Grant Track SCA Juvenile Demonstration
Grantee Name Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
State Georgia
SCA Juvenile Demonstration
City of Miami Gardens
Florida
SCA Juvenile Demonstration
Mississippi Department of Human Services
Mississippi
SCA Juvenile Demonstration
Illinois Department Illinois of Juvenile Justice
SCA Juvenile Demonstration
Lucas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
Ohio
Program description The primary goals of the Georgia Juvenile Reentry Model are to: (1) promote public safety and reduce recidivism through the appropriate implementation of juvenile justice reform; (2) prepare youth and families for transition through a family-‐focused approach that encourages parental involvement in the youth's placement, growth, and preparation for reentry; and (3) effectively prepare youth for reentry through evidence-‐based programs, educational and vocational skill advancement, and appropriate medical and behavioral health services that provide them with the tools for reentry. The goal of the City of Miami Gardens Juvenile Reentry Program is to develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative strategies to reduce recidivism, increase public safety, and address the challenges that reentry poses. Functional family therapy will be used as the model for family therapy. Staff will be trained on motivational interviewing techniques, and they will provide case management, care coordination, and mentoring support. The Division of Youth Services oversees the only juvenile correctional institution in Mississippi, Oakley Youth Development Center (OYDC). OYDC serves males and females ages 10 to 17. The number of commitments in 2011 was 199 and increased by 13.5 percent, to 226, in 2013. The Division of Youth Services plans to address the high return rate to OYDC and the need for intensive supervision and services for juvenile offenders paroled from OYDC by establishing the Mississippi Juvenile Reentry Program. The target population for the program will be males ages 16 to 18 who are assessed as high risk for recidivism. The reentry program will target older adolescents who are aging out of the juvenile justice system and who need supervision and reentry support services. This grant allows for the provision of mental health, education, employment training, transition support, health and behavioral rehabilitation services. The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice will implement the YASI screening and assesment tool to objectively assess criminogenic risk and needs, implement an individualized youth development plan, prepare youth for release while in confinement, prepare youth for release and post-‐release, and implement a system of developmentally appropriate incentives and sanctions to address youth behavior while on parole. The grant enhances family services in Lucas County. Programming will serve 20 male and female youth, ages 13 to 17, sentenced to the Lucas County Youth Treatment Center (YTC) and 31 youth leaving detention from the Lucas County Juvenile Detention Center, assessed at moderate-‐ to high-‐risk using the Ohio Youth Assessment System. Pre-‐release services provided to youth sentenced to the Lucas County Youth Treatment Center will be expanded to include: parenting classes, mental health and substance abuse services, and legal assistance. Current transition and post-‐release services, consisting of Lucas County Juvenile Court’s Probation, the Reentry Treatment Center, and the Youth Advocates Program, will be expanded to incorporate economic stability programming. The youth leaving detention will be serviced through the Community Treatment Center and a Functional Family Therapy team will work with the youth and their families in a community setting
Attendee Cathy Smith-‐ Curry, Assistant Director, Office of Reentry Services
Attendee 2 A.J. Sabree, Strategic Planning and Implementation Manager
Jeanette Garcia, Juvenile Reentry Program Coordinator Andrew Friday, Director of Finance and Administration
Melonie Taylor Gore, Community Services Director
Heidi Mueller, Eva Moore, Deputy Director of Deputy Director Programs of Aftercare
Tom Luettke, Reentry Coordinator
Tara Hobbs, Youth Treatment Center Administrator
Grant Track SCA Juvenile Demonstration
Grantee Name State New York City New York Administration for Children's Services
JMHCP Planning
Crittenden County
Arkansas
JMHCP Planning
Department of CJ Services
Colorado
JMHCP Expansion Berrien County
Michigan
Program description Attendee Attendee 2 With support from OJJDP, New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) is Angela Williams, developing an evidence-‐informed aftercare and reentry system that comprehensively supports Executive Director the needs of youth and families. This program will serve youth returning from staff secure of Programs and placement to targeted neighborhoods in the city. ACS will: 1) Plan and implement a structured, Planning strengths-‐based community reentry and aftercare continuum of services for youth returning from staff-‐secure placement to targeted neighborhoods; and 2) improve juvenile justice, educational, and psychosocial outcomes for youth returning from placement to targeted communities. This grant funds the strategic planning to initiate change within Crittenden County to ensure Lynn Fernon Madelyn Ketih that youth who present with mental health or co-‐occurring disorders receive appropriate, individualized treatment. Specifically, the project will establish an effective collaborative structure, strategic framework, work plan, policies, and procedures for a youth mental health court in Crittenden County. Five factors will be addressed by the proposed project: 1) system fragmentation and lack of coordination; 2) inadequate assessment of risk and need; 3) lack of community-‐based resources to prevent out-‐of-‐home placement; 4) lack of positive behavioral interventions in the schools; and 5) misuse of the juvenile justice system to address mental health needs of youth. The Department of Criminal Justice (DCJ) and the Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) were Meg Williams Jean Denious awarded this planning grant to initiate and sustain collaborative, cross-‐systems change to increase statewide capacity to meet the behavioral health needs of justice-‐involved youth, strengthen behavioral health screening and assessment for multi-‐system youth, and promote behavioral health-‐care access through the engagement of family system supports. DCJ and OBH have jointly committed to: 1) Develop collaborative management structures that link efforts of the state’s Behavioral Health Transformation Council and the Commission on Adult and Juvenile Justice; 2) implement evidence-‐based practices, including screening and assessment tools appropriate to the target population and with a demonstrated evidence base; and 3) integrate and apply trauma-‐informed are and system of care frameworks to address mental health and co-‐occurring substance abuse disorders among justice-‐involved youth. This grant enables Berrien County to expand its mental health system of care for juvenile Elvin Gonzalez Darren Parker offenders by implementing data-‐driven processes and strategies. Strategies include expanding training to increase the knowledge of first responders, partnering with NAMI for training for youth and parents, hiring a consultant to develop and implement a resource navigation system to utilize volunteers to assist families and youth in gaining access to mental health services, and expanding the exisiting functional family therapy services.
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