Description | This regulation establishes minimum standards for residential facilities in the Commonwealth's juvenile justice system, covering program operations, health care, personnel, and facility safety and physical environment. It sets additional standards for secure custody facilties, boot camps, work camps, juvenile industries, and independent living programs. This regulation replaces five separate regulations governing secure detention homes, postdispositional confinement in secure detention, predispositional and postdispositional group homes, and juvenile correctional centers. |
State Authority | Code of Virginia Sections 16.1-309.9 , 66-10 , and 66-25.1 |
Federal Authority | Not applicable. |
Text of Regulation | Link to Virginia Administrative Code |
Goals of Regulation |
1. to protect the citizens of the Commonwealth by confining delinquent juveniles who pose a threat to the public safety; 2. to provide a safe and secure environment for confined juveniles in which treatment and rehabilitative programming can be delivered; 3. to provide appropriate due process protections to confined juveniles. |
Meetings | See all meetings (3) relating to this chapter. |
Name / Title: | Deron Phipps / Regulatory Coordinator |
Address: |
Dept of Juvenile Justice PO Box 1110 Richmond, VA 23218-1110 |
Email Address: | Deron.Phipps@djj.virginia.gov |
Telephone: | (804)786-6407 FAX: (804)371-0773 TDD: ()- |
Current Actions | ||
Action Title | Latest Stage | Status |
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None |
Past Actions | ||
Action Title | Latest Stage | Status |
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Repeal the Standards for Juvenile Residential Facilities (6VAC35-140) | Fast-Track | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 02/13/2015. |
Comprehensively reviews & combines all regulations governing juvenile secure detention centers | Final | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 01/01/2014. |
Combines & comprehensively reviews all regulations governing juvenile group homes & halfway houses | Final | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 01/01/2014. |
CH 0140 (6VAC35-140-46) Standards for Juvenile Residential Facilities - Staffing Pattern | Fast-Track | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 12/12/2008. |
Amend the regulation to provide standards for post-dispositional detention in accordance with the 2000 Appropriations Act, item 476.A.3. Also, to reinstate certain historical standards that conform closely to nationally accepted standards. | Final | Stage complete. This regulation became effective on 07/01/2005. |
Periodic Reviews | ||
Last Activity | Status | |
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12/8/2000 Agency Completed | Amend |