This program will fund agencies that can support a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to provide intervention and supervision services for youth with sexual behavior problems and treatment services for their child victims and families. Award recipients will target services for youth with sexual behavior problems, their child victim(s), and parents/caregivers of the offending youth and child victims. Youth participating in this program must undergo a mental health evaluation to determine if they are amenable to community-based treatment and intervention. Youth targeted for program services should have no prior history of court involvement for sexual offenses. OJJDP must approve any deviation from this target population parameter prior to admission to the program.
OJJDP will fund new program sites that will provide a comprehensive community-based intervention model to serve youth who have sexual behavior problems and are in pre- or post- adjudication for inappropriate sexual behavior with a family member, coresident, or other child with close social ties to the youth who committed the offense.
Deliverables for the program sites will serve as a guide to other communities that wish to replicate the program and will include the development and/or use of the following:
  • A comprehensive community-based strategy to treat youth ages 9 to 14 with sexual behavior problems who are in pre- or post-adjudication status for inappropriate sexual misconduct against a child family member, coresident, or other child with close social ties.
  • An evidence-based treatment curriculum responsive to the targeted population (i.e., youth with sexual behavior problems, child victims of youth with sexual behavior problems, parents/caregivers).
  • A multidisciplinary team to address sexual behavior problems in youth, to include social services staff, probation staff, juvenile court staff, mental health personnel, victim advocate personnel, law enforcement, and community-support providers.
  • A strategy to provide community-based support services to child victims and families of youth with sexual behavior problems.
  • Reports that speak to the effectiveness of the community-based interventions and the challenges encountered during implementation, to be submitted to OJJDP and the training and technical assistance provider.