[0:06] okay it is 1204 we're going to go ahead and get the

[0:12] cjcc meeting started for November 13th um can we do roll

[0:20] call Monica aam Julia Lions here Grant Gerber Andy

[0:28] alberado Mike wer here tweet

[0:32] Schuman Doug marot here Bruce poette Katie

[0:38] Beringer John yako Mark

[0:42] Helwig elae Smith Marshall savitzky Kathy McCoy

[0:49] belill traner you have a

[0:52] quorum okay um certification with compliance with open meetings law let

[0:58] the record show this meeting was notice to the public and the news media as

[1:02] required by section 1984 of the Wisconsin statutes and we'll go back and

[1:06] do the pledge of allegiance that I

[1:11] skip Al toag United States America and to the Republic for which it stands one

[1:20] nation under God indivisible with liy and I know I get I better be checking

[1:28] each section that I get it done here review of the meeting agenda is

[1:35] there any

[1:38] changes to be made okay hearing none uh public

[1:46] comments seeing no public comments we'll go on to consideration of the approval

[1:52] of minutes from the previous meeting make a motion to approve

[1:57] second any discussion all in favor passed okay jail

[2:07] report thank you the October 24 jail report we seen an average daily

[2:12] population of 50 inmates 14 and a half females to 35 a half uh males average

[2:18] probation probation incarceration were at 14 pre-sentence incarceration at

[2:24] 27.25 and sentence inmates at 8.75 we currently had four I electronic

[2:30] monitoring uh the day that this Report was generated we had 50 inmates with a

[2:35] unemployment rate of

[2:40] 71% any

[2:45] questions did you have anything on the law library or mental health counseling

[2:51] update I see that's on there okay

[3:00] did we need to keep that on there or does that need can that just come off is

[3:04] that like a was left over maybe from the last meeting I think it's already been

[3:10] addressed

[3:15] okay okay then moving on to criminal justice coordinator dad Grant

[3:22] update and I think Andy do you have okay we'll let him get up and running here

[3:37] so um Becky is traveling today and is unable to attend the meeting so she did

[3:43] send me a report let me just see if I can

[3:51] get I will just read it uh the 2025 Tad Grant application has been submitted and

[3:59] we were asked to make edits in two areas uh one with the budget and one in the

[4:04] treatment Court goals and objectives SE section edits were submit completed and

[4:08] submitted last week but surpris we got an email this morning with more uh

[4:13] request for information so that is still being worked on um and get I'm sure

[4:18] she'll get that submitted Building Bridges has begun and we had our first

[4:22] meeting on October 30th reaching rule is an implementation period the Grant

[4:27] application was submitted on October 15th with the final presentation taking

[4:31] place in February in Washington DC pre-trial they have begun taking people

[4:37] off the wait list and will continue doing so treatment Court uh Becky you

[4:42] like to recognize all the efforts of everyone that works together whether it

[4:46] be Justice Point Staff Law Enforcement Court staff DA's office public defender

[4:50] office Public Health pration parole aoda mental health and everyone that works

[4:56] together but also particularly with recovery court because it takes a

[4:59] significant amount of time in addition to people's regular workload to commit

[5:02] to recovery court and we have a very supportive group that has been dedicated

[5:06] from the beginning to make it work it's not easy there are a lot of different

[5:10] ideas personalities experience and sometimes things get difficult and not

[5:14] to mention the juggling of time management um she wants to make sure

[5:18] everyone knows that their time and effort is making a difference um and she

[5:24] can guarantee that the someone the time spent is worth it uh justice point is

[5:28] hiring for new position s this are three peer systems Navigators one coordinated

[5:35] response specialist and one pre-trial diversion case manager and they're

[5:38] trying to have them filled by January 1st if possible jail programs they now

[5:43] have a process in place for jail residents to sign a release to be

[5:46] photographed when they complete their GED hsed and will share that information

[5:52] if they wish they are having a holiday card creation event scheduled for

[5:56] December 7th for residents to make a card to send to your loved one also on

[6:01] the 7th Justice point is hosting an appreci appreciation day for

[6:05] professional visitors volunteers and the Justice Point office to include snacks

