males and familes are eligible to participate in parenting programs.
Runaway/Truancy	This type of program prevents future runaways or truancies based on an assessment of causative factors. Effective practices include serving the entire family, using incentives for improved school attendance and collaborating with communities and schools.
Sex Offender	This type of program assists juveniles in overcoming denial of or engagement in sexually inappropriate behavior by identifying and correcting problematic patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. Program services shall be provided by licensed professional staff who are registered sex offender treatment providers.
Substance Abuse Prevention/Intervention	This type of program provides education and services which will either prevent or deter the onset of alcohol, inhalants, tobacco or other drug use or interrupt the early use of these harmful substances.
Substance Abuse Treatment	This type of program shall provide intensive therapeutic services by a person licensed or certified to provide treatment to addicted populations. The overall goal of treatment services is to cease substance use/abuse and change the thinking patterns of chemically dependent juveniles.
Victim Offender Mediation	This type of program provides an opportunity for juveniles who have admitted guilt to come before a trained mediator to discuss the offense and a solution with the victims. The process encourages the accountability and responsibility of the offender. Victim participation in the program is voluntary.
Victim Services	A program that focuses on educating offenders about the effect of the crime on their victim(s). These programs may or may not directly involve the juvenile’s victim. An example of a victim services program is a Victim Impact Panel. Programs that work only with the victim or that provide required information to victims of juvenile crime should not be included as a victim service program. Victim Offender Mediation programs should not be counted as “victim services” but rather under the Victim Offender Mediation program category.
Vocational/Employment	This type of program provides vocational education and/or employment training to assist juveniles in becoming gainfully employed.