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Training Scenarios – Returns

Scenario 5A: Voluntary Return of a Runaway

What’s happening:

  • Maria Test [Insert State Name], age 14, has been detained as a runaway from another state.
  • Local law enforcement officials notified the state ICJ Office of her detention and the need for return. 

What to do:

  • Set up a new Juvenile Profile for Maria Test [Insert State Name].
  • Initiate a Return case where the juvenile has been apprehended.
  • The “Home/Demanding Confirmation” Return Type and “Return Type confirmation” is “Runaway”
  • The “Form III Court Hearing Information” is “Signed Form III”
  • Process the Return Case until closed by the “Home / Demanding State.”

Where to start the return process:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scenario 5B: Event – Request to Apprehend Juvenile— Holding State Unable to Locate Juvenile

What’s happening:

  • Maria Test [Insert State Name] has run away from home again.  Her parents have reported her as a runaway to local law enforcement officials.
  • Her parents believe she is at her boyfriend’s house in a neighboring state.

What to do:

  • As the Home/Demanding State, begin with juvenile created in Scenario 3A, initiate a Return case “Request to apprehend juvenile.”
  • Process the case to close where the Holding State is unable to locate the juvenile. 

 Where to start:

 

 

Scenario 5C: Event – Juvenile Apprehended, Non-Voluntary Return, Refusal to Sign Form III

What’s happening:

  • Maria Test [Insert State Name] was reported as a runaway, then apprehended by local law enforcement officers at her boyfriend’s home in a neighboring state. 

What to do:

  • Beginning with juvenile created in Scenario 3A, initiate a Return case as the Holding State where the juvenile has been apprehended.
  • The “Home/Demanding Confirmation” Return Type and “Return Type confirmation” is “Runaway.”
  • The “Form III Court Hearing Information” is “Refusal to Sign Form III.”
  • Complete the “Requisition” section.
  • Process the Return Case until closed by the “Home / Demanding State.”
  • Process the case to close.
  • This scenario highlights how decisions made control subsequent options presented.

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