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o 67% of youth demonstrate moderate to serious behavioral problems in school. However, when compared to FY 14- 15 there was a 3 1 % decrease in serious problems (from 52 to 36 youth) and a 48 % decrease in moderate problems (from 23 to 12 youth) o 71 % * of youth lack pro -social peers and/or regularly associate with others involved in delinquent activity which is above the state average of 64% . o 7% * of parents are willing but unable to supervise youth, consistent with FY 1445 , 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 Ir 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 2015 -2016 N= 124 1 o 62% of youth were assessed as having medium to high needs . A 40% increase from FY 14155 it is above the state average of 40% . 10% of youth were assessed as having high needs , twice the state average of 5 % . o 22% of youth have healthy peer relationships, a slight decrease from FY 1445 . The number of youth with regular association with delinquent peers increased by 120% (from 15 to 33 ) . o 61 % of youth have moderate to serious school behavior problems, a 10 % decrease from FY 14- 15 and less than the state average of 68 % . o 16% of youth are functioning below grade level, the same as FY 14- 15 but above the state average of 11 % . This does not include students identified in the Exceptional Children' s program. o 35 % * of youth need substance abuse assessment or treatment which is slightly higher than the state average of 32% . o 49% of youth are reported to be abuse/neglect victims which is above the state average 22% . 11 % have NO support, a 250% (from 4 to 14) increase from FY 14- 15 and almost