[6:08] and Beverages and

[6:13] then the just the the statistics I'll put those up on the screen

[6:42] so this is the active clients for pre-trial diversion and treatment

[6:48] court so looks like we have 153 active in pre-trial 11 in

[6:55] diversion and a in treatment cart one person successfully through

[7:00] diversion and then 12 referrals for pre-trial and seven for

[7:05] diversion program type by

[7:20] race gender by program type

[7:34] case type by

[7:43] program that's

[7:47] that if you have any questions email

[7:52] [Laughter] Becky okay Alex can you put up the

[7:59] health and Human Services report that's in

[8:02] there and Joyce do you want to come up and speak to

[8:16] that I'm going to be very quick um because I'm going to introduce our

[8:21] whoops

[8:29] my report because I'm going to introduce our peer recovery team so that they can

[8:33] talk to you quickly about um the program that they've put together and uh what

[8:38] some of the what they've been up to but I will just let you know the Naran

[8:43] continues to come off the shelves it's being used pretty regularly especially

[8:48] at the winter noock box that we have down there in the um grocery store so we

[8:53] are replacing that quite frequently um we are working on new

[8:58] billboard designs uh for overdose and The Vaping campaign

[9:04] we have set a time period so we will pres be presenting about vaping to the

[9:10] schools in March of next year um we did provide Naran to the election offices

[9:15] throughout the county before election day and the Flyers that you're seeing

[9:20] are the Flyers they're the new Flyers that we've given to um the inmate

[9:25] tablets so the inmates can see those um while they are there and before they get

[9:30] out so having said that come on up again so we have Britney on zoom and this is

[9:39] Ken and I'm going to let them introduce themselves to you and then they did give

[9:44] you some information in the report and I'll let you have

[9:48] it Alex can you get it so Britney's on the screen

[10:11] yep she's up we're ready to go well thank you guys for letting me to

[10:15] be here um so last year we started doing the

[10:20] peer recovery and Recovery coaching for here in soer county and over that time

[10:25] span we've had um

[10:30] close to 30 people that as far as like referrals that we got from

[10:36] self-referrals and um agency

[10:41] referrals and the reports here you know 11 of those they were in

[10:46] jail inmate so it's kind of hard to actually start working with them because

[10:49] it is a voluntary program and what what I've kind of

[10:53] noticed is while we're working with them while they're in custody is that they're

[10:58] more than willing to do [Music]

[11:00] you know whatever it takes and then once they get out it's completely voluntary

[11:05] and you know it's a little bit more of a struggle where they get they get other

[11:09] ideas when they get out there but of the ones that we have worked with that have

[11:14] kept coming back I was able to get 12 of them as

[11:19] clients and of those 12 I was able to close out five of them where they

[11:25] were you know confident in their ability to maintain their recovery and maintain

[11:29] their sobriety and the other ones they just

[11:34] either lost interest or they uh return to substance use or they just want

[11:40] another route because it is a voluntary

[11:44] program you know for each of those that we work with you know there is no there

[11:50] is no cookie cutter uh you know method of recovery for where it's not going to

[11:55] what work for one isn't going to work for all of them

[11:59] so kind of what we do is we see what their needs are we kind of help you know

[12:03] accommodate with those and see what we can do as far as helping them with them

[12:06] and some of them it's simple as helping them find

[12:11] employment others is finding what they need to do to get their driver's license

[12:15] so that they can you know quit driving without a license and it makes it easier

[12:19] to go to work and go to appointments and get on to the next step and just

[12:24] explaining exploring the different Pathways of recovery with them because

[12:27] there's you know like I said there's no no cookie cutter response to it where

[12:31] what worked for me isn't going to work for

[12:33] everybody and vice versa so kind of a nutshell that's what we do

[12:39] is just kind of go Case by case and see what the needs are of people and see

[12:42] what we can do to help them um I just want to mention that he he's being very

[12:47] humble the first probably eight months of this program was just Ken getting all

[12:51] of this set up so these 12 and these five that have graduated have been in

[12:57] the last you know in a six month period of time of him working with them so I I

[13:02] think that says a lot for what he's doing and now we have Britney who has

[13:06] come on board um Ken has been on wrls a few times and you know one of the things

[13:12] he mentions is you know Britney is a mother and he can't relate to people on

[13:17] the mother's side of it but Britney can um so we're we're trying to to cover all

[13:22] the bases but he's doing a it's really a super job so and we will give you these

[13:30] numbers probably every quarter to just to keep you guys updated anything else

