Bartholomew Youth Services Center Lookup

Youth Services Center Overview

The Bartholomew County Youth Services Center is operated by Bartholomew County Court Services at 2350 Illinois Street in Columbus. The research lists Director of Youth Services Mariah Lucas-Georges and says the center opened in October 1992 under Circuit Court Judge Steve Heimann. It came under Court Services in January 2013. Court Services includes Adult and Juvenile Probation, Community Corrections, and Youth Services.

The center's public mission is to respond to community needs with a continuum of care, programming, services, and advocacy for minors in settings safe for the community and the youth. It uses behavioral expectations, rewards, and consequences and says youth are treated with respect and dignity. The facility is co-educational and includes secure detention, shelter, and day treatment.

This page intentionally does not present Youth Services as an adult jail roster facility. Juvenile records and juvenile custody details are distinct from public adult booking records. A youth's placement may involve a court order, probation, a welfare caseworker, law enforcement intake, shelter placement, or release to a parent or guardian. Public access is much more limited than a Bartholomew County Jail adult lookup.

Youth Services Center Capacity and Programs

The official Youth Services page gives the sourced capacity figures. The secure detention program has 18 beds. The shelter program has 10 beds. The day-treatment program has 10 slots. The research describes these as co-educational programs. These figures are program capacities, not a public list of youth currently held in detention or shelter.

Secure detention is for youth placed by court order or charged with an offense that presents significant danger to public safety. The Services Offered language also describes detention for youth awaiting court process who are considered a danger to public safety, likely to reoffend, or likely to flee. Detention residents may also be post-adjudicated youth serving a sentence. The research states that youth may be sentenced up to 90 days if under 17 and up to 120 days if 17 or older.

How Juvenile Custody Questions Are Routed

There is no researched public adult-style roster for Youth Services Center, and the page should not imply that juvenile placements can be searched the same way as Bartholomew County Jail inmates. The proper access path depends on the youth's legal status and the requester's relationship to the youth. Parents, guardians, probation, caseworkers, law enforcement, and the juvenile court process are the documented routing points.

The center accepts any youth taken into custody by a law-enforcement officer within Bartholomew County. Four intake officers are available 24 hours daily. Intake officers interview parents and interested parties to decide whether detention, shelter, or release to a parent or guardian is appropriate. The youth may receive a risk assessment and mental-health screening. Out-of-county placement requires a court order and bed approval.

1. Use the Youth Services Center phone number for facility-specific questions when you are an authorized parent, guardian, caseworker, probation contact, or involved party.
2. Use juvenile court or probation routing for court orders, hearing status, placement decisions, and supervision questions.
3. Do not search JailTracker unless the person is an adult or has been booked into the adult Bartholomew County Jail.
4. Do not rely on MyCase as a complete public juvenile-record source because juvenile access is limited by privacy rules and court controls.

Youth Services Center Address and Contact

Use the facility contact information for juvenile detention, shelter, day-treatment, intake, and approved-visitor questions. Because youth information is privacy-sensitive, callers should expect staff to verify whether they are allowed to receive information. Public adult inmate-record standards do not control every juvenile inquiry.

Visiting a Youth at Youth Services Center

Detention and shelter visitation have separate rules in the research. For detention residents, the listed visitors are parents, step-parents, grandparents, guardians, siblings under age 10, and siblings over age 21. Weekday detention visits normally run from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Weekend visits normally run from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., with exceptions handled case by case.

Shelter visits require approval by a caseworker or probation officer. The usual shelter visitors are parents, step-parents, grandparents, legal guardians, and siblings. Shelter visits normally run Monday through Friday from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Weekend, holiday, and summer visiting times are listed as 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Exceptions may be made case by case.

Mail, Phone, and Contact Rules at Youth Services Center

The research did not locate a public Youth Services mail format, commissary deposit process, phone vendor, or money table. Do not copy the adult jail's Access Corrections, HomeWAV, or Earth Class Mail rules into this juvenile facility. Youth contact rules can depend on detention or shelter status, caseworker approval, probation direction, court order, and safety needs.

For practical purposes, families and approved parties should call Youth Services at 812-379-1690 or coordinate through the assigned probation officer, caseworker, or court contact. Because juvenile information is restricted, the facility may not confirm details to a general public caller.

Intake at Youth Services Center

Juvenile intake is not the same as adult booking at the county jail. The center accepts youth taken into custody by law enforcement in Bartholomew County. Intake officers are available 24 hours daily and interview parents and interested parties to determine whether detention, shelter, or release to a parent or guardian is appropriate. The research also notes risk assessment and mental-health screening.

Secure detention residents may be waiting for court process, may be held because they are considered a danger to public safety, may be considered likely to reoffend or flee, or may be post-adjudicated youth serving a sentence. Sentenced youth see a counselor and receive transitional services. Detention residents receive six hours of education year-round, five days per week. Out-of-county detention requires a court order and bed approval, and the research lists an out-of-county detention per diem of $135 per day.

About Youth Services Center

Programs documented for Youth Services include Aggression Replacement Training, Thinking for a Change, Girls Moving On, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention/Substance Abuse, Parent Project, shelter services, secure detention education, and day treatment. The center is part of a continuum under Court Services, alongside juvenile probation and other local supervision functions.

The key distinction for search users is privacy. Adult jail records can appear in the Bartholomew County JailTracker roster and can be requested through sheriff public-record channels when public. Juvenile detention, shelter, and day-treatment records are more limited. A youth's location or case status should be handled through authorized family, guardian, caseworker, probation, law enforcement, or court channels, not through public adult inmate-search language.