MISSOURI
Directory of
Juvenile Justice
Resources for
Missouri
2005
By
THE MISSOURI
JUVENILE JUSTICE ASSOCIATION
P. O. Box 1332
Jefferson City, MO 65102-1332
573.636.6101
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The Missouri Juvenile Justice Association is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment, due process and enhanced opportunities for all children within Missouri’s juvenile justice system.
Much appreciation is extended to Liisa Vandelicht, Executive Assistant,
of the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association,
for compilation of information found in this publication.
MISSOURI JUVENILE JUSTICE ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 1332, Jefferson City, MO 65102-1332
573-636-6101, FAX 573-635-5159,
January 2006
Dear Reader:
It is our pleasure to provide you with this revised edition of the Directory of Juvenile Justice Resources for Missouri-2005.
It is our intention that this publication will provide you with a list of contact information for a variety of juvenile justice programs, services and resources – at local, state and national levels.
Missouri’s juvenile justice system serves over 79,000 abused/neglected, delinquent and runaway children each year. If you have an interest in learning how some communities are addressing this challenge – and how some organizations may be of assistance to you and your work, this publication is for you.
Much appreciation is extended to The Missouri Bar for the printing of this document. We appreciate the opportunity to partner with The Missouri Bar on such an important effort.
Most sincerely,
Julie Cole Agee Kim Moeckel
Julie Cole Agee Kim Moeckel
Executive Director President
Committed to children in need of a future.
MISSOURI
Juvenile
AND
Family Courts
2nd Judicial Circuit
Adair County
1400 South Boundary
Kirksville, MO 63501
660-665-4224
Knox County
P.O. Box 116
Edina, MO 63537
660-397-3559
Lewis County
P.O. Box 117
Monticello, MO 63457
573-767-5210
adair county casa program
1400 South Boundary Street, Kirksville, MO 63501
Sandy Richardson, CASA Director, 660-665-4224
Provides trained volunteer court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the Court System.
MENTORING PROGRAM
1400 South Boundary Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Staci Eleazarraraz, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 660-665-4224
Provides a volunteer adult to spend one-on-one time with a youth as a positive role model.
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM
1400 South Boundary Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Staci Eleazarraraz, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 660-665-4224
Provide community service sites for juveniles that have been adjudicated in Court for delinquent behaviors.
SHOPLIFTING PROGRAM
1400 South Boundary Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Kevin Martin, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 660-665-4224
Educational programs about personal consequences and negative community effects of shoplifting by the juvenile.
ANGER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
1400 South Boundary Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Kevin Martin, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 660-665-4224
Educational instruction on the biological and social origins of the child’s anger with a focus on developing positive outlets and expressions of that anger.
INTENSIVE PROBATION PROGRAM
Kevin Martin, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 660-665-4224
1400 South Boundary Street, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Jane Moore, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 660-397-3559
P.O. Box 116, Edina, Missouri 63537
Anthony Foster, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 573-767-5210
P.O. Box 117, Monticello, Missouri 63457
Provides intensive supervision for at risk youth from being removed from the home and committed to the Division of Youth Services.
SCHOOL LIASON PROGRAM
P.O. Box 117, Monticello, Missouri 63457
Kathy Wisehart, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 573-767-5210
Work closely within the school district to help prevent truancy and delinquent behaviors.
BRUCE NORMILE JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER- DETENTION UNIT
1400 South Boundary, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Jeff Hall, Director of Detention Services, 660-665-4224
Provide community safety and offender accountability in a secure setting.
NORMILE FAMILY CENTER
1400 South Boundary, Kirksville, Missouri 63501
Garla Mills, Director of Residential Services, 660-665-4224
Provide emergency shelter, level two (moderate need) and level three (severe need) residential services to youth between the ages of 12 and 18.
3rd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
700 MAIN STREET, SUITE 13
TRENTON, MO 64683
660-359-2347
JUVENILE COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM
Rita Martz, 660-359-2347, rita.martz@courts.
The Third Circuit Juvenile Court Diversion Program is a two-phase program that provides at-risk youth opportunities to help re-direct delinquent behaviors.
Objectives: Strengthening our accountability based diversion program for serious or repeat juvenile offenders thereby reducing the risk of commitment into Division of Youth Services.
THIRD CIRCUIT CASA PROGRAM
Rita Martz, 660-359-3437, rita.martz@courts.
To advocate for the abused and neglected children in the Third Circuit Counties of Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, and Putnam Counties to affirm their right to a safe and permanent home.
Objectives: The CASA program was developed to assist the court by bringing independent information before the court so that “the best interest of the child” is truly served.
4TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
P.O. BOX 392
MARYVILLE, MO 64468
660-582-4312
VICTIM / OFFENDER MEDIATION
Rick Bradley, 660-582-4312, rick.bradley@courts.
Victim /offender mediation provides interested victims an opportunity to meet their juvenile offender in a safe and structured setting and engage in a mediated discussion of the crime. With a trained mediator, the victim is able to tell the juvenile offender about the crimes physical, emotional, financial impact, to receive answers to lingering questions about the crime and the offender, and to be directly involved in developing a restitution plan for the offender to pay back his or her financial debt.
Objectives: To support the healing process of victims by providing a safe and controlled setting for them to meet and speak with the juvenile offender on a strictly voluntary basis, allowing the juvenile offender to learn about the impact of the crime and to take direct responsibility for their behavior, and provide an opportunity for the victim and offender to develop a mutually acceptable plan that addresses the harm caused by the crime.
5TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
411 JULES
ST JOSEPH, MO 64501
816-271-1421
Probation Judicial Reviews
Buchanan County Courthouse, 411 Jules ST Joseph, MO 64501
Todd Stinson, Director of Intake and Probation Services
816-271-1421, michael.stinson@courts.
The Probation Judicial Review Program is a process implemented by the 5th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division, in which the original Juvenile Court Judge reviews the progress of each probationer on a monthly, every two months, or quarterly basis, depending on the clients’ probation level of supervision. It is a program which has been in place in the 5th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division, for approximately one year. It has proved to be extremely successful on many levels. For example, it makes the Judge more aware of juvenile cases on an ongoing basis; providing the Judge more opportunity to provide Judicial Leadership. It makes clients more accountable for their negative behavior, but also gives them the opportunity to bring positive attention of the Court for their successes.
Objectives: Decreased Motion To Modify Hearings, Increased Judicial Leadership, Increased Payment of Restitution, Decline in law and probation violations.
Evening Intervention Program
411 Jules, Buchanan County Courthouse
ST Joseph, MO 64501
Todd Stinson, Director of Intake and Probation Services
816-271-1421, michael.stinson@courts.
The Evening Intervention Program is a program designed and implemented by the 5th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division. It is a program for at-risk youth currently under jurisdiction of the Court on Probation Services in the community. The program is conducted Monday through Thursday evenings from 4 P.M. – 8 P.M. at our Court residential facility, Buchanan County Academy. Clients arrive at 4 P.M, spending the first hour in an academic study hall, receiving assistance with schoolwork by an academic teacher and staff. Clients then receive a nutritious dinner meal, after having time to conduct personal hygiene. The remainder of the evening from 6 P.M.-8P.M. is spent in a treatment environment focusing on different areas that will assist in their personal growth and rehabilitation.
Objectives: Supervision during At-Risk Hours, Increased Self-Esteem, Decreased Risk for Law Violations
Academic Improvement, Building of Life Skills and Development Assets
Empower-Me Program
Todd Stinson, Director of Intake and Probation Services
816-271-1421, michael.stinson@courts.
The Empower-Me program is a program done in collaboration with the 5th Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division; Heartland Foundation, and Northwest Missouri State University. It focuses on the building of resiliency, developmental assets and bonding with the community through public achievement in at-risk youth under Court jurisdiction on Probation services. It is a twelve month program that is broken into four phases, which includes a camp, weekly meetings, and partnering with an adult community mentor.
Objectives: Building of Resiliency, Building of Targeted Developmental Assets, Bonding, and Purpose in the Community, Increased Self-Esteem, Decreased Risk for Law Violations, Academic Improvement
Community Justice Committees
Buchanan County Courthouse
411 Jules, ST Joseph, MO 64501
Kelly Bristol, Restorative Justice Coordinator
816-271-1421, kelly.bristol@courts.
The mission of the Community Justice Committee (CJC) is to provide an innovative opportunity to integrate victims and community members into the Juvenile Justice System in order to comprehensively handle non-violent juvenile offenders through the restoration of relationships with victims and the community by utilizing a balanced and graduated sanctions approach. Volunteers from the community are trained to handle these cases and develop a unique and comprehensive action plan in response to the crime that has been committed.
Objectives: To hold juveniles accountable for their actions to their victims and the community, to discourage further delinquent behavior, and to constructively involve victims and the community in the juvenile justice system.
6TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
508 THIRD ST., SUITE 85
PLATTE CITY, MO 64079
816-858-3420
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM
Julie Davis, 816-858-3420, julie.davis@courts.
Youth provide services to not-for-profit agencies. Work site personnel provide supervision during the service hours and complete an evaluation form at the conclusion of the community service.
Objectives: Community service program structured so that youth learn accountability for their behavior and responsibility for self and the community.
CLAY/PLATTE/RAY RESIDENTAL CARE
Janet Warner, 816-858-3420, janet.warner@courts.
Residential treatment program funded by the Clay/Platte/Ray Mental Health Board and administered by Tri County Mental Health Services. Program offers crisis Residential services (up to 90 days) for children referred to the juvenile office. Youth must be assessed to be emotionally disturbed or have other severe behavioral problems.
Objectives: Service allows intervention as an alternative to court adjudication and long-term removal from the home.
DON’T CHOOSE CRIME
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3420, barbara.lemons@courts.
A prevention program to educate students on the consequences of choosing crime. A video on the juvenile system and Puey, the “Crime Stinks” skunk are utilized at school and community events to increase participation in crime prevention.
DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND EDUCATION
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3420, barbara.lemons@courts.
The outpatient treatment program is funded by the Missouri Department of Public Safety. The goal of the program is to provide youth under the age at 17 with education, drug screens, and counseling necessary to achieve a drug and alcohol free life style. A parent education program is also a component of this program.
Objectives: Drug screens and educational services are provided to youth who are referred for drug or alcohol related offenses or have been assessed as at risk for substance abuse. Youth and their parent(s) are required to attend a 2-hour education class plus a 4-hour teen baseline-training program.
IN HOME DETENTION/ELECTRONIC MONITORING
Janet Warner, 816-858-3420, janet.warner@courts.
In-home Detention/Electronic Monitoring is an alternative to secure detention. Electronic monitoring provides 24 hour monitoring of youth.
Objectives: The youth may attend school unsupervised, but cannot leave home without adult supervision. In-home detention is court ordered.
HIGH IMPACT DIVERSION PROGRAM
Michael Emanule, 816-858-3420, michael.emanuel@courts.
Community based diversion program for first time delinquency offenders. The diversion program allows intervention as an alternative to court adjudication.
Objectives: This is a 120-day diversion program. Participation in this program is a privilege. The judge determines who will be accepted into the program: therefore the burden to prove appropriateness is placed upon the youth. The program consists of one appearance before the Court to voluntarily submit to a contract to enter the program. The contract sets out the performance /behavioral expectations for the youth and their parents. Services include monetary restitution, community service, drug prevention program, conflict resolution program, and required parent/youth participation in the “Adolescents and Parents Together” (APT) classes. The APT classes are held weekly for 8 weeks, 2 hours each session. If the youth successfully completes the rules and conditions, the petition is dismissed without prejudice. The youth understands that the allegation could be filed again should they be referred for additional offenses.
MEDIATION PROGRAM
Mark Lindsay, 816-858-3420, mark.lindsay@courts.
Parents who are divorcing or who have divorced are offered mediation services for the purpose of resolving disputes about visitation, custody, child support, and other issues related to their children.
Objectives: To help parents resolve problems involving custody and visitation disputes that left unresolved could result in problems with child support and visitation and affect the well-being of the children.
PACE-PARENT ADOLESCENT CONFLICT EDUCTION/ANGER MANAGEMENT
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3420, barbara.lemons@courts.
The PACE program is aimed at providing youth with tools to manage and control their anger. The juvenile court feels that it is necessary to educate youth so that we all can help to eliminate some of the problems that “out of control” anger causes for our youth, schools, parents, families, community, law enforcement and the courts. The goal for the parents is to increase their knowledge of effective parenting practices and to understand their conflict / anger triggers in relationship to the family and their children. This is a six-hour program where youth and parents work together for issues relevant to their own circumstances with the trained facilitator while separated from their children.
Objectives: Program focuses on teaching youth how to resolve conflict without violence and provides parents with additional parenting skills as well as how to deal with their own anger styles and those of their children.
PARENTS AND ADOLESCENTS COMMUNICATING TOGETHER (PACT)
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3420, barbara.lemons@courts.
Voluntary method of dispute resolution that involves the use of a trained mediator to assist status offenders and their parents in reaching a mutually satisfying agreement. The agenda is determined by the needs of the youth and parent. Mediation sessions typically include three sessions. The goal of PACT is to divert status offenders from entering the juvenile justice system.
SHOPLIFTING PROGRAM
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3420, barbara.lemons@courts.
The shoplifters Education Program is a home study program that is presented via CD’s and youth must complete a test over the material. The program consists of 5-6 hours of topics such as:
➢ How shoplifting effects the lives of real people not just stores
➢ The law and its consequences
➢ How social pressures can trigger a shoplifting incident
➢ How much they risk for a small reward
➢ How to stop shoplifting now and for the rest of their lives
Objectives: To assist youth in understanding the impact of their crime.
TRUANCY PROGRAM
Jessica Groce, 816-858-3420, jessica.groce@courts.
Truancy program is designed to ensue children under the age of 16 are attending school regularly.
The truancy program is designed to improve the attendance of students that fail to attend on a regular basis. The student must appear before the Judge and if approved will be placed in the truancy program. Once a student has been placed in the program, the student’s attendance is monitored daily by a Deputy Juvenile Officer. The Student will appear before the Judge within sixty (60) days of being placed in the truancy program. If the student has attended school on a regular basis, a request will be made that the petition be dismissed.
PLATTE COUNTY JUVENILE OFFICE WEB SITE
co.platte.mo.us/juvenile
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3420, barbara.lemons@courts.
This site was created to provide information to the public about the Platte County Juvenile Office. The web site additionally provides information about and the services and programs that we offer.
Objectives: To educate the community about the role to the juvenile officer and programs and resources that may be available.
RESTUTION REPAYMENT PROGRAM
Julie Davis, 816-858-3420, julie.davis@courts.
Community based work restitution repayment program
Program requires youth to compensate their victims through work restitution. Youth are assigned community service and receive credit at the rate of the current minimum wage. Youth are assigned community service and receive credit at the rate of the current minimum wage. The amount earned is paid to the victim to reimburse the victim for verified expenses.
7th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
351 EAST KANSAS STREET
LIBERTY, MO 64068
816-792-7681
RESPECT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAM
Kathleen Bird, 816-792-7681, kbird@courts.
Juvenile offenders are referred by the Juvenile Office for orientation and screening to address reparations to crime victims through mediated victim/offender dialogue. Offenders and their parent/guardians attend an orientation program about the juvenile justice system and participation in RESPECT. Crime victims are contacted separately. After screening, mediation is arranged between the juvenile offender and their victims if appropriate.
Objectives: Provide opportunities for offenders to take responsibility for their delinquent conduct, Provide forum for crime victims to have their concerns and needs addressed; Increase offender empathy and awareness of consequences(harm) experienced by crime victims; Acceptance of responsibility for reparation; Development of restitution plans; Compliance in full..
PUBLICATION: Rights of Crime Victims In Missouri
10th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
304 Willow Street
Hannibal, MO 63401
573-221-1182
DIVERSION BY ACCOUNTABILITY
Philip W. Livesay, 573-221-1182, plivesay@courts.
Provide job opportunities for juveniles who owe Court costs, fines, or restitution. Teach positive job skills and learn to take responsibility for one’s own actions. The parents enter into a written agreement with the Juvenile Officer that requires full cooperation with the program. Parents agree that the majority of each paycheck will be paid toward restitution.
ALTERNATIVES
Philip W. Livesay, 573-221-1182, plivesay@courts.
Provide a full time family intervention specialist and a part time masters level licensed professional counselor to provide counseling, parent skills training, conflict mediation, pre-employment skills training, and other services as needed by the students and families that are enrolled in the Hannibal & Palmyra Alternative schools.
Parents ensure program rule compliance, attendance, and participate in meetings and planning.
EARLY INTERVENTION / VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Hollie Smith, 573-221-1182, hsmith@courts.
This position is now a state funded position through the 10th Circuit Juvenile Court. This program primarily targets elementary school aged children who are identified at-risk for becoming involved in the judicial system at a later date. Services provided include individual counseling, tutoring, home visits, anger management, self-esteem, manners, peer pressure, socialization skills development, parent involvement, and interaction and coordinate volunteers. Referrals to this program are received from schools within Hannibal and Monroe City.
Parents cooperate with home visits and participate in strategies to improve child’s attendance, grades, behavior, and socialization.
COURT ORDERED HOME STUDIES
This project provides contracted funds through Missouri Children’s Division to sub-contract home studies that have been ordered by the Court. Through this process specific studies may be contracted thereby allowing social service workers more time to provide direct services. The outcome of this program should be measured by fewer children placed in out-of-home placements.
For more details contact:
Glenda Coons, Circuit Manager
Division of Family Services
P.O. Box 1589
Hannibal, MO 63401
573-248-2540
Phillip W. Livesay
10th Circuit Juvenile Office
304 Willow Street
Hannibal, MO 63401
573-221-1182
11TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT JUVENILE OFFICE
1700 SOUTH RIVER ROAD
ST. CHARLES, MO 63303
636-949-3040
STREET LAW
Doug Patton, 636- 949-3040, doug.patton@courts.
The program consists of a two (2) hour class presented one (1) night a week for eight (8) weeks with a different instructor each week. The classes deal with such issues as self-concept, authority, crime, consequences, the family court, police/community relations, legal relations, personal relationships, and drug/alcohol abuse and attitude formation.
ELECTRONIC MONITORING PROGRAM
Laurie Breneman, 636-949-3040, laurie.breneman@courts.
Electronic monitoring “ankle bracelet” utilized as an alternative to detention or as a supervision sanction.
N.O.W. (NO OFFENSES WIN)
Laurie Breneman, 636-949-3040, laurie.breneman@courts.
To reduce recidivism rate of juveniles referred to Family Court; to provide juveniles with a positive experience concerning the Family Court and education; to help juveniles develop problem-solving skills; and provide juveniles with knowledge of community resources and the use of these resources.
Targets ages 11-13, male and female first time delinquent offenders.
F.A.C.E. (FACING THE PROBLEM, ACTING APPROPRIATELY, CONCENTRATING ON SOLUTIONS, ENDING VIOLENCE
Laurie Breneman, 636-949-3040, laurie.breneman@courts.
To train juveniles on the skills necessary to handle conflicts and disagreements responsibly, without losing control and without resorting to violence. Through the use of modeling and role-playing, this training will teach juveniles how to resolve problems with others while managing their anger.
11th CIRCUIT CASA PROGRAM
Janelle Walters, 636-949-3040, janelle.walters@courts.
To reduce the amount of time a child spends in the foster care system by advocating for safe, permanent homes. The volunteers are only assigned to 1-2 cases so they will have more time to establish a relationship with the child and be a “voice” in court for the child.
J.F.S.I. (JUVENILE FIRE SETTER INTERVENTION PROGRAM)
Regina Roberts, 636-949-3040, regina.roberts@courts.
PRIMARY PREVENTION: To provide fire safety and educational training to juveniles so they understand the consequences of fire play and fire setting; EARLY INTERVENTION: To identify juveniles at risk for fire play or fire setting and to prevent the recurrence of incidents by utilizing short term evaluation, education and referral mechanisms; CORE INTERVENTION: To eliminate recurrent fire setting behavior and provide treatment for any significant psychological needs by partnering with mental health/social service providers. Juvenile Office will partner to provide legal incentive to participate.
3-D (DUMMIES DO DRUGS)
Laurie Breneman, 636-949-3040, laurie.breneman@courts.
To provide dispositional alternatives to reduce the recidivism rate; provide juveniles with a positive experience concerning the Family Court; to help juveniles develop more responsible attitudes and decision making skills; to provide juveniles with knowledge of community resources.
JUVENILE DRUG COURT
Doug Patton, 636-949-3040, doug.patton@courts.
Work with juveniles and parents to educate them regarding the negative impact of abuse; counseling (individual and family) to resolve personal/family issues impacting abuse; motivate to further education/employment goals and develop life strategies to sustain sobriety.
VICTIM SERVICES
Joan James, 636-949-3040, joan.james@courts.
Assist victims of crimes committed by juveniles to understand their rights and the court process; facilitate restitution; advocate on behalf of victims.
TRACKER
Laurie Breneman, 636-949-3040, laurie.breneman@courts.
To provide intensive supervision through daily contact with a juvenile. Contacts are made at varied hours throughout the week and on weekends. Tracker assists and reports to the juvenile’s DJO any violations or problems and recommends additional services as needed.
12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
AUDRAIN, MONTGOMERY, & WARREN COUNTIES
Electronic Monitoring Program
Throughout the 12th Circuit (Audrain, Montgomery & Warren Counties)
Polly Tramel, 573-473-5880, polly.tramel@courts.
As an alternative to secure detention, low risk juveniles are released from secure detention and returned to their homes on electronic monitoring. Occasionally, electronic monitoring is used in lieu of secure detention immediately after an interrogation.
Objectives: Allow the juvenile to return home under strict house arrest conditions and ensure compliance by the juvenile and his parents. It allows the juvenile to continue attending school and participate in school athletic programs and/or maintain employment, if applicable.
Northeast Community Service Agency
Throughout the 12th Circuit (Audrain, Montgomery & Warren Counties)
John Dial, 573-582-7440
This agency charges a $50.00 fee to arrange for locations for juveniles and adults to perform Court Ordered community service. They oversee the community service and report back to the Court regarding compliance, or lack of compliance, by the persons referred to the Agency.
Objectives: Due to the lack of juvenile office staff to supervise community service, and locate community service sites, this program accomplishes both in addition to ensuring the community service is completed in a timely basis. This program holds the juveniles accountable for being where they are suppose to be at a set time, and instills in them a sense of responsibility.
Juvenile Tracker Program
Throughout the 12th Circuit (Audrain, Montgomery & Warren Counties)
Polly Tramel, 573-473-5880, polly.tramel@courts.
Responsible adults from the community, often police officers or school teachers/counselors, become hourly contract employees of the Juvenile Office and provide one-on-one contact with a high risk juvenile between two to six times per week. The tracker initially meets with the Juvenile Officer assigned to a case, the juvenile, and his parents, and explains to the juvenile and his parents that he will be providing intensive supervision of the juvenile on behalf of the Juvenile Officer. This involves home visits at various times of the day and evening, as well as contact with the school and contact with the juvenile in the community. Weekly, the tracker provides to the Juvenile Officer written notes about his/her contact with the juvenile. Incentives for compliance with the restrictions set by the Juvenile Officer and/tracker, and for obtain set goals, are available to the juvenile. These incentives are set by the Juvenile Officer, tracker and the juvenile; and could be movies tickets, dinner, purchase of an appropriate CD or DVD, etc.
Objectives: To assist high risk juveniles with various adolescent issues such as responsibility, reliability, job search skills, compliance with rules of probation and more immediate consequences for violations of these rules. To improve the juvenile’s self-esteem so that they will be motivated to make positive changes in their lives.
14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
201 N. WILLIAMS, SUITE 104
MOBERLY, MO 65270
660-263-2970
SCHOOL LIASON PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
Deputy Juvenile Officers make weekly contact with school administration, teachers, and counselors to monitor school performance of juveniles on informal and formal supervision and to discuss school referrals. Deputy Juvenile Officer 9attends monthly interagency meetings with representatives from each school, a representative from the Division of Family Services and representative law enforcement to discuss problems with children and their families.
RESTITUTION PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
Monetary collection of restitution for victims of offenses committed by youths. The money collected is sent directly to the youth’s victim(s) until all restitution is paid.
JUVENILE INTENSIVE PROBATION PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
This program reduces commitments of youth to the Division of Youth Services by the adoption and implementation of an intensive probation program for offenders when there is substantial probability that the juvenile will remain at liberty without violating the law, and by habilitation through a program which emphasizes contact four to five times a week by Deputy Juvenile Officer, as well as treatment and education.
IN- HOME DETENTION PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
A short-term alternative to secure detention. By court order the youth is placed in detention of the home of the parent or guardian with certain restrictions such as: not to be in the community without the direct supervision of parent or guardian, daily attendance to school or other programs approved by the Court or the Deputy Juvenile Officer, weekly contact with Deputy Juvenile Officer, and no phone privileges or contact with friends or associates in the parental home. Unannounced visits are made to the youth’s home to monitor compliance.
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
The licensed counselor or psychologist teaches the youth the importance of accepting responsibility for their actions, goal setting, anger management, and identification and resolution of parent/child conflict.
FAMILY COUNSELING
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
The licensed counselor or psychologist helps parents develop skills to understand the importance of consistency of discipline and of setting rules and consequences. Together the family sorts through the parent/child conflicts.
EDDIE EAGLE GUN SAFETY
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
A Deputy Juvenile Office and a representative from Law Enforcement present the Eddie Eagle Gun Safety Program to area Elementary Schools. This program teaches children what to do if they see a gun (i.e. Stop!, Don’t Touch, Leave the Area and Tell an Adult).
URINALYSIS DRUG SCREENING PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
Deputy Juvenile Officer administers drug urinalysis screenings on juveniles for the presence of drugs in order to: 1) confirm use or non-use of drugs by juveniles’ (2) provide information to parents to help make them work with the juvenile and deputy juvenile officer in eliminating juvenile drug use; 3) identify juveniles in need of substance abuse treatment; and 4) monitor juvenile compliance with rules of supervision.
DIVISION OF FAMILY SERVICES LIAISON
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
Deputy Juvenile Officer works directly with the Division of Family Services, children who have been removed from the home due to abuse and neglect and the parents. This Deputy Juvenile Officer attends family support meetings and PPRT’s in an effort to lessen the time of out of home placements.
ANTI-VIOLENCE PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
A Deputy Juvenile Officer carries a caseload of youth ranging in age from nine to fourteen years of age. The deputy juvenile officer counsels with the parents as well as the juvenile on aggressive behavior, anger management, self-esteem, social skills, and teach conflict resolution. The goal of the program is to keep families intact, to avoid out-of-home placement of the juvenile.
JUVENILE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
Juvenile Office Staff transports juvenile’s to court ordered detention facilities or treatment centers. The availability of this program has decreased the driving time for our deputy juvenile officers, allowing them to devote more time to youth on their caseloads.
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
In July 1986, this program began and continues as a means to provide service hours to the community for offenses committed by juveniles in situations where monetary restitution was not required, and to teach juvenile offenders the accountability of their actions. The Juvenile Court or Deputy Juvenile Officer determines whether twelve to sixteen year olds, who have admitted to or are found delinquent of (1) a crime of property damage or loss; (2) a status offense; (3) a violation of conditions of supervision, seek retribution through the Community Service Program. The Moberly City Park, as well as Day Care Center, and the Salvation Army are work sites that are used most frequently. The work crew supervisor is responsible for managing five to six juveniles at the sites in the park on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays, during the summer and Saturdays during the School year.
ALCOHOL / DRUG INFORMATION SCHOOL
Tena Houston, 660-263-2970, tena.houston@courts.
A national and state certified alcohol and drug counselor give the teenagers background, both general and specific, of the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs, including psychological, social, nutritional, health, legal and family reaction to alcohol and drug dependence, during the eight hour group session. Students wear no clothing or jewelry symbols that maintain alcohol, drug, and counter-culture activities. This intervention group strives for a change in attitude.
16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
625 E. 26TH
KANSAS CITY, MO 64108
816-435-4850
YOUTH COURTS
The several youth courts function under administrative order of the Administrative Judge. Youth Courts are located in Independence, Raytown, Eastern Jackson County (Lonejack, Buckner, Grain Valley, Sibley, and Oak Grove), Blue Springs, Grandview, Lees Summit, and Kansas City (UMKC). Youth Court is a peer-run court with the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, bailiff, and clerk, all trained youth. The Youth Court functions by guidelines established by adults and is monitored by adults. Youth, in their various positions, make the final decisions. Most common cases heard in Youth Court are harassment, trespassing, shoplifting, curfew violation, disorderly conduct, vandalism, simple assault, truancy, minor in possession of alcohol, narcotics possession, and runaways.
