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SUBJECT: SAFEFUTURES: Juvenile Hall Treatment Unit �` ' •��� County
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SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
ACCEPT report from the County Administrator on the status of the locked mental health
intensive day treatment (Summit) unit at Juvenile Hall and ADOPT resolution establishing
positions in the Probation and Health Services Departments to staff the new unit and to
implement other related SafeFutures programs.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The locked intensive day treatment program at Juvenile Hall will be funded primarily
through a combination of SafeFutures grant funds secured with the Federal Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and AB 3015 funds secured with the State Department
of Mental Health. Remaining costs of the Unit will be matched by County general funds
which have been identified and earmarked specifically for this program.
LOCKED MENTAL HEALTH INTENSIVE DAY TREATMENT UNIT
AT JUVENILE HALL
Sources of Funding
AB 30];5/ SafeFutures County 199b 97
Ivtedi Cal Grant Match Budget
Staff $ 333,523 $ 366,641 $ 66,076 $ 766,240
Operating 61,000 61,000
Startup 2,836 74,924 77,760
TOTAL $ 333,523 $ 369,477 $ 202,000 $ 905,000
Other recommended SafeFutures programs are funded entirely from the SafeFutures grant.
Although the County currently has access to the grant funding, no costs are anticipated to
be expended for these programs prior to July 1, 1996.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OFO RD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON June 25 , 1996 APPROVE AS RECOMMENDED X OTFER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE
AYES: NOES: SHOWN.
ABSENT: ABSTAIN:
ATTESTED June 25 , 1996
CONTACT: MARK MORRIS (510) 646-4855 PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD
CC: COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY
PROBATION ADM STRATOR
HEALTH SERVICES
CONTRA COSTA OFFICE OF EDUCATION
BY U JAA DEPUTY
BACKGROUND: D
Prior to 1989, the County had facilities dedicated to helping boys and girls in need of
intensive counseling and educational remediation. Those facilities were closed, one in 1989
and the other in 1991, due to budget constraints. The closure of these facilities further
limited the Juvenile Court's commitment options for severely emotionally and behaviorally
disturbed youths. As a result, the Court increased its utilization of group homes as an
alternative to incarceration for these youths. Additionally, because the local options for
placing juvenile offenders has not kept pace with the increasing number of juvenile
offenders during the last decade, group home placements were expanded to include
basically delinquent youths.
At the time, group homes were a cost-effective way of caring for these youths because the
Federal and State government paid for 95% of the costs of group home care. In 1991,
however, a major realignment bill eliminated state financial assistance for group home care.
Counties began to scrutinize the costs and effectiveness of group home placements to
determine if the special needs of these youths could be met better and more cost-effectively
through local County programs.
There has been no comprehensive county interagency system throughout California for the
delivery of mental health services to seriously emotionally and behaviorally disturbed
children and their families. In fact, as a result of a traditional non-integrated service delivery
system, in some instances members of the same family were simultaneously receiving
treatment for related problems from different parts of the County system. Despite the
growing need for mental health, crisis counseling and educational services, counties lacked
the plans and fiscal resources to efficiently and effectively provide these services in an
integrated fashion.
In 1992, the Board of Supervisors convened the Juvenile Systems Advisory Committee
OSPAC), consisting of a broad membership of local government and community officials in
the areas of law enforcement, education, mental health and youth advocacy, to develop
recommendations regarding juvenile justice facility and program needs in the County. After
extensive discussion and research, JSPAC developed and recommended to the Board of
Supervisors a "continuum of care" which would entail a substantial restructuring of juvenile
justice service delivery system and require the construction of a new juvenile facilities
complex. Approved by the Board in 1995, the continuum, through the incorporation of a
full system of graduated sanctions and treatment interventions ranging from early
intervention and prevention programs to locked treatment facilities for adjudicated minors,
would provide meaningful services to youth at any point of entry into the juvenile justice
system. The continuum combines the talents and efforts of a host of local government and
community-based organizations committed to helping troubled youths and reversing the
growing trend of juvenile violence and delinquency.
The County has been fortunate in obtaining some funding for implementing segments of the
continuum. On November 30, 1995, the County was notified of its $1,410,000 award
under SafeFutures from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for the prevention and control juvenile violence and
delinquency in targeted communities, and on February 6, 1996, the County was notified of
its $654,000 contract award under the AB 3015 California Mental Health Children's System
of Care from the State Department of Mental Health. The AB 3015 funding is continuous
and can be matched by federal financial participation. One-time County matching funds
have been identified to, when blended with both SafeFutures and AB 3015 funds, help fully
finance some continuum programs for at least one year.
