Regional Director, Central Region

The Department of Youth Services (DYS), under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapters 18A, 119, and 120, is the juvenile justice agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Department’s mission is to foster positive outcomes for youth, build safer communities, and collaborate for an equitable and fair justice system. DYS envisions a Commonwealth where every young person has the skills, supports, and resources necessary to engage safely with their communities and lead productive and fulfilling lives. The Department accomplishes its mission and vision through interventions that build knowledge, develop skills, and promote positive change in the lives of the youth in DYS care and custody.  DYS is an agency that is looking to hire individuals who are committed to its values of fairness, transparency, racial equity, and integrity. 

The goal of DYS is to focus on youths’ gradual reintegration back to the community as productive citizens. DYS works in partnership with provider agencies, law enforcement and school officials, families, communities, and other partners to ensure that the services provided are effective and that they create pathways to success for the young people in DYS’s care and custody.  By working in close collaboration with these entities, DYS can continue to help make communities better and safer places.

For additional information about the Department of Youth Services and its programs, please watch:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gyP0kCJ181nBakh9Cc0pNNEyPw7kAoI6/view

The primary responsibility of the Central Regional Director is to provide:

Leadership and direction to all staff in the region.  The Central Regional Director is responsible for managing and providing effective oversight of the delivery of treatment services to young people in the care and custody of the agency. The Central Regional Director is responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of all services, including pre-trial detention, residential treatment, foster care, independent living, and community-based programming and services, as well as clinical, medical, and educational services.

The Central Regional Director is responsible for developing and exercising an efficient system of control for policy and program development, coordination, monitoring, evaluation, and accountability. The Central Regional Director is responsible for assuring that all program policy and development and service provision processes function effectively to support the accomplishment of the Department’s mission to work in partnership with communities, families, government, and provider agencies to achieve its mandate.

Major Responsibilities:

• Oversee the delivery of hardware-secure (locked) and staff-secure residential treatment, both state and vendor operated and correctional services to juveniles committed through the courts; exercise an efficient system of control and classification through the oversight of all residential services in hardware-secure and staff-secure settings, including clinical, educational, medical, recreational and others.     

• Oversee the delivery of community-based treatment to juveniles referred through the courts; exercise an efficient system for oversight of all treatment and transitional services in community-based settings, including clinical, educational, medical, recreational, and others.