Objectives: Reduce incidents of juvenile crime; divert offending youth from juvenile justice system, to provide an alternative to Jackson County Family Court process, prevent further contact with police.
Grandview Youth Court
1200 Main Street, Grandview, MO 64030
Mike McComas, 816-767-1030
Independence Youth Court
111 East Maple Street, Independence, MO 64050
Susan Watkins, 816-325-7750
Kansas City Youth Court
Kansas City, MO 64110
Mary Kay O’Malley, 816-235-6582
Eastern Jackson County Youth Court
3310 NE Rennau Drive, Lees Summit, MO 64064
Susan Watkins, 816-524-4302
Lees Summit Youth Court
10 NE Tudor Road, Lees Summit, MO 64081
Travis Burks, 816-986-1190
Raytown Youth Court
10000 East 59th Street, Raytown, MO 64133
Sam Jones, 816-737-6115
Diversion Seminars
501 East 27th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Alan Wigodner, Lela Cayton, Ed Bell
816-881-6570, awigodner@courts.
The diversion seminars are presented by the staff of the Prevention and Diversion Unit which includes classes in anger management and shoplifting. These programs are designed to provide non-judicial intervention for low risk and first time offenders. The classes are held monthly. Referrals of appropriate youth are made by the case assessment unit. The class format includes presentations by the facilitators, discussion, and a video. It provides an opportunity for the youth to understand the consequences of their behavior and learn appropriate prevention knowledge and skills. Seminars implemented include a Shoplifting Seminar for shoplifting referrals, Anger Management Seminar for minor assault offenses, and ADEP Drug Seminar for minor drug referrals.
Objectives: To provide non-judicial intervention for low-risk youth referred for shoplifting and assault, to conduct monthly seminars in both shoplifting and anger management, to reduce recidivism among youth referred for shoplifting and assault.
Ivanhoe Council of Elders
3210 Michigan, Kansas City, MO
Lela Cayton, 816-881-6566, lcayton@courts.
The Ivanhoe Council of Elders (ICOE) consists of four to six members of the community who are authorized by the Administrative Judge of the Family Court to informally address minor juvenile delinquency matters in the community. The ICOE is a diversionary program designed to offer the offenders an opportunity to repair the harm done to their victims, to make a positive contribution to their community and to avoid official involvement with the Family Court. The ICOE meets monthly at a community site and provides community support for the victims and offenders.
Objectives: To promote justice for all within the community with the residual effect of reduced recidivism among the youth in the community, To effectively handle first-time, non- violent referrals to the Family Court, To hold juveniles accountable for their behavior to the community, To constructively involve the offender, victim and the community in the process of repairing the harm and promoting restoration for all.
Truancy Court: A Prevention and Diversionary Model
Nate Lynn Building, 501 E. 27th Street, KCMO 64108
Kevin Gregg, 816-881-6534, kgregg@courts.
Truancy Court is a strength based, multi-disciplinary diversionary program approach that promotes regular school attendance, improved academic performance, and improved behavior of “at-risk” youth at participating public schools. The program and services are provided through a collaboration and partnership between Family Court, area schools, members of the judiciary, parents, and the community. Weekly court sessions occur at the school; case management is provided along with ceremonial and tangible incentives for improvement in attendance, academic, and behavior; and relationship building family nights are arranged for the school participants. The program serves 5-15 year old male and female students with a pattern of school absences and/or behavioral problems in school. Approximately 550 students in nine participating elementary and middle schools during the 2003-2004 school years. For those schools where there is a high rate of immigrant students, Spanish is spoken in Truancy Court.
Objectives: To reduce truancy and promote school bonding and improved school attendance, and support improved behavior, and academic performance.
ASSET: After School Supervision, Education, and Training:
“Equipping For The Future”
2729 Gilham Road, KCMO 64108
Glenda Bainbridge, 816-881-6523, glenda.bainbridge@courts.
Asset is designed to constructively occupy probationers and re-entry youth in the community during hours of high delinquency risk. Participants eligible are male juvenile offenders under court jurisdiction between the ages of 10 and 17 who live in portions of Jackson County which has been designated as regions of the county we are actively attempting to reduce disproportionate minority involvement in the juvenile justice system. The program capacity and duration is 10 participants per 10-week session. The program meets at a local Boys and Girls Club with community service activities and projects held throughout the community.
ASSET occurs 3:30-8pm, Tuesday thru Thursday and Saturday 10am-noon. Program components include the Equip Program with mutual help, anger management, social skill, and social decision making groups; Sentenced to the Arts activities integrated into the Equip Program; and community service projects.
Objectives: Program participants will attend school regularly during enrollment in ASSET program.
Program participants will not have additional delinquency referrals during or after program involvement.
ASSP Alternative to School Suspension Program
Nate Lynn Building, 501 E. 27th Street, KCMO 64108
Joyce Gillis, 816-881-6572, jgillis@courts.
This is a voluntary prevention and diversion program. It serves 8-16 males and females who are eligible for school suspension for truancy and/or misconduct. Students are also eligible if from families experiencing parenting management problems. Offers weekly parent led Tough Love groups along with youth groups.
Objectives: To reduce incidents of school suspension during and after program involvement, to reduce the number of referrals by participants to Family Court.
Family Counseling
Nate Lynn Building, 501 E. 27th Street, KCMO 64108
Ed Bell, 816-881-6569, ebell@courts.
Two family counselors with an average caseload of 15 families serve first time status offenders to assist families in conflict between children and their parents with problems ranging from curfew violations, school related problems, to various relational conflicts. It is a voluntary program to assist families with parenting management problems. Duration is determined by client need and open-ended. Temporary family separation is optional with use of Synergy House. Referrals to other family resources are also available. Parenting classes are also offered in addition to individual and family counseling.
Objectives: To assist families to resolve parenting management problems, to divert from referrals to Family Court.
Informal Adjustment
Nate Lynn Building, 501 E. 27th Street, KCMO 64108
Alan Wigodner, 816-881-6570, awigodner@courts.
This program serves 9-17 year old low risk, minor or first time male and female delinquent offenders to assist them to reduce delinquency risk and increase protective factors. Trained volunteers provide case management consisting of assessment and treatment planning and implementation. Supervision, mentoring; interpersonal social skills; community service; Strengthening Families Parenting program; family therapy; anger management groups; shoplifting seminar; Young Women’s Lives girls group; Alternative to School Suspension Program; and Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention program are offered. Referrals are made to other agencies for sentenced to the arts and also substance abuse treatment.
Objectives: To reduce delinquency risk factors and therefore recidivism, to divert from judicial involvement.
Probation Services
Kemp Building, 2729 Gilham Rd., KCMO 64108
Theresa Byrd, 816-881-6533, tbyrd@courts.
Probation Services protects the community through supervising 9-17 year old male and female delinquent offenders and reducing delinquent risk factors and enhancing protective factors. Case management, including assessment, treatment planning, and implementation based on extent of risk determined through a classification process. Individual and family therapy are available as is social skill training, anger management; random drug testing and substance abuse education and treatment are also offered.
Objectives: To protect the community through delinquency risk reduction, strength-based case management, and social development.
Mentoring Program
Kemp Building, 2729 Gilham Rd., KCMO 64108
Sonya Potter, 816-881-6534, spotter@courts.
The Mentoring Program solicits, selects, trains, and matches mentors with youth under jurisdiction of the court, whether in residential or community based settings.
Objectives: To provide positive adult role models to assist youth to cease further delinquent behavior, use the community as a resource tool for positive alternative experiences, develop a supportive relationship with youth to enhance their educational, social, and personal development.
Night Light
Boys and Girls Club-Thornberry
3831 E 43rd Street, KCMO 64130
Matt Roberts, 816-871-0500, mroberts@courts.
This program serves probationers, known to be serious and chronic high-risk offenders, male and female, between the ages of 10-17. This is a collaboration of local law enforcement and juvenile probation officers who collectively make late night face-to-face visits of participants at home. Additionally, anger management and substance abuse random drug tests are provided.
Objectives: To provide intensive community supervision with the goal of assisting the participants to refrain from future delinquent behavior.
Juvenile and Family Drug Court
625 E. 26th Street, KCMO 64108
Penny Clodfelter, 816-435-4757, penny.clodfelter@courts.
This is a specialized court addressing substance abuse issues and the impact on family. The Family Drug Court program services dependency cases and substance-exposed infants, child abuse/neglect, and/or abandonment as a result of alleged substance abuse. In addition, there are a small number of companion criminal cases transferred to the Family Drug Court from the Adult Drug Court. Those cases are then monitored for compliance by the Family Drug Court. The Juvenile Drug Court serves delinquency cases of youth and their parents whose substance abuse jeopardizes the juvenile’s chance at successfully completing probation. Family and Juvenile Drug Court serves parents who are at least 16 years of age and juveniles who are not over the age of 16.5 years. Program components include: inpatient and/or out patient substance abuse treatment; parenting education; random urinalysis; social and life skill building; access to transitional living houses; frequent judicial oversight. Dependency cases are involved a minimum of 12 months and delinquency cases 6-12 months. The court has a capacity of 80 – 85 dependency cases and 45 delinquency cases.
Objectives: Delinquency Cases: Develop a drug free lifestyle, reduce delinquency risk factors, promote delinquency protective factors, develop pro-social skills and relationships, no additional delinquent referrals during and following program intervention, parents participating in the program will successfully complete drug treatment and remain drug free following program intervention.
Dependency Cases: Increase the number of custodial parents who receive return of custody of the infant /children involved in the referral, program participants successfully complete treatment and remain drug free during and following program intervention, drug free stable housing secured, criminal issues resolved, life plan initiated (e.g., employment, job training, college)
Restitution Services
Kemp Building, 2729 Gilham Road, KCMO 64108
Sam Kelly, 816-881-6537, skelly@courts.
Guided by Balanced and Restorative Justice Principles, Restitution Services assists court ordered delinquent youth between the ages of 12 to 17 years, male, and female, to complete restitution obligations. Victim empathy group sessions; victim compensation; mediation, and community service are offered.
Objectives: To assist delinquent youth to be accountable for their behavior and to restore them to the community through victim empathy, compensation, and community service.
Intermediate Sanctions
Allegri House, 3223 Campbell Street, KCMO 64108
Effel Fluellen, 816-881-6550, e.fluellen@courts.
Intermediate Sanctions is designed to serve 10-17 year old male and female offenders placed on official probation who have subsequently committed multiple, non-delinquent violations of the terms of probation. Probation violations include failure to keep appointments with the case manager, failure to attend required treatment, testing positive for illegal substances, curfew violations, AWOL, truancy, school suspensions for misconduct, failure to pay court assessments and costs, and failure to pay court ordered restitution.
The Intermediate Sanctions Program consists of three similar yet distinct programs:
• The Weekend Program
• The Day Reporting Program
• The Residential Program
After the third violation, the Juvenile Probation Officer sets an administrative hearing with the violating youth, parents, JPO, and JPO’s supervisor. It is determined whether the Intermediate Sanctions Program will be used and if so, which component of it .The community-based residential component can be used a maximum 14 days. It can be used one additional time but only for an additional violation. Females are eligible for the Day Reporting Program. A majority of the time, intermediate sanctions involve providing community service, although some treatment, including both individual and group therapy are provided by a mental health professional. Those in the community based residential program also receive group social skills training.
Objectives: Program goals include preventing further penetration into the judicial system; to promote client accountability to the rules/conditions of probation; to provide community protection; and to promote cost reduction associated with residential placement.
ISS Intensive Supervision Services
Kemp Building, 2729 Kemp, KCMO 64108
Glenda Bainbridge, 816-881-6523, glenda.bainbridge@courts.
ISS serves 12 to 17 year old male and female delinquent offenders at risk for residential placement and delinquent offenders re-entering the community from residential placement. Frequent and close community supervision by Juvenile Probation Officers. Individual and family therapy and group counseling are offered; life skill training; drug education; parenting training; and community service are offered.
Objectives: To reduce the number of youth who receive a subsequent delinquency referral and require penetration further into the system.
Home Detention
Thornberry Boys and Girls Club, 43rd Street and Cleveland, KCMO 64108
Matt Roberts, 816-871-0500, mroberts@courts.
Home Detention is used for delinquent male and female youth between the ages of 10-17 by judicial order waiting for judicial hearings and/or court ordered placements. All participants are outfitted with electronic monitoring. Additionally, face-to-face contact occurs to verify presence at school, employment, and church.
Objectives: To protect the community while reducing the number placed in secure Detention.
Jackson House Alternative to Secure Detention
2719 Gilham Road, KCMO 64108
Effell Fluellen, 816-881-6550, effel.fluellen@courts.
Jackson House is a juvenile holdover program that serves as an alternative to secure Detention. It serves 10-17 year old males who are of lesser risk than secure Detention requires, and therefore are placed in a community and non-secure setting while temporarily waiting judicial action or dispositional placement. Staffed and supervised in a 14-bed facility the program allows residents to attend their own local schools, if appropriate, or on-site education. A validated and objective Detention Risk Assessment instrument is used to guide detainment decisions.
Objectives: To protect the community, to protect the juvenile, to ensure scheduled court appearance.
Detention
625 E. 26th Street, KCMO 64108
Gary Charles, 816-435-4704, gcharles@courts.
Detention provides secure and safe custody of male and female juvenile offenders, aged 10-17, and accused of conduct subject to jurisdiction of the Court who require a restricted environment for their own and/or the community’s protection pending judicial determination and disposition. In a 68-bed facility (56 beds for males and 12 beds for females) Detention provides a wide range of services that support the juvenile’s physical, emotional, and social development. An on-site school contracted by the local school district provides five teachers, and includes an art therapist/teacher, physical education instructor, special education teacher, and reading teacher. Medical and health services include a full-time nurse and weekly on site physician visits. Other services include substance abuse education, cognitive-behavioral training, USDA approved meals, voluntary spiritual services, organized recreational activities, and family visitation. Detention, along with the other residential programs has instituted Performance Based Standards (PbS). OJJDP and the US Dept. of Justice in 1995 called for the development of performance standards to improve confinement conditions in juvenile correctional and detention facilities. The Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators developed national standards for safety, education, health, mental health services, security, justice, and order within juvenile facilities, and gives agencies tools to collect data, analyze results, measure effectiveness, design improvements, and implement change.
Objectives: To protect the community, to protect the juvenile, to ensure scheduled court appearance.
Waldron Boys Group Home
3309 Gilham Rd., KCMO 64108
Sam Mitchell, 816-561-0077, smitchell@courts.
Waldron Group Home is a ten bed, 5 to 7 month duration, community-based program for 12 to 17 year old male juvenile offenders adjudicated and committed by the court for medium risk delinquent offenders. Residents attend local schools in the community. Cognitive-behavioral treatment is offered through the mutual help, social skills, anger management, and social decision-making groups of the Equip Program. Nurturing Parents serves as the curriculum of the parenting program. Substance abuse education and Sentenced to the Arts are also offered. Case management uses the individual and family strength-based solutions focused approach.
Objectives: To reduce delinquency risk and increase delinquency protective factors, to reduce recidivism
Pathway- (Group Home for Juvenile Sexual Offender TREATMENT)
Haley Building, 2717 E 27th Street, KCMO 64108
Sheila Marshall, 816-881-6554, smarshall@courts.
The Pathway program provides sexual offender treatment to 13-17 year old juvenile offenders. Female offenders are included in probation. The three components of the program consist of those adjudicated youth placed on Probation (6-36 months); those placed in the community based group home (6 to 24 months); and those successfully released from the group home and placed on re-entry/aftercare (6 to 36 months). Services include offense-specific assessment and treatment plans; offense specific sexual offender treatment groups; cognitive-behavioral groups in the form of mutual help, social skill development, anger management; and social skill groups; Parents Who Care parenting groups; Sentenced to the Arts; relapse prevention groups.
Objectives: To eliminate sexual offending, program participants will successfully demonstrate five skills required for eliminating future sexual offending.
Hilltop Residential Center
301 NW Gregory, Lees Summit, MO
Michael Barnett, 816-373-5200, mbarnett@courts.
Hilltop is designed to serve medium-risk juvenile male and female adjudicated delinquent offenders. This facility is designed to protect the community and provide correctional treatment, assisting residents to reduce delinquency risk factors in their lives while enhancing resiliency or protective factors. The facility has a 48 bed capacity among four cottages (one cottage for females), and length of stay is designed to be approximately 5-6 months. Residents attend an on-site school program contracted by the local Lee’s Summit School District.
In addition to the Equip Program, a cognitive-behavioral program that includes social skill development, anger management, and social decision-making, Hilltop also offers a parent/family education program, substance abuse treatment, and mental health services which include psychiatric evaluation, psychotropic medication, psychiatric nursing, and individual therapy provided via a highly effective five-year collaboration with the Department of Mental Health. Other programs include Sentenced to the Arts and an active Boy Scout chapter along with Ventures (for girls). For the female residents the Equip Program has been modified to be more gender specific and is merged with the Young Women’s Lives curriculum to make it even more relevant to the female population.
Hilltop is implementing the Performance Based Standards system (Pbs) called for by OJJDP and the US Department of Justice and developed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators. Please see Detention for a complete description of the program.
Objectives: To reduce delinquency risk factors and increase protective factors, to increase social skills, anger management, and social decision-making, to reduce recidivism.
McCune Residential Center
21001 E. 24 Highway, Independence, MO 64056
Adrianne Guillen, 816-435-7301, aguillen@courts.
McCune Residential Center is a secure juvenile correctional treatment facility designed for 13 to 17 year old male adjudicated delinquent offenders. It is a 78-bed facility among four cottages and a central administration building that houses the kitchen and cafeteria along with the on-site school run by the local school district. The program provides on site cognitive behavioral training (anger management, social skills training, and moral decision-making). A family education program is offered, along with substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and sexual abuse treatment provided on-site by treatment providers. The local school district provides regular and special education classes along with GED classes. Behavior is monitored, recognized, and rewarded through a structured behavior management system. A case management system is used with individualized delinquency risk assessment, treatment plans which incorporate family involvement. This program along with the other residential programs is participating in the Performance-based Standards (PbS) system developed by OJJDP and CJCA. This system will provide a comprehensive look at McCune’s adherence to best practices based on standards developed by empirical studies and consensus of professional opinion.
Objectives: To reduce multiple delinquency risk factors and enhance protective factors, to increase social skill development, anger management, and social decision making, to reduce delinquency recidivism.
Re-entry/Aftercare
Kemp Building, 2729 Gilham, KCMO 64108
Theresa Byrd, 816-881-6511, tbyrd@courts.
Re-entry/Aftercare is a collaborative effort between Residential and Field Services staff. Residents scheduled to successfully be released from McCune, Hilltop, and Waldron Group Homes meet with their residential case managers and their future Juvenile Probation Officers at least 30 days prior to release in order to plan for re-entry. Services are pursued and put in place prior to the youth returning to the community. They meet again along with the family on the day of release. Both the residential case manager and field juvenile probation officer remain involved with the youth for 30 days after the youth has re-entered the community. Those youth who are of lower risk return immediately to their home. Those who score higher on the Risk Assessment are transitioned from their residential facility to the Step Down community-based group home. The youth remains in the group home for 30 days during which he is enrolled and attending his home school, and is receiving services planned while still in the residential facility. Additionally, the youth participates in the Step Down Program which includes Equip, substance abuse treatment, and weekend home visits. Both those who return immediately home and those who are transitioned through the Step Down Program receive the services of the Night Light Program for 60 days. Upon release from Step Down and placed in the home, the youth has only residential case manager leaves the case and the juvenile probation officer maintains supervision and services alone. Within 90 days of release from the residential facility Conditional Release is granted if appropriate. Release from aftercare occurs approximately 3 to 4 months post release from the residential facility.
Objectives: To facilitate a safe, secure, and successful transition from an institutional to a community setting, to implement services at inception of release, to lower recidivism rates.
Child Protection Center
3100 Main Street, Room 202, KCMO 64108
Julie Donelon, 816-881-1802, jdonelon@courts.
The Child Protection Center (CPC) serves a child-friendly, safe place for children and adolescents who are alleged victims of sexual and serious physical abuse. The CPC coordinates the investigative interviews of children in Jackson, Cass, and Lafayette Counties of Missouri. After a report is made to the Children’s Division or law enforcement a child may be referred to the CPC for a forensic interview. While at the CPC, children will speak to an interviewer who has experience talking to children and has special training in forensic interviewing. The CPC aims to reduce trauma to children by coordinating investigations and services, reducing the number of times a child must be interviewed, facilitate joint investigations and provide prompt access and referrals to medical and mental health treatment. In September 2004, through a grant by the Department of Public Safety, the Victim Advocate Program began. A Victim Advocate is now available to meet with parents or caretakers while their child is being interviewed to provide information about the investigative process, explain about SAFE Exams, how to obtain them, and provided crisis counseling and information for resources toward housing, employment, etc. The Victim Advocate provides follow up with parents/caretakers one week and one month following the CPC appointment to ensure that their needs are being met.
The CPC is nationally accredited by the National Children’s Alliance.
Objectives: Create a safe atmosphere in a child-friendly setting, protect children from repeated interviews and unnecessary exams, reduce the number of people involved in each child’s case to prevent confusion, provide space where everyone involved, doctors, attorneys, therapists, child protection workers, and low enforcement convene to coordinate investigation and intervention in abusive situations, avoid conflicts between agencies with contrasting philosophies and instructions, improve outcomes for children and families by providing more comprehensive evidence for criminal prosecution and by securing accurate decisions and timely treatment for children.
Conciliation Assistance
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
This program provides conciliation services assistance to parties involved in domestic relations and juvenile matters. Resource Service Specialists assist parties to identify, clarify, and resolve issues subject to the court’s approval. Issues that can be addressed include custody, visitation, permanency, and/or treatment plans. In addition, assistance is provided to foster communication between juvenile offenders and their victims in appropriate cases. The population served includes families with juvenile delinquent or termination of parental rights cases which are pending; divorced, separated or never married parents who have exhibited poor or no communication skills; juvenile offenders and their victims. Mediations are conducted in person at various court locations, and occur by appointment or upon judicial request if services are needed immediately. Child Dependency Mediation and Family Group Conferencing are used for families with juvenile or termination of parental rights cases pending in Jackson County Family Court.
Objectives: To assist families involved in child abuse and neglect proceedings to develop a permanency plan for placement of their children; to assist those involved in domestic relations matters to develop a cooperative solution to resolve their conflict; to assist the juvenile offender and victim an opportunity to mediate their conflict and reach a workable agreement.
Connections and Monitored Exchange Program
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
A supervised visitation program designed to provide a safe environment for children and their non-custodial parent to have parenting time. Trained volunteers under the direction of a program coordinator provide weekly one-hour visitation for non-custodial parents who have been so ordered by the court to attend. This service is appropriate in cases where domestic violence is an issue, where a parent has been estranged from a child or for any other issue deemed to necessitate supervision. Services are provided at various locations around the county. The Connections Program can accommodate up to 24 families and the Exchange Program can serve 36 families.
Objectives: To provide a safe, supervised setting for child/parent visits, to conduct supervised visits twice a week from5-8pm and on weekends for parents and their children, to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of conflict between parents, and maintain safety during visits, to record visits and inform the court with accurate and timely compliance information.
Custodial Arrangement Investigations
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
Family Court Resource Services provides Custodial Arrangement Investigations through independent contractors for the purpose of insuring that children involved in custody disputes and /or children that are removed from their parent’s care due to abuse and neglect are placed in safe and appropriate homes. The investigators conduct home visits and evaluate the homes of those individuals interested in caring for the children involved in Family Court litigation. Currently 7 evaluators conduct approximately thirty-five evaluations annually.
Objectives: To insure children involved in custody disputes and/or removed from their parent’s care due to abuse and neglect are placed in safe and appropriate homes, to select qualified staff to conduct custodial investigations, to asses the parent’s /guardian’s ability to care for and meet the needs of the children.
FOCIS: Focus on Children in Separation
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
FOCIS is a course for parents and their children ages 5-17 who are involved in a dissolution proceeding where there are issues involving custody/visitation. Rule 68.13 requires all parties to cases involving custody and /or visitation to attend within 45 days of filing the petition or motion. Designed to teach parents and children positive ways to cope with the changes divorce brings to a family. Participants must attend a four-hour session presented in two, two-hour segments. Classes are offered several times a month at five locations. Contractors provide class instruction. The following topics are covered in classes: impact of divorce on the family; grief process; strategies for developing a businesslike relationship with the co-parent; emotional games parents play, and differences in parental roles and boundaries of parental control.
Objectives: Teach parents and children positive ways to live with the changes divorce brings to a family,
parents will learn about the negative impact divorce may have on their children, strategies for developing a businesslike relationship with their co-parent, about the emotional games parents play with children and each other as a result of divorce, the differences in parental roles and the boundaries of parental control.
re-FOCIS
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
Re-FOCIS is a FOCIS refresher course for parties to post dissolution/custody actions that have contested custody and visitation issues. This course re-emphasizes the value of cooperative parenting and provides an overview of mediation and the benefits of alternative dispute resolution including mediation. This class is for parents only. The program serves parents who have contested custody and /or visitation issues and filed modification actions. Classes are held three times a month in two different locations within the county. The classes are two hours in length and parties are required to attend each time a modification for custody or visitation is filed. Classes can accommodate 10-15 people in the Kansas City location and 15-30 in Independence. The cost is $10 per parent payable at the beginning of each class. Topics include the mediation process; positive co-parenting; separation triangle; parenting as a business relationship; helping your child transition from one parent’s home to the other; understanding and managing your anger; danger signals of children going through separation; strategies for communication with the other parent and clarifying boundaries.
Objectives: To educate parents about the value of cooperative parenting and provide an overview of mediation and the benefits of alternative dispute resolution. Parents will learn the mediation process and its purpose, the differences in parental roles and boundaries of parental control, strategies for developing a businesslike relationship with their co-parent, strategies of dealing with anger so they can work more effectively with the co-parent, the effects of parental conflict on the children, and the importance of working together cooperatively for the benefit of their children.
IV-D Paternity Mediation
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
This program offers mediation to parties involved in child support and paternity actions with contested custody and visitation issues. Mediation is free to parties. Mediations occur in various locations throughout the court, and are conducted by appointment or at the Judge’s immediate request from the courtroom bench. The mediation is a minimum of two hours. The mediator specialist schedules appointments at neutral locations of convenience and coordinates, and provides the service in a timely manner and ensures compliance notification is forwarded to the court and prosecuting attorney.
Objectives: To assist parents involved in contested custody and visitation disputes in resolving conflict in order to make mutual decisions about their children, to improve communication between parties by utilizing a neutral third party trained mediator to facilitate communication, to reduce conflict and increase parents’ awareness of areas of common interest in raising their children, to empower parents to make decisions in the best interest of their children, to give parents the opportunity to resolve problems cooperatively in the present and future with regards to their children.
PTLA: Parenting Together/Living Apart
3100 Main Street, Suite 204, KCMO 64111
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
PTLA is a parenting education program designed to assist parents who have never married each other but have children together in understanding the value of co-parenting their children cooperatively. This program is most effective when utilized prior to mediation. There is no cost for attendance. Contractors provide three-hour classes which accommodate 25-30 people once a month at two locations. The course is for parents only. Topics include: understanding the importance of co-parenting; barriers to communicating with the co-parent; positive communication skills; developmental stages of children in parental conflict; grief process; developing a businesslike relationship with the co-parent; paternity issues; parenting plan; and community resources.
Objectives: To teach never married parents the importance of co-parenting. Parents will learn better understanding of the importance of co-parenting, the barriers to communication and practice positive communication skills, the developmental stages of children in parental conflict, the stages of grieving the lost relationship, to increase their parenting skills to raise their children, to increase their skills to work with each other as business partners to raise their children, to gain information about the legal process and community resources, to be aware of the importance of establishing paternity and settlement of paternity issues, be proactive in developing a workable parenting plan.
Victim Services
625 E 26th Street, KCMO 64108
Karen Brown, 816-881-1814, kbrown@courts.
Victim Services is designed to support, inform, and involve victims in the disposition of juvenile delinquency matters by maximizing victim participation, offender accountability, and victim and offender reintegration into the community. The program provides a variety of services for victims of juvenile crime:
• Victim Impact Statements: assists the victim to prepare a written document for the court which describes the victim’s psychological, physical, or financial loss.