The primary segment recommended for funding and implementation is a locked intensive
day treatment program at the Juvenile Hall, tentatively named the "Summit Unit". The
program, modeled after a similar program in Ventura County, would start with 20 boys,
aged 13 to 17 on placement orders from the Juvenile Court. The expected length of stay
will be six months. Activities will include therapeutic work with mental health staff and on-
going education, with special attention to sex offenders. A future goal is for the program
to be expanded to girls in later years. The anticipated start date for the program is
September 1, 1996. Other segments of the continuum currently recommended for funding
are gang prevention and intervention efforts targeted at middle and high school age youth,
and aftercare case management services which will strengthen all program components of
the juvenile continuum of care.
The attached resolution adds the positions necessary to implement these segments of the
continuum of care and increases the potential for continuing Federal and State financial
assistance for these and other continuum of care programs.
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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Resolution on June 25, 1996, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers , Bishop, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Smith
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: In the Matter of Authorizing ) Resolution No. 96/302
Positions for the Juvenile )
Hall Day Treatment )
(Summit) Unit and Other )
SafeFutures programs.
WHEREAS, the County is committed to developing a comprehensive strategy involving
community-based resources concentrated on providing a continuum of care for at-risk youth in an effort
to prevent and reduce juvenile violence, delinquency and serious emotional disturbance; and
WHEREAS, there exists a critical need for intensive treatment services for severely disturbed,
serious offenders at the Juvenile Hall that is currently been met through expensive and lengthy private
out-of-home residential placements; and
WHEREAS, since 1988, the Children's Mental Health Services has been working diligently to
create a system of care for seriously emotionally disturbed wards, dependents,AB 3632 pupils and other
minors at high risk of psychiatric hospitalization in- or out-of home placement; and
WHEREAS, working since 1992, the Juvenile Systems Planning Advisory Committee (JSPAC)
created a plan for a continuum of care and interventions for juvenile offenders in this County, including
intensive treatment services for at-risk and delinquent youth; and
WHEREAS, on November 30, 1995, the County was notified of its $1,410,000 award under
SafeFutures from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
(OJJDP) for the prevention and control juvenile violence and delinquency in targeted communities, and
on February 6, 1996, the County was notified of its $654,000 contract award under the AB 3015
California Mental Health Children's System of Care from the State Department of Mental Health. The
AB 3015 funding is continuous and can be matched by federal financial participation; and
WHEREAS, one-time County funding has been identified to, when blended with both
SafeFutures and AB 3015 funds, help fully finance programs consistent with the continuum of care
vision; and
WHEREAS, the Health Services and Probation Departments, under the auspices of the JSPAC,
have worked with the County Administrator's Office to develop a locked intensive day treatment program
for severely disturbed, serious offenders at Juvenile Hall incorporating therapeutic work with mental
health staff and on-going education;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT BY THE BOARD RESOLVED that effective July 1, 1996, the
following positions are added in the following departments to staff the locked intensive day treatment
(Summit) unit:
Probation Department:
Class Cost
Classification Code Quantity Type Restrict Dept Center
Institutional Supv I 7KHA 1 40/40 Unrestr 0308 3121
Probation Counselor 7KWB 1 40/40 Unrestr 0308 3121
Probation Counselor 7KWB 2 40/40 Female 0308 3121
Probation Counselor 7KWB 4 40/40 Male 0308 3121
Probation Counselor 7KWB 1 24/40 Male 0308 3121
Probation Counselor 7KWB 1 12/40* Unrestr 0308 3121
*Increase a 20/40 Probation Counselor to a 32/40 Probation Counselor position.
RESOLUTION NO. 96/ 302
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Health Services Department:
Class Cost
Classification Code Quantity Type Restrict Dept Center
Mental Hlth Clinical Spec VQSB 5 40/40 0467 5998
Mental Hlth Clinical Spec VQSB 1 20/40 0467 5998
Clerk-Senior Level JWXC 1 40/40 0467 5998
AND, WHEREAS, the SafeFutures grant award also provides funding for gang prevention and
intervention efforts targeted at middle and high school age youth, and for aftercare case management
services which will strengthen all program components of the juvenile continuum of care,
BE IT, FURTHER, BY THE BOARD RESOLVED that effective July 1, 1996, the following
positions are added in the Probation Department to staff the Youth Gangs Intervention Program and
aftercare case management services, both funded entirely with SafeFutures grant funding:
Class Cost
Classification Code Quantity Type Restrict Dept Center
Deputy Probation Officer III TATA 1 40/40 0308 3121
Deputy Probation Officer III TATA 1 20/40 0308 3121
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an
action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of
Supervisors on the date shown:
ATTESTED: June 25, 1996
PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and
County inistra r
By Deputy
Contact: Mark Morris (510) 646-4855
cc: Probation Department
Health Services Department
County Administrator's Office
Human Resources Department
RESOLUTION NO. 96/ 302