New Orleans Youth Study Center

The Youth Study Center serves as the juvenile detention center for Orleans Parish, providing safe and secure pre-trial detention to youths who are charged with committing a delinquent offense.

Our purpose is to providequality evidence-based juvenile detention practices and programming with a focus on public safety, accountability, and individual treatment needs of the juvenile, and toprovide educational, medical, mental health and evidence-based treatment programming that supports every juvenile’s capacity to learn.

These services focus on the best interest of the youth through a professional culture which holds them behaviorally accountable in a manner conducive to personal growth and development.