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The scope of GAO's survey is very specific and important in order for us to aggregate
responses across states that use different terminology for similar types of
residential care. We ask that you be sure to include this page if you send any survey
questions to others for response. You can print the page by scrolling to the bottom
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Please limit your survey responses to residential facilities that meet 3 criteria (1) they require residence at the facility; (2) they provide most of the targeted services, as described below, on-site; and (3) they serve youth aged 12 to 17; the facilities may also serve younger or older children as long as they serve the targeted age group. The targeted residential services covered by the survey include -- secure and non-secure residential juvenile justice, youth offender, juvenile delinquency correction or rehabilitation services for adjudicated youth; --behavioral correction or rehabilitative residential services for pre-adjudicated or other incorrigible youth (e.g., youth placed in residential facilities by parents or custodians); --behavior modification, discipline, or character education provided at residential schools or academies for incorrigible youth (adjudicated, pre-adjudicated, or placed by parents or custodians). The types of residence can include juvenile correction facilities, detention centers, treatment facilities, group homes if the correction, rehabilitative services, or behavior modification services are provided primarily on-site, boot camps, wilderness camps, ranches, dormitories, training or reform schools, and boarding schools. We are excluding from review (1) adult prisons; (2) hospitals, nursing homes, and facilities that serve children who are medically fragile; (3) homes and other places where on-site services are primarily housing and child care while targeted services (e.g., mental health care, juvenile rehabilitation services, behavior modification) are provided in the community (such as family or some group foster care homes, orphanages, homeless shelters, half-way houses, some therapeutic foster homes, and similar places); (4) recreational programs, such as summer sports camps; and (5) military high schools, college preparatory schools, and residential schools for children with sensory or physical disabilities. Our review encompasses the most common types of residential facilities providing targeted services: (1) government-operated facilities, (2) private sector facilities that operate with a mix of government and private funds (e.g., facilities with state or county contracts, facilities certified to accept Medicaid or Medicare); and (3) private sector, entirely privately-funded facilities (including faith-based facilities that receive no government funds). |
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