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Edwin M. Lee Maria Su, Psy.D. MAYOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Department of Children, Youth and Their Families JJCC Local Action Plan Interview Findings Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council September 13, 2016 Department of Children, Youth and

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Department of Children, Youth and Their Families

Maria Su, Psy.D.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Edwin M. Lee

MAYOR

JJCC Local Action Plan Interview Findings Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council September 13, 2016

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

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Agenda

1. Update on Local Action Plan (LAP) Timeline 2. Methodology 3. Framework of Analysis 4. Interview Findings: Barriers 5. Interview Findings: Suggested Improvements 6. Discussion 7. Appendix A: Alignment of Local Action Plan with DCYF’s Community Needs Assessment & Services Allocation Plan 8. Appendix B: Juvenile Justice System-Involved Youth – Data Overview

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  • 1. Update on LAP Timeline

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Update on Timeline

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Date Item Completed Summer 2016 Finalize DCYF CNA  Summer 2016 Assess need for additional data collection or stakeholder input  Summer 2016 Conduct interviews with JJCC members  Fall/ Winter 2016 VPI Joint Funders Group to develop proposed strategies December 2016 Present proposed strategies to JJCC December 2016 Finalize proposed strategies for inclusion in LAP 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. Methodology

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Methodology: JJCC Member Interviews

  • Adult Probation Department
  • Community Assessment and Referral

Center (CARC)

  • Center on Juvenile and Criminal

Justice (CJCJ)

  • Department of Children Youth and

Their Families

  • District Attorney’s Office
  • Department of Public Health
  • Human Services Agency
  • Juvenile Advisory Committee
  • Juvenile Probation Department
  • Mayor’s Office of Violence Prevention

Services

  • Mayors Office of Housing and

Community Development

  • Recreation and Park Department
  • Police Department
  • Public Defender’s Office
  • San Francisco Unified School District
  • Sheriff’s Department
  • Superior Court
  • Youth Commission

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Conducted 22 interview sessions, interviewed 30 people, representing 18 different JJCC agencies/organizations:

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Methodology: Other Information Gathering

  • VPI/YWD-JSI Grantee Input Sessions (2)
  • JJC Focus Groups (2)
  • Unit 7 – 16 & 17 year old boys
  • Girls Unit (September 23)
  • Focus Groups/Interviews with young people who have successfully

transitioned out of the juvenile justice system

  • Other Data Analysis

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  • 3. Framework for Analysis

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Framework for Analysis

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1) What was identified as the barriers and challenges for juvenile justice system-involved youth? 2) How can we improve the juvenile justice system in San Francisco?

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  • 4. Interview Findings: Barriers

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Interview Findings: Barriers

  • Lack of coordination, consistency, accountability, transparency, and

communication

  • Lack of trust
  • Between system partners
  • Between system partners and CBOs
  • Between system partners and youth/families
  • Bias
  • Implicit and explicit
  • Of systems and people working in systems
  • Lack of stability (basic needs not met for youth and families)

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Interview Findings: Barriers

  • Insufficient whole family support throughout system-involvement
  • Need for increased youth leadership, development, and

empowerment opportunities

  • Need for access to mental health and substance abuse services
  • Need for academic and alternative education opportunities
  • Insufficient targeted services for specific groups of youth

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  • 5. Interview Findings:

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
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Suggested Improvement: Examine Policy/Be Flexible

  • All system partners support and implement LAP recommendations

and strategies

  • Provide services beyond the 9-5 work day
  • Change rigid or outdated policies
  • Use data to assess juvenile justice system and drive policy

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Suggested Improvement: Trained & Supported Workforce

  • All professionals (e.g. teachers, probation officers, police officers,

administrative staff, etc.) believe in a child’s potential to change if given real opportunities

  • All professionals trained on/operate from a framework that recognizes:
  • Implicit/explicit bias
  • Equity and trauma
  • Mental and behavioral health
  • Evidence-based practices
  • Adolescent brain and youth development
  • Effective partnership and communication

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Suggested Improvement: Collaboration and Communication

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All

  • Demonstrate commitment to work in collaboration
  • Ensure all partners have full knowledge of juvenile justice system processes
  • Implement Shared Youth Database

DCYF

  • Ensure access to multiple TA and Capacity Building opportunities
  • Increase CBO accountability (e.g. performance based contracting)

JPD

  • Offer trainings that encourage caseworker models
  • Ensure clarity and consistency of POs roles throughout the juvenile justice process
  • Create joint training and service coordination opportunities for CBOs and POs
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SFPD

  • Seek early intervention opportunities and encourage closer partnerships between city

departments serving justice system-involved youth and SFPD

  • Ensure SROs are supported to engage meaningfully with school staff and students

SFUSD

  • Improve partnerships between schools and CBOs operating in schools or with students
  • Build greater partnership opportunities between SFUSD and JPD

CBO

  • Allow CBOs to broker trust between community and system partners
  • Utilize CBOs as a central partner of Juvenile Justice System

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Suggested Improvement: Collaboration and Communication

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

Suggested Improvement: Collaboration & Communication

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DPH

  • Offer behavioral and mental health training to teachers

HSA

  • Create closer partnership with HSA/Child Protective Services and other system

partners

Other

  • Work with the business and technology community to bridge the youth workforce

development gap

  • Encourage engagement of tech partners as opportunity for community building
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Suggested Improvement: Alternatives to Formal Involvement & Incarceration

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  • Build upon existing alternative to detention programs to

ensure multiple opportunities to leave secure custody

  • Ensure appropriate placements and referrals to more

appropriate services when applicable

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Suggested Improvement: Educational Opportunity

  • Deliver culturally relevant curriculum to in-custody youth
  • Support SROs to build relationships with students and

teachers

  • Create more vocational training opportunities
  • Ensure restorative reentry programs at high schools

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Suggested Improvement: Whole Family Engagement

  • Redefine the term “family” so that it is more inclusive and

accessible

  • Facilitate support groups for parents/family members
  • Hold families accountable to the court-mandated supports
  • Engage and offer additional supportive services to youth with a

system-involved parent

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Suggested Improvement: Basic Needs/Access to Service & Transportation

  • Ensure support for meeting basic needs
  • Provide safe and stable housing
  • Create more connections to employment services
  • Safe corridor (unrestricted by turf, money, where public transit

travels, etc.) to and from schools, programs, etc.

