Youth Justice and Rehabilitation Center Wellness

Scott County Youth Justice and Rehabilitation Center Wellness Policy

Nutritional Education

Goal 1 – Serve nutritional meals

  • Provide staff with on-going food service training to keep staff aware of procedure changes and new regulations
  • Provide an accurate record keeping to verify cleanliness of the facility and equipment as well as proper serving procedures
  • Cooperate with supporting vendors and government agencies to maintain a safe, efficiently operating kitchen

Goal 2 - Increase good eating habits of residents while in Detention

  • Provide well-balanced, nutritional meals as regulated by the National School Lunch Program, including a nutritional after-school snack
  • Staff will provide positive role modeling by practicing good eating habits

Goal 3 - Promote a positive dining experience

  • Provide a clean, safe, and enjoyable dining environments to eat meals and snacks
  • Consistently maintain an eating schedule, with a minimum wait time to promote regular eating habits
  • Provide adequate time for residents to enjoy their meals
  • Provide easy access to water fountains, so residents can have water during meal and snack times, as well as throughout the day 
  • Staff will not restrict food as a punishment

Physical Fitness

Goal 1 - Promote physical fitness

  • All residents will be provided at least 3o minutes per day in the gymnasium for daily individual and/or group physical activities (i.e. basketball, walking, jogging, calisthenics, etc.)
  • Staff will implement and oversee rules of all game that support fairness, sportsmanship, and equality, so all levels of athleticism can participate
  • The Area Education Agency will provide education on the benefits of physical activity

Health

Goal 1 - Promote Healthy Lifestyles

  • Provide awareness and individual education on proper hygiene skills
  • The Scott County Health Department will provide Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI’s) awareness and education one time per month
  • Staff will provide the opportunity for religious services one time per week
  • A Registered Nurse will conduct physicals on all new residents, as well as see residents in need of medical treatment 
  • A Registered Nurse will oversee medication approval and triage injuries and illnesses as need be
  • Vera French Mental Health Cetner will provide suicide assessment and psychotropic medication review as needed

Education

Goal 1 - Provide a structured environment to ensure the quality of learning

  • Promote the benefits of education through positive reinforcement and encouragement
  • Prohibit the use of education as a reward or punishment
  • Provide opportunities for constructive learning through facility programming when school is not in session.

YJRC is an equal opportunity provider. YJRC employees and programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions about this wellness policy, please email: [email protected]