• Refers victims to appropriate agencies for supportive services.
• Informs of their ability to file for civil action to recover losses.
• Assists victims in filling out crime victims compensation claims.
• Assists victims in recovering their property from police departments.
• Prepares a letter for victims and witnesses for their employers.
• Provides a separate waiting area for victims and witnesses for court hearings and accompany the victims.
• Provide the public with knowledge of the Family court process.
• Provides services to children who have been sexually abused by a juvenile and services to their custodians.
• Assists violent crime victims in applying for the Missouri Crime Victims Compensation Fund.
Objectives: To reduce intimidation and increase crime victims understanding of Family Court processes, victim’s rights, applicable laws and available community services, to implement processes and procedures that assist victims in navigating through the Family Court system, to insure that victims of crimes have access to resources that will assist and support them during the judicial process,
to provide services and opportunities for victims to proactively address issues and for juveniles to take ownership of and to take affirmative action to repair the harm caused by their delinquent behavior, to provide victim offender mediation services to victims and juveniles, to provide opportunities for victims to participate in other restorative, justice program models that adequately address their needs, to effectively address the needs of victims through the distribution of victim impact statements, and to monitor restitution and other agreements to ensure compliance.
For the publications that follow, requests for copies and questions should be directed to the following:
Contact person for copies:
Marie Verren, 816-881-6510, mverren@courts.
Contact person for questions regarding reports:
Pam Behle, PhD., 816-881-6524, pbehle@courts.
Jackson County Family Court Statistical Report 2004, McCune Outcomes Report 2000-2004: August 2005,
Hilltop Outcomes Report 2000-2004: August 2005, Equip Implementation Evaluation 2004,
Nurturing Parents/Parents Who Care Implementation Evaluation, Probation Services Evaluation 2003,
Facilitating Treatment Services Between Department of Mental Health and Jackson County Family Court Services 2003, Family Drug Court Evaluation 2002, Juvenile Drug Court Evaluation 2000, Substance Abuse Services Annual Report 2004, Substance Abuse Services Monthly Report (beginning January 2004 through present-ongoing), Substance Abuse Services Annual Report 2003
Marie Verren, 816-881-6510, mverren@courts.
Juvenile Cases Filed Report (monthly October 2004 through present-ongoing)
OSCA Juvenile Report (monthly November 2004 through the present-ongoing)
Marie Verren, 816-881-6510, mverren@courts.
19TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT JUVENILE COURT
400 STADIUM BLVD.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO 65101
573-636-5177
ELECTRONIC MONITORING
David Cook, 573-636-5177, dcook@courts.
Supervision of pre and post-adjudicated juveniles is provided by electronic monitors to divert delinquent juveniles from DYS by utilizing electronic monitoring.
DRUG SCREENING
David Cook, 573-636-5177, dcook@courts.
Provides urinalysis for individuals referred by the Children’s Division, Court, or responsible adult to identify Juveniles who are using controlled substances.
INTENSIVE SUPERVISION
David Cook, 573-636-5177, dcook@courts.
Utilizing Intensive Supervision by trackers and / or electronic monitoring for both pre and post-adjudicated delinquents to divert delinquent juveniles from DYS.
DETENTION UNIT
David Boucher, 573-636-5177, dboucher@courts.
Provide a temporary maximum security for youth whose alleged behavior constitutes a danger to themselves or the community.
EMERGENCY CARE
David Boucher, 573-636-5177, dboucher@courts.
Provide emergency care for abused and neglected children under contract with the Children’s Division, and to utilize community agencies to provide psychological and counseling services to residents.
CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONS
Cheryl Ramsey and Ken Osman, 573-636-5177
Provide educational services to children in emergency care or detention to include health and nutrition education, life skills and fine arts. Providing an opportunity for emergency care and detention, to earn credit toward graduation or promotion to the next grade.
LAW RELATED EDUCATION
Jesse Osman, 573-636-5177, josman@courts.
Providing education on at-risk behavior, substance abuse, cultural diversity, and victim rights to deter first time offenders from repeat offenses.
RESTITUTION
David Cook, 573-636-5177, dcook@courts.
Juvenile offenders reimburse victims for damages. Provide a mechanism allowing juvenile offenders to reimburse victims for damages through the court.
JUVENILE DRUG COURT
David Cook, 573-636-5177, dcook@courts.
Provide judicial supervision over juvenile offenders with substance abuse issues, provide integrated administration of graduated sanctions and services to hold participants accountable and reduce recidivision.
To deal more effectively with juveniles who abuse controlled or illegal substances.
KNOWLES SUSPENDED STUDENT CLASSROOM
Travis Edwards, 573-636-5177, tedwards@courts.
Provides earlier intervention and an alternative placement for students suspended from school, diverting youth for DYS.
21ST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FAMILY COURT
501 SOUTH BRENTWOOD BLVD.
CLAYTON, MO 63105
314-615-0365
BATTERER COMPLIANCE PROJECT
Diana Kinder Beasley, 314-615-0365, dkinderbeasley@
The Batterer Compliance Project provides the Family Court of St. Louis County a centralized referral and monitoring service for perpetrators of domestic violence who are referred to batterer intervention programs. The Compliance Project includes civil and dependency cases. The Batterer Compliance Coordinator receives referrals from the Court, provides orientation to the participants, and refers them to an appropriate, private, community-based batterer intervention program. The Project Coordinator receives reports from program staff on participant progress and reports back to the Court for use in Compliance Hearings.
Objectives: To undertake a planning process that would elicit the participation of the Family
Court Judges, Court Staff, Attorneys, batterer intervention program staff, and Victim Advocates, to coordinate the referral and monitoring of batterers from the Adult Abuse, Domestic Relations and Dependency dockets to batterer intervention programs (BIP) and/or related counseling, to orient victims about the batterer intervention programs, to report to the Court about the batterer’s attendance and progress with the batterer’s intervention program, to develop communication between the Association of Batterer Intervention Programs and Judges to encourage attendance and compliance of the batterer, to clarify and implement methodologies for enforcement of court orders mandating attendance at batterer intervention and/or related counseling programs, to decrease repeated instances of domestic violence.
CITIZEN DEPUTY JUVENILE OFFICER
Kim Moeckel, 314-615-8443, kmoeckel@
The Citizen Deputy Juvenile Officer (CDJO) Program recruits, screens, trains, places, and maintains a volunteer and practicum student work force for the Family Court St. Louis County.
Objectives: To aid the organization in its overall mission by utilizing a trained volunteer work force that works collaboratively with court staff and programs, to recruit, screen, train, place and maintain a volunteer/practicum student work force within the Family Court setting, to offer citizens the opportunity to learn about the Family Court and to help implement, its programs and services, to facilitate positive relationships between the Court and local colleges, universities and civic organizations.
COMMUNITY SERVICE / RESTITUTION
Jeff Osburg, 314-615-8455, josburg@
Deputy Juvenile Officers refer youth who have either restitution and/or community service obligations. Staff screen referrals, orient and place youth at community based, public or non-profit work sites or on the work crew. The work crew is intended for youth who need supervision by staff. Money needed to meet restitution obligations comes from a community nonprofit organization, PayBack, Inc. PayBack credits youth at minimum wage for the number of community service hours they complete. These funds are then forwarded by the Court to the victim.
Objectives: To provide youth involved with the Family Court with opportunities to meet their community service and/or restitution obligation, to provide job readiness skills training to all youth referred to the program.
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA)
121 South Meramec, Clayton, MO 63105
Allie Chang Ray, 314-615-2908, cagast/
CASA of St. Louis County, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation working in partnership with the Family Court of St. Louis County. After extensive screening, volunteers participate in a comprehensive 35-hour pre-service training course, including but not limited to topics related to permanency planning, child abuse and neglect issues, court procedure and systems. After training, volunteers are sworn in as officers of the court and appointed by court order to serve as a child’s CASA. After appointment, a CASA investigates the child’s case. The CASA works with the staff supervisor identifying issues, monitors whether services ordered for the parents and child are being provided, and talks with service providers about the outcome of service delivery. CASAs attend any staffing, including permanency planning review team meetings. CASAs prepare a court report that is made available to the judicial officer during court proceedings.
Objectives: To advocate for abused and neglected children in need of safe and permanent homes, through efforts of trained community volunteers, to consult with all affected parties, The Children’s Division, and other related professionals, to monitor service plans and their implementation, to assist with guardian ad litem duties when requested, to conduct independent investigations and prepare reports for the court.
DOMESTIC RELATIONS SERVICES
7900 Carondelet, Room 161, Courts Building, Clayton, MO 63105
Tom Weber, 314-615-8093, tweber@
Five masters level DJO/Mediators provide mediation, custody evaluation and case management services to divorcing and separated families. This includes services for those involved with paternity and adult abuse cases as well. Most cases are Court referred. Voluntary, confidential mediation services are available for persons contemplating or who have already filed for or received a divorce, separation of paternity judgment in St. Louis County.
Objectives: To improve cooperation between parents and reduce the need for litigation, to provide safety and lessen exposure to conflict for children whose parents are separated or divorced, to help parents develop parenting plans and resolve related child custody/visitation issues
ELECTRONIC MONITORING
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Karl Scheidt, Manager, 314-615-2900, kscheidt@
When youth are court-ordered to be placed on electronic monitoring, Deputy Juvenile Officers contact the Program Coordinator to arrange for the installation of the transmitter. The Program Coordinator acts as liaison to the company BI, Inc. and is responsible for all program support services. The Court receives alert notifications on tampers and unauthorized leaves within 15 minutes of the Monitoring Center’s receipt of those messages; all other alert conditions are reported the next day via facsimile on the Daily Summary Report.
Objectives: To provide electronic surveillance for certain juveniles in lieu of secure detention, to reduce the daily detention population and the high cost of care for this group, to provide electronic surveillance for juveniles in the Special Probation Program.
THE EXCHANGE CENTER
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Sandra Ann Ford, 314-615-0369, sford@
Through the use of respectful communications, careful scheduling, courthouse security, and clear rules, The Exchange Center provides a safe and nurturing environment for children to go from one parent to the other. In addition, the Center offers supervised visitation services.
Objectives: To provide a safe and nurturing environment for children to go from one parent to the
other according to the terms of parenting plans that are ordered in domestic relations, paternity, or adult abuse cases, to offer supervised visitation services, to promote the continuation of relationships between children involved in domestic relations, paternity, or adult abuse cases with all of their significant family members, to allow parents to exchange their children for visitation without having contact with one another, to protect one parent from abusive contact with the other parent at the time of a custody exchange, to monitor and report parents compliance with Court ordered custody exchanges.
FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCING - DELIQUENCY
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Bonnie J. Miller, 314-615-8463, bonniemiller@
This program offers families of delinquent youth opportunities to come together to develop plans for the care and supervision of their children. Families of juveniles at high risk for out of home placement and families of juveniles who are ready to return to the community from out of home placements are particularly appropriate for this program.
Objectives: To provide families with delinquent children an opportunity to come together to plan for the care and supervision of their children, to expedite the development of supervision plans for juveniles whom the Family Court is considering placing out of their homes and for juveniles for whom the Court is considering returning from placement to the community, to facilitate conferences which include participation by persons outside the immediate family. These persons may be siblings, grandparents, godparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends, clergy, teachers, or others involved with the family. And to facilitate conferences that are sensitive to families’ strengths, values and culture.
FAMILY THERAPY
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Tom Lovinguth, 314-615-4498, tlovinguth@
Families of delinquent youth and families receiving help from Domestic Relations Services are eligible for this program. Therapists provide family assessments and subsequent recommendations regarding ongoing family therapy and/or custody - visitation resolutions. The general approach of the team of therapists involves identification and modification of patterns of interaction among family members that may be related to juvenile behavior problems or to family conflicts.
Objectives: To provide family assessment and therapy to families in Delinquency and Domestic
Relations cases in cooperation with supervision and case management by Deputy Juvenile Officers, Domestic Relations Services, and Deputy Juvenile Officers/Mediators, to provide consultation and training as requested by Family Court staff.
G.E.D.
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Cathy Deck, 314-615-8452, cdeck@
Program offers individualized academic preparation for the G.E.D. exam for students involved with the Court who have potential to pass this exam. For court-involved youth who do not have potential to pass the exam, the program offers individualized academic basic skills instruction.
Objectives: To assess formally and informally the current levels of academic performance of each student, to provide appropriate academic instruction, to work with each student to mutually develop realistic academic goals which may include establishing a date for taking the G.E.D. exam.
INTENSIVE SERVICE TEAM (IST)
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Jeff Jackson, 314-615-8468, jjackson@
The IST model includes reduced caseloads and intensive community contacts within the systems in which the juvenile lives and operates family, peers, community, and school. Interactions include individual and group counseling, family therapy, parent education/training, recreation and community organization involvement. Other Family Court and community programs are used as needed. Contacts by DJO are treatment, educational, supportive oriented and will generally be six months in duration. Contacts by team members vary from highly intensive (daily) to a minimum of weekly in person contact. Staff spend the major portion of their time in the “field” and work into the evening at least three days a week.
Objectives: To limit penetration into the Juvenile Justice System by developing a multi-systemic treatment plan to reduce recidivism, to deter gang involvement and serious delinquency, to divert from Division of Youth Services commitment and residential placement.
JUVENILE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE (J.C.C.)
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Michelle Meyers, 314-615-4564, mmeyers@
Panels of six to nine community volunteers meet regularly to handle first time, non-violent offenders who have been referred to the Court. Using the principles of restorative justice, panels impose sanctions that offer the offender the opportunity to make reparation to their victims and a positive contribution to their community.
Objectives: To handle first time, non-violent referrals to the Court effectively, by holding juveniles accountable to their community, in an effort to discourage future delinquent behavior, to involve community members constructively in a restorative justice process for juvenile offenders in their community.
JUVENILE MINORITY OVERREPRESENTATION PROJECT (JMOP)
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Sue Ashwell or John Thomas, 314-615-4400, jthomas@
JMOP is a court community collaborative effort that focuses on developing methods and resources within the court and community that have an impact of reducing disproportionate minority youth contact with the juvenile justice system. The JMOP community advisory board works through four subcommittees: data, communications, court operations, and community alternatives.
Objectives: To raise awareness and seek solution partners to address a long standing problem that there are a disproportionately large number of children of color in the juvenile detention center and the juvenile justice system, to identify and implement “best practices” in the operations of the Family Court of St. Louis County to reduce the disproportionately high numbers of minority youth referred to and served by this system while maintaining public safety, to build community support networks for youth and families to allow for and encourage community based responses to the short term and long term needs of juveniles who come to the court’s attention with a specific focus on minority youth, to establish a system of data collection at decision-making points to monitor outcomes for youth once they have come to the attention of the Family Court.
MEDIATION SERVICES (COURT APPROVED LIST OF MEDIATORS)
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Tom Weber, 314-615-8095, tweber@
Mediation is utilized pre-filing or post-filing in dissolution’s of marriage, paternity matters, legal separations, motions to modify, etc. Both parties must be willing to try mediation in good faith; contra indicators include domestic violence, untreated mental illness or substance abuse, or an extreme power disparity between parties. Parties may choose any qualified person to mediate their divorce or related legal proceeding. As a service to the public, the Family Court maintains a list of private individuals who are willing to serve as mediators.
Objectives: To make available to parties a list of private individuals, who meet minimum education and training standards, and who are available to be hired to serve as mediators in dissolution of marriage or related legal proceedings, to notify divorcing parties about the possibility of using an impartial third party (mediator) to help work out mutually acceptable decisions about property, financial arrangements, child custody and related parenting issues.
Mental Health Demonstration Project for St. Louis County Youth
in the Juvenile Justice System
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Tom Lovingtuth, 314-615-4498, tlovingtuth@
Detention staff screen all juveniles admitted to the Detention Center for the first time who remain in Detention for 24 or more hours. In addition, Assessment staff screen all juveniles who have a legally sufficient misdemeanor or felony referral. Those juveniles who score within the warning zone in any area or who score in the caution zone in two or more areas (excluding somatic complaints and traumatic experiences) on the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (M.A.Y.S.I.) and who do not meet D.M.H. criteria for Severe Emotional Disturbance (S.E.D.) or for participation in Project 503, may receive an integrated mental health and alcohol and drug abuse assessment. Approximately five juveniles a month may receive assessments. Contingent upon assessment results, juveniles may receive D.M.H. services.
Objectives: To screen for mental health/substance abuse needs of all juveniles who are admitted to the Family Court of St. Louis County Detention Center for the first time and held for 24 or more hours, to identify mental health needs of youth 12-17 years old at any entry or transitional placement point in the Family Court of St. Louis County system, to expand the eligibility criteria for services to juveniles involved with the Court from Department of Mental Health (D.M.H.)
The Mentor Program
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Kim Moeckel, 314-615-8443, kmoeckel@
There are three components to The Mentor Program: individual, school-based, and site-based. The intent of each component is to provide opportunities for Court-involved youth to develop relationships with positive adult role models. With the individual component, program staff matches individual youth with a mentor and the mentor and youth subsequently spend quality time with each other. With the school-based and the site-based components, staff assign youth to regular meetings at one of several locations where the youth engage in some academic activities and some recreational activities with the group of adults at the location. Examples of sites include the athletic departments at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University, the Florissant Valley and Berkeley fire departments, and Miracle Temple Church.
Objectives: To provide Court-involved youth opportunities to develop relationships with positive adult role models who can guide and support them in developing positive behaviors, attitudes, and ambitions.
Parent Support Group
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Cathy Deck, 314-615-8452, cdeck@
This program is a parent education and support group for parents of delinquent youth. The group meets weekly for 2 hours for seven consecutive weeks. Group size does not exceed 15 adults. The approach is educational and interactive. The curriculum addresses parenting styles, effective discipline, natural and logical consequences, negotiating mutual agreements, setting, and enforcing limits.
Objectives: To improve parent skills by teaching effective discipline techniques, to help stabilize parent-juvenile relationships, to encourage a cooperative effort between the Court and parents in preventing further delinquent behavior.
Project GUNS
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
James Allen, 314-615-8456, jallen@
This program works with juveniles who have gun related offenses and their parents. There are two sessions: an initial conference and a three-hour group program. The initial conference is used to stress the seriousness of the offense, to heighten an awareness of the danger of guns, assign reading materials and quiz, and explain what will be taking place in the three-hour group. There are four parts to the group program.
1. Self-disclosure, view video and discussion.
2. Victim impact panel consisting of police officer, trauma doctor or nurse, gunshot victim and mother of a murdered child.
3. Closing speaker who talks about sacredness/preciousness of life.
4. Student and parent evaluations of the program.
Objectives: To increase juvenile’s and parent(s) awareness of the dangers of guns, to reduce the chances of the juvenile to again illegally possess or use a gun, to reduce the number of gun related referrals to the Family Court of St. Louis County.
PROJECT H.A.R.T.
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Cathy Deck, 314-615-8452, cdeck@
Project H.A.R.T. is a girl only group-counseling program which focuses on anger management and healthy relationships. This six-session program uses role-play, large and small discussion groups, brainstorming, videos, and other experiential activities to teach the curriculum.
Objectives: To learn about safe and healthy relationships, to teach anger management skills, to lean peaceful conflict resolution skills, and to learn peer pressure refusal skills.
PROJECT L.E.A.R.N.
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
James Allen, 314-615-8456, jallen@
Project L.E.A.R.N. is a half-day school program for Court involved youth who are temporarily separated from their home schools. Most typically, these separations are the result of suspensions. Project L.E.A.R.N. provides daily academic instruction, group counseling, educational assessments, and advocacy.
Objectives: To provide comprehensive educational evaluations, to recommend appropriate educational alternatives, to develop an educational program in accordance with each student’s individualized needs, to improve each student’s academic and social skills, to integrate students who are out of school into an appropriate academic/vocational program, to assist Deputy Juvenile Officers in implementing the educational components of their clients’ treatment plans.
Psychological-Psychiatric Services
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Tom Lovinguth, 314-615-4495, tlovinguth@
Juveniles/parents are seen for psychological and/or psychiatric screening/evaluation and treatment as needed and available. Psychiatric evaluation by consulting psychiatrists is scheduled by staff psychologists. Recommendations are made regarding treatment/residential placement needs, and custody/visitation arrangements. Detention residents are seen on referral by Detention and medical staff and/or Deputy Juvenile Officers (DJO) for crisis intervention, and substance abuse/mental health screening/assessment is conducted within two weeks of admission. Recommendations are made regarding Detention Special Program and treatment needs. Staff psychologists conduct/coordinate education/treatment groups, and the substance abuse/mental health counselor provides services within Detention.
Objectives: To provide psychological/psychiatric and substance abuse consultation to Family Court staff and collateral resources working with Family Court cases, to provide mental health/substance abuse diagnostic, evaluation, and treatment services to Delinquency, Domestic Relations, and Neglect cases, in cooperation with supervision and case management by Deputy Juvenile Officers and Domestic Relations Social Workers.
SAST - Substance Abuse Screening and Treatment Long Term Group
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Margo Layton, 314-615-4533, mlayton@
The group meets twice weekly for 90 minutes on an on-going basis. This is an open-ended group. Juveniles may be added to the group at any time, and remain in the group until discharged by the Counselor and Deputy Juvenile Officer (DJO). The approach is therapeutic / supportive. It focuses on relationships, skills, self-concept, and other areas of development related to avoidance of drug-alcohol use. Weekly reports of attendance and progress are sent to the supervising DJO. DJOs and parents are contacted by phone as necessary to discuss progress. On discharge from the group, DJO and parents are sent a closing report, with comments and recommendations for further services as needed.
Objectives: To provide long-term substance abuse group treatment and support in order to help juveniles achieve sobriety and prevent relapse.
SAST - Substance Abuse Screening and Treatment Short Term Group
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Joan Hovland, 314-615-0613, jhovland@
The group meets weekly for 90 minutes and for four (4) consecutive weeks. Parents are to attend with their child on the first and third weeks. A fifth session is held for parents only to discuss their concerns about their children’s adjustment. The approach is educational and therapeutic and focuses on the physical/social/emotional effects of substance abuse and the inter-relationships between family/peer interaction and abuse. Weekly written reports of attendance and participation (partially self-report) and a final progress/recommendation report are provided to the supervising Deputy Juvenile Officer (DJO). If the counselor and DJO feel further counseling/support is indicated, the youth may be referred to the long-term SAST group or other resource.
Objectives: To help juveniles avoid or become free of drug-alcohol use, by providing a short-term, adolescent group substance abuse education experience.
Shoplifting Program
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Cathy Deck, 314-615-8452, cdeck@
This program is a one-time class meeting, which is held once a month for approximately one hour. The group averages twenty-five to thirty youth. Information is presented about the negative consequences of shoplifting and stealing, their cost to the consumer, and their effect on society, one’s family and personal behavior. Guest speakers make presentations regarding civil liability law, and various legal consequences.
Objectives: To raise the juvenile’s awareness about the ramifications of shoplifting and stealing in society, and how it affects oneself and significant others.
Social Skills
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Dave Gocken, 314-615-8453, dgocken@
This is a group-counseling program. There are six one-hour counseling sessions. The group leader leads participants through a curriculum designed to help participants learn strategies to deal with their problems. Activities include didactic presentations, group discussions, group process, and a role-play.
Objectives: To help participant’s lean basic communication skills, to help participants learn problem-solving skills, to help participants learn anger management and conflict resolution skills, to help participants learn about safe and healthy relationships.
Special Probation Services
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Christy Duncker, 314-615-4562, cduncker@
This program follows a probation model that involves highly restrictive rules of supervision. Juveniles in this program progress through a levels system, receive frequent urine screens, maintain a curfew, and are subject to electronic monitoring through most of the program. During the nine to twelve months the juveniles receive Special Probation, there are gradual increases in activities and privileges and decreases in the amount of contact and surveillance. Based on the juvenile’s adjustment and other related circumstances, at the culmination of these services, the case closes or transfers to regular supervision.
Objectives: To provide intensive community supervision and surveillance services by a team of Deputy Juvenile Officers, (DJOs) to chronic and/or serious offenders who are at imminent risk for commitment to the Division of Youth Services or for placement outside the home.
Specific Treatment for Sexually Harmful Youth
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Kim Birdwell, 314-615-2924, kbirdwell@
Assessment and community based DJOs who have received specialized training in managing and treating sexually harmful youth arrange for, develop, and provide a comprehensive set of services to sexually harmful youth, their families, and the community. These services include psychosocial/psychosexual assessments, safety and relapse prevention plans, multidisciplinary team staffing, multidisciplinary treatment plans, community based supervision (includes evening and weekend supervision by Youth Accountability Workers), home studies, residential placement plans, residential placement supervision, aftercare plans and supervision, and group counseling for juveniles and parents.
Key guidelines that shape the treatment plans developed by DJOs are as follows:
- Ensure community safety.
- Hold juveniles accountable for their behavior.
- Treat them in the least restrictive environment.
- Collaborate with community resources and support systems.
- Build on the strengths that already exist in family system.
- Teach youth respectful sexual attitudes, boundaries, and practices.
Objectives: To conduct comprehensive psychosocial/psychosexual assessments, to conduct multi-disciplinary stuffing’s, to provide juveniles with a sex offender specific treatment, to involve parents/custodians in the treatment process and to use a resiliency treatment model, to provide intensive community-based supervision, to ensure the safety of victim(s) of juvenile sexual misconduct and to ensure the safety of the community, to provide sex offender specific group counseling, to coordinate the services of other therapists/agencies working with sexually harmful youth involved with Family Court of St. Louis County.
St. Louis County Parent Education Program
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Sue Ashwell, 314-615-2969, sashwell@
This program is a mandatory parent education class for divorcing parents in St. Louis County who have at least one child in common less than 19 years old. One session class is offered at multiple times and locations by an independent contractor. Class size is 25 participants. Format includes lecture, discussion, video, and questions. Participants receive program manual, Family Court booklet, Court-Approved List of Mediators, notice of mediation services, and class evaluation. Copy of attendance certificate is given to participant and original is sent to Clerk’s office for legal file. Due to security concerns, both parties will not be scheduled for the same class. The class last roughly 2 hours and 15 minutes. Contractor submits monthly program and financial reports to court.
Objectives: To help parents understand the separation/divorce process and its impact on adults and children of all ages, to encourage parents to communicate and respond appropriately with each other and their children as they plan for each child’s well-being and the family transitions, to help parents learn to resolve grief, anger, and conflict successfully, and to assist their children with these issues, to encourage parents to continue their parental relationship and financial responsibilities with each child, despite the changes in marital status and living arrangements, to provide information to parents regarding the community resources which may be helpful to adults and children of divorcing families, to provide parties information about the use of mediation in resolving domestic relations matters at both pre- and post-dissolution phases, and to make available the Court Approved List of Mediators.
The ST Louis County Resource Center
Room 180-A, Courts Building, 7900 Carondelet, Clayton, MO 63105
Jim Buckles, 314-615-4742, jbuckles@
The St. Louis County Resource Center provides forms and assistance to persons who desire to obtain dissolution of marriage without being represented by attorneys. Participants are referred to the Domestic Relations Service Unit at the Family Court of St. Louis County for assistance in completing their parenting plans when needed. A consumer friendly parenting plan form was developed for parents participating in this program. Special dockets are scheduled each month for the dissolutions that are filed through the Resource Center.
Objectives: To make the Family Courts more accessible for persons seeking dissolution of marriage who are unable to afford the services of an attorney.
Substance Abusing Families Engaged in Treatment and Intervention
(SAFETI) Program
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Mona Ackles, 314-615-1586, mackles@
The SAFETI Program is a Family Court of St. Louis County and Office of State Courts Administrator program for parents and parties who have children involved with the Children’s Division. The program is voluntary and includes regular appearances before the Family Drug Court Judge/Commissioner. The Program includes a Drug Treatment Program that involves an initial assessment, continuing random drug testing, individual and group counseling in a residential or outpatient setting, and regular attendance at 12-step meetings. The Program Coordinator and a counselor from the Bridgeway Counseling Services monitor drug treatment progress. The Coordinator and the Children’s Division monitor parenting plans. The program provides participants with legal representation. The Coordinator and the Children’s Division may refer participants to educational, vocational, and/or job placement services. Successful completion of the Drug Treatment Program, parenting plans, and other components of the Children’s Division reunification plan may lead to reunification of participants with their children.
Objectives: To provide parents opportunities with substance abuse problems that have children involved with the Children’s Division opportunities to become clean and sober and subsequently reunite with their children, to provide Family Court of St. Louis County supervision of the treatment progress of program participants to ensure the on-going safety of their children, to expedite permanency for the children of program participants, to preserve the families of program participants to the degree possible without jeopardizing the safety of the children.