[13:35] oh Britney you got anything to add um not really besides I'm Britney I'm new

[13:41] this year and I am very excited to work with ch and Ken um they're they do

[13:49] amazing things and I'm I'm excited to see where it goes this year for me

[13:59] thank you we're very excited to have you guys thank

[14:04] you so um so both of these two are working through americore I don't know

[14:10] if we clearly said that for the peer recovery um so uh Kenneth is on a second

[14:16] year Britney you had already put a year in with Marshfield you're on a second

[14:20] year correct yep yes so she's transitioning over to us so we're very

[14:24] excited to get her on board um and so that um we used Co arpa last year um

[14:32] you'll remember I said I used braiding and blending in order to be able to um

[14:37] kind of not use opioid dollars as much um going into the next year we we we've

[14:44] designated and um that's part of what I'm going to show you today is how we

[14:47] want to perhaps use our opioid funds so um I'm do you does anybody have any

[14:54] questions related to this section before I move on in the agenda

[15:00] I think I have a question I don't know if I can answer it

[15:04] but may just you know how does somebody get to the here counselors what's the

[15:11] intake the avenue to that do do you guys want to talk about the avenue to get

[15:15] through in through what are referral referrals or how does the public know

[15:19] that this is there are referrals um it's really so far it's been Ken putting the

[15:24] word out um just around the community and talking to people that he knows um

[15:31] but we've also received referrals the hospital has a referral form that they

[15:36] can send to us um and then we're also working on a jail program so that we can

[15:42] get into the jails a little bit more that's really where we'd like our Focus

[15:46] to be to start with those jails and then the billboard signs that are out does

[15:51] does lead them to the peer support Specialists on our website yeah I've

[15:56] been interviewing at the jails jail for now about almost a year trying to get

[16:01] enough people for some research we're doing and when I asked them how do we

[16:05] reach you how do I get a message to you they always say those bleeping

[16:10] Billboards and road signs so we know that they're seeing them and we know and

[16:15] they've actually come into even Justice point one of the people on that

[16:20] billboard is a case worker for justice point will be like oh I saw you on the

[16:23] billboard so we know that that stuff's working um

[16:29] good question anything

[16:33] else okay then I'm going to go into um we still haven't heard anything further

[16:40] on our additional Grant application that we had made um for

[16:48] YJ but um we did we do have the two the tancy

[16:56] uh Grant and another Grant that's come through so that um we're working on

[17:00] filling well we can't fill Staffing for treny until uh January but uh the other

[17:06] one we're working with our contracted service on to be able to fill that

[17:10] position which is really more inhome treatment services that we're able to do

[17:15] with the families um and then opioid settlement

[17:18] funds to give you a look at this hopefully everybody can see the screen

[17:23] and I tried to make everything big enough here so between August 2023 and

[17:30] October 2024 um we had presented a budget of

[17:38] $7,650 in 2023 we spent $177,300 and in 2024 we're uh projected

[17:46] to spend close to 30,000 so of the um

[17:51] 127,000 budgeted we're spending close to 50 and again that's due to being able to

[17:57] use other funds um to be able to meet these needs so this year we're under

[18:03] budget by 880,000 um

[18:07] we we put together not me not me Joyce put together all of the different things

[18:14] that we've done with um overall for opioid um work and um I'll just kind of

[18:21] quickly go through some of these um they've provided education and

[18:24] collaboration between law enforcement and treatment providers on the ity of

[18:29] fentanyl test strips and nxone that was really early on I almost forgot about

[18:33] that um we've acquired um Naran distributor Grant and distributed over

[18:40] 1100 boxes and I can say that we did just get the additional Grant coming

[18:46] through is that going to be a I can't even remember how many it's 90

[18:53] cases yeah and so anyways we got a pretty good chunk of noock s coming that

[18:58] we're able to distribute um we did evaluate the need for supervised

[19:02] injection sites that's one of the harm reduction things and um we looked at

[19:07] overdoses and most of them are occurring in home and not in public places so we

[19:11] determine there's no need for that evaluated a need need for clean needle

[19:16] exchange and based on interviews with inmates it was determined that this

[19:20] would create a usage Island enticing others into our communities so we are

[19:25] not doing that provided fentanyl drug overdose training in the schools and

