Statens institutionsstyrelse

About Statens institutionsstyrelse

Statens Institutionsstyrelse, SiS, provides individually adapted compulsory care and enforces closed youth care. In cooperation with social services, we give children, young people and clients with serious and extensive psychosocial problems better conditions for a socially functioning life without addiction and crime. The agency has 21 special youth homes with 730 places and eleven LVM homes with 359 places for the care of adult addicts. The institutions are located throughout the country. The head office is in Stockholm. Head of the agency is Director-General Elisabet Åbjörnsson Hollmark. SiS belongs to the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs' area of activity.