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CONSIDERATION OF A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $26,867 FOR THE WEEKEND ALTERNATIVE DETENTION PROGRAM / JUVENILE ACCOUNTABILITY BLOCK GRANT (JABG).
Presented by: Mark Masterson, Director, Sedgwick County Department of Corrections.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the application for the grant, and if awarded authorize acceptance of the grant and the establishment of budget authority as provided in the financial considerations section of this request.
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Grant Renewal: Yes.
Never Applied: No.
Applied; not awarded: No.
Grant Summary and Timeline: The Weekend Alternative Detention Program is an interactive two day program developed as an alternative to secure detention. The target population is 288 Sedgwick County youth age 10 - 17 who are juvenile offenders or Child in Need of Care (CINC) youth (primarily assessed as low to moderate risk to reoffend)who have violated their court orders (i.e., truancy, curfew, runaway, positive urinary analysis, etc.). This program is an important part of the continuum of detention alternatives to secure custody. This program provides another option to the services / sanctions grid to use instead of confinement at the Sedgwick County Juvenile Detention Facility. The program holds community supervision violators accountable while reducing the use of detention beds and increasing the likelihood of youth successfully completing community supervision without the need for further confinement.
The program is conducted a minimum of twice a month on Saturday and Sunday. The program includes life skills instruction, role-playing, group discussions and a physical fitness component. The primary focus is on skill building techniques to improve competency and prevent a re-offense or probation violation. Topics may include: drug and alcohol awareness, decision making, role playing scenarios, choices and consequences, values, situational analysis, goal setting and peer group involvement. Referrals can be made from several different sources. A judge can order a youth to the program in lieu of a predetermined sanction in secured confinement for a probation violation. A youth may be directed to attend by a probation officer as one of the selected sanctions from the Services / Sanctions Grid. A formal referral may be made by a court services officer for a youth that is in violation of a valid court order. An informal referral may be made by an intensive supervision officer, home-based supervision officer or diversion coordinator. Youth are considered successful if they actively participate in all aspects of the two day course. Written policies and procedures are in place to guide discipline for non-compliance issues using graduated steps up to and including removal from the program.
The Sedgwick County Juvenile Corrections Advisory Board (Team Justice) approved this application on February 3, 2012. This completed application is due to the Juvenile Justice Authority no later than 5:00 P.M. on March 30, 2012.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: July 1, 2012
Grant period ends: June 30, 2013
Source of funding
Grant: $24,180
Required Match: $
Required Cash Match: $2,687
Required In-Kind Match: $
Other funding: $24,097
TOTAL SOURCES: $50,964
Uses of funding (Note: Include any Required Matches in your totals)
Operational costs: $
Personnel: $49,102
Contractual services: $862
Operational supplies: $1,000
Equipment:$
Indirect administrative costs:$
Capital projects cost:$
TOTAL USES $50,964
Source of matching funds: General Fund grant match transfers (33026-110). Current year JABG funds are maintained in 33065-253 / 330655-12.
Source of other funding: County General Fund (from existing staff -- Position #20003278 -- budgeted in 33011-110)
Budget Authority Adjustment: None
Personnel considerations: None
Expected measurable outcomes:
Goal: to provide an alternative to detention program to hold community supervision violators accountable, reduce the use of detention beds by probation violators, increase the likelihood of successfully completing community supervision without the need for further confinement and increase decision making and goal setting skills.
Objective A: 75% of youth will not be charged with a new crime within 12 months of successful completion of the Weekend Alternative Detention program, as measured by juvenile court records compiled by the Sedgwick County Department of Corrections.
Objective B: to reduce by 30% (from 188 to 132) the percentage of sanction house admissions to secure (locked) detention, as measured by detention admission records compiled by the Sedgwick County Department of Corrections.
Additionally, grantees must report on core performance measures (output and outcome) for the program area (graduated sanctions) as required by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Alternatives: If we do not submit a funding application for approval, we will not be able to receive these federal funds. Sedgwick County has received this grant annually since 1998. There will be a continuation of the existing utilization of County resources. Should the JABG funding request be denied, other funds would need to be located, or the program would be eliminated. Elimination of this program would create a negative impact on the ability to provide graduated sanction options as an alternative to confinement at the juvenile detention facility.
Policy considerations: None
Legal considerations: The authority for this action is K.S.A. 75-7038 through 75-7056 and a simple majority is required.