Teen Traffic Program
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Cathy Deck, 314-615-8452, cdeck@
The program serves youth who have been referred to the Court for traffic safety violations, and traffic law violations.
It is a one-time two-hour meeting which deals with motor vehicle responsibilities, traffic laws and penalties, insurance requirements, and safe driving practices. Information is presented through lectures, video, group discussion, and handouts.
Objectives: To provide information about Missouri traffic laws, violations, and consequences for violations, to promote traffic safety and motor vehicle responsibility for licensed drivers, to address the dangers of under age driving as well as the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The Truancy Court Diversion Project
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Christy Duncker, 314-615-4562, cduncker@
The Family Court chooses schools to participate in the program based on the availability of a judge for a particular school, the degree of commitment of a school to the Project’s principle of “whatever it takes,” the school’s ability to provide a Family Advocate (case manager), and the school’s ability to provide adequate space for the Truancy Court sessions. Participating schools choose the students and families who participate in the program based on the following requirements: students were absent more than 10 days, but less than 25 days in the previous school year and students have no Family Court or Children’s Division involvement. Participation in the Project is voluntary. Project officials visit families in their homes to explain the project and establish a family’s level of commitment to participate in the Project. The Project Team that is responsible for planning and implementing project activities include a judge, a DJO, a Family Advocate, a Truancy Court Educational Liaison, and a Truancy Court Local School Attendance Clerk. These team members meet regularly and are responsible for planning an orientation session, planning twelve Court sessions, planning group activities, staffing cases, developing and implementing service, and aftercare plans, and carrying out Court recommendations. Each family appears before the judge weekly for twelve weeks. The Project Team provides progress reports on each student to the judge. The judge or other Project team members share positive accomplishments with all who attend Truancy Court sessions, but the judge and the team handle negative reports confidentially. The judge, Project Team members or other school officials may make recommendations at Court sessions, but the logistics and implementation of recommendations are handled outside the Court sessions. The Project Team ensures that recommendations are carried-out and that support services to families are secured. In addition to judicial review of progress, Project Teams incorporate parent education, social skills, and student study skill lessons into sessions. Incentives, recognition, rewards, and fun group activities are also key program components.
Objectives: To develop informal positive judicial proceedings that takes place in St. Louis County Schools which target children who are at risk for becoming chronically truant from school, to identify those youth who will benefit significantly from participation in Truancy Court, to decrease absences, tardiness, and days suspended, to increase grade point average and grade promotions, to divert students from entering the formal Court system, to empower parents/guardians to take their share of responsibility for their children’s success at school.
Urinalysis Drug Screening Program
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Ron Kannady, 314-615-4472, rkannady@
All juveniles under court jurisdiction may be subject to random urinalysis testing. Juveniles under informal supervision may be tested on a voluntary basis. In general, criteria for use of this program include drug or alcohol related offenses, a history of substance use/abuse or diagnosed abuse or dependency, and suspicion of substance use based on observed behavior or reports by parents, school personnel, or others likely to have knowledge.
Objectives: To make urinalysis screening of juveniles for presence of drugs available to Deputy Juvenile Officers staff, to confirm use or non-use of drugs by juveniles, to provide information to parents to help them work with the juvenile and DJO in eliminating juvenile drug use, to identify juveniles in need of substance abuse treatment, and to monitor juvenile compliance with rules of supervision.
Victim Advocate
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Kim Birdwell, 314-615-2924, kbirdwell@
The Family Court of St. Louis County employs a Victim Advocate who reaches out to victims of violent juvenile crimes and subsequently provides direct services to them. The Advocate’s services include crisis intervention, safety planning, and referrals for counseling, emergency shelter, hotlines, legal, and/or medical services. The Advocate also provides victims with information, guidance, and support as they deal with law enforcement and the Family Court. Services of this type include court preparation, trial notification, notification of case disposition, restitution advocacy, and assistance with victim impact statements and Missouri Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund applications.
Objectives: To provide an overview of the Family Court process to victims of juvenile crime, to provide victims with information on Missouri Crime Victims’ Rights, to notify victims of Court proceedings, to support victims by preparing them for and accompanying them to Court hearings, to provide victims with crisis intervention service and refer them to community resources (the Victim Advocate works closely with the Child Advocacy Center), to provide victims with information on the Missouri Crime Victim’s Compensation process.
Victim Impact Panel
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Bonnie J. Miller, 314-615-8463, bmiller@
Victim Impact Panel is a process through which victims tell their experiences of victimization and juvenile offenders learn the potential impact and harm that result from crime.
Objectives: To provide crime victims with opportunities to speak about their victimization and tell their experiences, to provide juvenile offenders the opportunity to meet crime victims in person and hear directly from victims about the impact of crimes, to assist juvenile offenders to identify the harm caused to victims and what needs to be done to repair the harm, and to provide a forum for victims and juvenile offenders to ask questions of each other and personally talk about the impact of crime.
Victim Offender Dialogue
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Bonnie J. Miller, 314-615-8463, bmiller@
Victim-Offender Dialogue is a process through which offenders meet with the victims of their crimes. Victims are allowed to ask offenders questions. Victims may confront offenders with the impact that the offense has had on them and their families. Trained mediators and/or the Program Coordinator prepare both victims and offenders for the face-to-face meetings and they are present at these meetings to facilitate the process. In most instances, the goal of the face-to-face meeting is for the victims and offenders to come to an agreement through which the offenders can make amends to their victims. Staff assigns mediators to the case, monitor progress, and report to Deputy Juvenile Officers.
Objectives: To identify the harm caused to victims and address the needs of victims of juvenile crime in a meaningfully manner, to provide a forum for victims to ask questions of their juvenile offender and express the harm suffered due to the offense, to provide an opportunity for juvenile offenders to take responsibility for their actions, through dialogue with their victims, apology, and working out an agreement to repair the harm caused to their victims.
Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.)
501 South Brentwood Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105
Dave Gocken, 314-615-8453, dgocken@
Y.O.U. is a career orientation, career counseling and pre-vocational skills program. Students participate in three to four weeks of daily group activities designed to help them begin thinking about careers and the steps involved in pursuing careers of interest to them. In addition to activities involving career planning, students learn job finding and keeping skills. These include how to fill out job applications, how to develop resumes, how to dress for and conduct themselves
in interviews, how to relate appropriately with co-workers and supervisors, and what duties and responsibilities are common to all jobs. Also, as needed, Y.O.U. staff will help Court-involved youth pursue their career and employment goals. This may involve Y.O.U. staff’s directing students through college, vocational school, financial aid and job application processes. Upon request, Court-involved youth may participate in individual sessions with Y.O.U. staff. These sessions may involve career guidance and/or pre-employment skills activities.
Objectives: To help students develop realistic long-range career goals, to help students get and keep jobs (pre-employment skills training), to help students gain entry into and succeed at community college, universities, vocational training schools, armed services, or other post-secondary school educational or training programs.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE 21ST CIRCUIT:
“Child Abuse and Neglect Manual for a Unified Approach 1999”
Carol Bader, 314-615-0633, cbader@
Family Court of St. Louis County Brochures 2005
The Court has brochures which describe the processes and/or programs named in the titles of the brochures.
These brochures are as follows:
Child Protective Services, Court Hearings, Community Programs, Citizen Deputy Juvenile Officer Program
Court Approved List of Mediators, Delinquency Services, Court Hearings, Case Assessment & Informal Services, Supervision, Detention Center, Domestic Relations Services, Electronic Monitoring, Exchange Center, Family Group Conferencing, Family Therapy, Intensive Services Team Program, Juvenile Conference Committee, Juvenile Minority Overrepresentation Project, Mediation, Mentor Program, PayBack Community Service and Restitution Program,
Victim Offender Dialogue
Kim Moeckel, 314-615-8443, kmoeckel@
“Family Court Guide 2004”
Kim Moeckel, 314-615-8443, kmoeckel@
“Family Court of St. Louis County Court Programs Handbook 2005”
Jeff Osburg, 314-615-8455, josburg@
“Family Court of St. Louis County Police Procedures Manual 2005”
Cynthia Harcourt, 314-615-2953, charcourt@
22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FAMILY COURT
920 NORTH VANDEVENTER
ST. LOUIS, MO 63108
314-552-2000
NIGHTWATCH
Joseph Scalise, 314-552-2500, joseph.scalise@courts.
Jean Beil, 314-552-2499, jean.beil@courts.
Federal JAIBB Grant
To enhance supervision by dispatching three crews consisting of a Deputy Juvenile Officer and a Police officer, five nights per week to make 150 contacts per week checking on curfew compliance.
COMMUNITY SERVICE / RESTITUTION
City of St. Louis, Division of Youth Services, Payback, Inc.
Jeanette McAllister, 314-552-2499, jeanette.mcallister@courts.
Under the balanced approach to Restorative Justice, the Juvenile Offender is held accountable by performing community service, their hours credited by Payback, Inc. and DYS to reimburse victims up to the maximum allowed.
TRUANCY INITIATIVE PROJECT
St. Louis Public Schools, Federal JAIBG Grant
Joli Baker, 314-552-2536, joli.baker@courts.
Reduce truancy in targeted schools within the St. Louis Public Schools System
VICTIM OFFENDER MEDIATION PROGRAM
Federal JAIBG Grant
3827 Enright, St. Louis, MO 63108
Sara Burge, 314-552-2493, sara.burge@courts.
1) To utilize practitioners to guide victims through the justice system process, listen to their stories, encourage participation and input in restitution and to gain closure, 2) To utilize practitioners to help offenders explain why a crime occurred, to gain a better understanding of what resulted from their crime, to take personal responsibility for their actions, to work to repair the harm they have caused and to restore their place in the community, and 3) to utilize community resources
PACT Unit (Prevention & Assessment Community Team)
Ken Simmons, 314-552-2111, kenneth.simmons@courts.
The PACT Unit (Prevention and Assessment Community Team) provides a wide range of services for the children who reside in the City of St. Louis. The primary purpose is to investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect regarding a child who is currently in the legal custody of her parents or custodians. The allegations and/or evidence of abuse/neglect have not quite risen to the level which would justify removing legal custody from the parent or custodian. The DJO’s actions range from simply receiving additional information and/or providing referrals to ensure the safety of the child to requesting authorization to have the child placed in the legal custody of the Missouri Children’s Division.
GUN COURT
Jan Koch, 314-552-2118, jan.koch@courts.
The Gun Court began in October of 2003. It is a post-adjudication / disposition program involving juveniles referred for gun offenses. The goal is to decrease juvenile gun offenses in the St. Louis community, as well as reduce recidivism rates of those juveniles referred for gun offenses. The program consists of intensive supervision with a minimum of 3 visits per youth per week. It also consists of restorative programming for the parents which consists of a 7-week counseling program and an 8-week parenting program.
KIDS HOPE UNITED
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Herman King, 314-241-4345
The purpose of KHU is to divert youth from placement with the Children’s Division.
By offering the family in-home family counseling, the agency will make every effort to avoid out of home placement of the youth. The Family Court collaborates with the Children’s Division to provide this service.
WEB OF CRUELTY
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Jan Koch, 314-552-2118, jan.koch@courts.
When a child is abused in a home there is a 60%+ chance that there is domestic violence in that same home. When both of these exist there in an 80%+ chance that the family pets are also being abused. This is known as the Web of Cruelty. Through the Human Society of Missouri a group has been formed comprising of the Family Court, Circuit Attorney’s Office, Children’s Division, St. Louis Police Department and various sections of the Humane Society. The goal is to provide information to the community and service providers so they are aware of the Web of Cruelty.
CHILD SUPPORT & ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Kim McFadden, 314-552-2160, kim.mcfadden@courts.
The Child Support and Enforcement Office is part of the Children’s Division. This office provides DNA testing to establish paternity. Once paternity is determined, monthly child support is ordered.
GIRL’S INC.
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis MO 63108
Cathy Horejes, 314-552-2169, cathy.horejes@courts.
To provide gender specific programming for females in a group setting.
The Family Court collaborates with Girl’s Inc. to provide this service.
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Myron Alexander, 314-552-2248, myron.alexander@courts.
To provide gender specific programming for males in a group setting.
The Family Court collaborates with Youth Empowerment Services to provide this service.
PARENTS ANONYMOUS
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Jill Triplett, 314-552-2000, jill.triplett@courts.
To provide parents a forum to meet and discuss freely parenting issues.
Family Court collaborates with the Parents Anonymous Organization.
JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Dr. Mary Goggins, 314-552-2168, mgoggins@
To identify those youth with mental health issues in the Juvenile system and to connect them with proper services that will address their mental health needs.
JUVENILE JUSTICE PROJECT
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Fred Davis, 314-552-2149, fred.davis@dmh.
To identify those youth and/or parents who are in need of developmental disability services. The Family Court and the Department of Mental Health-Regional Center collaborate to provide this service.
DRUG COURT
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Molly Gopal, 314-552-2106, molly.gopal@courts.
Drug Court is a voluntary court-supervised, diversionary, comprehensive drug treatment program for non-violent offenders. It features a non-adversarial team approach to a rigorous program that includes frequent court appearances before the Judge, random drug testing, individual/group treatment, and active participation in school / employment. Successful completion of the program results in the dismissal of the criminal charge.
Program Outcomes are: reduced recidivism, reduced illegal drug usage, prevention of crime and violence related to illegal drugs, increased judicial control and supervision.
JUVENILE CRIME VICTIM ADVOCATE
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Holly Pliler, 314-552-2257, holly.pliler@courts.
Victims of all violent crimes are provided services by referral. Available to provide personal and emotional support, court escort, assistance with the criminal justice system, referrals to community resources, and various advocacy services. Assist victims as stakeholders and attempt to insure victims receive their rights throughout the court process. Funding provided by the State Services to Victims Fund.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE LIASION
920 N. Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO 63108
Caroltta Carlton, 314-552-2163, carlotta.carlton@dss.
The Community Resource Liaison Program was developed by the Children’s Division in collaboration with Family Court-Juvenile Division as part of the Court Improvement Project. The Community Resource Liaison was created to expedite the commencement of treatment plans for parents, whose children have been placed in foster care, as ordered by the Court. The community resources liaison is a social worker with the Children’s Division and housed at Family Court. The objective of the Community Resource Liaison is to connect parents with appointments for court ordered services directly
after court hearings. Too often parents leave court with court orders but don’t know how to access community services, and as a result, children linger in foster care.
FAMILY CONTRACTED SERVICES
Family Court
Mary Ellen Pennick / Shante’ Lampley, 314-552-2389, shante.lampley@courts.
Status Offenders, Care and Protections, Delinquency, Domestic Relations
To provide counseling, tutoring, reading readiness, sex offender group, sex offender evaluations, anger management/violence prevention, psycho-sexual evaluations, diagnostic assessments, group mentoring, life skills/etiquette, parenting group, co-parenting skills, multi-system therapy (MST), gang prevention, respite and recreational services to youth under this court’s jurisdiction.
INTRA-FAMILY MEDIATION
Family Court
Shante’ Lampley, 314-552-2394, shante.lampley@courts.
Status Offenders, Delinquency
Intra-Family Mediation is a dispute resolution process which brings the family together in order to resolve conflicts. During this process, acceptable solutions are developed that benefit the parties involved. It is non-adversarial in nature and the outcomes are determined by the parties.
GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE ARRESTS (GTEA)
Court, Advocacy, and Police Services (CAPS)
Family Court
Shante’ Lampley / Megan Michael, 314-552-2394, shante.lampley@courts.
The CAPS collaboration provides for a LAAW DV Assistant to be located full-time at the City Family Court. The DV Assistant serves adult victims of domestic violence referred by court personnel. A domestic violence-screening toll allows court personnel to address the probability of domestic violence in the home prior to referring to the DV Assistant. The primary goal of the DV Assistant is immediate, on-site contact with victims of domestic violence who choose to seek services. Services include, but are not limited to, immediate and on-going crisis intervention, follow up services, safety planning, and information on Orders of Protection, comprehensive community referrals, information about navigating court proceedings and child maltreatment investigations, and referrals for legal services as well as extensive social service referrals.
NEIGHBORHOOD ACCOUNTABILITY BOARDS
Family Court
Victoria Green, 314-552-2479, victoria.green@courts.
The Neighborhood Accountability Boards is a program that consists of four to seven members of the community to informally address juvenile delinquency matters. NAB offers offenders the opportunity to repair the harm caused by their offense and make a positive contribution to their own community. The NAB board, operating in accordance with the guidelines of the Court, meets with the juvenile offender and his/her guardian, as well as the victim (if victim desires) to discuss the offense, ask questions and obtain information from the juvenile to formulate a plan of action. That plan of action becomes a signed agreement, when agreed upon by all parties involved. Members of NAB are responsible for monitoring compliance with the agreement.
VOICES FOR CHILDREN
Family Court
Stephen Knapp, 314-552-2280, sbknapp@
Voices for Children provide Guardian ad Litem representation to children living in foster care. It pairs volunteer community advocates with children’s lawyers to represent their best interests in and out of court. The objectives are threefold: To keep children safe while under the court’s jurisdiction. To assure they receive everything mandated by law: education, medical and mental health care; and three to move the child (ren) out of foster care and back home or to a family as quickly as possible. When placement with a family member is not in the best interest or a permanent plan, then the child (ren) will be freed for adoption. The program collaborates with the Family Court. VFC currently serves 1,000 of the children in foster care in the City of St. Louis. VFC has 300 volunteers and a staff of 10 attorneys. 80% of the children are out of care in 18 months or less. 60% are placed back with the parents or other family members. 28% are adopted. 98% have EPSDT and other services within 30 days of entering care. The recidivism rate is less than 1%.
The 22nd Family Court Juvenile Division
Juvenile Detention Center Programs for Youth 2005
Prepared by Nathan Graves Activity Coordinator
Artistic Programs for Youth
Arts Alive!
Prison Performing Arts, a local not-for-profit organization headed by Agnes Wilcox, provides artistic performances for Detention youth. Recent performers include Bobby Norfolk (storyteller), The Tempest, and Gene Dobbs Bradford (blues). Docents are provided before the show to prep the youth for the performance and a question and answer session always concludes the shows.
Agnes Wilcox, Elizabeth Madden, Jacqueline Masei
The Beat Program
The Beat Program gives youth an opportunity to use the computer lab to create Hip-Hop beats. Youth learn basic PC skills while learning how to compose Hip-Hop beats and music. Youth take their work home on CD when they leave Detention
Body In Motion
This program is about movement and personal awareness of one’s own body. The class is instructed by Erica Sutherlin an artist, dancer, and actress. The program is held in the gym and youth listen to music while they follow Erica in the various movement exercises and games.
Erica Sutherlin
Center for Recording Arts (CRA)
This program provides educational and recording services to Center residents teaching them about some of the resources and opportunities available to allow them to pursue a career or hobby in music. CRA also provides the recording studio for the very popular Hip-Hop Project over the Griscom School Spring Break.
Gabe Moskoff, Dan Harris, Jason Stevenson
Choir
The Choir program gives the members of Unit C an opportunity to work on their singing talents and skills. Students from St. Louis University lead this program.
CHIPS in Motion
CHIPS is a community health organization that works with young people and helps them become mentors and leaders in the community. Among their activities, CHIPS produces plays about issues that teens must face everyday. They also hold auditions in Detention for youth who have an interest in joining their company.
Kathi Bentley
Corner Pocket
Youth use their creative abilities to write and design a magazine on youth culture, Hip-Hop, and St. Louis. M.K. Stallings and Valencia Timms lead this program that focuses on the writing process and asks them to write on topics relevant to their lives, communities, and futures.
M.K. Stallings, Valencia Timms
Creative Arts
The Creative Arts program, led by Fontbonne University volunteers, provides a multi-disciplinary program that encourages students to utilize and develop their creative artistic and writing skills. The youth complete a new project each month and they are displayed in the Center.
Rose Shapiro, Anastasia Swan-Poole, Dee White, Sara Watson
I’m An Actor
Acting workshops are provided through the Prison Performing Arts organization. The acting workshops develop skills in improvisation, communication, self-awareness, and listening. Look for a sample performance of this program from Unit G and I tonight.
Jacqueline Masei
I’m A Drummer
Sky Kingsland leads this program that gives youth the opportunity to learn about the music and dance of West Africa. The Regional Arts Commission and Missouri Arts Council have funded this program this past year. Youth play on djembes, dunus, and congas and learn about rhythm and group drumming.
Sky Kingsland, Diadie Bathily
Visual Arts
Sr. Gabe volunteers on Thursday nights to teach visual art to the youth. Her program exposes youth to various art styles and has used mediums such as paint, cray-pas, and charcoal to create art projects that are displayed on the Detention Center’s walls.
Sr. Gabriel Mary Hoare
Chaplaincy Programs for Youth
Episcopal City Mission provides a multitude of services for the Detention Center. Listed in this category are programs that are coordinated by our Chaplain, Rev. Mickey Hassler, the dedicated ECM volunteers, and the practicum students who provide Chaplaincy services to detained youth. Some of the many volunteers, contributors, and supporters who have helped out through year are listed here.
Rev. Susan Skinner, Bea Covington, Rev. Burton Barr, Candace Esch, Carla Banks, Dawn Alexander,
Deborah Baker-Dukes, Etheldra Jones-Hollis, E. Linda Okpaleke, John Owens
1 Life Program
The program is made up of five topics that are taught to the youth: Relationships, Goal Setting and Career Choices, Health and Wellness, Financial Basics, and Drug Prevention. Each component is taught by a team of instructors and all sessions are designed to be interactive and educational aimed at equipping youth with the spiritual, educational, financial, relational, and health information and resources to improve their 1 Life.
Dietra Wise, Angela Sweetland, Hamlet Sancho, Sandra Wyman, Vivian Moore
Bible Study
The Chaplain’s practicum students lead this program using courses in the New and Old Testament for monthly discussions with a select group of youth. Activities, videos, and handouts provide youth with a fresh approach to learning about their faith.
Kevin Anthony
Grief Group
This program provides a group to help the Detention youth look at the experiences in their lives that have caused them pain and feelings of loss. From listening to someone else talk about his or her grief, to speaking about his or her own experiences; the youth are able to get in touch with some of their own sorrows.
Rev. Mickey Hassler
Monthly Birthday Party
Each month a different parish hosts the birthday party. Volunteers from that parish bring in gifts for all youth having a birthday that month. All youth enjoy games, birthday cake, and entertainment in the cafeteria. Parishes and individuals that have helped with or hosted this past year are:
Allyce Bullock, Amelia Nicks, Anna Mason, Chris Cannon, Diane Warover, Kim Jungermann, Margaret Mantia, Nancy Moore, Rich Eidson, Tricia Flemming, Vic Kremar
Birthday Party Participating Parishes:
All Saint’s Episcopal Church, Christ Church Cathedral, Church of the Advent, Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
Grace Episcopal Church, St. Joan of Arc Church, St. John’s Episcopal Church, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church,
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Trinity Episcopal Church
Praise Group
Loretta Jennings leads a group that provides spiritual support and vitality to the youth in Detention. Music, songs, and dance are all incorporated into this program to refresh youth.
Loretta Jennings
Sunday Service
The Episcopal City Mission Chaplains and volunteers lead weekly Sunday religious services for all youth in Detention.
Rev. Mickey Hassler
Volunteer Visitor
Volunteers visit with youth who are not receiving visits from family members. Volunteers continue to visit their assigned youth at least once per week until the youth is released.
Carla Reid, Shanita Clark, Keith Sayles, Jackie Poke, Joyce Page, Margaret Ledbetter,
Michelle Felton, Stacey Auch, Annie Stone
Williams Temple
Members of Williams Temple come to Detention once per month to engage in inspirational talks, scripture readings, and music. Their message is positive and comes from a realistic perspective.
Roy Jones, Lawrence Wooten, Lisa Stringer, Naiomi Miller
Youth Reality Ministry
Devin McGill uses metaphor and a first hand experience perspective to deliver an uplifting message to the youth, encouraging them to make better decisions in their lives and relationships.
Devin McGill
Educational Programs for Youth
BJC
Two nurses from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Trauma Team come to the Center to provide this program for youth. All units attend sessions, learn about the decisions they make, and how drugs and alcohol are often a factor in accidents.
Linda Ferber, Marilyn Johnson
Debate Team
The women of the Washington University Women’s Law Caucus volunteer to lead this program. This program teaches youth several valuable skills including the practice of organizing their opinions and ideas into solid cases which they then use to conduct an organized debate during the program.
Kimberly Chalmers, Georgia Garthwaite, Jean Tyler
Humane Society
This program teaches youth about animal care and issues facing our community regarding animals. Stephanie, Ross, and Catch use videos and group discussions to educate the youth. Each week youth have the opportunity to interact with live animals (Ross and Catch) as well.
Stephanie Horner, Ross Horner, Catch Horner
Junior Achievement
This year Junior Achievement once again came to the Detention Center to conduct their educational workshops. Youth from Unit C attend the program and learn about the importance of getting a good education and other lessons.
Tammy Wood, D’Andre Braddix, John Driscol
Male Advocacy Program
The program’s purpose is to train, educate, and instruct males in the areas of personal and family values, communication, sexuality, dating violence, decision-making, goal setting, STDs, and parenthood. The program features worksheets, videos, and other activities the youth can learn from. The program material is geared differently for each of the units that attend.
Mark King, Rena McNeil, Michelle Duncan
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF)
During this weekly program youth select a new book to keep and committed volunteers read stories to youth. The Reading is Fundamental program has been a part of Detention programming for over twenty years.
Lary Clenay, Barbara McDonnell, Betty Hudgins, Carol Gronan, Diana Graham, Dorothy Fleck, Mary Kay Meness
St. Louis Zoo
Lance Jones, a representative from the St. Louis Zoo, provides monthly opportunities for youth to learn about and interact with a variety of animals. Mr. Jones brings in a few animals each session and discusses topics such as recycling, conservation and other topics that effect our environment.
Carolyn Ikpeama, Lance Jones
Study Hour
Study Hour is an educational program that brings in university students from both Washington University and Saint Louis University to tutor youth and interact with them in positive ways. Youth can choose to play an educational game, work on various educational worksheets, take practice GED tests, or read a book from the library.
Student Coordinators for 04-05
Talia Sussman, Elise Murray, Matt Rysavy, Alana Umanski, Alyssa Bobst, Harry O’Rourke
Tutoring Program
The Tutoring Program has been rejuvenated this year with the help of several dedicated volunteers. Youth and tutors meet once per week and work one on one helping youth with their schoolwork.
Angela Simmons, Cara Spencer, Candice Riddler, Carly Andrus, Elizabeth Pierson, Emma Lomax,
Kelly Winter, Katayune Eshani, Tyler Heimann, Patrica Illig, Stephanie Wakeman, Tracey Fox
ZIGZAG
The title is derived from the Adinkra symbol, Nkyinkyim, which means toughness, adaptability, resoluteness, and devotion to service. This program is designed to promote empowerment within the hearts and minds of the youth in the St. Louis metropolitan area advocating responsibility, accountability, and commitment to improve their respective communities.
Linda Smith
Internship and Practicum Students
Each year the Detention Center works with various university students for practicum hours or internships. These volunteers provide important support and programming for Detention Staff and youth.
Sabrina Weeden
Positive Support Programs for Youth
Alateen
This program is conducted with the Center’s female youth. Alateen provides a support group for young people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking.
Chris Graves, Lillie Lee, Loretta Ross, Marsha Cann
AA/NA
A weekly AA/NA meeting offers eight male youth an opportunity for guided discussion on the impact of alcohol and drugs in their own lives and the lives of people close to them.
Thomas Rhodes
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers present positive, informational, and uplifting messages at various times throughout the year. Some of our speakers over the past year have been:
Edgar Futrell
Heart 2 Heart
Heart 2 Heart is an educational, positive mentoring and aftercare program that has thrived in Detention and the Court over the past year. The Detention program focuses on four separate workshops revolving around topics such as honesty, self-control, responsibility, and love.
Chuck Robinson, Denita Robinson, Annette Young, Buffie Barnes, Charles Burton, Jr., Cynthia Clay
Derrick Williams, Keena Taylor, Pricilla Williams, Terri Robinson
Mr. BTO (More Reason To Beat The Odds)
The Mr. BTO program is a role modeling and mentoring program for Detention youth. The program has utilized the various talents of its leaders to help youth improve their self-esteem and self-awareness through various activities, discussions, and presentations.
