Ensuring a Professional Workforce for Confinement Facilities Serving Youth

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  • Pamela A. Clark National Center for Youth in Confinement Author

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https://doi.org/10.52935/

Abstract

The information contained in this article is excerpted from Chapter 4, “Developing and Maintaining a Professional Workforce for Confinement Facilities Serving Youth” of the Desktop Guide to Quality Practice for Working with Youth in Confinement (www.desktopguide.info). We hope you that after reading this excerpt you may choose to read the chapter in its entirety, which
contains more detailed information on topics addressed here, as well as information related to Maintaining and Growing the Workforce and Building Future Leaders.

Author Biography

  • Pamela A. Clark, National Center for Youth in Confinement

    Pamela A. Clark, MSW, LSW, CYC-­‐P works as an independent consultant and trainer and serves as a Program Associate with the National Center for Youth in Custody (NCYC).

    From 1999–2008, Pam served as the Director of the Bartholomew County Youth Services Center, which operates an 18-­‐bed secure detention program, a ten-­‐bed emergency shelter program, day treatment programming, and juvenile home detention and electronic monitoring services.

    Pam previously served as Executive Director to the Foundation for Youth of Bartholomew County, Inc., and the Bartholomew County Youth Advocacy  Commission in Columbus, Indiana, and as a deputy sheriff with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. She was a volunteer in both Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the U.S. Peace Corps, where she served as a paralegal with the Legal Aid Society of Lincoln, Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska, and as a secondary school teacher, in Kenya, East Africa.

    Since 2002, she has served as adjunct faculty with Indiana University teaching classes in juvenile justice and social work at Indiana University-­‐Purdue University.

    Pam has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from William Woods College and a master’s degree in social work (MSW) from Indiana University, and she is a Certified Youth Care-­‐Professional (CYC-­‐P). She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS), and the Association of Child and Youth Care Practice (ACYCP). 

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06/10/2026

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Vol. 28 No. 1 (2014): JAJJS 2014 Issue

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Ensuring a Professional Workforce for Confinement Facilities Serving Youth. (2026). Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services, 28(1), 22-38. https://doi.org/10.52935/