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80 MARYLAND MANUAL DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE SERVICES Robert C. Hilson, Director Rex G. Smith, Assistant Director for Juvenile Court Services Ronald J. Blake, Assistant Director for Institutional Rehabilitation 6314 Windsor Mill Road, Baltimore 21207 Telephone: 265-6400 The Department of Juvenile Services, created by Chapter 126, Acts of 1966, is the central coordinating administrative agency for juvenile investigation, probation and after-care services, and for State juvenile diagnostic, training, detention, and rehabilitation institutions. The De- partment is headed by a Director appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene. The Administration certifies for operation within the State the pub- lic 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 promulga- tion of regulations, standards of care, policies affecting operation 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. Probation and after-care are separate functions, with probation being the super- vision of youngsters who are adjudicated delinquent but not institution- alized, and after-care being the supervision and counselling of young- sters for a prescribed period of time upon their release from an institution. (Code 1957, 1972 Repl. Vol., Art. 52A). Appropriations 1973 1974 General Funds ............... $8,749,599 $9,944,999 Staff: 1973, 539; Staff: 1974, 576. 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, when the property was purchased by the State, it became known as the Cheltenham School for Boys. The present name was adopted by Chapter 692, Acts of 1949. Boys' Village of Maryland exercises its functions under the super- vision, direction, control and general management of the State Depart- ment of Juvenile Services in accordance with Article 52A, sees. 11-12 of the Annotated Code of Maryland. The School provides for the care |
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