Eugene Gregory Memorial Youth Academy And Consequence Unit Student Alternative Placement
The Eugene Gregory Memorial Youth Academy provides a spectrum of services to youth on conditional release who are returning to the community from a residential commitment program or youth on probation who have been suspended or expelled from school. Services include traditional education in a classroom, life skills development, and on-site mental health assessments and counseling. Educational services are provided by Seminole County Public Schools. Mental health and substance abuse services are provided by Human Services Associates. Life skills are provided by a variety of program staff and community volunteers. Guest speakers are scheduled to offer real world insights to the youth.
Youth returning from residential commitment programs complete an average of ninety (90) days in the Eugene Gregory Memorial Youth Academy, depending upon youth performance and goals. The staff and youth, working closely with the youth's juvenile probation officers, develop individualized plans. The youth must demonstrate an overall positive performance at school and home before being allowed to leave. Youth may transition to an alternative school, a zone school, or a G.E.D. program depending on the youth’s circumstances. Any youth on probation or conditional release in Seminole County, who is suspended or expelled from school, is required to attend the Eugene Gregory Memorial Youth Academy for the duration of the suspension or expulsion. This gives the youth additional consequences for their behavior and reduces public safety concerns.
Seminole County youth violating the terms of their probation or conditional release may be ordered by the Court or a juvenile probation officer to attend the Consequence Alternative Sanctions Unit. Youth may receive up to five (5) days for their first offense and up to fifteen (15) days for every offense thereafter. Each day, youth in the Consequence Alternative Sanctions Unit receive seven-and-a-half (7 ½) hours of traditional education and life skills training in a classroom and then perform four-and-a-half (4 ½) hours of supervised, meaningful, labor-intensive community service within the communities of Seminole County.