[Excerpt] In New York State, county justice agencies have discretion in designing and identifying programs for juvenile justice diversion and reentry. Diversion programs offer alternatives to adjudication or detention for youth who violate the law. Reentry programs prepare youth who have been removed from their previous environment to rejoin their community.

A threshold question is: who administers the program and what agencies are involved? Youth diversion and reentry programs can be administered by courts, probation, parole, district attorney's offices, corrections, community-based partnerships, or hybrid (multi-agency) programs such as collaborations with county sheriff's offices or schools.