Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts - Juvenile Treatment Programs

The Supreme Court administers juvenile supervision and treatment programs throughout the State to protect communities and rehabilitate delinquent and incorrigible juveniles. To improve its efforts, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) should take steps to ensure that adequate risk, needs, and strengths/protective factors assessments are completed for all juveniles referred to juvenile court, and that their progress against case plans is monitored. Further, although the AOC uses a comprehensive contracting system to obtain juvenile treatment services, it can improve its monitoring of the contracts by conducting site visits of a sample of its smaller vendors and reviewing corrective action plans in a more timely fashion.