Agenda 06-18-19 Item 8-g - JCPC Certification for FY 2019-2020

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41 11% of juveniles had prior assaults, a decrease from FY 16-17 of 20%. 25% of juveniles have run away from home or placement which remained the same from FY 16- 17. * 30% of juveniles 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 juveniles,47%* have known substance abuse and need assessment or treatment. *This statistic is possibly underreported. 73%of juveniles demonstrate moderate to serious behavioral problems in school. These numbers increased from FY 16-17 (58%) and consistent with the state average (75%). 88% of juveniles lack pro-social peers,regularly associate with others involved in delinquent activity, and/or is a gang member/associates with a gang; an increase from FY 16-17 (57%) while below the state average of 63%. 3%of parents are willing but unable or unwilling to supervise juveniles, a decrease from FY 16- 17 (8%) and significantly lower than the state average of 18%. 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 juvenile 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 2017-2018 Juveniles were low (47%), medium (4901o) and high (501o) with overall needs for services/interventions to reduce the likelihood of repeat delinquency. Juveniles with low and medium needs are able to be served in the community. 47% of juveniles fall into the low needs category of having indicators that there are needs not being addressed; which is lower than the state average of 61%. 49% of juveniles fall into the medium needs category of having indicators that there are needs not being addressed; which is above the state average of 34%.