Iowa Department of Human Services

The Iowa Department of Human Services is a state agency of Iowa, headquartered in the Hoover State Office Building in Des Moines.[1] The agency provides human services.

Juvenile correctional facilities

The Eldora State Training School for Boys in Eldora is the juvenile correctional facility for boys.[2]

Since 2014 Iowa has no juvenile correctional facility for girls; they are either tried in juvenile court and sent to out-of-state facilities, and/or are tried in adult court and sent to Iowa Department of Corrections facilities for female sentenced felons.[3] The Toledo Iowa Juvenile Home/Girls State Training School (IJH/GSTS), located in Toledo, previously served delinquent girls.[4]

In the late 1800s the Iowa Industrial School for Girls at Mitchellville was Iowa's juvenile correctional facility for girls.[5] It was originally established in 1880.[6]

References
  1. "Director's Office." Iowa Department of Human Services. Retrieved on August 24, 2010.
  2. "Eldora State Training School for Boys." Iowa Department of Human Services. Retrieved on August 24, 2010.
  3. Kaufmann, Clark. "Iowa Juvenile Home's closure creates gender disparity" (Archive). The Des Moines Register. July 19, 2014. Retrieved on December 14, 2015.
  4. "Toledo Iowa Juvenile Home/Girls State Training School." Iowa Department of Human Services. Retrieved on August 24, 2010.
  5. Wood, Sharon E. The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City. The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Chapel Hill and London. 187. ISBN 0-8078-5601-0 (paperback).
  6. Lyle, Leon. "SOCIAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN IN IOWA: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS." Government of Iowa. January 1957. 20 (20/51). Retrieved on October 3, 2010.
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