Detention

Five County provides a state of the art juvenile Detention Center for the surrounding counties including Teton, Fremont, Clark, Madison, and Jefferson Counties in Southeast Idaho. Five County contracts with outside counties to provide secure housing for juveniles ordered to Detention.

Law enforcement escorting a female juvenile through the intake sally port.

DETENTION

EDUCATION

Juveniles attend education classes as taught by highly qualified, educated, experienced, and trained professionals employed through the Fremont County, Idaho School District #215.

Five County teachers or educators are certified and dedicated to continuing education for juveniles in the juvenile justice system. The Education Department at Five County works with juveniles' identified schools to help juveniles continue education criteria while being placed in detention.

Line staff or direct care workers are trained and certified as Juvenile Detention Officers at the Idaho Peace Officers Standards and Training facility in Meridian, Idaho.

DETENTION CLINICIAN

Idaho state legislature appropriated funding to the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, along with funds from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, and the Idaho Juvenile Justice Commission to support clinicians in all 12 Idaho detention facilities. A Five County Clinician provides assessments’ for substance abuse and mental health diagnosis. Five County Clinicians complete assessments and screenings. Five County uses the ALASKA Screening Tool (AST), and Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Second Version (MAYSI-2).

The detention clinician provides information to juvenile probation officers, and works with parents, legal guardians, and community partners to identify services in the community for juveniles placed in detention.

Line Staff also complete a screening using the Problems Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National institute of Health, Powertrain, Inc.). Juveniles complete an insight work book addressing areas of high risk.

The facility collaborates efforts with Juvenile Probation Officers, Judges, and community partners to help juvenile offenders develop competencies, protect victims of juvenile crime, and the public at large while empowering skills to lead productive crime free lives. Juveniles receive Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training, Life Skills Classes, Anger Management Class, Drug and Alcohol Education and Prevention Class, and Conflict Resolution Classes.