Shelumiel Aikialah Bey, Brandon Rayford, Lisa Aikialah Bey, Trina Williams, Ebony Woods
Role Models
Volunteers present themselves as role models to youth in Detention by engaging the youth in a discussion of the
volunteers’ lives, the lessons they have learned, and how these lessons might be applied to the youths’ lives. The program also exposes youth to a variety of career options and informs them of how to pursue these careers.
Carlton Francis, Byron E. Thompson, Cortez Watson, Demonser Burch, Eric Jefferson,
Kittrel Braselman, Marquis McCoy
Sisters With A Mission (SWAM)
This program consists of mentoring sessions for the ladies in Unit C. The focus of the program is to help youth see their importance to their community, family and within themselves.
Sharon Webb
Contributors and Donations
Contributions
The following individuals and organizations have given various donations to the youth at the Detention Center throughout the year. These individuals and organizations have made many programs possible through their generosity:
← Christmas Tree Donation ----Ted Drewes
← Computer Assistance----David Schenberg
← Educational Materials----Lisa Dixson
← Department of Public Safety Grant----Sandy Rempe
← JAIBG Grant----Bill Flowers
← Missouri Arts Council Arts Education Grant----Julie Hale
← Regional Arts Commission Program Support Grant----Roseann Weiss
← Restorative Justice Programming----James Lathon, Jeanette McCallister, Margaret Autry
Special Events for Youth
Holiday Programs and Special Events
Holiday programs are offered to all Detention youth around major holidays. These and other holiday programs are often coordinated with outside volunteer organizations. In addition, special events highlight the Detention calendar and add great flavor to programming. Some of the activities that have been presented over the past year are:
← 2004 Election Program
← Black History Month Program----Alice Saddler
← Black Music Program----Alice Saddler
← African Drum Performance----Walter Willis
← Church of Christ Program
← City Youth Foundation Christmas Variety Show
← I Like It Like That----Andrew Michael Nieman
← Hip Hop Jam ----MK Stallings, DJ Needles
← The Hip Hop Project----Dale Davis, Agnes Wilcox, Gabe Moskoff, Jason Stevenson, Jackie Masei
← Holiday Programs and Educational Materials----Sandra McKinney, Rowena Helmer, Joyce Raines
← Opera on the Spot, Two Nights Before Christmas----Debbie Stinson
← St. Louis County Detention Center----Eferen Gonzalez
← Simon Foundation----Charles Baron
← St. Louis Children’s Choir----Phebe Telschow
← St. Louis Storytellers Festival
← Soul Outreach
← Spades Tournament
← WU 1L’s Program
← Volunteer Reception, Holiday, and Art Supplies Donations----Ozella Foster-Robinson, Ted Foster
23rd Judicial Circuit
p.o. box 100
hillsboro, mo 63050
573-797-5090
Alternative Education Program
Hillsboro R-3 School District
20 Hawk Drive, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Jana Rhame, 636-797-3378, jrhame@mail.hillsboro.k12.mo.us
This program represents the combined efforts of the Division of Youth Services, the Hillsboro School District, and the Juvenile Office to establish an alternative, student-centered program for at-risk students.
Objectives: To improve individual student attendance from prior school years, to improve each student’s self-esteem and peer/authority relationships.
Community Service Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Roland Rhodes, 636-797-5505, roland.rhodes@courts.
This program is a diversion effort that has been implemented for the purpose of impacting the recidivism rate of a specific target population of juvenile offenders by holding these juveniles accountable for their actions. The program is designed to ensure a swift response to the illegal behavior of the targeted juvenile offenders. The timeliness of this approach is considered to be critical in preserving in the juvenile’s mind the connection between his/her illegal act and the consequences. This program has been effectively introduced into the Juvenile Drug Court Program for use by the Drug Court as a sanction for juvenile participants.
Objectives: To provide juveniles with opportunities to earn money for restitution purposes while developing their awareness for community service, to provide juveniles with opportunities to develop work awareness skills and the opportunity to interact with positive adult role models.
Crisis Intervention Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Roland Rhodes, 636-797-5505, roland.rhodes@courts.
This program provides timely counseling services to those juveniles and their families who are experiencing instability within the family structure due to a crisis situation, and the family is in need of immediate intervention. Services are provided through established contractual agreements with authorized providers (counseling agencies) who ensure 24-hour access to designated therapists. Upon notification that a family is in need of services, the therapist will initiate an immediate telephone call to the family to commence services. The first counseling session, conducted in-home, will take place within 48 hours or at the start of the next business day. Referrals for services can be made after business hours via telephonic contact by the on-call DJO or by written referrals submitted to the Director of Administrative Services at the start of the next business day.
Objectives: To divert youth from formal contact with the Juvenile Office, to stabilize the home environment of at-risk youth permitting the juvenile to remain in the home and successfully complete his/her period of probation.
DYS Day Treatment Program (New Day Treatment Program)
#5 Merchant Drive, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Richard Alotta, Program Manager, 636-797-5266
The Day Treatment Program represents a joint effort on behalf of the Juvenile Office and the Division of Youth Services to sustain the operation of a structured, treatment program that will allow at-risk juvenile participants to receive education and behavioral services without being removed from their homes and community.
Objectives: To provide at-risk youth with a structured alternative to out-of-home placement, to divert at-risk youth from commitment to DYS.
Electronic Monitoring Services
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Janet Schmidt, In-Home Detention/Drug Court DJO, 636-677-8486, janet.schmidt@courts.
This program is viewed as a means to permit juveniles who are in either a pre-adjudicatory or a post-adjudicatory stage to return to their homes and community while ensuring a high degree of accountability regarding the juvenile’s whereabouts without the use of secure detention services. An electronic transmitter is placed about the juvenile’s ankle and a reception unit is installed in the juvenile’s home linked to the telephone line. Daily reports are generated that indicate the juvenile’s physical proximity to the reception unit in the home during each 24-hour period. Monitoring services, equipment and training are provided through services agreements with an authorized provider.
Objectives: To provide the Juvenile Court with an option to secure detention without compromising public safety, to supplement the efforts of the intense supervision programs such as Intense Probation, In-Home Detention and Juvenile Drug Court.
In-Home Detention Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Janet Schmidt, In-Home Detention/Drug Court DJO, 636-677-8486, janet.schmidt@courts.
The services from this program are provided to juveniles who have been determined by the Juvenile Court at the time of the juvenile’s detention hearing to require a high degree of supervision upon their release from secure detention. Frequent contacts with participating juveniles are assured by limiting the caseload size of the DJO assigned to this program. In addition the DJO’s efforts are supplemented by the use of surveillance/tracker personnel and electronic monitoring
services.
Objectives: To provide the Juvenile Court with an effective alternative to the continued detention of a juvenile offender without compromising public safety.
Intense Probation Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
James Dix, Intense Probation/Drug Court DJO, 636-797-5355, james.dix@courts.
Intense probation services are provided to juveniles who have been determined by the Juvenile Court to require such services before being permitted to return to their home and community. For those juveniles found to be in need of this service, their participation in the Intense Probation Program is ordered by the Court as a special condition of their probation. Reasons for the Court to consider implementing intense probation services may include the nature of the violation perpetrated by the juvenile or continued violations by the juvenile following a finding of jurisdiction by the Juvenile Court. The efforts of the Intense Probation DJO may be supplemented by the use of surveillance/tracker personnel and electronic monitoring services.
Objectives: To permit a target population of juvenile offenders to remain in their homes and community without compromising public safety by imposing a high degree of accountability, to divert a target population of juvenile offenders from commitment to DYS.
Juvenile Drug Court Program
Juvenile Drug Court, Division XIII, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Patricia Riehl, Drug Court Commissioner, 636-797-6020, pat.riehl@courts.
The Juvenile Drug Court Program is a process that allows juveniles charged with the commissioner of a delinquent offense involving drugs to be afforded an opportunity to receive effective substance abuse treatment. This program approaches each juvenile participant individually and with both firmness and respect. The Juvenile Drug Court Program is comprised of four phases, requiring the participants to successfully complete each phase to become eligible for graduation. The program is designed to require a minimum of eight (8) months of successful participation for a juvenile to progress through the four (4) phases, and be considered ready for graduation. The Juvenile Drug Court Program is a voluntary, diversionary program that includes regular court appearances before the Drug Court Commissioner, regular attendance at all treatment sessions and random drug testing. Treatment sessions include individual counseling, group counseling, and family counseling. Regular school attendance is also required. The Juvenile Drug Court Program takes a holistic approach to the participant’s needs and refers participants to other needed programming and services beyond the treatment required.
Objectives: To establish long-term sobriety and productivity in at least 25 juvenile participants during each year of implementation.
Parent Education Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Bruce McKinstry, DJO, 636-677-8486, bruce.mckinstry@courts.
This is a group counseling/educational program that has been established in the Northwest School District. Meetings are facilitated by a licensed counseling and are held on a weekly basis with each cycle of parenting sessions being six (6) weeks in length. Topics of these sessions focus on the development of effective communication skills along with improved parenting skills. The target population is parents of problematic/delinquent youth.
Objectives: To provide the target population of parents with the means to enhance their parenting skills allowing them to deal with their children in a more informed and effective manner.
Psychological Testing Service
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Joseph Polette, Director of Probation/Prevention/Intake Services
636-797-5357, joe.polette@courts.
Psychological testing services are available at no cost to juveniles referred to the Juvenile Office. Such testing includes instruments such as the MMPI, TAT, Rorschach, and completion tests. The results from this testing are significant in determining recommendations to the Court for disposition consideration and in determining the appropriateness of a juvenile candidate for residential placement, as well as which residential facility could best meet the juvenile’s needs. Testing is performed by Dr. James Powers, PhD. The delivery of testing services is sustained through local funding.
Objectives: To establish a service delivery system that will ensure in a timely manner the availability of psychological testing and evaluation services for juveniles referred to the Juvenile Office.
Residential Placement Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Roland Rhodes, Director of Administrative Services
636-797-5505, roland.rhodes@courts.
Residential placement services are made available to those juveniles referred to the Juvenile Office, been evaluated and found to be in need of placement outside of the family home and in a structured, residential, treatment-oriented environment that has been licensed by proper authority. Residential placement recommendations to the Court are made only after the administration of a psychological assessment to ensure appropriate use of such services and after consultation with the assigned DJO’s supervisor. The primary target population for this program are at-risk juveniles, 14 years of age and younger whose pattern of behavior and associations requires their removal from the family home in order to break the cycle of delinquency that has brought the juvenile to the attention of the Juvenile Court. Financial inquiries are conducted to determine the ability of the parents to assist in defraying part of the placement costs.
Objectives: To provide the Juvenile Court with an out-of-home placement resource for those juvenile offenders who have been assessed and identified to be in need of such residential services.
Student Mentor Program -and- Adult Mentor Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Kathy Pigg, Coordinator of Support Services, 636-797-5358, kathy.pigg@courts.
These programs allows for the employment of older high school students, college students and adults on a part-time basis for the purpose of assigning these persons to youth who have been identified at an early age to be at-risk due to a home environment that lacks proper support, direction or presence of a positive role model. The primary intent of this program is to encourage the growth of the youth’s self-esteem through the development of a positive relationship with the mentor.
Objectives: To identify at-risk youth at an early age and divert these juveniles from formal involvement with the Juvenile Justice System.
Student Tutor Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Kathy Pigg, Coordinator of Support Services, 636-797-5358, kathy.pigg@courts.
This program is comparable to the mentor programs in its intent and implementation approach; however, the student tutors receive additional training in the development of basic study skills. All student tutor candidates must receive the written endorsement of their school district prior to their employment, training, and assignment to a child. Student tutors assume the dual responsibility of encouraging the growth of an assigned child’s self-esteem while assisting the child in developing their academic skills.
Objectives: To identify at-risk youth at an early age and divert these youth from formal involvement with the Juvenile Justice System.
Surveillance and Tracking Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Kathy Pigg, Coordinator of Support Services, 636-797-5358, kathy.pigg@courts.
The Surveillance and Tracking Program employs part-time personnel to support the efforts of the In-Home Detention Program, the Intense Probation Program, the Violence Prevention Program, and the Juvenile Drug Court Program. Program activities include telephone contacts, field urine screens, unannounced home visits, visits at schools, and visits at places of employment. All activities by surveillance/tracking personnel are documented and these written reports are provided to the assigned DJO by the start of the next business day.
Objectives: To increase the level of accountability for those juveniles participating in the In-Home Detention Program, the Intense Probation Program, the Violence Prevention Program and the Juvenile Drug Court Program.
Transportation Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Terri Rickman, DJO Supervisor, 636-797-5348, terri.rickman@courts.
During the course of working with juveniles it becomes necessary to transport juveniles either to or from various locations. To address this need, transport personnel are hired on a part-time basis by the Juvenile Court to perform duties that involve the secure transport of juveniles and the retrieving/delivery/serving of documents when directed. Transport personnel must possess the proper chauffeur’s license rating to transport persons professionally and have received proper background screening. The implementation of transportation services is coordinated by a designated DJO Supervisor and the Supervisor of Detention Services.
Objectives: To safely transport those juveniles under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court to locations as directed by the Juvenile Court.
Victim Awareness Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Roland Rhodes, Director of Administrative Services
636-797-5505, roland.rhodes@courts.
The Victim Awareness Program is a counseling project based on the fundamental principle of the Restorative Justice Model, to wit: Crime is primarily an offense against human relationships, and secondarily a violation of the law, since laws are written to protect safety and fairness in human relationships. This approach also recognizes that after a crime has been committed, there are opportunities to make things as right as possible. One of these opportunities is viewed as a teachable moment for the offender. During this teaching process the offender is exposed to the impact of their crime(s) on victims, invited to learn empathy and encouraged to learn new ways of acting and being in the community. Juveniles participate in a cycle of six (6) group-counseling sessions held on a weekly basis. An individual assessment, along with a pre-test, is conducted for each participant prior to commencement of the group sessions. A post-test and the development of a restitution-strategy and letter of apology are a part of the final session.
Objectives: To reduce the rate of recidivism for those juvenile offenders referred for services through this program.
Violence Prevention Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Roland Rhodes, Director of Administrative Services
636-797-5505, roland.rhodes@courts.
The Violence Prevention Program is a counseling effort that focuses on the population of juveniles referred to the Juvenile Office for minor assault allegations. The intent of this program is to ensure that these juvenile are identified at an early age and are provided counseling opportunities to develop skills under professional guidance that will assist them in preventing further violent actions. This program has been significant in establishing close ties between the school districts throughout Jefferson County and the Juvenile Office. It is noted that in most cases, the counseling sessions take place within classroom provided by the schools.
Volunteer Program
Juvenile Office, P.O. Box 100, Hillsboro, MO 63050
Kathy Pigg, Coordinator of Support Services, 636-797-5358, kathy.pigg@courts.
The Volunteer Program screens and assigns adult volunteers to establish positive relationships with youth who lack positive adult role models in their lives, and are considered to be at-risk. All volunteer candidates must complete application forms, provide personal references, submit to criminal and CA/N background checks, and complete psychological testing. This program is based on the Big Brother/Big Sister Program.
Objectives: To reduce the rate of recidivism for those juvenile offenders referred for services through this program.
28th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
100 W. CHERRY
NEVADA, MO 64772
417-667-5015, fax: 417-667-3857
REALITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Jeani Longstreth, 417-667-5015, jeani.longstreth@courts.
Juveniles placed on probation are referred to this program for completion of ordered hours of Community Service. They must remain drug free while participation in this program and random testing is conducted to maintain compliance.
Objectives: To establish a sense of accountability for the actions of the juvenile.
32nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
44 N. LORIMIER
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63701
573-334-2434
Options Class
Randall Rhodes, 573-334-2434, randall.rhodes@courts.mo.go
Half-day schools for youth who have been suspended from school by the safe school act and are on supervision by the courts.
Objectives: Provide a learning environment where school assignments are completed and school credit is earned.
Juvenile Drug Court Intensive Supervision Project
Randall Rhodes, 573-334-2434, randall.rhodes@courts.
Juvenile Drug Court will provide court, intensive supervised drug treatment for adolescents in Cape County.
Objectives: To have a case manager with thorough knowledge of court procedures, legal documentation, chemical addiction and substance abuse treatment and principles associated with the operation of a model drug court.
Juvenile Drug Court Intensive Supervision Project
Randall Rhodes, 573-334-2434, randall.rhodes@courts.
Juvenile Drug Court will provide court, intensive supervised drug treatment for adolescents in Cape County.
Objectives: To prevent placements that normally would have been made prior to this program and to effect reunification much earlier than in previous experience.
Community Service/ Restitution
Randall Rhodes, 573-334-2434, randall.rhodes@courts.
Provides court-ordered restitution and community service work for juvenile offenders. The community service work supervisor, volunteers, and interns direct the youth in outdoor activities which include stream team, gardening, tree planting, and trash removal.
Objectives: To provide the financial means to retain both full and part-time employees, who shall supervise a Stream Teams project and will provide and coordinate appropriate community service and restitution programming for youth who are court-ordered community service hours and/or restitution amounts.
33rd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
205 N. MADRID
SIKESTON, MO 63801
573-472-2554
TRUANCY COURT
205 N. Madrid
Sikeston, MO 63801
Bill Lawson, 573-472-2554, bill.lawson@courts.
A post-adjudicatory court program where assigned juveniles and families meet weekly, with a judicial officer, juvenile court personnel, and school officials. Through the use of incentives, sanctions, educational services, and referrals to outside agencies students and parents are assisted to improve school attendance, educational achievement, and behaviors.
Objectives: Improved attendance at school, improved academic achievement, reduction in disciplinary referrals for probation behavior.
Juvenile Sexual Offender Program
P.O. Box 369
Charleston, MO 63834
Kevin B. Hess, 573-683-2146 ext. 274, kevin.hess@courts.
To have the offender recognize why he or she sexually offended. To show how the offending act effects him/her, the victim, the involved families and the community, as well as how to identify his/her unique Cycle of Sexual Offense and techniques to prevent him/her from re-offending. Juvenile sexual offender assessment, individual counseling sessions, and group counseling sessions are the three component parts of the treatment process.
Objectives: The basic objective of this program is to make our community a safer place. For this to take place the offender will learn to recognize basic concepts and elements of adolescent sexual offenses. Armed with this new information the offender will be able to recognize when he/she is starting to engage in deviant sexual thought and how to redirect himself/herself whereby he/she takes positive steps to disrupt the deviant thought process which will drastically lessen the chance that he/she will re-offend.
37th Judicial Circuit
P.O. Box 467
West Plains, MO 65775
417-256-2432
JUVENILE DRUG COURT
Shawn Brunson, 417-256-2432, shawn.brunson@courts.
The 37th Judicial Circuit’s Juvenile Drug Court is designed in a four-phase model. A participant must successfully complete each phase before transitioning to the next phase. Upon successful completion of the final phase, a graduation ceremony is held recognizing the participant’s achievements.
Objectives: To provide a Juvenile Drug Court Program with a mission of reducing substance abuse and criminal behavior among juveniles. The program empowers juveniles and their families to support a positive lifestyle by providing strength-based intervention and rehabilitation services tailored to the needs of families and each individual juvenile participant.
THEATRE IN EDUCATION
Stan Smith, 417-256-2432, stan.smith@courts.
College students perform several short skits addressing social issues such as conflict resolution, bullying, drug abuse, and peer relations. In a discussion immediately following each performance, students question and challenge each character about their decisions and the possible consequences. Students participate with a college mentor in drama activities, including role-play and improvisation, to examine the particular social issue being presented. Classroom teachers are then provided with suggested follow-up activities for the youth.
Objectives: The program provides seventh grade students with the 37th Circuit with specific skills for resolving various conflicts and disputes which they may confront. It teaches students to make appropriate decisions when faced with personal choices about difficult social issues such as drug and alcohol use, violence, and sexual activity, thereby reducing the number of children entering the juvenile justice system.
SCOPE OF WORK PROJECT
Stan Smith, 417-256-2432, stan.smith@courts.
Six-week program giving youth referred to the Juvenile Office the necessary skills to make good career decisions.
Objectives: Provide a program that will equip youth with job readiness activities including, but not limited to:
Understanding and writing job applications, how to develop professional resumes, how to write cover letters, how to conduct job interviews, proper telephone etiquette, how to develop self-management skills, and job retention skills.
ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Stan Smith, 417-256-2432, stan.smith@courts.
The anger management program provides training/counseling for students in grades 5-12. The sessions are held weekly for two hours. The sessions are facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker. Juveniles placed on probation or referred to the Juvenile Division are required to attend these sessions as a condition of probation or disposition of the referral, if their juvenile risk and needs assessment warrants such.
Objectives: Institute an anger management program for juvenile offenders’ referred to the department. The program enables our juvenile court and probation officers to be more effective and efficient in holding juvenile offenders accountable, thereby reducing juvenile recidivism.
MEDIATION SERVICES
Stan Smith, 417-256-2432, stan.smith@courts.
This program seeks to address victim/offender reparation and status offenders. Upon being screened for appropriateness, this program facilitates a face-to-face meeting, in the presence of a trained mediator, between the victim of a crime or family member and the juvenile who committed the offense.
Objectives: The primary objective of this project is to provide mediation services to status offenders as well as facilitate victim –offender mediation sessions in order to hold juvenile offenders accountable for their actions.
38th Judicial Circuit
Taney County Juvenile Office
P.O. Box 482
Forsyth, MO 65653
417-546-3411
creative work situations
P.O. Box 482, Forsyth, MO 65653
Darlene Rea, 417-546-3411, darlene.rea@courts.
Coordination of community service work sites for all juveniles required to complete community service and placement at those sites for these offenders.
Objectives: Reduce recidivism and help the juvenile offenders participating in the program understand that the service is an opportunity to payback or make amends for errors in judgment: thus ensuring a positive result for the juveniles and the community.
JUVENILE OFFENDER RESTITUTION PROGRAM
P.O. Box 482, Forsyth, MO 65653
Mike Scofield, 417-546-3411, mike.scofield@courts.
Development, implementation, and administration of graduated sanctions for juvenile offenders to empower them with the ability to become financially accountable for their actions and to their victims, knowledgeable regarding the impact of their actions on their victims and community, while making reparations to the community in the form of community service.
Objectives: Community indemnification and victim financial compensation paid by juvenile offenders who comprehend the impact of their crime.
MOBILE SANCTIONS
P.O. Box 482, Forsyth, MO 65653
Mike Scofield, 417-546-3411, mike.scofield@courts.
Purchased two vehicles for a Mobile Sanctions program via a grant established and maintained to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of juvenile offenders when holding offenders accountable, thereby reducing juvenile recidivism.
Objectives: Reduce juvenile recidivism by providing the Juvenile Division with the ability to respond immediately when juvenile transport is needed and accountable, face individual consequences for their actions, reduce delays between offenses and sanctions, and provide the Juvenile Division with an improved system of monitoring and enforcement.
MOBILE SANCTIONS II
P.O. Box 482, Forsyth, MO 65653
Darlene Rea, 417-546-3411, darlene.rea@courts.
Purchased tow additional vehicles for a Mobile Sanctions II program via a grant established and maintained to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of juvenile officers when holding offenders accountable, thereby reducing juvenile recidivism.
Objectives: The objective of the Mobile Sanctions II program would be to reduce juvenile recidivism by providing the Juvenile Division with the ability to respond immediately when juvenile transport is needed and thereby ensure that offenses do not go unpunished, that juveniles will be held accountable, face individual consequences for their actions, reduce delays between offenses and sanctions, and provide the Juvenile Division with an improved system of monitoring and enforcement.
SHOPLIFTER’S ALTERNATIVE
P.O. Box 482, Forsyth, MO 65653
Mike Scofield, 417-546-3411, mike.scofield@courts.
Created to target and benefit a specific type of juvenile offender: the shoplifter, this program offers specialized education via an in-home video program with scored results made available to the offender’s juvenile officer.
Objectives: To reduce recidivism.
39th Judicial Circuit
P.O. Box 401
Monett, MO 65708
417-235-6245
INTENSIVE TRACKING OF YOUTH
Keith Parris, 417-235-6245, keith.parris@courts.
The program uses two probation officers to supervise 25 at-risk youth for approximately six months, some youth may remain on this program longer depending on their needs. One probation officer supervises 10 youth plus coordinates community service for all the youth who have been assigned community service in the circuit. The other probation officer supervises 15 youth. The probation officer makes three contacts per week with the youth. One contact is a face-to-face meeting generally in the youth’s home; one contact is a face-to-face meeting at school usually with the school counselor present, and one contact via telephone.
Objectives: To prevent at-risk youth from being committed to the Missouri Division of Youth Services. It also provides a more one on one contact with the youth and their family and that allows the probation officer more insight into the youth’s needs. The program has also allowed the school to see the youth is being held accountable for their actions in the community.
STONE COUNTY TEEN DRUG COURT (OPERATIONAL JANUARY 2006)
Michelle Heimerman, 417-235-6245, michelle.heimerman@courts.
Youth who have had an alcohol or other drug use and related crime will be referred to a committee made up of a panel consisting of juvenile officers, school officials, court personnel, therapists, and a judge. If the youth is accepted into the program they will receive treatment, supervision, random drug testing, will have several appearances before a judge and will be held accountable for their actions.
Objectives: To reduce alcohol and other drug use and related crime through counseling and intensive supervision for youthful substance users and their families thereby strengthening our community values and safety.
40th Judicial Circuit
107 N. Jefferson Street
Neosho, MO 64850
417-451-8236
Intensive Probation
Jeremy Caddick, Deputy Juvenile Officer, 417-451-8236, jeremy.caddick@courts.
Intensive supervision is provided for youth adjudicated by the juvenile court.
Objectives: Deter the youth from a committal to DYS. Re-direct juvenile to a positive and productive life.
Newton County Juvenile Drug Court &
Mc Donald County Juvenile Drug Court
Cathy Gorham, JO, cathy.gorham@courts.
Marty Yust, Drug Court Administrator, 417-451-8236
Post adjudication court aimed at substance abuse treatment for juvenile. Program also deals with juvenile’s behavior issues and family issues. Youths meet once a week before the Judge. Appearances in court decrease as the youth’s progress through the levels of the program.
Objectives: Produce drug-free positive youths in our Circuit.
Missouri
Resources
CHIldren’s Division (formerly called Division of Family Services)
P. O. Box 88
615 Howerton Court
Jefferson City, Missouri 65103-0088
573-522-8024, Fax: 573-526-3971
Paula Neese, Interim Director
Children’s Division CTS Contractors for Day Treatment:
Includes day treatment providers for preschool and school age children
Children’s Division Residential Treatment Service Contractors:
List of residential treatment facilities contracted with CD to provide services
Licensed Children’s Residential Care Agencies Database
List of licensed residential treatment centers
CD Publications:
• Child Abuse & Neglect Annual Report, dss.rr_reports.htm
• Children’s Division Annual Report, dss.rr_reports.htm
• Intensive In-home Services Annual Report, dss.rr_reports.htm
• Guidelines for Child Abuse and Neglect Reports, dss.cd/cani.htm
• Child Welfare Manual, dss.cd/index.htm
Publications from other Sources:
Missouri Child Fatality Review Program Annual Report
dss.re/cfrar.htm
State Technical Assistance Team
P. O. Box 208
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0208
573-751-5980 or 1-800-487-1626
Office of Child Advocate Annual Report
oca.annualreports.shtm
Office of Child Advocate
P. O. Box 89
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
Toll Free: 1-866-457-230
Children’s Trust Fund
P.O. Box 1641, 1719 Southridge Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65102-1641
573-751-5174, Fax: 573-751-0254,
To order a CTF License plate by credit card – 1-888-826-5437
Kirk Schreiber, Executive Director, kirk.schreiber@oa.
The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) is the foundation leading Missouri’s efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. Created in 1983 by the Missouri General Assembly, CTF is authorized to enter into contracts with public or private agencies, schools, or qualified individuals to establish community –based educational service programs focused on the prevention and / or alleviation of child abuse and neglect. CTF is also directed by the establishing legislation to facilitate an information exchange between groups concerned with child abuse prevention and to provide statewide public education about the problems of families and children. The original mandates and legislation have been incorporated into CTF’s current vision and mission statement:
Vision: The Children’s Trust Fund envisions children and families free to grow and reach their full potential in a nurturing and healthy environment free from child abuse and neglect.
Mission: The Children’s Trust Fund will prevent or alleviate child abuse and neglect for the State of Missouri’s children and families by: 1) planning and policy development, 2) ensuring appropriate funding of results-oriented programs, training programs for prevention professionals, and research, 3) promoting public awareness and education, 4) assisting in the integration of statewide prevention efforts.
