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MARYLAND MANUAL 73
The Administration certifies for operation within the State the public .and private institutions, organizations and agencies, which deal with the Department in the area of juvenile delinquency. The Administration supervises the four State training schools— one for girls, and three for boys. This includes development and pro- mulgation of regulations, standards of care, policies affecting opera- tion and management of programs serving children in the institutions. The Administration also supervises the State's five Forestry Camps for delinquent boys. It is authorized to transfer to these camps, boys from Boys' Village, Victor Cullen, or the Maryland Training School for Boys who could benefit from such care. The Administration also supervises the Maryland Children's Center, opened in 1959, a facility for short-term detention and study of chil- dren judged delinquent by the Courts. The Thomas J. S. Waxter Chil- dren's Center, opened in 1963, is a forty-bed facility at Laurel for the detention of juvenile offenders. The Administration supervises probation and after-care post-institu- tional supervision and counselling staff to all juvenile courts. Pro- bation and after-care are separate functions, with probation being the supervision of youngsters who are adjudicated delinquent but not institutionalized, and after-care being the supervision and counselling of youngsters for a prescribed period of time upon their release from an institution. The Administration is headed by a Director appointed by the Gov- ernor upon recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene. There is a twelve-member Advisory Board of Juvenile Serv- ices which acts. in a general consultatory and advisory capacity to the Director. The Board consists of representatives of the State De- partment of Education, the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the State Police, and the Social Services Administration as well as representatives of the judiciary of the State. Three members represent volunteer child welfare agencies, and three members are chosen from the public at large because of their experience and in- terest in minors and in juvenile problems. Members may serve only two consecutive terms. The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene appoints the Chairman. The Board has the duty of recommending to the Director policies and programs designed to improve the State's juvenile services. The Board also participates in interpreting the objectives of the Adminis- tration to the public as well as in planning for the development and use of all available resources for the promotion of the needs of the Administration. The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene appoints the members of the Board for three-year overlapping terms, with four terms expiring each year (Code 1957, 1968 Repl. Vol., 1971 Supp., Art.52A). Appropriations 1971 1972 General Funds ........................................... $5,794,047 $7,778,275 Staff: 1971, 511; 1972, 518. BOYS' VILLAGE OF MARYLAND Robert J. Sauls, Superintendent Cheltenham (Prince George's County) 20623 Telephone: 782-4223 This institution was established by Chapter 392, Acts of 1870, as the House of Reformation for Colored Boys. By Chapter 70. Acts of 1937, |
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