Bay Pines Center 2425 North 30th Street Escanaba, MI 49829	Dane Ross, Director Phone: 906-789-1232 Fax: 906-789-9848 RossD@michigan.gov

Program Overview

Providing secure residential detention services for youth of either gender awaiting a court decision as well as residential treatment programs for youth adjudicated for criminal offences.  Bay Pines Center is licensed to accept up to 45 youth age 12 to 20.  Bay Pines is a state operated residential facility that offers treatment programs for young women requiring secure facilities.

Security & Safety

• Specialized treatment
• Detention program
• Low mentally functioning sex offender treatment group
• Female substance abuse treatment program

Treatment Highlights

All treatment programs at Bay Pines have three values inherent in all treatment goals and activities, as well as three assumptions as staff regarding all youth who enter Bay Pines.  The three values that are internalized in our treatment are community safety, victim restitution and offender accountability or responsibility.  The three assumptions as staff regarding youth are that adolescents are able to make changes in their behavior especially if the relationships are in place that will challenge their assumptions and behavior.  Secondly, that all youth who enter Bay Pines want to change.  And thirdly, treatment must provide tools for youth to make those changes and that those tools must be portable and useful upon release from Bay Pines.  Treatment includes:

• Average length of stay is 13 months.
• Treatment groups are limited to ten youths.
• Each treatment group has their own living area.
• Treatment programs utilize cognitive-behavioral therapy including the female substance abuse treatment group.
• NA and ALAteen groups meet on campus.
• Youths are involved in over 40 hours of treatment activities per week.
• Youths attend 30 hours of educational instruction per week in on campus year round school.
• Our youths have built eight Habitat for Humanity homes in the Escanaba community.
• Outside employment opportunities available at appropriate point in treatment program.
• Education program endorsed by the Escanaba Public High School.
• Youths are eligible for high school diploma on completion of necessary credits.

Educational Highlights

• Fully accredited high school offering academic credits and high school diplomas issued by Escanaba Public High School.
• All teachers are Special Education certified.
• All teachers are highly qualified as required by No Child Left Behind legislation.
• Individualized grade level appropriate instruction.
• 35 high school graduates through 2003-04 school year.
• Tutors and specialists available for reading and speech disabilities.
• College courses available through Bay Community College.
• Physical conditioning, including rock climbing, cross-country skiing, baseball offered.
• Youths gain an average academic growth in excess of 1.5 grade levels per year.

Ancillary Services

• Campus-wide Balanced & Restorative Justice programming.
• On campus medical and dental services.
• On campus psychiatric and psychological services.
• Housing for visiting families.
• Off campus employment opportunities.
• On campus Adventure Education facilities.
• Community based religious and spiritual enrichment programs.
• Native American spiritual and support services.

Location
On the banks of Lake Michigan in the center of the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan sits the city of Escanaba.  This beautiful metropolitan area thrives amid the plush greener of the forests and sparkling streams that make the U.P. the best of vacation destinations.  Tucked behind Bay de Noc Community College at the northern end of Escanaba among the oak and white pine stands Bay Pines Center.