Second Witness: Heather Calcaterra
PEOPLE
She's employed at oakland county Children's village. She's a manager. Oversees the day to day operations of the campus.
Children's Village - residential treatment, secured treatment, and shelter care services.
Secured treatment center is connected to the detention center.
Someone held prior to trial would only get services if ordered by the court.
Detention: Young people detained awaiting trial. Holds 60 people. Ages 11-17. It can be older or younger.
Shelter care is birth to 17 ages.
Those in secured detention have been accused of committing a crime. There are all crimes there, from a drug offense, assult, retail fraud, to joyriding. Delinquent crimes to violent crime.
38 in secured detention. None are there for murder.
In Secured detention - 1 large building. 2 units for males, one for femals. Try to separate on age, separate co-defendants. In terms of a day, they wake up around 7am, quick clean up, quick hygene, breakfast, school, recreation, homework time, dinner and more quiet tim, then hygene for bed prep.
Each unit has a separate hallway. They go to one main school hall.
The residents have their own rooms. There is a door, and a window in the door. There is no glass wall. Most rooms consist of a cement slab, with a mattress brought in, and there are some room with toilets.
They are in their rooms from 830pm to 7am. Meals are in a cafeteria. Rec time can be outside. There is a day room to play board games, cards, watch TV.
Children's Village is meant to be termporary. Those in secured detention they are waiting to be moved - either home or into a treatment area.
In detention, there is 1 staff to 8 residents during waking hours. There is cross gender staffing.
Youth Specialist has the most contact with children. They maintain the ratio, they supervise them in school, eating, hygene etc.. In the Cafeteria, there could be more than youth specialist. The 1:8 ratio is maintained.
Are the YS meant to monitor behaviors or conversations? They monitor the behaviors and conversations but they would likely not hear all the conversations.
Would EC be housed in a different area or secluded? He would be in the same group with his peers.
YS: be 21, high school diploma and no felonies.
Behavior issues: YS would call for assistance - other supervises on campus would come to the area. But they may not be close by.
Anyone requited to have LE training? No. No one is armed.
YS: get training in house. The training focuses on non-phsyical management techniques. They do train for physical but used as a last resort.
There have been times they needed to call LE. Those come from the Oaland County jail.
They also have case managers, clinicians (licensed), supervisors, and teachers from the Waterford school district.
Case Managers report to the court.
Licensed Clinician comes to campus two days a week. He dos medication management. Generally called for medication.
They have their own clinicians - they have 1 in detention. She is licensed, a professional counselor.
Heather is also licensed counselor. No specialty to juveniles.
Clinician provides crisis intervention (suicidal, anxiety, hyper arousal, depression) and med. management. If none is outwardly manifested, they could go missing these things.
They are currently experiencing staffing shortages. They have two clinician vacanies, and YS vacancies.
They have had issues mainting 1:8 because they didn't have enough staff. Implemented a lockdown. Each resident would stay in their cell all day and night. Staff would do 15 minute checks. A knock on the door or yell for staff member.
In the room, they can have 2 reading material items. No access to TV, tablet, no video games.
Food: Cafeteria style where everyone gets the same meal.
No accounts for money to get items of want or need.
School Aspect:
They move to different classrooms but stay within the same group and with the YS. They stay in the hallway. Classes divided by Units.
There is only 1 teacher.
She didn't know if Waterford could reject sending a teacher to a classroom with a specific person.
They do not provide Alice training, the teachers receive it through schools. It's training in case of an emergency in a school such as a shooting.
There are textbooks, pencils are checked out with the metal removed, they don't use staples. The pencils are sharp and could be used as a weapon.
Sorry everyone - my son is coming home soon and i have to get him off the bus!! I won't be able to continue.
