Spectrum Juvenile Justice Services provides juvenile detention services at the Eliot Center in Detroit and the Calumet Center in Highland Park, Michigan.

The primary objective of the detention program is to offer a safe, secure, highly structured and stable environment for youth awaiting court hearings or transitioning between placements. The program, although short-term, is designed to offer educational and assessment services, crisis intervention and counseling services, medical services and youth advocacy services. The detention programs function as secure transitional placements that helps bridge the youth's movement between the juvenile and/or adult court system and the Wayne County Department of Children and Family Services (CAFS) community based Care Management Organizations.

The residential milieu at the SJJS Detention Centers emphasizes active, highly structured routines and activities.  Daily routines are designed to keep youth constructively engaged as they await court hearings and/or their next placement.  Detention program services focus on the youth’s current life situation and the construction of positive behaviors.  Detention service delivery is targeted for accomplishment within 30 days, but in some instances, youth are remanded longer because of the normal delays in judicial processing, waiting lists at prospective placements and special needs placement exceptions that occur in the delinquency referral and placement system.