[19:30] students and so we served over 3,500 people with that and did researching on

[19:35] vaping um options working with the school presentation and marketing and

[19:39] that's going to be coming up worked with YJ clients for Vaping survey and input

[19:45] um interviewed over 60 inmates I'm not even you might be a little over that now

[19:50] um Joyce will continue until she reaches 100 uh researched opioid oh I have a

[19:56] typo there prescribing guideline changes and ensure that providers are aware of

[20:01] those changes in the current guidelines connected with Hospitals and Clinics

[20:05] regarding refusal to participate in drug prescribing incentives so that's really

[20:10] those when they give you gifts and things for prescribing certain drugs so

[20:15] they do not do that participated and promoted in drug takeback um twice per

[20:21] year we've collected 2117 controlled pounds of Controlled

[20:26] Substances 65 of non-controlled old 80 pounds of sharps in

[20:30] 2023 collaborated with the prevention use Coalition conducted Community

[20:36] overdose education and treatment and service providers at seven winds we had

[20:40] 171 residents attend that the career peer counseling program which you guys

[20:47] just heard about created Flyers highlighting services available for

[20:50] substance use and over 700 Flyers have been handed out at different events have

[20:56] collaborated with namak Kong and Transit it to make sure bus service goes to

[21:01] treatment providers uh collaborated with the

[21:04] hospital we uh to provide a 3day supply of Suboxone and a warm handoff to

[21:09] treatment services uh provided mat training for

[21:13] law enforcement and First Responders and participated in recovery C Court

[21:18] steering committee so quite a few things and more

[21:22] things to come um so as we kind of pull things together obviously all of this

[21:28] wasn't done with opioid settlement dollars it's all a big package and um

[21:34] and multiple programs are working on different things so we'll try to package

[21:37] up as a whole package of what all we're doing as a community um but for this now

[21:43] we're going to focus on what we're getting in for opioid funds and where we

[21:47] want those funds to go so how the opioid settlement funds work is that they come

[21:53] in over time so we we kind of talked about that a little bit before but we

[21:57] didn't really have a good spreadsheet setup to kind of show how funds were

[22:01] coming in we get it from the Distributors um from

[22:06] phies and from um the the um makers of it so

[22:13] Jansen um so this is kind of the estimates over time as they come in just

[22:18] so that you can kind of see how it's coming you don't have to memorize these

[22:22] dollars but you can see we've got funds coming in through

[22:26] 2038 as you can see though the those funds drop off considerably over the

[22:31] years so how do we work with these funds in order to make the best use of them

[22:36] over time what I propose doing is looking at um being able to pick a

[22:44] budgeted amount that we want to spend each year focusing a higher amount of

[22:48] dollars in the first five years and then start to taper off as we get some things

[22:53] under our belt um so we'll have to see if you guys agree with this or not but

[22:58] kind of played around to see what was that max amount I could get in that

[23:02] budget so starting out we have a beginning balance right now going into

[23:07] 2025 of 296,000 so um if we spend 100,000 in

[23:16] 2025 2026 2027 2028 and 2029 um that still leaves us with enough

[23:25] to be able to to start kind of keeping money coming in but spending down so and

[23:33] we like dropped down to 80,000 to 75,000 70,000 until we get down to the end

[23:40] where we'll only have about 29,000 to spend or 27,000 to spend in

[23:45] 2039 so that's kind of how I propose putting a budget together um as far as

[23:52] how much we could spend each

[23:56] year and then if we look at that oops I got my slides a

[24:02] little mixed up if we look at that then we take that 100,000 and say okay what

[24:06] do we need to spend money on using exhibits the exhibit e um and what we

[24:12] did before was we looked at harm preent harm reduction prevention um treatment

[24:18] and Recovery those are all things that are covered in exhibit E from different

[24:23] levels um so recommendation would be that we look at spending $1,500 on drug

[24:31] takeback Pro promotional materials it's something that we work with law

[24:35] enforcement on um and I think it's a really successful program um but if we

[24:40] can Market that even better and get that out um the other thing is is um we're

[24:45] also try to make sure that we do it so that we have um availability to drop off

[24:51] in the southern part of the County as well um prevention looking at um kind of

[24:58] the same kind of campaigns that we've had uh we know that those are successful

[25:03] getting into the schools uh vaping has been a big issue that we've heard on for