The Children’s Trust Fund receives no funding from general revenue. Funding is obtained from dedicated fees on marriage license and vital records, sale of the special Children’s Trust Fund prevent child abuse license plate, contributions designated on Missouri state income tax returns, other voluntary contributions, interest income from the trust fund, and a federal grant.
Available Grants: General Prevention grants, Discretionary “Mini” grants, License Plate Community Partner grants, Community Based Family Resource & Support grants (CBFRS)
Available Publications:
Small talk (quarterly newsletter)
Positive Parenting booklets
Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome Literature
“Not Even For A Minute” literature
CTF License Plate information
CTF general information flyers
Citizens for Missouri’s Children
#1 Campbell Plaza, Ste. 2A
St. Louis, MO 63139
314-647-2003; Fax: 314-644-5437
Beth Griffin, Executive Director
cmchild@
Citizens for Missouri’s Children (CMC) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan public interest group providing an independent voice for Missouri’s children. Our mission is to advocate the rights and well-being of all Missouri’s children, especially those with greatest need. We promote development and implementation of public policy through research, analysis, and public education. We mobilize the public to take action but do not provide direct services.
Publications:
Children’s Chronicle (quarterly)
KIDS COUNT in Missouri (annual)
Coalition of Children’s Agencies
213 E Capitol Ave., Suite 101
Jefferson City, MO 65101
573-635-7226, 800-942-0326, Fax: 573-635-9484
Carmen Schulze, Executive Director, carmenschulze@
Missouri Coalition of Children’s Agencies (MCCA) serves as an advocate for children’s treatment agencies and services in Missouri. The Association was established to provide its members with opportunities for advocacy, networking, collaboration, and professional development.
MCCA strives to provide timely training programs for its members. Our goal is to ensure the best possible training for the staff of member agencies at reduced agency costs. With Missouri requiring a minimum of 40 hours annually of training for childcare workers, MCCA’s role in education seeks to minimize duplication and costs associated with meeting state licensure requirements.
MCCA provides on-going services for its members including newsletters and legislative updates. We represent members before the state legislature and state agencies. We publish a directory of residential providers, a Monday E briefing, and hold the only annual conference focused on working with child abuse and neglect victims in Missouri.
Department of Economic Development
Youth Opportunities & Violence Prevention Tax Credit Program
PO Box 118
301 West High
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Liz Roberts, 573-751-4539
Fax: 573-522-4322
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
School Laws and Legislation
P.O. Box 480
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480
573-751-3527, Fax 573-751-8613
Mark Van Zandt, General Council
schoollaw@dese.
dese.
School Laws and Legislation is a component of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education which provides information on the laws relating to Missouri public schools to educators, school patrons and other interested parties. Services include a website, resource materials, and professional development programs.
Publications:
Missouri School Directory (annual)
Report of Public Schools of Missouri
Students’ Rights Pamphlets
Department of Health and Senior Services
912 Wildwood Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
573-751-6001, Fax: 573-751-6041
Publications:
Division of Community and Public Health
930 Wildwood Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
573-751-6080
* Epidemiologic Profile of HIV and STD in Missouri/yearly
* Missouri Adolescent Deaths/one time
* Adolescent Shorts Newsletter (Co-published by the Dept of Health and Senior
Services and Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics) / bi-monthly
Department of Mental Health
1706 East Elm Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
800-364-9687, 573-751-4122, (TT) 573-526-1202, modmh.state.mo.us
Dorn Schuffman, Director
Division of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services
Diane McFarland 573-751-8017
The Division operates eleven (11) facilities and supports 25 administrative agents and more than 600 community residential facilities. Through these facilities, CPS provides and array of services, including evaluation, day treatment, outpatient care, psychiatric rehabilitation, housing services, crisis services and hospitalization, as well as evaluation and treatment of persons committed by court order.
Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Michael Couty, 573-751-4942
The division’s services are delivered through a network of providers coordinated by regional offices. The regional office staff can direct you to the provider in or nearest your community that can provide services to those who meet the eligibility criteria.
Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Tony Casey, 573-751-4054
This Division (MRDD) is responsible for ensuring that the citizens of Missouri have access to services and supports relating to prevention of disabilities, evaluation, habilitation, and rehabilitation. The Division’s eleven regional centers conduct comprehensive evaluations to determine an individual’s eligibility according to state law. The law requires that the person’s disability must have occurred before age 22 (during the developmental period) and that it is likely to continue indefinitely.
Department of Public Safety
Juvenile Justice Programs
P.O. Box 749
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0749
573-751-2771, Fax: 573-751-5399
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Sandy Rempe, Juvenile Justice Specialist sandy.rempe@dps.
The Missouri Department of Public Safety receives funds from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice, and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to assist Missouri in the development of effective juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment programs. These funds are appropriated annually by Congress under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended. Missouri’s expenditure of these funds is guided by a federally approved plan submitted by the Department of Public Safety with the advice of the Missouri Juvenile Justice Advisory Group (JJAG) whose members are appointed by the Governor. Missouri receives these funds from OJJDP as our State is currently in compliance with the four core requirements of the Federal Act including: the de-institutionalization of status offenders, sight and sound separation of juvenile and adult offenders, jail removal of juveniles, and establishing a plan to examine minority overrepresentation. Federal funds are awarded in three program areas. Title II Formula Grant funding, Title V Community Prevention Grants Program, and the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program.
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TITLE II GRANT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
ARCHS
4236 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63108
Empowering Positive Youth
$39,256.60
Lisa Potts, 314-534-0022
Empowering Positive Youth teaches violence prevention, substance abuse prevention and gang intervention to youth at six independent urban sites within and around St. Louis, using a science-based curriculum. Content includes character development, life skills, conflict resolution, and pro-social behavior. Through interactive workshops, lectures, assemblies, small group discussions, and projects, youth in elementary, middle, and high school improve their attitudes and behaviors.
ARCHS
4236 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63108
Empowering Positive Youth – Union West Area
$28,000.00
Lisa Potts, 314-534-0022
Empowering Positive Youth teaches violence prevention, substance abuse prevention and gang intervention to youth at six independent urban sites within and around St. Louis, using a science-based curriculum. Content includes character development, life skills, conflict resolution, and pro-social behavior. Through interactive workshops, lectures, assemblies, small group discussions, and projects, youth in elementary, middle, and high school improve their attitudes and behaviors
ARCHS
4236 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63108
Empowering Positive Youth – Greaterville
$28,000.00
Lisa Potts, 314-534-0022
Empowering Positive Youth teaches violence prevention, substance abuse prevention and gang intervention to youth at six independent urban sites within and around St. Louis, using a science-based curriculum. Content includes character development, life skills, conflict resolution, and pro-social behavior. Through interactive workshops, lectures, assemblies, small group discussions, and projects, youth in elementary, middle, and high school improve their attitudes and behaviors
ARCHS
4236 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63108
Empowering Positive Youth – Fountain Place
$28,000.00
Lisa Potts, 314-534-0022
Empowering Positive Youth teaches violence prevention, substance abuse prevention and gang intervention to youth at six independent urban sites within and around St. Louis, using a science-based curriculum. Content includes character development, life skills, conflict resolution, and pro-social behavior. Through interactive workshops, lectures, assemblies, small group discussions, and projects, youth in elementary, middle, and high school improve their attitudes and behaviors
ARCHS
4236 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63108
Empowering Positive Youth – Mark Twain
$28,000.00
Lisa Potts, 314-534-0022
Empowering Positive Youth teaches violence prevention, substance abuse prevention and gang intervention to youth at six independent urban sites within and around St. Louis, using a science-based curriculum. Content includes character development, life skills, conflict resolution, and pro-social behavior. Through interactive workshops, lectures, assemblies, small group discussions, and projects, youth in elementary, middle, and high school improve their attitudes and behaviors
ARCHS
4236 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63108
Empowering Positive Youth – West End
$28,000.00
Lisa Potts, 314-534-0022
Empowering Positive Youth teaches violence prevention, substance abuse prevention and gang intervention to youth at six independent urban sites within and around St. Louis, using a science-based curriculum. Content includes character development, life skills, conflict resolution, and pro-social behavior. Through interactive workshops, lectures, assemblies, small group discussions, and projects, youth in elementary, middle, and high school improve their attitudes and behaviors
Audrain County Community 2000 Team
P.O. Box 957
Mexico, MO 65265
Project 2010: Audrain's Future
$16,613.75
Joanna Z. McClarey, 573-581-1332
The Audrain County Community 2000 Team sponsors two programs designed to strengthen our families and youth, and ultimately reduce juvenile problems. The program conducts several sessions per year of "Becoming a Love and Logic Parent," which enables our parents and caregivers to gain skills allowing our youth to accept responsibility for their actions. In addition to “Love and Logic,” the “All Stars” program is designed and utilized to reinforce positive behavior and to strengthen proper decision-making skills of our middle school youth.
Big Brothers Big Sisters-Columbia
800 North Providence, Suite 210
Columbia, MO 65203
Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents
$39,740.40
Kerrie Bloss, 573-874-3677-202
Big Bothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is utilzing federal formula funds to continue the Children of Incarcerated Parents Mentoring Project which began in 2003-2004. This program targets children of prisoners in state prisons. Research shows these children are in greater risk of becoming juvenile delinquents. Youth and their families attend supervised meetings at state prisions, and receive services which enhance their ability to communicate while a parent is incarcerated.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater St. Louis
4625 Lindell Boulevard, Suite 501
St. Louis, MO 63108
Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents
$36,733.00
Kristen Slaughter, 314-361-5900
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri is responding to the needs of children of incarcerated parents and is providing one-to-one mentoring services to children of prisoners and their families. Big Brothers and Big Sisters projects this program will reduce the incidence of crimes committed by youth, as well as reduce the severity of those crimes.
Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff
P.O. Box 55
Poplar Bluff, MO 63902
Project Learn
$38,501.84
Carrie Booker, 573-776-1690
Project Learn is part of our after school program designed to engage 120 low-achieving 3rd-6th graders in academic enrichment, increasing their commitment to school, and further reducing juvenile crime. Project Learn has five core program components: Home work and Tutoring; High-Yields Learning Activities; Parent and Adult Involvement; Collaboration with Schools; and Incentives. Youth participate in Project Learn on a daily basis in efforts to improve school achievement.
Boys & Girls Town of Missouri
P.O. Box 189
St. James, MO 65559
First Contact: A Delinquency Prevention Program
$39,996.00
Barry Johnson, 573-265-3251
First Contact is a delinquency prevention program targeting at-risk youth and their families in rural Phelps County. The program reduces youth delinquency and first-time offenses by impacting the risk and resiliency factors associated with abuse and neglect. Boys & Girls Town of Missouri, the City of St. James, the St. James School District, and the local Children’s Services office have teamed up to offer "front-end" prevention services to youth who display early warning signs of delinquent behaviors. Federal formula funds are used to employ a "prevention specialist" who provides services such as abuse education, individual therapy, conflict resolution, family group work, basic parenting skills and other interventions designed to develop healthy, educated, skillful youth. The utilization of community resources and on-site visits to the family are pivotal to the program's success.
CASA Project of Jackson Co.
625 East 26th Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
Delinquency Prevention Project
$40,000.00
Carole Dyer, 816-842-2272
The Delinquency Prevention Project seeks to minimize the effects of child abuse and neglect as a predictor of future delinquency by providing specialized case management and Guardian Ad Litem services for children ages eight to seventeen years of age under the jurisdiction of the Jackson County Family Court.
Columbia Housing Authority
201 Switzler Street
Columbia, MO 65203
Moving Ahead... Next Step Program
$39,860.57
Carrie Brown, 573-443-2556
"Moving Ahead...Next Step" is a year-round after-school program offering one-to-one tutoring and mentorship to Columbia's highest risk students. Staffed primarily by volunteers and working in partnership with the Columbia Police Department and the Columbia Public Schools, the program identifies and addresses the needs of those most at risk for poor school performance, attendance, and school completion. The program increases students success, and decreases crime and delinquency in an inner city environment by coordinating activities between youth, tutors/mentors, schools and parents.
Community Mediation Center
500 West Pacific
Independence, MO 64050
Victim Offender Mediation Case Manager
$25,000.00
Diane Kyser, 816-833-4300-215
This program is intended to expand services to meet the increasing requests of the Jackson County Family Court for victim-offender mediation and family group conferences for juvenile offenders, their families, their victims and families. The community Mediation Center employs a Case Manager to work directly with juveniles, families, and victims to arrange and process services.
Destiny of HOPE
4915 Sandker Court
Columbia, MO 65202
KEEP IT R.E.A.L.
$15,900.00
Judy Hubbard, 573-449-9625
KEEP IT R.E.A.L. is a project for inner city youth ages five to twelve years old, sponsored by Destiny of H.O.P.E. This 12-month program for at-risk youth and young offenders focuses on delinquency prevention. The Young PeaceMakers camp, after school program, Phenomenal Young Women, Boys to Men, and Teen Talk are diverse activities designed to teach youth self-identity, anger management, citizenship, and drug and alcohol abuse awareness.
Epworth Children & Family Services
110 North Elm Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63119
Epworth Mentoring Program
$19,338.00
Linda Paglusch, 314-918-3320
This project entails the recruiting, training, and maintaining of more mentors for children who are receiving residential, special education, and /or emergency shelter services from Epworth. This project provides cost-effective services for youth whose parents are unable or unwilling to provide appropriate supports for their children. These youth are provided with responsible, caring and committed mentors.
Family Guidance Center
109 East Summit
Maryville, MO 64468
Family Liaison Project
$26,153.88
Ileen Richey Arellin, 660-582-3139
The Family Liaison Project links youth entering into the juvenile justice system to community resources to address mental health issues of the individual. The program assesses, seeks, coordinates, and monitors services for juveniles with underlying mental health issues. The program shares information on program participation with schools, mental health providers and the supervising juvenile office.
Family Resource Center
4411 North Newstead
St. Louis, MO 63115
Missouri Mentoring Partnership Truancy Prevention Program
$39,005.00
Curtis Mullins, 314-877-2137
The Missouri Mentoring Partnership Truancy Prevention Project provides comprehensive youth development services and mentoring for high risk youth in partnership with the St. Louis Family Court Juvenile Division. Individualized service plans are developed to help each youth attend school regularly, complete their high school education, and experience gainful employment through the services of a trained volunteer mentor and project staff.
Ferguson-Florissant School District
1005 Waterford Drive
Florissant, MO 63033
St. Louis County Truancy Court Team Enhancement Project (TEP)
$38,745.00
Larry Larrew, 314-506-9162
St. Louis County Truancy Court is a school-based pro-active partnership that instills hope, improves attendance, enhances academic achievement, and reduces delinquent behavior. The Team Enhancement Project (TEP) enhances the program and improves its effectiveness by providing training, consultation, and technical assistance to the Truancy Court teams of judges, juvenile officers, and school staff who work with students who are at risk of becoming truant.
Future Well Being of Mankind
514 Fox Street
Paris, MO 65275
Title II Juvenile Justice Formula Grants
$12,416.96
Brian Williams, 660-327-6072
This project provides mentoring services for youth and their parents who are a part of the IMPACTing Youth Mentoring Program, by utlizing the Adults Relating to Kids (ARK) cirriculum. Services provided include relationship building and life skills training (ARK for Teens), parent enrichment sessions (ARK parenting), and social activities. The purpose of these services is to increase youth protective factors that delay and/or negate the onset of delinquent activities and behaviors by preserving and strengthening families, and encouraging parental involvement in an alternative disposition program.
County of Greene
1111 North Robberson
Springfield, MO 65802
G.I.R.L.S.(Girls in Real Life Situations)
$32,091.02
Kyle O'Dell, 417-829-6119
Girls in Real Life Situations (G.I.R.L.S.) is an open-ended treatment group to provide delinquency-prevention services for "at risk" girls ages nine to thirteen. Girls are eligible for the group at first contact with Green County Juvenile Court, including first-time status offenders. Referrals also come from schools, parents, and community organizations.
Hope House, Inc.
P.O. Box 577
Lees Summit, MO 64063
PIECE (Preserving the Innocence of Every Child Everyday)
$40,000.00
Ilene Shehan, 816-461-4188
Hope House's PIECE program strives to break the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence and help children and youth overcome the effects of witnessing and/or experiencing abuse. By doing so, the program is decreasing risk factors for juvenile delinquency among children and youth that are associated with family violence, such as antisocial behavior, academic failure, chronic delinquency, substance abuse, and adult criminal behavior.
County of Jefferson
P.O. Box 100
Hillsboro, MO 63050
Victim Awareness Project
$7,000.00
Joseph Polette, 636-797-5357
This project is based on the principles of the Restorative Justice Model for juvenile justice systems. The program reduces recidivism by encouraging the development of empathy for victims of crime committed by the juvenile participants, and ensuring the development of a personal strategy by the participants to repair the harm their actions have caused. Significant focus is placed on first-time offenders and a targeted section of repeat offenders.
County of Johnson
P.O. Box 5
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Project Life R.A.F.T.
$38,412.73
Rebecca Haislip, 660-422-7418
Project Life R.A.F.T. serves as a status offender diversion program which redirects "at-risk" youth and their parents from further involvement in the Juvenile Court system and more serious delinquent behavior. Youth participants and their parents receive competent supervision and therapy services, as well as opportunities to better their environment and learn about authority figures in their community.
Lutheran Family and Children's Servcies
8631 Delmar Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63130
$37,021.81
CALL Mentoring
Christine Reams, 314-787-5100
The CALL Mentoring Program is a prevention program for at-risk youth providing group mentoring to children and youth, ages six to seventeen, utilizing paid staff member, community volunteers, and trained mentors. The CALL Mentoring program utilizes a strengths-based model, thereby developing the innate capabilities of the child.
County of Nodaway
4th Circuit Juvenile Office
P.O. Box 392
Maryville, MO 64468
$8,000.00
Victim Offender Mediation
Rick A. Bradley, 660-582-4312
The 4th Judicial Circuit Juvenile Office has implemented a Restorative Justice Victim/Offender Mediation Program. This new program emphasizes the importance of elevating the role of crime victims and communities by holding juvenile offenders directly accountable for their behaviors. The juvenile offender is given the opportunity to make amends directly to the people and community their actions violated, via mediation and community service work.
Perry County Community Task Force
434 North West Street
Perryville, MO 63775
$37,427.62
CHAMPS Mentoring Program
Jeanette Klobe, 573-547-1292
The CHAMPS Mentoring Program combines at-risk youth in Perry County with trained mentors. Program youth participate in a wide array of activities. Life skills' training is provided in such areas as conflict resolution, peer pressure, etc. Service projects are incorporated into the program. A youth conference is also held to assist youth to make responsible choices.
Presbyterian Children's Services
811 South 5th Street
Moberly, MO 65270
$40,000.00
Mentoring in Moberly
Paula R. Fleming, 660-263-7044
The "Mentoring In Moberly" program provides support in all aspects of a young person's life through a professionally supported one-to-one relationship with a caring adult mentor. Mentors make a substantial time commitment to youth for twelve months. The targeted population is at-risk youth, ages ten to sixteen, who are referred by the Office of Juvenile Court Services, 14th Judicial Circuit Court or the Moberly School District.
Prevention Consultants of Missouri
104 East Seventh Street
Rolla, MO 65401
$28,752.00
Mentoring Makes a Difference - After School Mentoring
Jamie Myers, 573-368-4755
The Mentoring Makes a Difference project provides positive and caring adults for matching with at risk children ages six to twelve. The mentor and mentee meet at least weekly for one hour in a supervised after school setting for a minimum of one year. The project decreases anti-social behavior, decreases violent behavior at home, and improves the school attendance and academic performance of mentored youth.
Progressive Youth Connection
9530 Watson Industrial Park
St. Louis, MO 63126
$24,940.87
Building Healthy Lives
Stephanie Stone, 314-963-8368
Building Healthy Lives is a program serving 3,000 youth grades six to twelve in the Parkway School District. This program provides youth with the information and skills they need to turn away from violent behavior, including the influences that encourage it, and opportunities to make healthier choices in behavior and attitudes.
Rose Brooks Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 320599
Kansas City, MO 64132
$40,000.00
Project SAFE
Frances Cobb, 816-523-5550
Project SAFE is a school based, anti-violence program serving four school districts and thirty- three schools in Kansas City that addresses critical life choices for high-risk students from pre-school through senior high, utilizing classroom presentations and weekly follow-up support groups. Project SAFE utilizes the premise that a positive role model in the lives of children promotes resiliency, and enables youth to make healthy life choices in the future.
Saint Louis Ki Society
6006 Pershing Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63112
$8,542.73
Well Child Ki - Aikido
Mark Rubbert, 314-726-5070
This program uses the training and teaching methods of Aikido and Japanese Yoga. It engages children in a structured setting in the crucial after-school hours, with training that increases protective factors such as self-esteem and restraint, and reduces risk factors such as aggressive behavior. This program teaches, demonstrates, and gives children the experience of calmness, relaxation, and focus as a powerful and positive influence, physically and mentally.
Susanna Wesley Family Learning Center
207 North Washington
East Prairie, MO 63845
$39,900.00
Respect Yourself and Others (RYSO)
Jeanice Griffin, 573-649-3731
Susanna Wesley Family Learning Center, Inc, together with the local juvenile court have partnered to serve approximately 80 Mississippi County adjudicated youth referred to the RYSO Program. The program offers life skills training, restorative justice activities, and academic tutoring. These activities provide youth with opportunities to develop healthy behaviors and community connections enabling youth to exit the juvenile system.
Springfield Public Schools Foundation
940 North Jefferson
Springfield, MO 65802
$24,155.25
Truancy Court Diversion Program
Regina Goff, 417-523-6262
The Truancy Court Diversion Program utilizes twelve weekly personal sessions with volunteer judges who conduct "court" for middle school students who are at risk of chronic truancy and delinquent behavior. A family advocate works with the student, family, and school to remove barriers to school attendance and achievement. Approximately eighty students at four middle schools participate in the program.
City of St. Louis
3837 Enright Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
$40,000.00
Truancy Deputy Juvenile Officer
Joseph Scalise, 314-552-2500
Thousands of students were missing from their classrooms in the City of St. Louis everyday. This program provides services and monitoring to truant children and their families, in an effort to reduce absenteeism. Children are held accountable by their assigned Deputy Juvenile Officer through the use of sanctions and probationary services, and parents are similarly held accountable in City Court through the use of shock incarceration. These sanctions assist in the interruption of a juvenile's progress toward delinquent behaviors.
City of St. Louis
1114 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63101
$23,876.00
Inspire Me To Be…
Jennifer Joyce, 314-622-4941
The St. Louis City’s Circuit Attorney's Office is utilizing federal formula funds to implement and expand the "Inspire Me To Be..." interactive crime prevention program to include the "Drug Free" and the "Gun and Gang Free" programs for 3rd and 4th graders enrolled in the St. Louis Public Schools system. The "Inspire Me To Be..." program features new, interactive, youth oriented projects, inspirational speakers, and community engagement opportunities in an effort to prevent the City's youth from becoming involved in criminal behavior.
County of St. Louis
501 South Brentwood Boulevard
Clayton, MO 63105
$39,997.51
Mentor Project(Project S.M.A.R.T.)
Kim Moeckel, 314-615-8443
Project S.M.A.R.T. is a school-focused mentor program which reduces truancy referrals, increases promotion to the next grade level, improves attitudes toward school, and reduces the number of truant days for program youth. Through participation in a school-based mentoring relationship, youth receive support, guidance, and assistance from caring, concerned adults.
The Intersection
7 East Sexton Road
Columbia, MO 65203
$38,469.00
Delinquency Prevention Program
Dana Battison, 573-817-1177
The Intersection’s Delinquency Prevention Program provides a positive environment wherein youth build practical life-skills and abilities while supported by community adult role models. This program encourages youth to increase their resiliency abilities as well as their personal assets while reducing at-risk behavior.
The Second Chance Foundation
1216 Elmerine
Jefferson City, MO 65101
$40,000.00
Mission Possible: Solving the Crime of Bullying
Laura Morris, 573-635-1979
In combating bullying behavior in elementary schools, The Second Chance Foundation has developed an entertaining, interactive school assembly, "Mission Possible: Solving the Crime of Bullying." This program equips students with the necessary skills to help put an end to rude and abusive behavior at an early age. Studies show that early intervention reduces violent and criminal behavior in juveniles and adults.
Youth In Need Inc.
516 Jefferson
St. Charles, MO 63301
$37,904.00
A.C.T.I.O.N.
Pat Holterman-Hommes, 636-946-0101
Youth In Need's ACTION project (Advancing Community Teen In Opportunities Now) is an innovative mentoring program for at-risk youth in St. Louis transitioning from middle school to high school. The project mentors youth to become indigenous resources for preventing crime, drug use, and violence in their schools and neighborhoods.
TITLE V GRANT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
County of Buchanan
411 Jules
St. Joseph, MO 64501
Enrichment Through Investment Initiative
$80,000.00
Chad Campbell, 816-271-1421
The goal of the Enrichment Through Investment Initiative is to prevent status offenders from entering the juvenile justice system. The Enrichment Through Investment is a broad initiative linked to many objectives and strategies to reduce a multitide of risk factors, while enhancing protective factors to prevent youth from engaging in behaviors that place them at risk. Primary strategies include implementation of the Strengthening Families Program with seventy targeted youth and their families, engaging targeted youth by use of the Empower Plant curriculum, implementing a lead agency model with a provider network to ensure that youth and their families are linked to all appropriate and necessary services with the least amount of disruption and duplication, and assurance that services or needs that place the youth at risk are addressed through funding set aside for counseling, tutoring, dental and mental health care, and other critical services.
City of Poplar Bluff
644 Charles
Poplar Bluff, MO 63901
Poplar Blluff Youth Protection Project
$78,803.14
Robert Sutton, 573-776-7830
The City of Poplar Bluff’s Youth Protection Program is achieving a reduction in juvenile substance use and family conflict , and a rise in academic success by utlizing federal community prevention funding to increase the number of mentors and tutors for at-risk juveniles in order to prompt community attachment. Program coordinators are utilzied to recruit and supervise volunteer mentors, as well as design mentoring cirriculum, community events, and program activities. Via Poplar Bluff’s Policy and Prevention Boasrd, strong partnerships have been forged with the local public school system, and other youth-serving agencies, thereby enhancing service delivery to Poplar Bluff’s youth.
City of St. James
P.O. Box 426
St. James, MO 65559
St. James Leadership Connection
$50,000.00
Sam Parker, 573-265-1445
The goal of the St. James Leadership Connection is to prevent negative outcomes for youth and parents by strengthening positive development through comprehensive educational and recreational activities. Federal community prevention funds are facilitating the St. James Policy and Prevention Board’s development and implementation of a teen leadership program which increases positive social skills and school achievement, while concurrently reducing at-risk and violent behaviors by community youth.
2004 JABG GRANT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
County of Adair
2nd Judicial Circuit
1400 South Boundary
Kirksville, MO 63501
Community Service / Restitution Program
$6,334.53
Jeff Hall, 660-665-4224
This program is a community service and restitution initiative designed with the intent of allowing juveniles to make reparations for harm or damages caused to victims of juvenile crime. Juveniles are referred to the program by the local court based on offense, age, ability to perform community service, employment status, and willingness to participate in the program. Youth participating in the program are supervised by a Community Service Coordinator, and receive compensation for their community service work, which is in turn utilized to compensate individuals victimized by a juvenile’s delinquent behavior.
City of Blue Springs
Blue Springs Police Department
1100 Smith Street
Blue Springs, MO 64015
School Resource Officer Equiptment and Training
$10,502.16
Chief Wayne I. McCoy, 816-228-0150
Funding for this project allows the City of Blue Springs to purchase equipment for School Resource Officers, as well as provide further appropriate training in the areas of juvenile law, delinquency, and parent education. Equipment purchased includes one laptop computer and one police package mountain bike.
County of Boone
Robert L. Perry Juvenile Justice Center
5665 North Roger I. Wilson Memorial Drive
Columbia, MO 65202
Accountability Enhancement Programs and Services
$45,538.97
Kirk Kippley, 573-886-4450
Funding for this program allows the Robert Perry Juvenile Justice Center and the Boone County Family Court Services Office to hire a legal assistant to assist in the processing of juvenile cases, to pay the salary of an art instructor, and buy art supplies for an art program. This program is designed to increase the self-esteem of the participants by providing opportunities for youth to experience self-gratification from the creative process. In addition, this funding allows the court to conduct drug testing on juvenile offenders who are processed through the local court.
