JCPC Certification FY19-20 FINAL

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probation . The data that is shown in the chart is pulled from the most recently completed risk assessment , the majority of youth served by JCPC fall within risk level 3 . Youth that are seen by juvenile court for the first time under the age of 12 tend to stay in the system longer , often have more mental health issues and commit more serious offenses . Being the last state to implement Raise the Age , they have seen that ity service and restitution , and teen court programs have seen mediation and restorative justice , commun the greatest increase in referrals . In preparation of "Raise the Age " which takes effect December 2019 , the Department wants county JCPCs to begin thinking about the impact it will have on service providers . When the money comes , the Department will utilize a formula to decide how much each county receives . The JCPCs then have to decide how they plan to use that money : 1 ) increase funding to existing programs to increase their capacity ; 2 ) provide funding for new programming through an RFP process for additional components in existing or newly funded programs ; and/or 3 ) collaboration with surrounding counties to provide funding for multi - county programming . Denise has created a draft of the Addendum for review by the JCPC , selecting some program priorities based on the risk and needs data and the experiences of the other states : mediation, restitution/community service , teen court , and runaway shelter . On the second page , the currently funded programs that fall within those priorities have been listed along with an estimate of how much it would cost to be able to increase capacity to serve the expanded population . However, she noted that since juvenile crime is down across the state and that as a result , programs have been under capacity for a while . So when referrals start coming in for the older juveniles , they will help bring the numbers back up to original capacity , and possibly over . This addendum will not drive any funding decisions , but will help the department know what the county ' s priorities are and what the plan is .