Title I, Part D – Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who are Delinquent

Scott County Schools has a Delinquent Facility, Scott County Juvenile Detention Center

What it is...

The purpose of Title I, Part D is to improve educational services for children and youth in local, tribal, and state institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth so that these children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging state academic standards that all children in the state are expected to meet, including to:

• provide these children with the services needed to make the successful to further schooling or employment; and
• prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of school, and to provide dropouts, and children and youth returning from correctional facilities or institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth, with a support system to ensure their continued education and the involvement of their families and communities.

Institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth include:

• Neglected: a public or private residential facility, other than a foster home, that is operated for the care of children who have been committed to the institution or voluntarily placed in the institution under state law due to abandonment, neglect, or death of their parents or guardians.
• Delinquent: a public or private residential facility for the care of children who have been adjudicated to be delinquent or in need of supervision.

What it can fund...

District programs are authorized under subpart 2, which provides formula grants to SEAs to award sub-grants to districts to support the operation of programs that involve collaboration with locally operated correctional facilities to:

• carry out high-quality education programs to prepare children and youth for secondary school completion, training, employment, or further education;
• provide activities to facilitate the transition of such children and youth from the correctional program to further education or employment; and operate programs in local schools for children and youth returning from correctional facilities, and programs which may serve at-risk children and youth.

Title I, Part D falls under ESSA programs so if you questions you may contact the Federal Programs Director, Amanda Stevens. The JDC Point of Contact is Patty Jeffers and you can contact her at [email protected].