May 18, 2009 Montebello Unified School District Presentation By: Debbie Nelson, Director

 Established in 1903  Largest probation department in the world with 62,447 active adult probationers and approximately 20,000 active juvenile probationers.  Over 6,000 employees with an operating budget of approximately $700 million.  Over two-thirds of the employees are engaged in a professional aspect of probation work such as Deputy Probation Officers, Pretrial Release Investigators and Detention Services Officers.

 Consists of 9 Bureaus: Adult Field Services, Juvenile Field Services, Juvenile Special Services, Detention Services, Residential Treatment Services, Placement Services, Management Services, Quality Assurance Services, and Information Systems.  Serves all municipal and superior courts of the County.  Provides services to the community via sanctions to the court, enforcing court orders, operating correctional institutions, incarcerating delinquents, assisting victims and providing corrective assistance to individuals and families.

 Pretrial Services Division, Adult Investigations, Adult Supervision and Special Services functions.  Services in 19 field offices and in more than 19 court locations.  Pretrial Services consists of 7 programs: Bail Deviation, Own Recognizance, Early Disposition, Drug Treatment, Drug Court Electronic Monitoring and the Civil Court Name Change Petition Program.  Pretrial Services completes over 88,000 eligibility assessments/reports a year.  Adult Investigations conducts approximately 72,000 investigations per year.  The Bureau produces 92,000 supervision reports per year.

 Juvenile population between 1,500 to 1,800 daily.  Provides intake, housing and transportation services for minors detained in the 3 juvenile halls for pre-adjudicated and post-disposition wards of the juvenile court.  Provides comprehensive medical, dental, mental health, educational, religious, recreational, counseling, mentoring, and tutoring services, on-site.  Behavior Management Program  Family Resource Center at each juvenile hall.  Operation Read Literacy Program

 Camp Community Placement provides intensive intervention and programming based upon Evidenced Based Practices in a residential treatment setting.  Average daily population approximately 1,500 Services Include:  Teaching Pro-social Skills  Getting Motivated to Change  Girls Moving On  Specialized Education Services and Tutoring  Vocational Training and Structured work experience  Athletic activities

 Juvenile Population of approximately 1,800 to 2,000 daily with 1,100 minors placed in group homes.  Provides an environment for minors removed from their homes which best addresses their needs.  Out-of-Home care can be in a Group Home, Psychiatric Hospital, with relatives and non- relatives.  Provides youth development, community transition, wraparound, and therapeutic services.

 Provide protection and safety to the community.  Serve as an arm of the Superior Court.  Provide investigation and supervision services on court ordered probationers.  Recommend appropriate dispositions for juvenile offenders while preserving and enhancing the family unit.  Provide probation services to non-probation at-risk youth.

 Juvenile Special Services Bureau consists of very specialized, high profile programs working with low to extremely high-risk probationers. Programs Include:  Intake & Detention Control (IDC)  Court Officer  Intensive Gang Supervision Program (IGSP)  Special Enforcement Operations (SEO)  Camp Community Transition Program (CCTP)

 Community Detention Program (CDP)  Division of Juvenile Justice Re-Entry Program (DJJ)  LAPD Valley Operation Community Impact Team  Retail Service Vocation Program (RSVP)  Project Youth Embrace (Challenge Grant)  Abolish Chronic Truancy (ACT)  Watts Six Cities Anti-Gang Initiative  Young Women At Risk (YWAR)  Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act Programs (JJCPA)

 Originally the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act of 2000  Renamed JJCPA in 2001  Authorized funding for county juvenile justice programs.  Programs must be based on approaches demonstrated to be effective in reducing delinquency.  Each county submits an annual report to CSA which compiles all the county reports into an annual report to the legislature.

 Measures include arrests, incarcerations, probation violations, and successful completion of probation, restitution, and community service ( the Big Six).  Results on the “Big Six” are generally positive for completion of probation, payment of restitution, and completion of community service.  Results on the “Big Six” are generally negative for probation violations (the more you look, the more you see).  Arrests and incarcerations are mixed depending on the comparison groups and increasing arrests rates in the county may contaminate the comparisons.

 Designed to provide a full spectrum of community- based services to probation and non-probation, at- risk youth.  Probation Officers are placed in over 90 High Schools, 30 Middle Schools,7 Housing Developments and 4 Parks.  Officers are liaisons between schools, housing, parks administration and the Juvenile Justice System.  Supervise probationers and provide services to at- risk youth at assigned schools.  Objective is to increase the opportunity for probation and at-risk youth to achieve academic success and to empower and support parents to become the primary change agent for their children.

Collaborative Partners Include:  L. A. City and County Parks and Recreation  L.. A. City and County Housing Authority  LAPD  LASD  Mental Health  District Attorney  LAUSD  Superior Court  Community-Based Agencies

Services Include:  236 WIC  Functional Family Therapy (FFT)  Multisystemic Therapy (MST)  Home-Based and Community-Based Gender Specific for both males and females  Employment Readiness  Operation Read – Literacy Program  Gang Intervention  Home-Based High Risk/High Needs  Substance Abuse Counseling  After-School Enrichment

 Understand that services and monitoring must be community-based provided in the youth’s/family’s own ecology.  And, understand that education, youth involved in pro-social activities to develop pro-social skills, and strengthening the family are strong protective factors. ########