[25:08] a while now uh we wanted to do it in the fall it just didn't work out with the

[25:12] schools to be able to do that so um being able to plan that and get that

[25:17] managed for the spring looking at 16,500 I have an area that's marked here

[25:25] in highlighted yellow um as one area that we could potentially spend some

[25:30] funding in depending on and I know we got the building bridges Grant and some

[25:35] different things I don't know what that funding really is looking like for mat

[25:41] um in the jail so we might need to assess

[25:45] that uh medication assisted therapy so it's like the yeah it's here if you want

[25:52] to know good point so uh looking at that um potentially helping with therapy

[25:58] um in that area oops and um then in recovery we've got

[26:05] our recovery coaches um so we only have to pay a small uh portion of um what

[26:13] they get paid because amacore covers the other uh looking at sober activity and

[26:19] events for Youth and adults so those you know people who are trying to be in

[26:24] recovery there are no good places for them to gather and connect in um and

[26:30] being able to offer some types of events or get togethers um is a recommended

[26:37] activity to do another recommendation and this is

[26:41] the one that's in yellow here is um providing support for family members

[26:47] suffering with trauma due to addiction and that refers to I have that over on

[26:52] the blue point blue part where it refers to assisting families who are dealing

[26:56] with addiction to get them wraparound services such as parenting classes

[27:01] paying for child care um helping Provide support of housing um it relate or any

[27:07] Services related to children being removed from their homes due to opioid

[27:12] use disorder um this is a recommendation that came through uh from one of our

[27:17] board members who had seen this um from actually a district supervisor geez I

[27:24] can't even talk today um having seen them use these funding in other counties

[27:30] related to children who are removed from homes and helping to assist um

[27:35] grandparents and those that are trying to help take care of these

[27:40] kids um and then the other pieces uh the marketing and communication services

[27:45] that we received through finden they help us do all of these flyers and

[27:51] multiple Facebook posts and tons of different um communication services that

[27:57] we just couldn't get done on our own and then for public health Staffing um

[28:03] paying for an average of eight hours a week um for prevention planning data

[28:10] collection grant writing overdose fatality reviews peer recovery oversight

[28:15] and um the recovery sober planning services so Joyce and Jess spend way

[28:21] more than that on there but um being able to keep them moving forward in that

[28:27] direction so that is that kind of sums up um

[28:34] where the recommendations would be for spending funding but what I didn't know

[28:39] is where this group would want to focus um do we look at the mat in the jail do

[28:46] we have about 22,500

[28:49] left um and do we do we do that do we um split it and put some towards mat and

[28:58] some towards helping families does anybody have any thoughts

[29:03] on anything else I pull this back up for you question how are we getting the

[29:11] Suboxone to individuals the Suboxone if for mat so

[29:17] that would that comes directly at this point comes are you talking through jail

[29:21] or in the general public general public general public would go either through

[29:25] North lakes or through biki and um they have a treatment provider

[29:31] they have treatment services and then they receive mat as part of their

[29:35] treatment so they go directly to that source to get that treatment in the jail

[29:41] um we have we work with the lco pharmacy at this point to get mat because we're

[29:48] able to provide some but we're not we're not able to induce or have an induction

[29:52] meaning you can't put if they haven't already been on it we can't start it and

[29:57] that's what we're going through all the training and doing the grant

[30:02] for so so if they didn't come in the jail

[30:07] already on Suboxone there's nothing that at this point we don't have a program

[30:11] set up that we can do that but we are moving in that direction I just don't

[30:16] know how much that Grant is covering as we move

[30:20] forward thank

[30:26] you other thoughts on spending oh yeah I just have a question so um what about

[30:31] mental health counseling so we have for the jail or in

[30:36] general in general in general we well well we so we are we have a change

[30:42] coming I don't know if everybody has heard but Joe Bodo has put in his

[30:46] retirement um so right now we're reassessing where we're at we did have

[30:51] we do have in our um um budget to hire a counselor or a therapist and then we

[31:00] have Joe's position which had therapy attached to it as well so we're in the

[31:05] process of redetermining that so we do have that is funded through the budget

[31:10] already and as far as the jail goes are we providing enough hours at this

[31:16] point at this point with our inmate population as low as is uh yeah I would

[31:21] say we are okay my only concern is that we don't have um a provider who is

