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Show I if i The Youth Service Bureau is open during the day for those interested in playing pool which Jeff Howell, left, and Robert Sanchez, right, do often. Standing with them is Director Tom Anderson. Youth Services Bureau Offers Guidance Counseling As an alternative to Juvenile Ju-venile Court, the Youth Service Bureau has proved pro-ved to be influential in steering the course of many troubled youths away from delinquency through guidance counseling. coun-seling. The program provided by the Bureau was set up as a pilot project for the State of Utah, originating at Price in 1972. As opposed op-posed to a common misconception mis-conception about the project, pro-ject, the Bureau does not work independently from Juvenile Court, but in cooperation co-operation with the court and other law agencies. The three existing Youth Service Bureaus in Carbon, Car-bon, Grand, and Emery Counties are acutally funded fun-ded by the Utah Law Enforcement En-forcement Planning Agency. Ag-ency. The aim of the Youth Service Bureau is toper-form toper-form a preventive service ser-vice through guidance for youthful offenders of status sta-tus offenses (which are legal acts for adults, but not for those under 18). Juveniles are referred to , the Bureau by Juvenile Court, the schools, law enforcement agencies, the Division of Family Services, Four Corners Mental Health, or other such agencies. Parents may even refer their own children if they wish. The local Bureau began ' functioning about a year ' ago with Tom Anderson as t its director. His secre-' secre-' tary, Linda Gold, also is a part-time case worker. Mr. Anderson says he feels the program has been very successful thus far, and is looking forward for-ward to it becoming a state-wide operation. Mr. Anderson is available for speaking engagements for groups, such as community commun-ity or church organizations, organiza-tions, that would like to learn more about the services ser-vices provided by the Bureau Bu-reau or youth related problems. pro-blems. Although the goal of the Youth Service Bureau is to prevent serious problems, prob-lems, it is also able to intervene in-tervene many times in a crisis situation by giving sound counsel towards finding solutions for existing problems. Help can only be given when it is known problems are present however, so it is vital that youth are referred re-ferred to the Bureau by someone concerned before be-fore offenses are committed. com-mitted. Mr. Anderson pointed out that the program pro-gram is an active deterrent deter-rent to potential behavioral beha-vioral patterns' of law-breaking law-breaking that seem to become more ingrained once a juvenile offender is referred to court. Offenses Of-fenses of a serious nature are still dealt with under the jurisdiction of Juvenile Juven-ile Court as the Youth Service Bureau was not intended to take the place of the Court, but rather it was created to work in conjunction with it, as an auxiliary agency. Besides offering counseling, coun-seling, either individually or in groups, the Bureau is open during the day for young people who would like to drop by to play pool or watch television or just hang out. It is presently located at 128 East 100 North. Summer recreation is aimed for the coming season to provide pro-vide outings such as hiking hik-ing in groups, or other feasible activities that might be of interest to individuals and young people are encouraged to take part in these events. |