County of Buchanan
Fifth Judicial Circuit
411 Jules
St. Joseph, MO 64501
Midtown Community Justice Committee
$10,704.00
Chad Campbell, 816-271-1421
Funding for this project supports the Midtown Community Justice Committee (MCJC). The MCJC provides opportunities for reformation to the first time non-violent offender on the front end of the juvenile justice system. This allows these youth to be diverted from becoming embedded in the formal court system. The program consists of community volunteers that effectively assess the strengths and needs of the youth referred to them, and subsequently make recommendations regarding sanctions for the youth. In addition, the community’s interests are taken into account through these community volunteers, or, board members. Victims, program youth, and their families are allowed to address the board, and to make recommendations regarding sanctions, strengths, and needs of referred youth.
County of Butler
Butler County Courthouse
331 North Main Street
Poplar Bluff, MO 63901
Butler County Detention Center Quality Improvement Project
$14,032.48
Regina Daughhetee, 573-686-8054
Funding for this project allows the Butler County Detention Center to update their current kitchen to meet health guidelines and requirements for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Funding allowed for equipment upgrades ranging from standard kitchen items, to indrustrial quality appliances and utensils.
County of Callaway
Callaway County Juvenile Office
P.O. Box 465
Fulton, MO 65251
Teenage Violence Prevention and Accountability
$9,617.81
Marcia Hazelhorst, 573-642-7992
Funding for this program allows the Callaway County Juvenile Office to implement two projects. The first project allows the Juvenile Office to hire a program assistant who assist Deputy Juvenile Officers (DJOs) in collecting restitution from juveniles, to secure sites for youth to complete assigned community service work, organize work days, and to supervise youth who are completing community service work hours. The second project allows the Juvenile Office to contract with a local therapist to provide fourteen anger management programs to teenagers at the local high school in Callaway County.
County of Cape Girardeau
32nd Judicial Circuit - Juvenile Division
44 North Lorimier
Jackson, MO 63755
Community Service Program
$19,060.50
Randall Rhodes, 573-334-6001
Funding for this project allows the 32nd Judicial Circuit Juvenile Court to conduct a Community Service Program. The program offers supervision, education, and sanctions for court probationers and those youth referred by Juvenile Officers who have committed offences against the community. The program offers a component of outdoor environmental activities targeted to increase a young person’s awareness of their surrounding environment and the impact their actions have on others.
County of Cass
2000 East Mechanic
P.O. Box 535
Harrisonville, MO 64701
Trackers
$13,233.08
Steve Faris, 816-380-8486
Funding for this project allows the Cass County Juvenile Office to employ an individual to function as a "Tracker" for juveniles on probation. Under the direction of a Deputy Juvenile Officer (DJO), a Tracker works twenty-eight hours a week monitoring juvenile offenders’ attendance at school, appointments, and community service sites. The DJO is responsible for day to day case management and utilizes a Tracker with those offenders on intensive supervision. the DJO identifies those juveniles that will benefit from additional supervision to further enhance an established case plan. The Tracker calls or visits throughout the day, evening, and weekends to make certain youth are complying with their informal or formal supervision agreements. The Tracker may also provide tutoring, participate in recreational activities, help with job searches, or provide transportation to and from counseling or other specified appointments.
County of Cole
Michael Prenger Family Center
400 Stadium Boulevard
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Juvenile Drug Court Program
$23,955.36
Charlene Oligschlaeger, 573-636-5177
Funding for this program allows the Cole County Circuit Court to implement a Juvenile Drug Court Program. The program provides intensive supervision and substance abuse treatment for referred juvenile offenders. The program employs three phases, allowing for weekly court appearances, individual and group treatment sessions, and intensive monitoring by a Deputy Juvenile Officer and Intensive Supervision Officer, or “Tracker.”
County of Dunklin
Dunklin County Juvenile Office
P.O. Box 746
Kennett, MO 63857
Transportation
$10,038.97
Jim Pemberton, 573-888-2962
Funding for this project supports travel expenses for 35th Judicial Circuit Juvenile Office (Dunklin County). The funding enables the juvenile court its probation officers to be more effective and efficient in holding juvenile offenders accountable, thereby reducing recidivism. These funds allow juvenile probation officers the ability to respond to calls related to ongoing supervision of juveniles under juvenile court jurisdiction.
County of Franklin
20th Circuit - Juvenile Division
4 A South Church Street
Union, MO 63084
Placement Accountability Time
$25,611.00
Jodi Dierker, 636-583-7333
The Franklin County Juvenile Office is receiving funding to implement two programs. The first program is called The Placement Option. Funding for this program is used to place juveniles in “least restrictive” facilities with the goal of having the youth reunited with his or her family and reintegrated into their community. Placements will offer opportunities for youth to participate in coping and life skills training, which will enable each youth to make better life choices. The second program is called Transporters. This program allows the Juvenile Court to utilize transporters to move juveniles under the jurisdiction of the court to various court hearings, doctors’ appointments, employment interviews, and placement intakes, rather than utilizing a Juvenile Officer for these activities. Subsequently, this program affords Juvenile Officers’ the opporutnity to use their work time more effeciently, enhancing their provision of services to the community.
County of Greene
Greene County Juvenile Office
1111 North Robberson
Springfield, MO 65802
Services, Accountability, and More
$75,695.58
Kyle O'Dell, 417-868-4008
The Greene County Juvenile Office is utilizing JABG funding to sustain several initiatives. Firstly, the Juuvenile Office is utilziing block grant funding to pay personnel costs for two staff; a probation officer to supervise a caseload of juvenile offenders, and a Deputy Juvenile Officer to deal directly with juveniles upon referral. Funding also supports an electronic monitoring- accountability based sanctions program, and a specialized sex offender treatment program. In addition, the Juvenile Office is also using block funding to implement a data tracking system in the Detention Center to capture information on issues such as contraband, staff misconduct, injuries to youth and staff, assessment, treatment, and transition programming.
City of Hannibal
Hannibal Police Department
777 Broadway
Hannibal, MO 63401
Turning It Around
$7,380.00
Joey Runyon, Chief of Police, 573-221-0987
The Turing It Around program provides an immediate response to incidents of violent acts or threats of harm in elementary schools of the Hannibal Public School District, and also seeks to reduce these same acts of violence in sixth grade youth who are in transition to the Hannibal Middle School. The response includes an on site mental health assessment of the youth involved, a coordinated staffing with parents and related agency officials, and a series of graduated sanctions and services to the youth and family. These activities are designed to provide an educational and therapeutic intervention for the youth and their families.
County of Howell
37th Judicial Circuit-Juvenile Division
P.O. Box 467
West Plains, MO 65775
Juvenile Division Tracker Services
$7,921.01
Stan Smith, 417-256-2432
Funding for this program allows the Howell County Juvenile Office to contract with an individual or individuals to provide probation “Tracker” services to an elevated “at risk” population of juvenile probationers in Howell County.
City of Independence
Independence Police Department
223 North Memorial Drive
Independence, MO 64050
SRO for Independence At-Risk Students
$51,192.93
Fred Mills, 816-325-7271
The City of Independence, Missouri, is receiving JABG funding to continue the full time assignment of one School Resource Officer to the University of Missouri Kansas City-Truman Campus of the Independence School District. This campus houses the district's most at-risk students, such as those who possess behavioral problems, emotional disorders, learning disabilities, attendance problems, issues relating to substance abuse, and other special needs. Classes take place all year long, with various students rotating in and out of programs throughout the year. Police calls to this location range from child custody issues, disturbances, or truancy, to substance abuse issues, and weapon possessions. A local coalition has been formed to oversee the program. A School Resource Officer is assigned to this location to not only provide security, but to also serve as a role model, mentor, and teacher.
County of Jackson
Jackson County COMBAT
415 East 12th Street, 11th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64106
Nightlights/Sentenced to the Arts
$61,6796.14
Angela C. Castle, 816-881-3113
The "Nightlights" and the "Sentence to the Arts" programs are designed to provide services to adjudicated juveniles from the Jackson County Juvenile Court. To address recidivism, Jackson County offers the "Nightlights" program to provide intensive supervision by Deputy Juvenile Officers in order to reduce re-offending and re-arrests of juveniles under the supervision of the court. The "Sentence to the Arts" program offers art, music, and drama therapy by qualified counselors to youth under the supervision of the court, in an attempt to modify a youth's behavior by showing creative, successful, and positive ways of processing anger, guilt, anxiety, and other potentially harmful emotions, in addition to assisting them in developing appropriate interpersonal skills.
County of Jasper
Jasper County Juvenile Court
530 Pearl
Joplin, MO 64801
Jasper County Truancy Intervention
$28,759.18
Linda Wilson, 417-625-4377
JABG funds are being utilized to support the Jasper County Truancy Intervention project. Funds are used to employ one full time supervision coordinator and one part time supervision coordinator. The program makes use of college interns who work with younger juveniles in the program. Youth are referred to the program based on school absences. Any student in Jasper County who has been absent for more than five days in any one semester is referred to the program. The Supervision Coordinators make contact with the youth and their families after they have received a referral on the youth from the school. The Supervision Coordinators work with youth, their families, local Children’s Services staff, and the County Prosecutor to develop a plan for improving the youth's attendance.
County of Jefferson
Jefferson County Juvenile Office
P.O. Box 100
Hillsboro, MO 63050
Detention Construction & Drug Court
$44,522.20
Joseph J. Polette, 636-797-5357
Jefferson County is receiving JABG funding to support two activities. The first activity is the continuation of the planning and development of a secure juvenile detention facility. Funding will support the architectural fees needed to complete the construction grade plans and blueprints for the facility. The second activity is the implementation of the Juvenile Drug Court Program. The program is presently completing its pilot phase, and JABG funding is providing part time personnel costs to transport and track youth referred to the program, as well as reimburse mileage, office supplies, incentives, educational materials, and drug test kits.
County of Johnson
Juvenile Justice Center
101 West Market
P.O. Box 5
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Juvenile Courts and Probation
$10,157.33
Dale E. Buckingham, 660-422-7418
The Johnson County Juvenile Detention Center utilzies JABG funding to provide a Physical Fitness Activity Program. This program provides a sound offering of physical activity including weight training, aerobic activity, and cardio-vascular training. Funding is also used to purchase equipment, and to employ a trained individual to administer the program. Youth in custody will be instructed on the proper use of each piece of equipment, and each physical activity in order to maximize the benefits of the activity and to prevent injuries. The program will assist in alleviating stress while a youth is housed in a detention facility. The program has assisted in the establishment of policies that promote and educate residents on the enjoyment of physical activity while providing a healthier lifestyle.
County of Pettis
Pettis County Juvenile Office
319 South Lamine, Suite 9
Sedalia, MO 65301
Pettis County Juvenile Probation Project
$8,469.90
Maria Mittlehauser, 660-827-1062
Funding for this project allows the Pettis County Juvenile Office to provide group counseling services to youth under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, as well as allowing Juvenile Office staff to receive first aid training. Federal block grant funds also have afforded the court the opportunity to provide Tracker services to youth on probation. The Pettis County Juvenile Office also conducts drug testing as part of this project.
County of Phelps
25th Judicial Circuit
301 Historic Route 66 East, Suite 205
Waynesville, MO 65583
Youth Drug Testing Program
$7,354.24
Russell Shelden, 573-774-4730
The Phelps County Juvenile Office is contracting with a private agency to conduct two hundred sixty-five ten-panel drug screens. Juveniles are required to report to the Phelps County Juvenile Office where trained contractual staff collect samples and submit them for analysis.
County of Platte
Platte County Juvenile Office
508 Third Street, Suite 85
Platte City, MO 64079
Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Juvenile Restitution Program, Shoplifting Program
$14,393.00
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3427
The Platte County Juvenile Office is conducting three programs utlilizing JABG funding. The first program is a substance abuse treatment program. Funding provides assessment and treatment services for seven to thirteen youth. The second program is a juvenile restitution repayment program. This program provides ten to twenty-six youth with the opportunity to meet their obligations to themselves, community, and to the victims for their offenses. Youth who owe restitution will be assigned community service hours, and for each hour worked the youth will receive credit at a rate of the current minimum wage. The amount earned will be paid to the victims of their crimes. The third program is a youth educational shoplifting program. This program is available to twenty-five youth whose primary referrals are for stealing. Youth complete the Youth Educational Shoplifting home study program and submit the completed homework to the Juvenile Officer. This program ensures offenders are held accountable and understand the impact of their crime.
State of Missouri
Missouri Department of Social Services - Children's Division
615 Howerton Court
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Missouri School Violence Hotline
$151,536.59
James Harrison, 573-751-2502
Funding for this project supports a statewide School Violence Hotline. The School Violence Hotline accepts calls from the general public relating to incidents occuring in Missouri schools ranging from bullying or assaults, to other violence related behavior. A School Violence Hotline dispatcher accepts calls, gathers information, and enters data into a centralized database. The information is then phoned and faxed to local law enforcement and school officials working at or near the incident location.
State of Missouri
Office of State Courts Administrator
P.O. Box 104480
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Missouri Juvenile Justice Information System (MOJJIS) - Phase Four
$58,556.52
Gary Waint, 573-751-4377
This project expands upon the Missouri Juvenile Justice Information System by planning for enhanced functionality that improves the response time from inquiry to information receipt by MOJJIS users. Phase Four focuses on automating information retrieval from multiple juvenile justice agency databases, thereby eliminating the need for agency personnel to formulate a response to the current pointer system now in place in over twenty-eight circuits in Missouri.
State of Missouri
Office of State Courts Administrator
P.O. Box 65110
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Judicial Training in Juvenile Justice
$39,066.48
Vivian Murphy, 573-751-4377
This grant provides funding for two different training programs for juvenile court personnel throughout Missouri. Each program provides juvenile court personnel with a two day training program offering state and national perspectives on graduated sanctions and best practices in detention centers. Each of the two statewide training programs focus on serving approximately seventy-five participants.
County of Scott
33rd Judicial Circuit/Juvenile Division
P.O. Box 1122
Sikeston, MO 63801
Detention as a Sanction
$11,876.09
Barbara B. Smith, 573-472-2554
Funding for this program allows the 33rd Judicial Circuit to continue the implementation of their Juvenile Truancy Court Program. Funding is used to support travel expenses resulting from the transporting of juveniles to detention as a part of the Court's Graduated Sanctions activities. JABG funding also supports the purchasing of various office supplies and computer equipment which support the juvenile court staff assigned to the Truancy Court Program.
City of St. Ann
St. Ann Police Department
10405 St. Charles Rock Road
St. Ann, MO 63074
School Safety Motivational Academy
$7,184.43
Chief Robert Schrader, 314-428-6822
The St. Ann-Hoech Juvenile Crime Enforcement Coalition (JCEC) is conducting a program that promotes school safety by increasing students' accountability for their behavior. In lieu of suspension from school, the offender may have the option to participate in an after-school program that addresses responsibility and accountability for students' actions. A Motivational Academy has been established to serve as an after school program for offenders referred by school authorities or law enforcement officers. The Motivational Academy focuses on students’ building life skills so they are better able to consider alternatives to delinquent behavior.
County of St. Charles
Eleventh Circuit/Juvenile Division
1700 South River Road
St. Charles, MO 63303
Juvenile Service Enhancements
$82,702.84
Raymond Grush, 636-949-3040
JABG funding allows St. Charles County to conduct two programs. The first program is a Juvenile Drug Court targeting those offenders who would be classified by federal law as violent offenders. Federal funds are used to pay for nine participant slots for violent offenders. The second program is a restitution program wherein juvenile offenders perform community service at a local not for profit agency or government site to earn restitution. These monies are then paid to victims of a juvenile’s delinquent behavior.
City of St. Joseph
St. Joseph Police Department
501 Faraon Street
St. Joseph, MO 64501
JABG
$18,785.08
Chief Mike Hirter, 816-271-4701
The City of St. Joseph is currently funding two programs via JABG funding. The first program consists of increasing the level of training for St. Joseph Police Officers by providing CD-based training. The first training focuses on a patrol officer’s response to a “shots fired” call at a school site. The second, and more advanced class on responding to and preventing school violence is provided to those officers who work when school is in session. In addition, classes on club drugs and gangs are made available to full-time School Resource Officers and supervisors. The second program provides overtime funding for School Resource Officers to participate in various programs that occur before or after school hours. Funding is utilized for mentoring programs and to address problems such as smoking, gang related activities, traffic problems that affect schools, and other programs that would enhance the safety of students and teachers.
City of St. Louis
City of St. Louis Neighborhood Stabilization Team
1200 Market Street, Room 418
St. Louis, MO 63103
Enhanced Supervision of Juvenile Offenders
$546,997.94
Anna Ginsburg, 314-622-4628
The City of St. Louis is conducting five programs using JABG funding. The first program is
the “Nightwatch” program, which provides enhanced supervision to juveniles on probation. The premise behind the Nightwatch program is that if youth are in compliance with their curfews they are less likely to re-offend. The primary focus of the program is to establish the need for accountability with the juvenile and his or her family. Graduated sanctions are applied for non-compliance. The second program currently operating, MINE (Mentorship Instruction Nutrition and Education) focuses on the development of social skills, verbal communication skills, and ability to address conflict. A third program currently funded is the Enhanced Truancy Initiative. This project is a collaborative effort with the public schools, the courts, and Central Baptist Family Services. Central Baptist Family Services provide social services to youth brought to truancy centers. Lastly, block grant funds are being utilized to support the Victim Offender Mediation program, which provides mediation services between the juvenile offender and their victim, as well as costs associated with electronic monitoring as an alternative to detention.
County of St. Louis
Family Court of St. Louis County
501 South Brentwood
Clayton, MO 63105
Juvenile Accountability Program
$371,485.04
Kerry Hampton, 314-615-2901
JABG funding allows the Family Court of St. Louis to operate a number of different staff positions and programs. JABG funding is currently used to support the following: A substance abuse and mental health counselor for the youth in court custody; An educational specialist for youth in transition from the court to a community setting; Two staff who support the Juvenile Conference Committee. This group acts as an arm of the court as they take up minor delinquency cases that the primary court can not hear due to current case load demands. This group also acts as a victim and offender mediator court. JABG funds are also providing for a Mentor Site Specialist. This person staffs a mentoring project and works with organizations and agencies that commit five or more staff to mentoring youth referred from the court. Block grant funding also provides for taxicab fares for youth participating in the Juvenile Court Mentor Activities program, in addition to funding for trackers, equipment, refreshments, and counseling services for the Sex Offender unit. Federal funds also offer incentives for youth and parents involved in our Truancy Court.
County of Stoddard
35th Juvenile Circuit
P.O. Box 50
Bloomfield, MO 63825
Stoddard County Regional Detention
$6,341.35
Michael Davis, 573-568-4640
Funding for this program allows the Stoddard County Juvenile Court Detention Center to hire one additional aid to provide supervision to youth in detention.
County of Taney
38th Circuit Juvenile Division
P.O. Box 482
Forsyth, MO 65653
Juvenile Offender Restitution Program
$20,182.64
Mike Scofield, 417-546-3411
Funding for this project allows Taney County to implement a Juvenile Offender Restitution Program. This program empowers juvenile offenders with the ability to become financially accountable for their actions. Juveniles complete community service activities and are reimbursed at the current minimum wage rate which is then turned over to the victims of their crimes. This program is designed to teach each juvenile participant their actions have an impact on the community, and that they can expect to be held accountable for their actions.
JABG SUPPLEMENTALGRANT PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
County of Butler
614 Lindsay Street
Poplar Bluff, MO 63901
Quality Improvement Project (Vehicles)
$33,516.00
Lesi Smith, 573-686-8054
The Butler County Juvenile Office used JABG supplemental funds to purchase two vehicles for Juvenile Office staff use in transporting youth and families to and from court hearings, detention, probation visits, and conferences.
County of Cape Girardeau
44 North Lorimier
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Summer Education Program
$3,759.60
Randall Rhodes, 573-334-2604
JABG supplemental funding has provided support to the Cape Girardeau Juvenile Office’s operation of a summer-long recreational program using Kodokan Judo as the model activity. This program incorporated an anger management/counseling component, and provided three weeks of "for credit" summer school to youth on probation who were behind in their school completion schedules.
County of Cole
400 Stadium Boulevard
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Building Access Security
$68,077.80
David Boucher, 573-636-5177
The Building Access Security program improves control of access to the juvenile detention unit in the 19th Judicial Circuit’s Juvenile Detention Unit. During the eleven years the facility has been in operation, keyed control of doors served as the primary means of accessing secured areas. Funding for this project allowed the 19th Circuit to implement an electronic access system. As the locking mechanisms of the prior system had deteriorated and required a high level of maintenance and repair, the change over to electronic locks not only improved security but has lowered repair and maintenance cost.
County of Henry
P.O. Box 487
Clinton, MO 64735
Probation Enhancement
$4,934.80
Rebecca Culler, 660-885-7248
The Henry County Juvenile Office purchased equipment and supplies through the use of JABG supplemental funding to enhance their current intensive supervision program and probation program. Both of these programs required additional equipment to increase efficiency and effectiveness. The equipment purchased included electronic monitoring units and supplies, plus fax-copiers for juvenile officers’ homes, as well as two lap top computers for field and after hours work.
County of Howell
P.O. Box 467
West Plains, MO 65775
Anger Management Classes for Juv Offenders
$6,940.78
Stan Smith, 417-256-2432
The 37th Judicial Circuit Juvenile Division has instituted an anger management program for juvenile offenders referred to the court. The establishment of this program furthers the court’s ability to offer programs that enable the court and the juvenile probation officers to be more effective and efficient in holding juvenile offenders accountable, thereby reducing juvenile recidivism. The anger management program offers two separate group training and counseling tracts, one designed for students in grades seven through twelve, and one designed for students in grades five through nine.
County of Jasper
530 Pearl
Joplin, MO 64801
Truancy Intervention
$3,978.90
Linda Wilson, 417-625-4377
The Jasper County Juvenile Office is utilizing JABG Supplemental funds to purchase lice shampoo and lice spray for use in their truancy program. Youth and families participating in the program are supplied with these products if needed, and at no cost to the family.
County of Johnson
101 West Market, Suite 101
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Juvenile Courts and Probation
$15,188.81
Dale Buckingham, 660-422-7418
JABG supplemental funds are being utilized by Johnson County Juvenile Court officials to purchase new equipment and furniture for the Juvenile Office, and to purchase educational booklets and videos to be used in the Detention Center.
County of Macon
PO Box 522
Macon, MO 63552
WAVE Security
$8,991.00
Cindy Kennel Ayers, 660-385-2715
The Macon County Juvenile Office utilized JABG supplemental funds to purchase a specialised security system to connect the juvenile office with the Macon County Sheriffs Office, thereby enhancing office security and response capability in the event of an emergency.
County of Marion
304 Willow Street
Hannibal, MO 63401
Safe Transport Of Youth In Custody
$15,673.49
Philip W. Livesay, 573-221-1182
The Marion County Juvenile Office received JABG supplemental funds to purchase a vehicle for the transportation of youth in custody. Supplemental funding also supported the purchase of safety equipment to keep youth being transported secure in the back seat of the transport vehicle.
County of Nodaway
P.O. Box 392
Maryville, MO 64468
Operation Safety and Accountability
$8,477.20
Rick Bradley, 660-582-4312
The Nodaway County Juvenile Office utilized JABG supplemental funding to purchase and install a security system for the Juvenile Office. Funds were also used to purchase a laptop computer for use by one of the circuit’s juvenile officers, and the purchase of educational materials used by youth on probation.
County of Pettis
Pettis County Juvenile Office
319 South Lamine, Suite 9
Sedalia, MO 65301
Drug Testing Kits
$2,655.00
Maria Mittelhauser, 660-827-1062
JABG supplemental funds allowed the Pettis County Juvenile Office to purchase five hundred six panel drug test kits. These kits provide the ability to maintain the Juvenile Office’s current level of drug testing for youth on probation.
County of Platte
508 Third Street, Suite 85
Platte City, MO 64079
Service Enhancement for Monitoring
$17,595.00
Barbara Lemons, 816-858-3427
JABG funds allowed the Platte County Juvenile Office to install and operate video conferencing equipment which improves communication between field staff and youth who are receiving treatment outside the circuit. Supplemental funding was also used to purchase drug screens, and educational materials for youth referred to the juvenile office.
County of Polk
211 West Walnut
Bolivar, MO 65613
Detention Center Security/Maintenance/Equipment
$29,022.73
Randolph Blosch, Administrator, 417-777-8530
The Polk County Juvenile Office utilized JABG supplemental funds to purchase additional security equipment for their juvenile detention center. Staff also used a portion of the funding to purchase maintenance equipment, a phone system for the center, a refrigerator for cold storage, as well as a projector and a computer.
County of Scotland
117 South Market, Room 209
Memphis, MO 63555
First Circuit Security Equipment, Drug Testing, and Transportation
$19,654.20
Eric DeRosear, 660-465-2978
The First Circuit Juvenile Office received JABG supplemental funds to purchase a much needed transportation vehicle and security system for the juvenile office, as well as drug tests for use with youth on probation, enhancing efforts to strengthen youth accountability.
County of Scott
P.O. Box 1122
Sikeston, MO 63801
Transportation Project
$25,713.90
Barbara B. Smith, 573-472-2554
JABG supplemental funding for Scott County has been used to purchase a transportation vehicle to be utilized to transport juveniles. The existing programs that greatly benefit from this purchanse are: the Circuit’s Juvenile Drug Court, the Family Drug Court, the Truancy Court, and the Court’s Community Service Project. Supplemtnal funds were also used to purchase a van. Prior to receiving JAABG supplemental funds, Juvenile Officers transport youth in their personal cars, with only their own personal insurance to provider coverage in the event an incident occurs while transporting youth.
County of Taney
P.O. Box 482
Forsyth, MO 65653
Transport Vehicles
$37,364.10
Darlene Rea, 417-546-3411
JABG supplemental funding has been used by the Taney County Juvenile Office to purchase two new transport vehicles. Funds were also used to purchase two new police radios to be installed in each vehicle.
County of Wright
P.O. Box 390
Mountain Grove, MO 65711
Intake & Follow-up Coordinator
$15,333.86
Janet Schwertfeger, 417-926-3120
The Wright County Juvenile Detention Center utilzed JABG supplemental funds to hire one additional person to work in the Ozarks Regional Juvenile Detention District Juvenile Center as a staff member to serve as Intake and Follow-up Coordinator. Additional funds were used to purchase educational materials designed to increase the mental and physical health education of juveniles in detention and supplies to aid in the organization of the educational materials.
CHALLENGE GRANTS PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
County of Jackson
625 East 26th Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
Jackson County DMC
$36,521.23
Arthurine D. Criswell, 816-881-6525
In Jackson county, African American youth comprise 31% of ten to seventeen year old youth. Yet, 61% of the referrals to Family Court are African American Youth. African American youth accounted for 66% of youth admitted to Detention and 69% of youth admitted to residential programs. The study of disproportionate minority confinement will be completed by utilizing the model developed by James Bell, Director of the Burns Institute of the Youth Law Center. Bell has provided direction and consultation in the step-by step process. Jackson County is one of approximately ten jurisdictions that have collaborated with the Burns Institute. A part-time contract staff is also utilized to coordinate Jackson County's efforts. An Executive Committee and Advisory Board will continue to work towards formulating and carrying out our strategies to reduce minority confinement while maintaining public safety. The DMC project continues to make efforts to integrate its efforts with other Family Court Initiatives including Restorative Justice.
City of St. Louis
Family Court Juvenile Division
920 Vandeventer Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
Disproportionate Minority Confinement
$38,939.22
Kimberly Cole, 314-552-2161
The Missouri disproportionate minority confinement preliminary reports prepared in 2000 - 2001 state the population of St. Louis City youth between the ages of ten through sixteen numbered 34,145 of which 70% or 23,897 were minorities. 1,401 youth were detained during the same period of which 90% or 1,265 were minorities. Research shows there is substantial evidence that race plays both a direct and indirect role in the outcome of many juvenile justice decisions. It has also been shown that the majority of states’ overrepresentation increases from the point of arrest through other points in the system to the final point of secure corrections. As a Court and community we must all be concerned with the problem of overrepresentation of minority youth. The ultimate goal of the Family Court System is to reduce the number of minority youth in every aspect of the Family Court System in St Louis, Missouri while maintaining public safety.
