{"id":28254,"date":"2020-07-31T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28254"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T20:59:19","slug":"youth-center-reforms-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28254","title":{"rendered":"Youth center reforms passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to codify guidelines for youth rehabilitation and treatment centers in Nebraska passed final reading July 31.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20141\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20141\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20141\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senhoward_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sara Howard&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sara Howard&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20141\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Sara Howard\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Sara Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1140, introduced by the Health and Human Services Committee, outlines a series of requirements for the state\u2019s YRTCs, including the provision of:<br \/>\n\u2022 health care and medical services;<br \/>\n\u2022 a safe and sanitary space for sleeping, hygiene, education, programming, treatment, recreation and visitation for each juvenile;<br \/>\n\u2022 appropriate physical separation and segregation of juveniles based on gender;<br \/>\n\u2022 training that is specific to the population being served;<br \/>\n\u2022 sufficient staffing to comply with state and federal law and protect the safety and security of each juvenile;<br \/>\n\u2022 an age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate education program for each juvenile;<br \/>\n\u2022 a case management and coordination process, designed to assure appropriate reintegration of the juvenile to his or her family, school and community; and<br \/>\n\u2022 research-based or evidence-based programming and treatment services.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also prevents the state Department of Health and Human Services from establishing or moving a YRTC until March 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 48-0 vote and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to codify guidelines for youth rehabilitation and treatment centers in Nebraska passed final reading July 31. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-28254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-sara-howard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28319,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28254\/revisions\/28319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}