Juvenile Justice
The Juvenile Justice Ministry 0f North Iowa YFC consists of up to 35 volunteers per month who work under the Direction of Chaplain John E. Sellers , "Chap", at the State Training School In Eldora, Iowa (Hardin County)
The State Training School is a long term juvenile treatment unit that serves males only from the age of 12 to 19 years of age. These young men are sent by Juvenile Court Judges from all over the state of Iowa. For many of these young men, it is their last stop before prison! These young men have had an average of five different placements before coming to the Training School. Their average age is 16.5 years and the average stay is eight and a half months. The crimes committed by these students (What they are called while in the program at the Training School), include about any crime that any addult could be charged with including robbery, assault, car theft, murder, manslaughter, drug charges, etc. About ten per cent are charged with some kind of sexual crime.