  • Meet youth and families where they are

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Suggested Improvement: Service Connection & Coordination

  • Ensure services are intentional, continuous, and coordinated

in and out of custody throughout the juvenile justice process

  • Provide ongoing services for youth in custody that includes

warm handoffs

  • Provide assistance to families that includes consultation and

system and process navigation

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Suggested Improvement: Quality Programming

  • Fund fewer CBOs that have a proven track record, are trusted by

the community, offer diverse services, and deliver high quality services

  • Create standardized reporting system for all agencies
  • Hold agencies accountable, monitor outcomes and be flexible to

system changes

  • Ensure that services are driven by the child’s needs
  • Ensure cultural and linguistic competence and appropriateness

for all providers and services

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Suggested Improvement: Quality Programming

  • Provide programming that offers enrichment (arts and music), life

skills, anger management, conflict resolution, and education about the dangers of social media

  • Offer more leadership and youth development opportunities
  • Provide long-term mentorship opportunities
  • Create youth empowerment/engagement opportunities
  • Create genuine and meaningful space for system-involved youth to

talk with adult decision-makers

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Next Steps

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

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  • 7. Appendix A:

Alignment of Local Action Plan with DCYF Community Needs Assessment & Services Allocation Plan

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Goals & Purposes of LAP

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Multiagency Local Action Plan (LAP) that identifies resources and strategies for providing a continuum of responses for the prevention, intervention, supervision, treatment, and incarceration of juvenile

  • ffenders.

Each year the LAP can either be:

  • Updated by 18 JJCC voting members and submitted to BSCC for approval
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  • The county can reapply for a continuation of funding for the same programs

as the year prior

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Required components of the LAP

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  • Assessment of existing resources for at-risk youth and their families
  • Identification/prioritization of communities that face public safety risk

from juvenile crime

  • Plan for allocation of resources to effectively reduce juvenile crime
  • Development of information/intelligence-sharing systems for effective

coordination and data collection

  • Identify outcome measures including but not limited to:
  • Rate of juvenile arrests
  • Rate of successful completions of probation
  • Rate of successful completion of restitution and community service
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Alignment of LAP with CNA and SAP

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JJCC voted on 9/15/15 to align LAP with DCYF’s CNA and SAP

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  • 8. Appendix B:

Juvenile Justice System-Involved Youth – Data Overview

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JJSI Youth: Data Overview

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Con Contact with ith th the e Ju Juven enile le Ju Justic tice System

Year

2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2015 2011 2011-2015 % % Cha Change Al All Referrals ls 2,196 1,871 1,594 1,392 1,204

  • 45%

Al All Juv Juvenil ile Hal Hall l Bo Bookin

  • kings

1,146 937 856 746 704

  • 38%

Average Le Leng ngth of

  • f St

Stay (da (days) 27 24 27 31 26

  • 4%

Average Da Dail ily Pop

  • pula

latio ion in n Ju Juvenile Hal all 89 74 74 70 56

  • 37%

% % of

  • f Referrals De

Detain ined 52% 50% 54% 54% 59%

Source: 2015 JPD Annual Report

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JJSI Youth: Data Overview

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Br Brea eakdown of

  • f Referrals

2015 Referrals ls # % Ju Juvenile Hal all Bo Book

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704 58% Ci Citatio ions 381 32% Oth Other 119 10% Tot

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1,204 100% 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2015 Al All Referrals ls 2,196 1,871 1,594 1,392 1,204 Petit itio ions Fi Filed* 1,009 823 757 622 490* % % Petit itio ions Fi Filed 46% 44% 48% 45% 41%

*Number of petitions filed may not equal number of petitions dismissed or sustained b/c petitions are not always resolved in same calendar year Source: 2015 JPD Annual Report

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Petition Outcomes

Petiti tition Outcomes es

Petitions Dismissed 127 Petitions Sustained 369 Log Cabin Ranch 30 Department of Juvenile Justice 1 Out of Home Placement 74 Ward Probation 148 Non-ward Probation 11 Informal Probation 33 Remand to Adult Court Transfer Out of County 80

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Source: 2015 JPD Annual Report

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JJSI Youth: Data Overview

Gen ender

# % Female 204 26% Male 575 74% Tot

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ndupli licated Referrals 779 779 100% 100%

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Race/ ce/Ethnicity

# % African American 412 53% Hispanic 215 28% White 70 9% Samoan 23 3% Filipino 17 2% Chinese 12 2% Other Asian 8 1% Pacific Islander 3 0.4% Vietnamese 3 0.4% Asian Indian 1 0.1% Other Asian 15 2% Tot

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779 779 100% 100%

Age e ( ( as of

  • f 1/1

/1/2 /2016)

# % 10 & Under 0.0% 11 7 0.9% 12 8 1% 13 25 3% 14 55 7% 15 98 13% 16 151 19% 17 222 29% 18 173 22% Over 18 40 5% Tot

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779 779 100.0%

Source: 2015 JPD Annual Report