Lafayette Juvenile Home Earns FBI-LEEDA Trilogy Award

The facility is the first juvenile detention center in the nation to receive the FBI-LEEDA Agency Trilogy Award after its command staff completed three leadership programs.

Updated on Nov. 2, 2026 in Law Enforcement

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The Lafayette Juvenile Detention Home received the FBI-LEEDA Agency Trilogy Award, becoming the first juvenile detention facility in the nation to earn the honor. Its administrator and two operations managers completed the Supervisor, Command and Executive Leadership Institutes within 18 months.

Why it matters

The award recognizes sustained leadership training for an entire command staff, a standard that few agencies meet. For Lafayette residents, it reflects investment in how the county's youth detention facility is run.

The award was announced by Lafayette Consolidated Government on November 2, 2026, after administrator Alonzo Thomas, operations manager Ronald Irvin and operations manager Michael Rush completed all three FBI-LEEDA programs. The training was paid for from LCG's budget at $2,385 per person.

The players

FBI-LEEDA

The Law Enforcement Executive Development Association, an organization affiliated with the FBI that offers leadership training to law enforcement agencies and awards the Agency Trilogy recognition.

Alonzo Thomas

The administrator of the Lafayette Juvenile Detention Home who led the command staff through the FBI-LEEDA training and introduced the new mentoring and youth programming.

The details

Thomas started a mentoring program that lets supervisors hand short stretches of supervisory work to employees. He also expanded youth programming, which now fills about five hours a day with a cooking and budgeting class, Wellness Wednesdays, Mental Health Mondays, a garden and a recording studio.

Within 18 months: Command staff complete all three FBI-LEEDA training programs.
November 2, 2026: Lafayette Consolidated Government announces the Agency Trilogy Award.

Law Enforcement Training Standards

The FBI-LEEDA Agency Trilogy is designed for police and corrections agencies whose entire command staff completes the Supervisor, Command and Executive Leadership Institutes. Lafayette's juvenile facility is the first detention center to earn it, signaling that the framework now reaches youth corrections as well as police departments.

Residents of Lafayette may see more structured youth programming at the juvenile detention home, which now runs about five hours a day. The award signals a leadership structure that the facility says has expanded its options for the young people it houses.

The takeaway

Leadership training that reaches every level of a command staff can change how a facility operates, not just how its leaders are credentialed. Watching whether the new mentoring and youth programs produce measurable results will show whether the award reflects lasting change.