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Dr. Roger Gisseman, Associate Director 177 W. Price Avenue

Salt Lake City, UT 84115 801-269-7541

Target Population: Primarily status and delinquent offenders arrested and brought into custody. Types of delinquent offenses include property, drug possession, public order and are primarily misdemeanor offenses.

Brief Description: The JRC is a Salt Lake County agency that provides early intervention services to status offenders and offenders charged with a minor delinquent offense 24 hours a day. The goal is to reduce delinquency and to provide support services to family. Approximately 5,000 youth are served by the JRC in a year. The JRC is located in two sites in Salt Lake County.

Youth and families are assessed using the following assessment instruments:  Youth Outcome Survey

 Parent Inventory Survey  Risk and Protective Survey

A baseline is established on the youth and family at intake and then they are post tested at discharge. The following services are provided on site at the JRC:

 2 beds for Social Detoxification

 Substance Abuse - Regular Outpatient (12 sessions, once a week)  Substance Abuse - Intensive Outpatient (6 hours a week)

 Day Treatment for mentally ill youth (8 hours for 60 days)  Case Management

 Parenting classes (8-10 sessions)

 Family Preservation (intensive wraparound services in lieu of out of home placement for status offenders, caseload of 1:6 families, 3-30 hours a week for 2 months)

 Truancy Center

Youth stay an average of 6 hours in the JRC before their parents are located or before they are referred to the Division of Family and Children or to Detention.

A variety of performance measures are used to measure program impact:  Risk reduction and protective factor increase

 Pre and post test on the Youth Outcome Survey and Parent Inventory Survey  Client satisfaction by youth and family

 Partnering agency satisfaction survey

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 Division of Family and Children  School District

 Medicaid through Valley Mental Health  Runaway and Homeless Youth Federal Grant  Title IV-E

 Department of Youth Corrections  Salt Lake County General Fund

Cost Per Day for JRC: Approximately $171.42 (14 youth per day) Cost Per Day for Crisis Residential Center: $108.00 per bed (24 beds)

Notes: Both JRC Centers and CR Center daily costs include the personnel costs of the group home supervisors, the case managers, and the youth workers and the program operating costs.

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Community Assessment Referral Center Denise Coleman

Huckleberry House San Francisco, CA (415) 567-8078

Target Population: Delinquent offenders charged with minor offenses, not 707b offenses, no pending warrants and not from another county.

Brief Description: The Community Assessment and Referral Center concept was initiated as part of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). It is a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, the Sheriff’s Office, Department of Public Health, Probation Department, Huckleberry House and three non-profit agencies representing the Asian, African-American and Latino neighborhoods.

Huckleberry House is the non-profit service provider contracted with by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to administer the program. HH provides day-of-arrest assessment, crisis intervention, case management and referral. Case managers attend probation hearings and expulsion hearings, take clients to appointments, make arrangements for needed services and monitor services to the youth and family. The target population is delinquent offenders charged with a 602 offense who would not likely to be detained. Sixty percent of the youth are charged with misdemeanor offenses while 40% are charged with minor felony offenses. Prior to the CARC’s inception, the Juvenile Probation Intake was backlogged with these cases, some of these minor cases ended up in the Juvenile Hall and many were closed with no support services thus being referred again.

The goal is to reduce the number of youth charged with minor offenses who were referred to Juvenile Intake to allow Probation to focus their resources on the serious, violent youth. It is designed to be an alternative to Juvenile Intake processing for misdemeanors and minor felony offenders.

Approximately 650 minor delinquent offenders are brought into the CARC in a year (represents one-quarter of the total arrests). CARC is administered by Huckleberry House, a non-profit agency with the Sheriff’s Office providing security, the Department of Public Health providing health screenings, Probation Officer representing the Juvenile Court, and the case management provided by Huckleberry and the three non- profit agencies representing the Asian, Latino and African-American community.

Youth are arrested and brought to the CARC location (in a YMCA building separate from the Juvenile Hall) for assessment and case management. CARC can close the case or assign the case to an on-going caseload with a case manager. Youth are given a health screening and a strengths and needs assessment which has been validated on the City’s youth. Youth will stay up to six hours, have a meal and wait until their parent or guardian comes to pick them up.

Each youth is assigned a case manager who will work with the family, develop a case plan, coordinate services for the family and monitor referrals to local service providers. If the youth is referred to detention intake, the case manager continues to work with the family. The duration of the case management is an average of 90 days but the range is one month to 18 months.

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a.m.-12:00 midnight.

Funding for CARC is though a variety of sources, including, Juvenile Justice Crime Act, Local Law Enforcement Block Grant or the General Fund. Each participating agency provides in-kind staff to the CARC.

Outcomes

 The number of referrals to Juvenile Intake for 2002 dropped 11% from 4139 to 3675.  55% of the youth served at CARC were not cited to Juvenile Hall in 2002

 65% of youth receiving CARC case management demonstrated improvement in school grades, attendance, behavior, attitude and/or placement

 73% of CARC youth satisfied the terms and conditions of their probation

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