Agenda - Item 8-h - JCPC Certification for FY 2018-2019

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16 o 38 %* of youth have some known substance use /abuse and need substance use /abuse assessment and/or treatment, a 78% increase compared to FY 15 -16. Of those youth, 47 %* have known substance abuse and need assessment or treatment. o 58% of youth demonstrate moderate to serious behavioral problems in school. These numbers are consistent with FY 15 -16 and lower than the state average of 74 %. o 79 %* of youth lack pro - social peers, regularly associate with others involved in delinquent activity, and/or is a gang member /associates with a gang. o 7% of parents are willing but unable to supervise youth, consistent with FY 15 -16, and significantly lower than the state average of 19 %. Part II. Needs Assessment Summary The Orange County JCPC Risk and Needs Assessment Committee also reviewed data gleaned from the Juvenile Needs Assessment instrument administered by Juvenile Court Counselors prior to court disposition of a juvenile. The Juvenile Needs Assessment is an instrument used to examine a youth's needs in the various domains of his/her life: The Individual Domain, The School Domain, The Peer Domain, and the Community Domain. This instrument was designed to detect service intervention needs as an aid in service planning. As with the Juvenile Risk Assessment, some of the individual item ratings may be heavily dependent upon information reported by the juvenile or the parent(s). For these items (represented by an asterisk) there is a likelihood of under- reporting the incidence of a particular behavior and the actual incidence may be higher than suggested by these figures. In those cases, the figure should be interpreted as a measure of the minimum level of occurrence. Orange County Elevated Needs Observations: FY 2016 -2017 N =90 0 53% of youth were assessed as having medium to high needs, above the state average of 39 %. 10% of youth were assessed as having high needs, twice the state average of 5 %. 0 21% of youth have healthy peer relationships, consistent with FY 15 -16. 0 45% of youth have moderate to serious school behavior problems, a 45 % decrease from FY 15 -16 and less than the state average of 70 %. 0 16% of youth are functioning below grade level, the same as FY 15 -16 but above the state average of 11 %. This does not include students identified in the Exceptional Children's program. 0 40 %* of youth need substance abuse assessment or treatment which is slightly higher than the state average of 34 %. 0 46 %* of youth are reported to be abuse /neglect victims which is twice the state average 23 %, and 10% have NO support (higher the state average of 4 %).