County of St. Louis
501 South Brentwood Boulevard
Clayton, MO 63105
Minority Overrepresentation Initiative
$38,939.55
Susan Ashwell, 314-615-2969
According to the 2000 census, the African-American population in St. Louis County between ages ten and sixteen is about 24%. Of the total youth referred to the Family Court is St. Louis County is the first six months of 2002 for delinquency, status and traffic offenses, African-American youth represented 53% or the referrals. Consistently, over the past several years the St. Louis County Detention Center population has hovered between 64% to 68% African-American and 30% to 34% Caucasian. St. Louis County staff are working together with the St Louis County Division of Planning, and the St. Louis County Police Department to target an appropriate area for a pilot project to reduce the disproportionate number of minority youth entering out Detention Center and our juvenile justice system.
State of Missouri
Missouri Department of Mental Health
1706 East Elm Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Challenge Grant
$70,600.00
Dr. Patsy Carter, 573-751-0142
The primary action for the Challenge Activity is training across the state for both mental health and juvenile justice professionals on how to plan for and provide services for youth with mental health needs involved in the juvenile justice system. Training was provided regionally for a total of 300 participants with national experts and resources as available. State resources include utilization of Department of Mental Health employees as contracted providers and juvenile justice staff as available through juvenile offices, Division of Youth Services, Office of State Courts Administrator and the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
K. Gary Sherman, Director
Broadway State Office Bldg.
P.O. Box 1527
Jefferson City, MO 65102
573-751-4815, Fax: 573-751-3203
Established in 1974, the Missouri Department of Social Services includes four agencies that previously operated social programs under separate administrations. This “umbrella” structure combines the efforts of related agencies and promotes a cooperative approach toward delivering social program to Missourians in need.
The department works to ensure the health and safety of children, to help parents and caregivers provide nurturing homes, and to aid people in need of financial assistance reach their highest level of social and economic self-sufficiency. The director of the Department of Social Services assumes a mandate to efficiently administer federal, state, and local funds. The director also cooperates with private organizations, businesses, and individuals to extend the outreach of human services available to Missouri citizens.
Division of Youth Services
P.O. Box 447
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0447
573-751-3324, Fax: 573-526-4494
Paul Bolerjack, Interim Director, dss.state.mo.us/dys
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) is the state agency charged with the care and treatment of youth committed to its
custody by one of the 45 Missouri juvenile courts. Towards this end, DYS operates treatment programs ranging from non-residential day treatment centers through secure residential institutions. Additionally, DYS administers the Interstate Compact on Juveniles; operates an accredited school program and maintains a statewide statistical database of juvenile court referrals. DYS is administratively organized into one central office and five regional offices.
Publications:
➢ Advisory Board Report (annual)
➢ Missouri Juvenile Court Statistics (annual)
➢ DYS Statistics (annual)
DIVISION OF hIGHWAY Safety (A Division of MO Department of Transportation)
2211 St. Mary's
P.O. Box 270
Jefferson City, MO 65102
573-751-4161 or 1-800-800-BELT (2358), Fax: 573-634-5977,
Jackie Rogers, Operations Specialist, Jacqueline.Rogers@modot.
Our mission is to provide a world-class transportation experience that delights our customers and promotes a prosperous Missouri. Highway Safety provides a variety of resource materials. See order Form next page, or call the office for more information.
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MISSOURI BAR
P.O. Box 119
Jefferson City, MO 65109
573-635-4128,
Millie Albur, Director of Law Related Education, 573-638-2250, milliea@
The Missouri Bar has a pamphlet on Juvenile Justice that is appropriate for school and youth groups. These are free and available in quantity. The Missouri Bar publishes the Juvenile Justice Resources Directory. This is free and available in limited quantities to interested parties, agencies, and organizations. The Missouri Bar has a Juvenile Justice can meet and exchange ideas.
See the Missouri Bar website for information on brochures and publications:
Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (MOCASA)
3610 Buttonwood Suite 200
Columbia, MO 65201
573-886-8928, Fax: 573-886-8901,
Beth Dessem, Executive Director, bdessem@
What is CASA? A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer is a trained community volunteer appointed by a judge to speak up for the best interests of an abused or neglected child involved in a juvenile court proceeding.
The Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (MOCASA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the lives of abused and neglected children in Missouri by promoting the development, expansion, and improvement of CASA programs statewide. By providing technical assistance and support to new and existing programs, the Missouri CASA Association seeks to provide a well-trained CASA volunteer to each of Missouri’s abused and neglected children in every court circuit. Our 19 CASA programs provide over 900 volunteers who are committed to helping children achieve a safe, permanent home. For more information about our programs, please visit our website at .
MISSOURI JUVENILE JUSTICE ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 1332
Jefferson City, MO 65102-1332
573.636.6101, Fax: 573.635.5159
Julie Cole Agee, Executive Director, julie@
The Missouri Juvenile Justice Association is a statewide not for profit, 501 ( c) (3) organization whose mission is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment, due process and enhanced opportunities for all at risk children within Missouri’s juvenile justice system.
Solely dependent upon donations and memberships, MJJA brings together juvenile justice system professionals and agencies, interested organizations, private corporations and individuals who are committed to improving the Missouri juvenile justice system for the sake of children in need of a future.
MJJA envisions a preferred future in which the public is aware and supportive of the delivery of quality juvenile justice services to the children of Missouri defined as status offenders, delinquents, and abused and neglected children. To reach the desired future, MJJA recognizes certain core values intrinsic to the organization: commitment to and advocacy for the needs of Missouri’s children; leading with a spirit of collaboration; broad-based and diverse membership; and top quality professional training and development.
In this preferred future, MJJA demonstrates leadership by maintaining and enhancing quality collaborative training opportunities and forums for sharing expertise to guide and support the professional development of its broad based membership and Missouri’s juvenile justice system.
As an advocate of children’s rights and services, MJJA is recognized as a proactive leader in Missouri and nationally. MJJA’s leadership is reflected in maintaining a leading juvenile justice information clearinghouse and effectively serving and addressing issues raised by the diverse agencies involved in the juvenile justice system.
MJJA serves as an expert consultant at the request of the Governor and state and community lawmakers; leads the development of uniform standards, practices and procedures in juvenile care, and; promotes the need for adequate resources for all services within Missouri’s juvenile justice system.
MJJA has numerous publications which are provided as a membership benefit, and are listed on the MJJA website at
Missouri State Archives
Office of the Secretary of State
P.O. Box 1747, 600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65102-1747
General Inquiry: 573-751-3280
Fax: 573-526-7333
Patricia M. Luebbert, CA
Senior Archivist and Reference Supervisor, archref@sos.
Publications:
Annual Report, 1974-2002, Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services
Juvenile Court Statistics, 1946-2002, Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services
Planning Documents, 1977-1987, Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services
Newsletters, 1977-1985, Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services
Miscellaneous Publications, 1975-1994, Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services. Contains pamphlets, brochures, directories, and master plan
MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL (a division of DPS)
1510 E. Elm
P.O. Box 568
Jefferson City, MO 65102
573-751-3313, mshp.dps.
Captain Chris Ricks, Director of Public Information
Publication: Missouri State Highway Patrol Annual Report
State Highway Patrol - Statistical Analysis Center, 573-751-4026
Publications:
Missouri Crime and Arrest Digest (annual)
Missouri Traffic Safety Compendium (annual)
Uniform Law Enforcement System Missing Persons Report (bi-annual)
Video: Missouri’s Juvenile Justice System - Law Enforcement’s Role
573-526-6172, ($10.00 charge for video)
Office of the Child Advocate
PO Box 809
Truman Building #840
Jefferson City, MO 65102
573-522-8686, Toll Free: 866-457-2302, Fax: 573-522-6870
Mary McEniry, mary.mceniry@cwo.
The Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) acts as an impartial fact finder. The OCA provides families and citizens with an avenue through which they can obtain an independent and impartial review of the decisions made by the Department of Social Services/Children's Division. The OCA focuses on three work activities:
Listening to Families and Citizens
Responding to Complaints
Improving the System
The Office of the Child Advocate publishes an annual report in October. These can be found on our website:
Office of State Courts Administrator
P.O. Box 104480
Jefferson City, MO 65110
573-751-4377
Division of Juvenile and Adult Court Programs
Gary J. Waint, Division Director, 573-526-8316
gary.waint@courts.
osca.state.mo.us
Vivian Murphy, Educational Programs Coordinator
573-751-4377, vivian.murphy@courts.
See website osca.state.mo.us which will provide the reader with a wealth of information regarding the efforts of the division of Juvenile and Adult Court Programs, as well as the educational efforts of the Judicial (juvenile) Education Division.
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE – MISSOURI
606 East Capitol Avenue
Jefferson City, MO 65101
573-634-5233, Fax: 573-632-8627
Lucia Erickson-Kincheloe, Executive Director
The following programs are available:
Health Families Missouri
Circle of Parents
Enough! Sexual Abuse Prevention Program
Home Based Training
Bully Prevention
Community Councils
Blue Ribbon Campaign
Bully Prevention (PSA)
Colleagues for Children Newsletter
Crying Prevention (PSA)
Not Even For A Minute
National
Resources
Child Welfare League of America
Juvenile Justice Division
50 F St., NW, Sixth Floor
Washington, D.C. 20001-1530
202-942-0329, Fax: 202-737-3687;
John Tuell, Director of Core Services, jtuell@
Christy Sharp, Division Director, csharp@
It is the intention of the Juvenile Justice Division of CWLA to help frame the national agenda for the future and to assume a strong position of national leadership in the integrated work of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems in behalf of children, youth, families and communities. This is accomplished by:
• Providing national leadership
• Collecting, analyzing and disseminating information
• Advocating for implementation of sound legislation, policies and procedures
• Promoting programs to reduce the reliance on incarceration for accused or adjudicated delinquent youth
• Providing consultation, training and technical assistance to implement systems integration and reform
Publications:
➢ Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration
➢ Promoting a Coordinated and Integrated Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice System
➢ Understanding Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency
➢ Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency
➢ Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: The Need for More Gender-Responsive Services
Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
➢ Youth Gun Violence and Victimization: Prevention, Intervention, and Control
➢ Juvenile Offender and the Death Penalty: Prevention, Intervention, and Control
➢ March/April 2004 Special Issue: Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Improved Coordination and Integration
COALITION FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE
1710 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Tenth Floor
Washington, DC 20036
202-467-0864, Fax: 202-887-0738
Nancy Gannon Hornberger, gannon@
The Coalition of Juvenile Justice (CJJ) is a national nonprofit association comprising 56 governor-appointed advisory groups on juvenile justice representing the U.S. states, territories, and District of Columbia. CJJ is based in Washington DC, yet has nationwide reach. More than 1,500 volunteers from the public and private sectors-professionals, concerned citizens and advocates for children and families, representing a broad range of perspectives – serve as CJJ’s state advisory members. CJJ also welcomes individuals who share our interests and concerns for the well-being of youth and communities to join as members at large.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Charles B. Wang International Children’s Building
699 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3175
703-274-3900; Fax 703-274-2200
HOTLINE: 1.800.THE.LOST (1.800.843.5678)
Cybertipline©,
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s® (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction, and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§ 5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. § 94.6), NCMEC
➢ Serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children.
➢ Operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation
➢ Provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children.
➢ Assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
➢ Offers training programs to law-enforcement and social service professionals.
➢ Distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide.
➢ Coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector.
➢ Networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases.
➢ Provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children.
➢ Offers an extensive list of publications that can be found at
National Center for Juvenile Justice
3700 South Water Street, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
412-227-6950, Fax: 412-227-6955
ncjj@
The National Center for Juvenile Justice was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1973 by Hon. Maurice B. Cohill, Jr. The Center is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of justice for children and families. This mission is pursued by conducting research and providing objective, factual information that is utilized to increase the juvenile and family justice system's effectiveness. The Center is the Research Division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, but has its own charter and policy board and is responsible for raising its own operational support. The Center:
- Performs analyses of state juvenile and family codes and case law
- Develops, maintains, and analyzes databases on the local, state, and national level
- Provides on-site, off-site, and cross-site consultation services to juvenile and family courts
- Conducts evaluations of program policy and prepares preliminary plans.
A list of publications available through NCJJ is available at
. Various publications can be downloaded.
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
1970 Broadway Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612
510-208-0500 Ext. 301, Fax: 510-208-0511
nccd-
Publication list available at: nccd.nccdpubs.htm
Renee Ayres, Administrative Assistant, rayres@sf.nccd-
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency, founded in 1907, is a nonprofit organization which promotes effective, humane, fair, and economically sound solutions to family, community, and justice problems. NCCD conducts research, promotes initiatives, and seeks to work with individuals, public and private organizations, and the media to prevent and reduce crime and delinquency.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
P.O. Box 8970
Reno, Nevada 89507
775-784-6012, Fax: 775-784-6628
Joey Binard, Sr. Program Manager, Technical Assistance, jbinard@
Since its founding in 1937 by a group of judges dedicated to improving the effectiveness of the nation's juvenile courts, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) has pursued a mission to improve courts and systems practice and raise awareness of the core issues that touch the lives of many of our nation's children and families. Every day, our membership of more than 1,700 judges, referees, commissioners, masters and other juvenile and family law professionals confront a variety of juvenile and family related issues, including: child abuse and neglect; adoption and foster care; juvenile delinquency; family violence; victims of juvenile offenders; alcohol and drug abuse; termination of parental rights; custody and visitation; minority issues.
The NCJFCJ, headquartered on the University of Nevada campus in Reno since 1969, provides cutting-edge training, wide-ranging technical assistance, publications addressing numerous issues in the field, and research to help the nation's courts, judges, and staff in their important work. During the past year, the NCJFCJ conducted or assisted in conducting more than 200 educational programs for more than 25,000 judges, court administrators, social and mental health workers, police, probation officers, and others working in the juvenile and family courts at its headquarters in Reno and throughout the country. In conjunction with the University of Nevada, Reno, and the National Judicial College, the National Council participates in unique advanced degree programs for judges and other court professionals.
Just a few of its major efforts include:
- The Child Victims Act Model Courts Project, a network of 25 Model Courts that serve as models and mentors to jurisdictions nationwide;
- The Juvenile Sanctions Center, which provides jurisdictions with the skills for their work with serious juvenile offenders, focusing on accountability and community-based sanctions;
Working with the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Juvenile Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance project to help juvenile drug courts implement or enhance their juvenile drug courts.
- The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody provides access to information and assistance to those working in the field of domestic violence and child protection and custody.
- The NCJFCJ's research division, the National Center for Juvenile Justice, based on Pittsburgh, Pa., is the country's only non-profit research organization dedicated to the juvenile justice system.
A non-profit, 501(c) (3) corporation, the NCJFCJ relies on funding from federal and state grants, private foundations, and generous members and donors.
National Juvenile Court Services Association
P.O. Box 8970
Reno, NV 89507
775-784-6895, Fax: 775-784-6628
Ian Curley, Staff Liaison, icurley@
Serving those who work with and support the Nation's Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Masters, Referees, and Commissioners. NJCSA offers the opportunity to improve your skills in the Juvenile Justice System through training, education, and technical assistance.
NJCSA GOALS:
- Train and education personnel in matters of improving juvenile justice systems through court administration, management and service delivery techniques;
- Plan and coordinate education programs with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges that are targeted at improving juvenile justice services and administration;
- Raise the level of professional competency in the juvenile justice system;
- Increase community understanding of the philosophy and activity of the juvenile justice system, and seek greater community support of treatment programs;
- Offer technical assistance to juvenile and family courts on a broad spectrum of juvenile justice issues.
NCJSA publishes RAPPORT, the quarterly NJCSA newsletter which keeps members abreast of the latest training programs, new programs, as they become available, certification requirements, legislation, employment opportunities, regional activities, and articles of interest.
NATIONAL JUVENILE DETENTION ASSOCIATION
Eastern Kentucky University
300 Perkins Building
521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, KY 40475
859-622-6259
NJDAEKU@
National Juvenile Justice Network
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
1710 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
202-467-0864 x 105, Fax: 202-887-0738
Saray Bryer, Director, bryer@
Mission: The National Juvenile Justice Network enhances the capacity of state-based, juvenile justice coalitions to advocate for fair, equitable, and developmentally appropriate adjudication and treatment for all children, youth and families involved in the juvenile justice system.
Description: The growing membership of NJJN currently stretches across the country comprising twenty-two states. NJJN helps its members advance juvenile justice reform by establishing a vibrant learning community. An active listserv, annual summit, and regional meetings provide vehicles for members to share strategies, research, testimony, and information about the latest developments in their states. NJJN connects its members to substantive leaders in the field – researchers, policy experts, reform-oriented administrators – so that members are apprised of, and can inform their work with the latest knowledge and best practices in the field. Finally, NJJN brings in national experts in media, organizing and advocacy to help states improve their legislative, programmatic, and administrative reform efforts. (MJJA is proud to be a founding member of this organization, and serve on its Board of Directors.)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR JUVENILE SERVICES
Eastern Kentucky University
300 Perkins Building
521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, KY 40475
859-622-6259, NPJSEKU@
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Communications Unit
Criminal Justice Information Services Division
1000 Custer Hollow Road
Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306-0154
304-625-4995, Fax: 304-625-5394
Stephen Morris, Chief, Programs Support Section, cjis_comm@
The Uniform Crime Reporting Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of approximately 17,000 city, county, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. The publication Crime in the United States is published annually, and provides statistical data collected from those agencies. Should you need further assistance, please contact the Communications Unit.
Child Abuse Links
General
American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
ABA Center on Children and the Law is a program of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)’s mission is to enhance the ability of professionals to respond to children and families affected by abuse and violence. APSAC tries to fulfill this mission in a number of ways, most notably through providing education and other sources of information to professionals who work in the child maltreatment and related fields.
Center for Youth Law
A private, non-profit law office serving the legal needs of children and their families
Child Abuse Prevention Network
The Child Abuse Prevention Network is the Internet Nerve Center for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect are our key areas of concern. We provide unique and powerful tools for all workers to support the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. Originally launched as an outreach effort of the Family Life Development Center the Child Abuse Prevention Network is sponsored by LifeNET, Inc.
Cornerhouse: Interagency Child Abuse Training and Evaluation Center
The mission of CornerHouse is to assess suspected child sexual abuse, to coordinate forensic interview services and to provide training for other professionals.
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, founded in 1977, is the only multidisciplinary international organization that brings together a worldwide cross-section of committed professionals and organizations to work towards the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation globally.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC)
The ICAC Task Force Program was created to help State and local law enforcement agencies enhance their investigative response to offenders who use the Internet, online communication systems, or other computer technology to sexually exploit children. The program is currently composed of 45 regional Task Force agencies and is funded by the United States Office Of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The Training & Technical Assistance Program was established to assist these agencies with training and technical assistance in support of their Internet Crimes Against Children initiatives.
National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC)
The National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) is a non-profit child advocacy and professional membership association. The NACC is dedicated to providing high quality legal representation for children. Our mission is to improve the lives of children and families through legal advocacy. The NACC provides training and technical assistance to attorneys and other professionals, serves as a public information and professional referral center, and engages in public policy and legislative advocacy.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s® (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is the collection of signs and symptoms resulting from the violent shaking of an infant or small child. It is a form of child abuse. In America last year, approximately 1,200 - 1,400 children were shaken for whom treatment was sought. Of these tiny victims, 25 -30% died as a result of their injuries. The rest will have lifelong complications. It is likely that many more babies suffered from the effects of SBS and no one knows, because SBS victims rarely have any external evidence of trauma.
National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC)
To model and promote excellence in child response and prevention
A Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) is a child-focused, community-oriented, facility-based program in which representatives from many disciplines meet to discuss and make decisions about investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse cases. They also work to prevent further victimization of children.
National Children's Alliance (NCA)
National Children's Alliance (formerly the National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers) is a nationwide not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to promote and support communities in providing a coordinated investigation and comprehensive response to victims of severe child abuse. NCA accredited members are Children's Advocacy Centers.
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information (NCCAN)
The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information is a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of the Clearinghouses is to connect professionals and concerned citizens to practical, timely, and essential information on programs, research, legislation, and statistics to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
Pedowatch - Child Pornography Information
is a Web site dedicated to the protection of children from sexual predators on the Internet and in the local community. The overall goal is to prevent the sexual abuse of children through awareness, education, and information.
Medical
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
As a professional society dedicated to the application of science to the law, the AAFS is committed to the promotion of education and the elevation of accuracy, precision, and specificity in the forensic sciences. It does so via the Journal of Forensic Sciences, newsletters, its annual scientific meeting, the conduct of seminars and meetings, and the initiation of actions and reactions to various issues of concern. As the world’s most prestigious forensic science organization, the AAFS represents its members to the public and serves as the focal point for public information concerning the forensic science profession.
American Academy of Pediatrics
An organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
The Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Children's Hospital and Health Center/San Diego, CA
The Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Children's Hospital and Health Center offers programs that provide for the prevention, identification, treatment, and rehabilitation of neglected and abused children and women impacted by domestic violence. Using multiple medical, social, and therapeutic approaches, special focus is placed upon evidentiary, prevention and specialized support programs for victims and witnesses to trauma.
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center
The National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center (NSIDRC) provides information services and technical assistance on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and related topics. Our goal is to promote understanding of SIDS and provide comfort to those affected by SIDS through information sharing. The NSIDRC collaborates with the National SIDS & Infant Death Program Support Center, the National Center for Cultural Competence and the National SIDS & Infant Death Project IMPACT. All of the programs work together to provide educational materials, resources, technical assistance, publications, services for bereavement support and risk reduction, as well as helping to improve services to underserved populations.
Statistics
Bureau of Justice Stats - NIJ
Census Bureau
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. We honor privacy, protect confidentiality, share our expertise globally, and conduct our work openly.
Federal Bureau of Investivation - FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the investigative arm of the US Department of Justice. The FBI's investigative authority can be found in Title 28, Section 533 of the US Code. The very heart of FBI operations lies in our investigations--which serve, as our mission states, "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States."
Links to Federal Stats
National Clearinghouse for Child Abuse and Neglect - NCCAN
The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information is a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of the Clearinghouses is to connect professionals and concerned citizens to practical, timely, and essential information on programs, research, legislation, and statistics to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
We are a community of people dedicated to breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect, serving and strengthening children and families.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service - NCJRS
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
National Crime Stats Link Guide
National Institute of Justice Search
NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the State and local levels.
Victim Assistance
Best Interests The E-Magazine for Children's Advocates
Best Interests is dedicated to providing news and resources to professional and volunteer children’s advocates, including Court Appointed Special Advocates, attorneys, social workers, judges, police officers, foster care parents, child therapists, and many others who speak up for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) is a division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Since 1974 the Faculty and staff of the NCVC have been devoted to achieving a better understanding of the impact of criminal victimization on adults, children, and their families. The program activities of the NCVC are focused in four major areas: scientific research, evidence-based treatment, professional education, and consultation.
National Organization for Victim Assistance
The National Organization for Victim Assistance is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization of victim and witness assistance programs and practitioners, criminal justice agencies and professionals, mental health professionals, researchers, former victims and survivors, and others committed to the recognition and implementation of victim rights and services.
Office for Victims of Crime - OVC
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) was established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to oversee diverse programs that benefit victims of crime. OVC provides substantial funding to state victim assistance and compensation programs—the lifeline services that help victims to heal.
Victim-Assistance Online
Victim Assistance Online is an information, research, and networking resource for victim assistance specialists, professionals in related disciplines and all interested in the field of victimology.
Voices In Action
VOICES In Action is an international organization providing assistance to adult and adolescent victims of child sexual abuse and other sexual trauma, including rape. We help victims become survivors and create accurate public awareness of the prevalence of child sexual abuse and other sexual trauma, its impact, and ways in which it can be prevented or stopped through educational programs.
American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center
Information about juvenile justice procedures, females in the system, and family resources
Building Blocks for Youth
Fact sheets on juvenile justice topics, state-by-state information on disproportionate minority confinement (DMC), and state profiles on the juvenile justice process.
Child Welfare League of America
Summaries of both federal and state legislation and statistics about juvenile violent crime and delinquency
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Fact sheets, a list of juvenile justice specialists, and a glossary of juvenile justice terms.
Juvenile Info Network
Updates on recent legislation and research that include information on specific topics such as substance abuse, maltreatment in correction facilities, and juvenile probation.
National Center for Juvenile Justice
State profiles of laws and policies and The Statistical Briefing Book which contains information about juvenile crime and victimization
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)
And The Children’s Research Center(CRC)
Downloadable publications on a variety of juvenile justice topics. Also a section that focuses on how race relates to delinquency and juvenile justice
National Juvenile Court Data Archive
State by state juvenile court case records
Research
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Downloadable publications about juvenile detention reform and information on the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
National Criminal Justice Reference System
Extremely comprehensive list of downloadable research reports on specific juvenile justice topics
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Fact sheets on juvenile justice topics including youth victims, females in the system, and residential placement
The Urban Institute
Press releases, research publications, and policy briefs on juvenile justice topics ranging from youth courts to guns
Topic Specific Resources
Education
Council for Educators of At-Risk and Delinquent Youth
Fact sheets on juvenile justice programs and information on education in the juvenile justice system
The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice
Resources for youth in the juvenile justice system who have educational disabilities
Mental Health
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Information on initiatives to improve mental health services in juvenile justice facilities, a mental health advocacy guide, and other resources about mental health in the juvenile justice system
National Mental Health Center
Position statement on juvenile justice, fact sheets on mental illness in the juvenile justice system, and information about mental health needs in the system
State Resources
California
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
Illinois
Children and Family Justice Center
The Juvenile Justice Initiative
Indiana
Indiana Juvenile Justice Task Force
(317) 926-6100
Kentucky
Children's Law Center
(606) 431-3313
Louisiana
Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
Maine
Maine Juvenile Justice Coalition
(207) 646-1440
Maryland
Maryland Juvenile Justice Coalition
Massachusetts
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Suffolk University Juvenile Justice Center
Michigan
Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency
(517) 482-4161
Missouri
Missouri Juvenile Justice Association
New York
Justice for Youth Coalition
Juvenile Justice Project of the Correctional Association of New York
North Carolina
Citizen League to End Abuse and Neglect of North Carolina Juvenile Prisoners (CLEAN)
(828) 456-5220
Ohio
Juvenile Justice Coalition
Oregon
Juvenile Rights Project
Pennsylvania
Juvenile Law Center
South Dakota
South Dakota Justice for Children and Youth
(605) 352-5875
Tennessee
Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
Virginia
Virginia Juvenile Justice Coalition
(434)977-0553
Washington D.C.
Justice for DC Youth! Coalition
STATE STATUTES
“Speedy Trial” Statutes for Allegations Involving Children (Updated 10/05)
Legislation Regarding the Statute of Limitations for Certain Sex Offenses i.e. Rape, Sexual Assault, Battery, etc. (Updated 10/05)
Child Homicide (Updated 6/02)
Prostituted Children (Updated 1/04)
Criminal Neglect and Abandonment (Updated 12/04)
Sexual Offenses Against Children (Updated 7/05)
Child Endangerment Statutes (Updated 1/04)
Parental Kidnapping Statutes (Updated 7/02)
Competency of Child Witnesses to Testify in Criminal Proceedings (Updated 6/04)
Extending or Removing the Statutes of Limitation for Offenses Against Children (Updated 6/05)
Multidisciplinary Team Statutes (Updated 11/04)
Sex Offender Registration Statutes (Updated 2/05)
Use of Anatomical Dolls in Criminal Child Abuse Cases (Updated 6/05)
Drug Endangered Children (Updated 7/05)
Admissibility of Videotaped Interviews/Statements in Criminal Child Abuse Proceedings (Updated 7/04)
Closed Circuit Television Testimony in Criminal Child Abuse Proceedings (Updated 9/02)
Mandating Autopsies in Child Fatalities Statutes (Updated 2/04)
Computer-Facilitated Luring or Solicitation of a Child (Updated 8/05)
Rape Shield Statutes (Summary Chart) (Updated 5/1/03)
Rape Shield Statutes (Text) (Updated 5/1/03)
Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Statutes (Updated 7/20/05)
Special Sentencing of Sexually Violent Predators (Updated 7/26/05)
Voyeurism/Peeping Tom Statutes (Updated 8/2/05)
Child Pornography Statutes (Updated 4/04)
Incest Statutes (Summary Chart) (Updated 5/1/03)
Incest Statutes (Text) (Updated 5/1/03)
Definitions of Penetrations for Sex Crimes (Summary Chart) (Updated 5/1/03)
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