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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES PROBATION DEPARTMENT

VISION, MISSION, CORE VALUES

VISION: Rebuild Lives and Provide for Healthier and Safer Communities MISSION: Enhance Public Safety, Ensure Victims’ Rights & Effect Positive Probationer Behavioral Change CORE VALUES:

• Dignity & Respect Contribution
• Integrity Commitment
• Leadership Collaboration
• Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Practices

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DID YOU KNOW

• We are the largest Probation Department in the

nation

• Probation has more than 6,600 Employees
• We have Adult Services / Juvenile Services
• 3 Juvenile Halls
• 19 Residential Treatment Camps
• 24 Area Offices
• Specialized Field Offices
• Pre –Trial Service Locations
• We have Armed Deputies- Special Enforcement

Operation

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DEPUTY PROBATION OFFICER (DPO)

In order to be a DPO you must:  Have graduated from an accredited four-year college or university Satisfy the State of California for peace officer status Be required to meet State-mandated core training Every peace officer candidate will be subject to a through background investigation

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COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS

Adult

DPH Project 180 (AB109) Superior Courts Public Defenders Office DMH DPSS Other Law Enforcement Agencies

Juvenile

DCFS DMH LACOE LAUSD Drug Courts UCLA Guardian Scholars Program DPSS

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RESIDENTIAL BASED SERVICES (RBS) PLACEMENT

What is Residentially Based Services ? RBS is an innovative approach to providing services to high-need youth and their families that includes placement in group care & relative /non-relative care Core Competencies: Safety Well-Being Self-Sufficiency Permanency

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PROBATION-SUPERVISED CHILD WELFARE SERVICES

• Every County Probation Department provide array
• f services to youth and their families
• Pre-Placement Preventive Services
• Family Reunification Services
• Permanent Placement Services
• Specialized Programs for:
• Youth Sex Offenders
• Substance Abusers
• Youth Involved in Gang Activity

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FOSTER CARE PLACEMENTS

California Department of Social Services (CDSS)- Community Care Licensing (CCL) licenses six types of foster care facilities: Foster Family Homes Small Family Homes Foster Family Agencies Group Homes Community Treatment Facilities Transitional Housing Placement Program Facilities

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DUAL STATUS YOUTH ASSEMBLY BILL (AB) 129

Under AB129 (chapter 468, statutes of 2004), counties are able to establish “Dual Status” for children and youth by placing them under the jurisdiction of both the dependency and juvenile court systems Benefits:

• Provides for better service coordination
• Communication- which benefits both children ;

youth and families

• Collaboration with case planning with both systems

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CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE MODEL (PM)

Practice Model is a description of how probation staff partner with families, service providers, and other stakeholders to achieve positive

• utcomes for youth and their families.
• Goals of the PM:
• Reduce the number of youth in congregate care
• Increase exits to permanency and self sufficiency
• Reduce re-entries (new episodes) within 12

months.

• Decrease the average length of stay in

congregate care.

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THANK YOU

Felicia Davis, Director County of Los Angeles Probation Department Residential Based Services- Placement Felicia.Davis@probation.lacounty.gov Julia Esqueda, SDPO County of Los Angeles Probation Department Residential Based Services- Placement Julia.Esqueda@probation.lacounty.gov

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