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Presentation LAUSD Budget Committee February 2017

Centinela Youth Services, Inc. (CYS)

• CYS began in 1975
• Local leader in Restorative Justice for 30 years.
• Victim-Offender Restitution Services (VORS) –

achieves high restitution completion rates

• Families Able to Resolve Situations (FARS) – parent/

teen mediation addressing family conflict

• Everychild Restorative Justice Center with wrap

around case management and mental health support, multi-layered interventions [in place of expulsion/arrest].

Services

Justice System Diversion:

• Pre-Booking; Referred by Law Enforcement
• Post-Booking; Referred by Probation, Courts
• Student-Police Dialogs

Services for Schools

• Training and technical assistance on trauma-informed and

restorative approaches to behavior

• Expulsion diversion

Referral Criteria

• Youth age 9 - 18 years
• Minimal criminal history
• Misdemeanor and felony.
• Generally not 707-b offenses
• Some Robbery without weapon
• Some Arson
• No prior sustained felony petition.

Operating under Blanket Order from Presiding Judge of Juvenile Court for 25 years.

WHY?

Simply being arrested (even if not sustained):

• Far more likely to drop
• ut of school
• Far less likely to enroll in

college 7x more likely to experience:

• adult unemployment
• welfare dependence**

*Journal Sociology of Education, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin **Sampson, R. J. and John H. Laub. "Crime and Deviance over the life course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds." American Sociological Review 55.5 (Oct. 1990): 609-627. Web. May 2011.

What Works?: Restorative Justice

• Goal is to change the mindset of the

misbehaving youth. Help them gain greater respect for others and themselves and more accountability to their community at large.

• Accountability: Repairing harm to the victim

and the community as a whole.

• Addressing needs: Support for the

underlying needs of the offender so they are less likely to reoffend in the future.

Sources: UCLA Civil Rights Project; Porter 2007; Zehr 1998.

Evidence Based Practices

Victim-Offender Restitution Services (VORS)

Accepted for listing on the National Registry of Evidenced Based Programs & Practices (SAMHSA)

• Recidivism rate for VORS participants was half the rate of non-

participants.

• Restitution paid by VORS participants averaged 166 times more than

that paid by non-participants.

• Community service agreed to/ordered averaged 40% less for VORS

participants than non-participants. However, VORS participants completed 6 times as many service hours.

Victim-Offender Restitution Services (VORS)

Cuts recidivism in half

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Recidivism Treatment Control

31%

Treatment Control

$0.00 $20.00 $40.00 $60.00 $80.00 $100.00 $120.00 $140.00 Ordered Paid Treatment Control

15%

Everychild Restorative Justice Center

• Serving Inglewood, Compton, Sylmar Court jurisdictions
• Provide intensive case management
• Use YLS/CMI and other assessments to measure risk in:
• Individualized treatment plans involve activities such as

School

Mental Health

Physical Health Stress Crime Risk Behaviors Substance Use Employment

• Credit Recovery
• Educational Rights

legal services

• Tutoring
• Doctor’s check ups
• Community Service
• Family mediation
• Family therapy
• Individual therapy
• Parenting classes
• Mediation with Victim

and Restitution

• Substance Abuse

treatment

• Employment or job

training

• After school activities

Accessible

• Services held near

families

• library, school,

community center

• No Cost to family
• No language

barriers

• Flexible hours,

evening appointments.

Service Area

• Victim-

Offender

• Parent-teen

mediation

Service Area

Intensive, wrap- around case management at the Restorative Justice centers

Valley Restorative Justice Center

• Replicating successful South LA model.
• Currently 43% of youth served are LAUSD
• students. Projected over 60% will be LAUSD

students for Valley RJC.

• Many of the crime victims are LAUSD Schools

and students.

• Restitution collection 86%; victim satisfaction at 98%.

Seeking Support for Expansion

Valley Restorative Justice Center 3 Year Budget: $1,878,000 Committed Support: $701,618

• Probation/BOS Dist 3, JJCPA:

$500,000

• W. M. Keck Foundation:

$250,000

• LA County Dispute Resolution:

$119,018

• Ralph M. Parsons Foundation & other: $57,600

Balance to be Raised: $951,382