Bailey, J.
F.H. appeals a dispositional order entered upon his admission that he is a delinquent child for having possessed a firearm. He raises a single issue, whether the juvenile court abused its discretion by imposing a fixed term in the Indiana Department of Correction (“the DOC”) absent statutory grounds. We remand for correction of the dispositional order.
On May 15, 2018, the State alleged that F.H., then aged fourteen, was delinquent for having committed an act that would be auto theft, a Level 6 felony, if committed by an adult. … On June 25, 2018, the State filed a delinquency petition alleging that F.H. had committed an act that would be attempted armed robbery, a Level 3 felony, if committed by an adult. In juvenile proceedings conducted on July 24 and August 28, 2018, F.H. admitted the truth of the State’s allegations. On September 27, 2018, the juvenile court ordered wardship of F.H. to the DOC but suspended that commitment.
… On May 22, 2019, the State filed a third delinquency petition, alleging that F.H. had committed dangerous possession of a firearm, an act that would be a Level 5 felony if committed by an adult. On June 4, 2019, F.H. admitted he had committed the alleged act. On July 2, 2019, the juvenile court entered a written dispositional order committing F.H. to the DOC “until his 18th birthday.”
The juvenile court has discretion to choose the specific disposition of a juvenile adjudicated a delinquent “subject to the statutory considerations of the welfare of the child, the community’s safety, and the Indiana Code’s policy of favoring the least harsh disposition.” C.T.S. v. State, 781 N.E.2d 1193, 1202 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003). We will not reverse a juvenile court’s disposition unless the juvenile court abuses its discretion. Id. The juvenile court abuses its discretion if its action is “clearly erroneous and against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances before the court, or the reasonable, probable, and actual deductions to be drawn therefrom.” D.B. v. State, 842 N.E.2d 399, 404-05 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006). …
A juvenile is not subject to a determinate term in the DOC absent a specific determination by the juvenile court that statutory criteria have been satisfied. A.T. v. State, 960 N.E.2d 117, 118 (Ind. 2012). Here, no such determination was made, and the factual record would not support such a determination. The juvenile court abused its discretion by subjecting F.H. to a determinate commitment in the DOC.
We remand with instructions to the juvenile court to vacate the portion of its order committing F.H. to the DOC until his eighteenth birthday.
Kirsch, J., and Mathias, J., concur.