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Department of Children, Youth and Their Families JJCC Local Action Plan Proposed Strategies Decision Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council January 24, 2017

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Maria Su, Psy.D.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Edwin M. Lee

MAYOR

Department of Children, Youth and Their Families 1390 Market Street Suite 900 * San Francisco, CA 94102 * 415-554-8990 * www.dcyf.org

Agenda

1. Update on Local Action Plan (LAP) Timeline 2. Recap Suggested Improvements 3. System Strategy Areas 4. Direct Service Strategies 5. Additional LAP Components 6. Discussion & Decision

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• 1. Update on LAP

Timeline

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Update on Timeline

Date Item Next Step Summer 2016 Finalize DCYF CNA Assess need for additional data collection or stakeholder input Conduct interviews with JJCC members Fall/ Winter 2016 VPI Joint Funders Group to develop proposed strategies January 2017 Present proposed strategies to JJCC

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March 2017 Draft of LAP Submitted to JJCC for Approval April 2017 Submit request for substantive change to JJCPA Program Categories Summer-Fall 2017 Incorporate new funding strategies into DCYF RFP

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• 2. Recap Suggested

Improvements

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Interview Findings: Suggested Improvements

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• Examine Policy/Be Flexible
• Trained & Supported Workforce
• Collaboration & Communication
• Alternatives to Formal Involvement & Incarceration
• Academic & Alternative Education Opportunity
• Whole Family Engagement
• Basic Needs/Access to Service & Transportation
• Service Connection & Coordination
• Quality Programming

Additional Input /Review

• VPI/YWD-JSI Grantee Input Sessions (2)
• 36 participants representing 31 VPI and VPI-YWD

programs

• Juvenile Justice Center Focus Groups (2)
• Boys Unit 7 – 16 & 17 year old (14 youth)
• Girls Unit 5 (8 youth)

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VPI Grantee Input Session Findings

QUALITY PROGRAMMING COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION BASIC NEEDS/ACCESS TO SERVICE & TRANSPORTATION TRAINED & SUPPORTED WORKFORCE EXAMINE POLICY/BE FLEXIBLE SUBPOPULATIONS WHOLE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT SERVICE CONNECTION & COORDINATION YOUTH CULTURE/PERSPECTIVE ACADEMIC & ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY ALTERNATIVES TO FORMAL INVOLVEMENT & …

26.7% 16.0% 12.6% 11.3% 6.9% 6.3% 6.0% 5.3% 4.1% 2.8% 1.9%

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% of Grantee Comments by Topic

Juvenile Justice Center Focus Group Findings

• Needs and experiences of youth are multi-faceted and

every participant expressed the desire to grow personally

• Feelings of social isolation and disconnection from family
• Challenges with staff (inside and outside)
• Some supportive, some not – inconsistent
• Unfair policing and bias in systems (including in school)
• School inside is too easy and doesn’t match school outside
• Some saw this as a positive, others as a negative
• Want extra support in school outside – incentives to attend

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Juvenile Justice Center Focus Group Findings

• Time to reflect and get help inside
• Help and support is inconsistent and inaccessible
• utside
• Help and support doesn’t always fit the wants and needs
• f the young person
• Young women often live adult lives outside and are not

treated as such inside

• Experience of justice involvement is normalized for many

youth

• Immense anxiety about getting out
• Fear of failure
• Challenge of friend groups

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Juvenile Justice Center Focus Group Findings

• Young people have goals and dreams:
• Go to college
• Live in my own apartment
• Make music
• Work with animals
• Marry my girlfriend
• Get off probation, get back on track, graduate high

school

• Do 114 pushups
• Spend more time with my grandparents

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JPD & VPI Joint Funder Priorities

• Juvenile Probation Director’s Priorities
• Support for Academic Education and Improvement in

Educational Supports for Youth in Hall

• Youth Workforce Development Opportunities
• Support for Family Services
• VPI Joint Funder’s Priorities
• Support for Academic Education
• Coordinate Continuum of Care Reform
• Professional Workforce Development and Support
• Evaluate VPI Joint Funder’s Role and Composition

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Recommended Strategies for LAP

Refined Priority Area

System Policies & Practices Continuum of Care Support implementation of Continuum of care reform. Service Connection and Coordination Strengthen key partnerships and service coordination. Trained and Supported Workforce; Collaboration and Communication Develop ongoing shared learning and training opportunities for professionals; develop youth referral process and increase awareness of community services and supports. Direct Service and Program Strategies Alternatives to Formal Involvement & Incarceration; Quality Programming Continue quality programming and direct service strategies that support juvenile justice involved youth. Whole Family Engagement Develop support services for parents of teens and in-custody teen parents

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• 3. System Policies &

Practices

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Continuum of Care Reform

• Vision
• Individualized and coordinated services/supports
• Short-term, high quality, intensive intervention
• Effective accountability and transparency drives continuous

quality improvement for state, counties, and providers

• Key Strategies
• Retention and recruitment of nurturing, committed families
• Case planning, placement decisions and care coordination
• New licensing requirements
• Restructured rate system
• Provide integrated collaborative services

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Service Connection and Coordination

• Define how JPD staff can support the coordination of

services for youth and families

• Prioritize the coordination of data collection and the sharing
• f information data systems
• Develop evaluation plan for continuous ongoing reflection

for system review

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Trained & Supported Workforce/ Collaboration &Communication

• Improve collaboration and communication between CBOs

and POs to increase overall awareness of CBO services

• Develop a JPD Certification process for CBOs and other

institutions that work with juvenile justice population

• Create joint trainings for all professionals in Implicit Bias,

Trauma-Informed Systems and ACEs

• Create formal referral process to CBOs based on assessment
• f youth needs and create standard process for CBOs to

report back to POs and courts

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• 4. Proposed Service Strategies

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Alternatives to Incarceration & Involvement

• Support quality programming that offers comprehensive

intervention strategies for youth on probation, in out-of- home placement, in custody and at Log Cabin Ranch such as:

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• Continuum of Supervision

Services

• Diversion (could be both)
• Alternatives to Detention
• Reporting Centers
• Intensive Supervision and Clinical

Services (ISCS)

• Complementary Services
• Alternative Education
• Restorative Justice
• Detention-based Enrichment and Youth

Development

• Youth Workforce Development

Whole Family Engagement

• Create coordinated services and resources for youth and

families that includes system navigation for youth in-custody and at Log Cabin Ranch

• Create services for parents of teens, children of incarcerated

parents, and teen parents who are on probation, in out-of- home placement, in custody and at Log Cabin Ranch

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Key Levers for Success

• Address key policies and practices that impact strategy

effectiveness

• There must be collective decision-making and collaboration

amongst all agencies and institutions that touch juvenile justice involved youth

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• 5. Additional LAP

Components

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Data and Assessment

• Identify and prioritize neighborhoods, schools, and other

areas of the community

• Develop outcome measures to accurately reflect strategy

work

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Next Steps

Date Item Next Step Summer 2016 Finalize DCYF CNA Assess need for additional data collection or stakeholder input Conduct interviews with JJCC members Fall/ Winter 2016 VPI Joint Funders Group to develop proposed strategies January 2017 Present proposed strategies to JJCC March 2017 Draft of LAP Submitted to JJCC for Approval

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April 2017 Submit request for substantive change to JJCPA Program Categories Summer-Fall 2017 Incorporate new funding strategies into DCYF RFP

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• 6. Discussion & Decision

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