[31:27] trained an sud so that would be something that we would be looking at

[31:31] and perhaps be able to connect to some of the Staffing that we'd be looking

[31:37] at and I and again as we develop through Building Bridges what that plan looks

[31:42] like and how we move forward we help drive that so we'll keep bringing that

[31:45] and we have a training coming up in January good thank you you mentioned

[31:53] that the counselor is in the budget I mean do we have one or we do you have

[31:58] for the HHS budget I we have positions approved so we to move

[32:06] forward did you oh your light was on I was just looking to see if you had a

[32:10] comment yet Oh I thought you saw the light out of my head was thinking about

[32:14] I mean I think to both your questions with well last year we made a change

[32:19] with mental health Counseling in the jail I think was positive where we

[32:24] brought that in direct rather than working through the medical provider but

[32:28] you know that's always going to be up for assessing how it ties in let me go

[32:32] back maybe I think we've had some separation there I don't know when that

[32:35] started but we're not our County staff has not been providing Mental Health

[32:40] Services in the jail for quite a while it doesn't need to be that way

[32:43] necessarily although we have a good provider now but I think anytime we have

[32:47] a vacancy and sign this is a significant one they I think there's going to be

[32:52] some adjustments as to how we deliver services in the mental health area so

[32:56] it's the time for us to assess it now and figure out how we're going to move

[32:59] ahead because it does tie in multiple programs in in human

[33:06] services so there's we're already starting the work Madam chair I would

[33:11] just like to add two regarding the mental health issue yesterday we had our

[33:15] annual jail inspection and part of that uh process

[33:20] includes he or she in this case we have a new jail inspector and it's a he Doug

[33:26] went through and interviewed quite a few the inmates and he commented how

[33:31] obviously we are on top of a lot of the mental health because of the feedback he

[33:37] got and then he has the comparison dealing with the rest of the jails in

[33:41] Northwestern Wisconsin as a comparison so I thought that was pretty positive

[33:45] and enlightening

[33:48] wonderful boy we're all getting inspection I just had three surveys

[33:52] under my belt in the last two

[33:56] weeks okay um so any other recommendations or would

[34:01] you like me I mean one of the things that I could do because I didn't this

[34:05] just came to me as far as the um recommendation to be considering working

[34:11] with families um that are impacted would you like me to put together a little bit

[34:16] more um what that spending would look like and figure out what Ma a little bit

[34:22] more about mat and bring that back next month

[34:28] yeah okay yes any other

[34:33] questions uh I just want to say that uh you're doing I I don't have any

[34:38] additions to your budget I think you've done a fantastic job and you all are

[34:42] doing a very good job thank you thank you

[34:46] guys okay if there aren't any other questions we can uh have uh Sarah come

[34:53] up and speak to YJ and uh she has a PowerPoint I can share as

[35:01] well maybe so I can start with our numbers

[35:06] for September uh we had a total of Le 11 new referrals that came in we were able

[35:13] to handle two of those through a current supervision order which means that we

[35:19] already have the juvenile honor case load and instead of creating a new

[35:23] either court order or working informally we just handle it through their current

[35:29] order um we had one physical custody temporary physical custody in the month

[35:36] of September we had five recommendations to the DA to file a petition uh we had

[35:44] one recommendation for informal supervision or a DPA and we counseled

[35:49] and closed one of those as well um in the month of September we had seven out

[35:57] of home placements for youth Justice uh we had one secure detention hold and we

[36:03] had two active capses um at this time I know we have

[36:08] one active capus so we were able to handle one of those um and I know at

[36:14] this time the total number of out of home placements has come down as well

[36:18] however of course we have the juveniles in line then waiting to go to placement

[36:23] as well um for the month of September remember

[36:27] we had a total of 36 open youth Justice cases I am currently as a supervisor

[36:35] overseeing three of those cases Shannon Krauss has a total of 15 ongoing cases

[36:40] and there were three pending court cases Kim Lambert has a total of 13 ongoing

[36:46] cases and three pending in court and Amy Thompson who was hired to be our foster

[36:52] care kinship coordinator um is also helping out with youth Justice because

[36:57] we are we continue to be quite busy uh so she at that time had four ongoing and

[37:03] that she has one pending in court um so what I wanted to do is go

[37:11] over what youth Justice looks like and what our day-to-day work looks like I

