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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Costa
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DATE: May 9, 1994 `TTS ceu���`T County
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: AB 3726 (B. Friedman)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S);&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
ADOPT a position in SUPPORT. of AB 3726 by Assemblywoman Barbara
Friedman, which would require the State to implement as a pilot
project in three counties, day treatment programs for juvenile
offenders .
BACKGROUND:
Assemblywoman Barbara Friedman has introduced AB 3726 which, as
introduced, recognizes the need for early intervention in the lives
.of minors and their families where there is a likelihood that the
minor will get in more: trouble if not provided some intensive
support and counseling. AB 3726 also notes that family
preservation programs are available for minors under the
supervision of County Probation Departments and . that there is a
need to develop low-cost alternatives to .out-of-home placement for
juvenile offenders . The bill also identifies day treatment as an
appropriate alternative to secure or nonsecure commitment for
first-time juvenile offenders and other offenders at low or
moderate levels of offense who do not pose a public safety risk.
As a result, AB 3.726 requires the State Department of Social
Services to oversee the development and implementation of a
Juvenile Offender Day Treatment Demonstration Project. The
demonstration program would be implemented in three counties
selected from among those who choose to apply. Up to 100 minors
would participate in the demonstration project at any one time.
The minors could participate for up to six months, during which
time there would be a full needs assessment that would identify the
basic needs of the youth in relation to health, mental health,
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education, substance abuse and family matters . Each demonstration
program would also have to have the following components : a full
educational program; family counseling and family preservation
services; parental involvement; health, mental health and substance
abuse prevention services; and aftercare services .
The demonstration program would be funded by Federal funds which
have been set aside by the State Department of Social Services for
this purpose.
The County Probation Officer supports AB 3726, would like to see
Contra Costa County become one of the demonstration sites and urges
the Board of Supervisors to indicate its support for the bill .
This office concurs in that recommendations, which appears to be
entirely consistent with the family preservation and service
integration programs which are supported by the Board of
Supervisors.
cc: County Administrator
Gerald S. Buck, County Probation Officer
Perfecto Villarreal, Social Services Director
Mark Finucane, Health Services Director
Lorna Bastian, Mental Health Director
Chuck Deutschman, Substance Abuse Program Administrator
George Roemer, Senior Deputy County Administrator
Sara Hoffman, Senior Deputy County Administrator
Les Spahnn, Heim, Noack & Spahnn
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Probation Department Gerald Gerald S. Buck
County Probation Officer
Administrative Offices Costa
50 Douglas Drive,Suite 201 County
Martinez,California 94553-8500
(510)313-4180
(510)313-4191 FAX
T°' Judge Lois Haight Date: 4/7/94
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Superior Court, Dept . 10
Claude Van Marter,
From: Asst . County "Administrator Subject:
AB 3560 and AB 3726
Gerald S . Buck, (B. Friedman)
Cou Probation ficer
Each of these two bills, if enacted, could provide access to
Federal funds in support of enriched Probation services for early
intervention and day care respectively. They are written as
demonstrationprojects . In discussing them with a legislative
advocate, I indicated support for the bills and the Chief
Probation Officers of California support the bills . I have noted
our need for funds to provide early intervention and expressed a
view that Contra Costa would be interested in being a
"demonstration" county.
If you concur, I would urge your support as well and a letter to
Assemblywoman Barbara Friedman would be appreciated.
I would also suggest support from the CC Board of Supervisors and
from the East Bay Public Safety Corridor Project Executive
Committee.
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Attachment
CC : Assemblywoman Barbara Friedman
Alan Clarke
Assemblyman Bates
Sylvia Johnson
Perfecto Villarreal
Russell Ellis
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-1993-94 REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLY BILI, No. 3726
Introduced by Assembly Member Barbara Friedman
February 25, 1994
An act to add and repeal Chapter 7 (commencing with
Section 16590) to .Fart 4 of Division 9 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSELS DIGEST
AB 13726, as introduced, B. Friedman. Juveniles.
