Niagara Falls PINS Diversion Intensive
Case Management Program (PINSDICM)
This community-based case management program offers families the ability
to access services designed to reframe the current situation, and
empower each other to return to a path of success for the youth and
family. The Niagara County Department of Social Services will refer
youth, age 10-15, who are exhibiting PINS-related behaviors, for
participation in the program.
Key components of the program include a thorough mental health/substance
abuse assessment, drug screening, family support services, academic
assistance, linkage to other community service agencies, and family
therapy once each week. Youth are required to adhere to established
curfew limits, participate in structured group and family therapy, and
cooperate with random drug screening throughout the (90) day program.
The program also makes use of restorative justice components such as
restitution, community service, and victim/offender mediation.
The Niagara Falls PINS Diversion Intensive Case Management Program is
also expected to reduce the number of PINS petitions filed in Family
Court and reduce the need to detain youth in traditional detention
environments and out-of-home placement settings.
This will be achieved by providing intensive case management and
support services to youth and families utilizing several evidence based
models for intervention, in a (90) day time frame.
This program is monitored in partnership with the NYS Office of
Children & Family Services
and Niagara County Department of Social Services.
Aurora House Onesimus House Orchard House
Niagara Falls Juvenile Arrest Diversion Program