PIMA COUNTY JUVENILE COURT
DMC/JDAI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
2008-2009 Goals and Objectives
On July 25, 2008, the DMC/JDAI Executive Committee and Model Delinquency Court Committee merged to conduct a retreat for the purpose of developing a single strategic plan for the three initiatives. This collaborative identified the following areas of work for the coming year.
GOAL: To review and develop ways to expedite the various steps involved in juvenile referrals.
Chairs: Judge Hochuli, Leah Hamilton, John Schow
GOAL 1: To identify or facilitate the creation of community based alternatives to detention that will serve youth in detention: pending adjudication that score in the medium risk range of the RAI, violators of conditions of release and violators of conditions of probation.
GOAL II: To identify or facilitate the creation of community based programming for girls in the juvenile delinquency system.
Chairs: Alvin Boudy, Keith Brunson
GOAL I: Inform decision-making and identify level of progress toward initiative goals.
GOAL II: To increase understanding among initiative stakeholders about the importance of data to juvenile justice system functioning and outcomes.
GOAL III: To coordinate data request, analysis, and reporting efforts across the three initiatives to increase efficiency and standardization to:
Eliminate or reduce duplication of effort across the various DMC/JDAI and Model Delinquency Court (MDQC) committees
Ensure sufficient and appropriate data and data analyses to assist in decision-making
Increase utilitarian value of reports
Objectives:
Incorporate DMC/JDAI Data ad hoc committee into new data committee
Define terms such as recidivism and youth-of-color
Develop IT data request template(s)
Determine audiences for reports and what decisions reports will inform
Review current and planned reports to:
Identify duplication and gaps in data
Determine value of and make recommendations
Develop/modify report formats for each audience
Chairs: Pat Canterbury, Jesus Diaz
GOAL: To evaluate data on diversion, low/medium risk youth and over rides and then develop the goal.
Chairs: Tillie Arvizu, Courtney Robinson
GOAL: To develop a training strategy for DMC/JDAI/MDC and implement a communications strategy to inform all stakeholders and community about the three initiatives.
Chair: Marcia Rincon-Gallardo
GOAL I: To gain access to school records for PO’s, particularly to train PO’s on how to access school records with an emphasis on special education, 504 plans and the school discipline process.
GOAL II: To conduct cross training between the education and court communities
GOAL III: To track other projects such as the Sunnyside USD pilot with satellite PO’s.
GLOSSARY
DMC: Disproportionate minority contact; the overrepresentation of children of color in the juvenile justice system and disparate outcomes in relation to their percentage of the general population.
JDAI: Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative; a nationwide initiative by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to reduce the inappropriate use of detention for children involved in the juvenile justice system. Pima County Juvenile Court is a JDAI site.
Executive
Committee: The collaboration of community stakeholders (government agencies, community organizations and individuals) committed to and providing governance for the DMC/JDAI initiative in Pima County. A current list of members is attached to this document.
CPS: Child Protective Services, a division of the Arizona Department of Economic Security charged with investigating and protecting children from abuse and neglect.
CPSA: Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, a nonprofit organization providing behavioral health services to low-income families.
PCJCC: Pima County Juvenile Court, a division of the Pima County Superior Court having jurisdiction over all matters involving juveniles, including delinquency and dependency proceedings.
Delinquency: A court proceeding against a juvenile charged with committing an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult.
Detention: The temporary confinement pursuant to court order of a juvenile charged with or found guilty of committing a delinquent act in a physically restricting facility that is completely surrounded by a locked and physically secure barrier with restricted ingress and egress.
Risk
Assessment
Instrument: A screening tool used for all juveniles arrested and physically referred to PCJCC to determine their risk to commit another crime or to fail to appear for future court hearings.
Override: A decision, approved by a probation supervisor, to detain a juvenile even though the minor’s score on the risk assessment instrument does not meet the level required for detention.
Graduated
Responses: A system used by the Juvenile Court and juvenile probation officers in response to repetitive delinquent behavior and/or violations of probation to attempt to change the juvenile’s behavior through a combination of increasingly significant sanctions and support services.
Child and
Family Team
Model: A team-based process and support-planning model comprised of a facilitator and 4-8 people in the life of the youth and family who know them well and who care. The team creates, implements, and monitors an individualized plan, formal and natural supports, based on the strengths and areas of needs for the child and family, including the unique cultural strengths of the child and family.
Arizona
Department of
Juvenile
Corrections: State agency charged with the responsibility of admitting and confining minors committed to their care by the juvenile courts throughout the state. Confinement is typically based on the minor’s high risk to public safety and is long-term.