Existing law requires the Department of the Youth
Authority to establish and implement the Juvenile Offender
Local Prevention and Corrections Program to coordinate
state and local efforts to confine, discipline, treat, and prevent
juvenile offenders.
This bill would require, until January 1, 1998, the State
Department of Social Services to oversee the development
and implementation of a Juvenile Offender Day Treatment
Demonstration Project to establish, in each of 3 counties, day
treatment programs for juvenile offenders, as specified. This
bill would require each program to provide prescribed
<;Kz{ 4+ �tfcp,tsr4>r program components and services including a full needs
assessment, full educational program, .and family counseling
and family preservation services. This bill would require the
department to report to the Legislature regarding the
efficacy of the project by. January 1, 1998. This bill would
provide that general operating costs are to be supported to
the extent that new federal funds are available for these costs.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
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AB 3726 — 2—
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
1 SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of
2 the following:
3 (a) Over the last 10 years, juvenile arrests have
4 increased in California, including sharp increases in the
5 rate of arrest for violent juvenile crime.
6 (b) The agencies of the juvenile justice system,
7 including law enforcement, probation, and the juvenile
8 courts have limited resources for the treatment of
9 juvenile offenders within the community.
10 (c) Local secure facilities for juvenile offenders are
11 increasingly being filled with, and should be reserved for,
12 serious juvenile offenders who need to be confined as a
13 matter of public safety.
14 (d) Placement in a residential group home or
15 treatment facility may not be necessary for some
16 juveniles who are on probation who can benefit equally
17 from intensive, short-term participation in day treatment
18 programs.
19 (e) Day treatment is an appropriate alternative to
20 secure or nonsecure commitment for first-time juvenile
21 offenders and other offenders at low or moderate levels
22 of offense who do not pose a public safety risk.
23 (f) The State of California has identified youth under
24 the supervision of county probation departments to be
25 eligible for family preservation services because they
26 experience similar problems and family crisis issues as
27 those who have become dependents of the court.
28 (g) There is a need to develop low-cost alternatives to
29 out-of-home placement for juvenile offenders with
30 multiple personal, educational, and family problems that
31 may lead to continued delinquent behavior. Day
32 treatment programs offer intensive supervision and
33 address school) health, and family problems that
34 contribute to delinquent youth.
35 (h) It is the intent of the Legislature, in the enactment
36 of this act, to provide alternatives to incarceration of early
37 or first-time offenders by utilizing a community-based
38 model that stresses intensive early intervention and
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ys' reduce and deter 1 family preservation services support to e
all of 2 further criminal acts.
3 SEC. 2. Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 16594)
have 4 is added to Part 4 of Division 9 of the Welfare and
ri the 5 Institutions Code, to read:
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>tem, � & 7 CHAPTER 7. JUVENILE OFFENDER DAY TREATMENT
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10 16594. Notwithstanding Section 1404, the State
11 Department of Social Services shall oversee the
' are 12 development and implementation of a Juvenile Offender
as I for, 13 Day Treatment Demonstration Project. The purpose of
a 14 the project is to establish day treatment programs for
15 juvenile offenders who would otherwise be placed in
or 16 secure or nonsecure residential facilities and to evaluate
ome 17 the benefits of this alternative to out-of-home placement
pally 18 in regard to rehabilitation and cost.
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z 19 (a) The department shall initiate, select, and oversee
20 juvenile offender day treatment demonstration programs
to 21 in each of three counties to be selected b application of
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nils 22 the board of supervisors of interested counties.
23 (b) In the aggregate, the three demonstration
.der 24 programs, when fully operational, shall serve an average
be # 25 daily caseload of 100 court referred minors. A minor may
hey 26 participate in a program for a maximum of six months,
27 not including participation in aftercare services
` 28 delivered after graduation or departure from the
to 29 program.