[37:16] think this might be a repeat for some of you I know I've gone over this in

[37:21] different law enforcement trainings and at the HHS board meeting um but

[37:28] youth Justice is a Statewide program to rehabilitate juveniles from the ages of

[37:32] 10 to 16 years old in the state of Wisconsin uh 17-year-olds as are charged

[37:39] as adults um the goal of Youth Justice is to prevent juveniles for from

[37:43] entering the adult system through identifying needs and implementing

[37:47] Services uh when possible informal supervision should be attempted which

[37:52] keeps the youth out of the court system this is called a deferred prosecution

[37:56] agreement or a DPA the typical time frame for a juvenile to be involved with

[38:02] us in our services is typically 6 to 12 months depending on the seriousness of

[38:07] the referral that we

[38:10] receive some of the different strategies that we use are intervention and

[38:14] prevention building relationships we use an assessment tool

[38:20] called the Yazi which helps us identify their risk level uh we acknowledge

[38:25] diversity we identify services and we provide support not only

[38:31] to the juvenile but often times to the family and school

[38:36] meetings um we often work to engage and Empower

[38:41] parents to help them learn how to implement consequences and also

[38:46] Implement rewards

[38:49] um we'd like to increase Community knowledge and we continue education and

[38:55] training uh the youth Justice process this looks typically looks like law

[39:00] enforcement sending us a referral that is related to a delinquent crime in the

[39:07] community um they come in with their family ideally sometimes we get no shows

[39:14] um but they come in for a meeting and we sit down we talk about the incident that

[39:20] brought them to the meeting and different whether there's aoda history

[39:25] in the family um if there's truancy concerns we get a just a better feel of

[39:31] everything that's going on in the home after that meeting we make a

[39:35] recommendation of we can either councel en close that referral and give them a

[39:39] warning we can choose to do the Deferred prosecution agreement as an informal

[39:44] supervision or we can request for the da to uh file a delinquent petition in the

[39:50] case so after we make our recommendation the da then has 20 days to make his

[39:57] recommendation which can be at times in disagreement with what we're

[40:02] recommending and he might think the cas is significant enough to go to court

[40:08] versus the informal however he hasn't disagreed with

[40:12] me that's

[40:17] good um what happens on a DPA the informal supervision so this is an

[40:22] informal agreement between the family and the juvenile that they're agreeing

[40:26] to work with with the Department on they might have to commit complete community

[40:31] service hours they may have restitution therapy counseling they have reoccurring

[40:35] meetings with uh the youth Justice worker this happens one to four times

[40:40] per month they may have to do random drug screens this agreement may also be

[40:46] revoked if they're not in compliance with what we agreed to and when that

[40:51] happens we then request a delinquent petition be filed with the da

[40:57] uh so if the the case gets sent to court the da files the delinquent petition

[41:02] which gets us in front of the judge a plea hearing is scheduled in adult terms

[41:07] that would be initial appearance uh a status hearing or fact

[41:12] finding is then scheduled which the fact finding an adult terms would be

[41:17] trial um a dispositional hearing is scheduled so that would be sentencing in

[41:22] adult terms our day-to-day work in youth

[41:26] Justice is quite consuming at times depending on

[41:31] the risk level of the juvenile which I know I've previously mentioned that the

[41:37] kids that we're working with are typically moderate to high-risk level

[41:41] which means they they take a lot of our time

[41:46] um we it's rare that we see a low to moderate risk kid in our County um so

[41:55] when workers get involved they have regular meetings with the juvenile again

[41:59] this could be one to four times per month and it could be we're meeting for

[42:04] one time per week so every once a week for a month and then after that month if

[42:09] it's determined the kiddo is doing what they need to do they're on a better

[42:14] track we can lessen that time and we can also if they fall off track add more

[42:18] meetings as well um we will often utilize carry guides

[42:25] surrounding areas to be in determined an area of concern examples are drugs and

[42:30] alcohol antisocial FR groups family anger and general life

[42:34] skills um the workers May assist with getting therapy and counseling set up um

[42:40] and workers attend school meetings and offer support so a lot of times what

[42:44] we've found is our families are not like these kids

[42:49] are in this situation because of the lack of consistency and support from

[42:53] their family so when we ask families to schedule therapy meetings or

[42:59] aoda they don't see it as a priority and we are often having to step in and and

