Grand Mesa Youth Services Center Overview
Grand Mesa Youth Services Center is a Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Services facility at 360 28 Road in Grand Junction. CDHS describes it as a secure co-ed, multipurpose youth center serving the Western Region of Colorado. It is physically in Mesa County, but it is not operated by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office and it is not part of the adult Mesa County Detention Facility roster. That distinction matters because adult jail lookup, adult bond information, public booking summaries, mugshot requests, commissary deposits, and jail property release rules do not transfer to youth custody.
The official CDHS facility page says Grand Mesa provides secure detention, regional diagnostic and assessment services for newly committed youth, and secure commitment services. It accepts youth from the 6th, 7th, 9th, 14th, 21st, and 22nd Judicial Districts, covering 18 counties, including Mesa County. Youth may be at the center while awaiting court, serving short court sentences, entering a diagnostic assessment period, or living in DYS commitment placement after adjudication.
Because youth justice records are handled differently from adult jail records, the public access framing is narrower. The practical lookup path is to contact the youth facility or CDHS/DYS through official channels if the caller is a parent, guardian, attorney, approved professional, or other authorized contact. Grand Mesa Youth Services Center is not searchable through the Mesa County Sheriff's Office Inmate Locator; that county locator covers current adult custody at Mesa County Detention Facility.
Grand Mesa Youth Services Center Capacity and Youth Population
The Facility Map and official CDHS source identify Grand Mesa Youth Services Center as a 53-bed secure co-ed youth center. CDHS describes its population by youth-custody function rather than by a public adult-jail roster. The detention unit serves male and female youth ages 10-18 who are awaiting court or serving short court sentences. The commitment side serves male and female youth ages 12-20 who are in Division of Youth Services custody.
Newly committed youth entering from the Western Region complete a 30-day assessment period. The assessment looks at criminogenic risk, protective factors, treatment needs, mental health, education and vocational needs, drug and alcohol needs, and transition planning. Those details show why Grand Mesa should be described as a youth detention, assessment, and commitment center, not as a county adult lockup or Colorado Department of Corrections prison.
Official sources reviewed for this build did not locate a current daily headcount, annual admissions total, release total, or public demographic table for Grand Mesa Youth Services Center. Adult Mesa County jail data, CDOC data, and statewide youth justice context are separate sources and do not supply Grand Mesa-specific headcount figures.
How to Look Up Youth Custody at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
The correct lookup path for Grand Mesa Youth Services Center is not the Mesa County Sheriff's Office adult inmate locator. The MCSO locator is limited to people currently housed in Mesa County Detention Facility and their current bond. Grand Mesa is a CDHS/DYS youth facility, and youth custody should be handled through official facility contact, family or legal channels, and the assigned youth-services or court process. The official CDHS facility page is the first public source for facility identity, program type, address, phone, and visitation contacts.
- Open the official CDHS Grand Mesa Youth Services Center page to confirm the facility and contact details.
- Call the main facility number, 970-245-2516, for general routing when appropriate.
- For visitation appointment questions, contact the Grand Mesa Control Center at 970-242-1521 ext. 110.
- If the question concerns a youth's legal case, coordinate through the court, attorney, probation, case manager, or DYS contact rather than the adult jail roster.
- If the person is an adult arrested in Mesa County, switch to the Mesa County Detention Facility page and the MCSO adult locator path.
The official CDHS page is the source used for Grand Mesa facility facts.
Open the CDHS Grand Mesa Youth Services Center source.
The source confirms the youth facility framing and supports routing lookup and visitation questions to CDHS/DYS facility contacts instead of the county adult jail roster.
Grand Mesa Youth Services Center Address and Contact
Contact information for Grand Mesa should be kept separate from the Sheriff's Office and MCDF contact cards. The main phone reaches the youth center, while the control-center extension is the documented path for visitation appointments. The director contact listed in the research is useful for facility leadership identification, but day-to-day custody, visitation, legal, and case questions may require routing through DYS staff, the court, the assigned attorney, or the youth's approved contact process.
Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
360 28 Road
Grand Junction, CO 81501
970-245-2516
Control / visitation appointments: 970-242-1521 ext. 110
Facility Leadership
Director: Matt Medina
970-242-1521 ext. 130
Email: Matt.Medina@state.co.us
Operator: Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Services
Visiting Someone at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
The documented visitation rule for Grand Mesa is appointment-based. Official source material states that all visits require a scheduled appointment and that requests go through the Grand Mesa Control Center at 970-242-1521 ext. 110. The reviewed source did not publish a full day-by-day public schedule, fee list, dress code, identification list, or visitor-approval table. MCDF video-visitation rules, IC Solutions vendor details, the adult jail 72-hour wait, and adult jail sanctions language are not documented for this youth facility.
| Visit Item | Documented Detail | Contact Path |
|---|---|---|
| Visit type | Scheduled appointment required | Grand Mesa Control Center |
| Appointment request | Call before visiting | 970-242-1521 ext. 110 |
| Public schedule | No full public day-by-day schedule located in the research | Confirm with facility |
| Adult jail video visits | Not applicable to Grand Mesa Youth Services Center | Use CDHS/DYS process |
For a youth facility, the safest practical rule is to confirm authorization, appointment time, allowed items, identification, arrival instructions, and transportation needs directly with the facility before traveling. CDHS notes the address with a Google Maps link and points visitors to Grand Valley Transit for bus route information, so route planning should be handled before the appointment day.
Mail, Phone, and Money at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
The official materials reviewed for Grand Mesa did not document a public commissary vendor, phone vendor, online deposit provider, personal-mail scanning address, package policy, or fee schedule for Grand Mesa Youth Services Center. That absence is important. Access Corrections, GettingOut, IC Solutions, and the MCDF Phoenix mail-scanning address are documented for the adult Mesa County Detention Facility, not for Grand Mesa.
| Service | Grand Mesa Detail |
|---|---|
| No public youth-center mail format documented in the reviewed official sources; confirm with Grand Mesa or DYS. | |
| Phone | No public phone-account vendor documented in the reviewed official sources; confirm with the facility. |
| Money / commissary | No public deposit vendor or fee schedule documented for Grand Mesa in the reviewed official sources. |
| Adult jail vendors | IC Solutions, Access Corrections, and GettingOut are documented for MCDF, not for Grand Mesa. |
Families and authorized contacts should ask the facility what communication, property, school, treatment, and family-engagement rules apply to the individual youth's custody status. Youth awaiting court, youth serving short court sentences, newly committed youth in assessment, and longer-term committed youth may have different case planning needs.
Intake, Assessment, and Custody at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
Grand Mesa does not use the same booking frame as an adult county jail page. CDHS describes detention for youth awaiting court or serving short court sentences, diagnostic and assessment services for newly committed youth, and secure commitment services. For newly committed youth from the Western Region, the research identifies a 30-day assessment period that looks at risk, protective factors, treatment, mental health, school and vocational needs, substance-use needs, and transition needs. That intake function is closer to DYS case assessment than to an adult jail booking profile with bond and arrest-charge rows.
Adult county jail records often focus on booking number, charge rows, bond, custody status, and release. Grand Mesa's youth-custody process is more likely to be connected to juvenile court orders, DYS placement, family contact, education, clinical services, and transition planning. A searcher who only has adult jail vocabulary may miss the correct route. If the person is under youth-custody authority, start with CDHS/DYS and the appropriate legal representative. If the person is an adult arrestee, use the MCSO locator and MCDF contact details instead.
Programs and Services at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
CDHS describes Grand Mesa as a multipurpose youth center with education, clinical services, recreation, healthy living, transition services, cognitive behavioral programming, victim empathy, independent living, goal setting, anger management, individual and group treatment, restorative justice, core and elective school subjects, GED work, physical education, culinary, general construction trades, and custodial services. Behavioral health services are provided based on need, and the research notes a full clinical staff for mental health, offense-specific, and substance-use treatment.
Those services support the youth facility's detention, assessment, and commitment roles. They also reinforce why Grand Mesa should not be described as a state prison or an adult jail. The Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search covers sentenced adult state prisoners; CDHS/DYS youth custody is a separate system. No adult CDOC state prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, official ICE detention facility, or U.S. Marshals-owned detention facility was found physically in Mesa County.
About Grand Mesa Youth Services Center
Grand Mesa Youth Services Center is one of the secure custody facilities physically located in Mesa County, but it serves a regional youth-justice role. Its service area includes the Western Region and judicial districts beyond Mesa County. It belongs in the detention-facility list because it is a secure facility in Grand Junction, while its lookup and records language must stay distinct from the county adult jail. The public MCSO Inmate Locator, Booking Summary Reports, adult jail mugshot fees, jail property-release rules, Access Corrections deposits, and IC Solutions video visits are MCDF facts unless a Grand Mesa source separately documents them.
Natural internal routing is straightforward: use Mesa County Detention Facility for adult county jail custody, Jail Inmate Records for adult roster and booking-record access, Court Records After Jail Arrest for court-case records after an arrest, and Grand Mesa Youth Services Center information for CDHS/DYS youth facility contacts and visitor scheduling limits.
Note: Confirm youth custody, approved-contact status, and visitation appointment details with Grand Mesa before traveling.