7th 30 16591. Each program selected for participation in this
hat 31 demonstration project shall provide the following
�a t 32 services and program components:
nd f 33 (a) A full needs assessment of each participating
34 minor that shall identify the basic needs of the youth in
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I 35 relation to health, mental health, education, substance
36 abuse, and family matters.
.nt 37 (b) A full educational program staffed and
rly 38 administered in cooperation with the county office of
ed 39 education or school district located within the applicant
Zd 40 county.
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4 -1 (c) Family counseling and family preservation
2 services as defined in Section 16500.5.
3 (d) Parental involvement in counseling or other
4 remedial activities at the discretion of the program staff
5 after full assessment of the minor and his or her needs,
6 upon referral.
7 (e) Health, mental health, and substance abuse '
8 prevention sen ices, as identified through the minor's
9 needs assessment. These services may be provided
10 directly by the program or by means of referral to one or
11 more public or private agencies serving day treatment
12 caseloads.
13 (f) Aftercare services to facilitate the successful
14 reunification of the youth with home, family, school, and
15 community after full-time participation in the program.
16 16592. Minors eligible for the program shall be minors
17 as defined by Section 601 or 602 for whom out-of-home
18 placement is considered imminent by the probation
19 officer or by a judge of the juvenile court. Formal referral }
20 to the day treatment program shall be by order of the
21 juvenile court after adjudication of a minor under Section
22 601 or 602.
23 16593. (a) Counties selected for participation in this
24 program shall be counties determined by the department
25 to have significant problems of unavailability of in-county
26 placements for adjudicated juvenile offenders or
27 problems of over-use of out-of-home placements for
28 juvenile offenders. A county selected for participation in
29 this program shall demonstrate its commitment to using
30 the day-treatment .model as an alternative for minors
31 who would otherwise be placed in out-of-home care in
32 public or private facilities.
33 (b) A day treatment demonstration program in a
34 participating county may be operated by a public agency
35 or under contract with a private provider. The agency or
36 provider operating the program shall demonstrate prior
37 experience and slap in providing multidisciplinary
38 services to juvenile offenders.
39 16594. (a) Each participating county,shall submit a
40 plan that provides for the evaluation of the county's
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nation 1 program and includes all of the following:
2 (1) Tracking of individuals who graduate from the
other 3 program for a period of 18 months to determine their
n staff 4 rearrest rates and related adjudication or conviction
needs, 5 status.
6 (2) Caseload management information on the
abuse 7 aggregate population served by the program including,
unor's 8 program participant characteristics needs assessment
,vided 9 results, services provided, including aftercare services,
)ne or 10 and unit cost of each case.
ment 11 (3) Benefits and disadvantages of the day treatment
12 program for juvenile offenders as an alternative to
essful 13 out-of-home placement in public and private facilities.
1, and 14 (b) Each program shall supply an interim evaluation
;ram. 15 report to the department after 18 months of operation
Minors 16 and a final evaluation report at 36 months of operation.
some 17 16596. The department shall report to the Legislature
,ation 18 regarding the efficacy of the Juvenile Offender Day,
erral " , 19 Treatment Demonstration Project and make
f the - ? 20 recommendations regarding the continuation of this
ction 21 program by January 1, 1998.
22 16597. The education services provided by a day
i this 23 treatment program shall be coordinated and supported
nent 24 by the participating county office of education or school
unty , ' 25 district serving the residence of any minor referred to the
} or 26 program.
for 27 16598. General operating costs shall be supported by
)n in 28 new federal funds set aside by the department from Title
tsing 29 IV-A, Title IV-B, or Title IV-E of the federal Social
nors 30 Security Act to the extent these funds are otherwise
-e in 31 available for expenditure for these costs.
32 16599. This chapter shall remain in effect only until
Ln a 33 January 1, 1998, and as of that date shall be repealed,
,ncy 34 unless a later enacted statute, which is enacted before
y or 35 January 1, 1998, deletes or extends that date.
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