[43:06] do some of that parental type role um when when we do that we're able to ask

[43:12] the court as long as they're under a court order we can ask the court to give

[43:17] us the department legal custody for the duration of the order that means that we

[43:22] can step in we can sign needed medical releases we can get them set up in

[43:26] therapy

[43:29] um let's see at time while we try to empower the

[43:35] parent like I said to um implement the consequences and rewards sometimes

[43:40] parents feel you especially when they have a teenage son that now they're

[43:45] bigger than them and they can't make them do anything so in circumstances

[43:51] when that happens our department can often step in and kind of be the

[43:55] disciplinary for of better terms um I have had different cases in the past

[44:00] where I've taken a juvenile's Xbox for the entire summer because the parent

[44:05] couldn't do it so there are things we can do um we can also Implement 72-hour

[44:11] holds which would be insecure Juvenile Detention we can do house arrest on an

[44:16] ankle monitor um or we can add community service hours to whatever agreement

[44:22] they're on um when they are court involved we can ask for extensions we

[44:28] can change ask for a change in placement uh and we can do permanency reviews if

[44:33] they have been taken out of the home

[44:42] um when we do a temporary physical custody this is also known as a

[44:47] TPC they the day turns very chaotic very quickly and I think all entities whether

[44:52] it's the DA's office or the courts the ja

[44:57] everyone's day is chaotic um because everyone's rushing to try to get this

[45:02] hearing in because if we take a juvenile into custody they have to be in front of

[45:05] the judge within 24 hours

[45:09] um these are OB obviously unexpected and unplanned occurrences that typically

[45:15] happen after the work day or during the night uh juveniles may be taken into

[45:20] custody and plac in the juvenile detention Detention Center or placed at

[45:24] an appropriate unsecure location which may be a family members home the problem

[45:28] we often run into talking about families is these families often don't have the

[45:33] people to say this family member is an appropriate person for this kiddo to go

[45:38] to because there is that the family trauma and whether it's

[45:45] people using drugs or alcohol it's a big struggle in our County to find that

[45:50] appropriateness um

[45:55] see I'm going to skip over some of this just because I feel like it's repetitive

[46:02] um so when when we do remove youth from the home this should be when all less

[46:08] restrictive options have been attempted and they were

[46:11] unsuccessful um PE kids that go to the Detention

[46:16] Center they are typically charged with pretty significant crimes um disorderly

[46:23] conduct and whatnot is typically not one of them Tru Andy marijuana um it's more

[46:29] so for battery and um significant assaults that they would be place

[46:36] there um once a youth is removed from their

[46:40] home the permanency reviews are completed every six months the six-month

[46:45] review is completed within the agency and the yearly review is in front of the

[46:49] court um and just going

[46:54] over like how time consuming this kind of thing is when we take a kid

[46:58] out of custody it greatly increases the workers's workload with having to do all

[47:04] this extra paperwork the permanency reviews um and getting all the needed

[47:10] information to different placements to consider them which is their full

[47:15] history school history IEP information day treatment record social history

[47:19] legal history and more so just giving an idea of kind of what the day-to-day work

[47:26] looks like as some may be

[47:30] unaware any

[47:34] questions so what is the recommended case load per

[47:38] worker that's a great question so when I had

[47:43] worked can have Bruce roll his eyes when um sorry I got

[47:54] distracted that's weird um so when I've worked in different

[48:00] counties I and then I came to Sawyer County I had asked myself like why is it

[48:05] so much more difficult here managing 15 cases than it was in the other counties

[48:10] that I was in and the answer to that it came to me it's because of our the the

[48:16] risk level of the kids that we're working with here and that moderate to

[48:19] high just demands so much more of our attention and our county

[48:25] has while taking kids out of their home is not youth Justice's goal like we

[48:30] don't want that to be the outcome but the reality here is it's so

[48:37] needed I think and overdue and we're we're cleaning up some of what hasn't

[48:42] been done for a while so to answer your question I'd say

[48:47] 15 where the workers are right now would be Max for the kind of work we're doing

[48:54] here um and would say in a different County you you could probably do 15 to

[48:59] 18

[49:03] successfully anything

[49:07] else no thank you okay any updates on Community

[49:15] Services no still sitting pretty good there um Timber Bay did hire or as

[49:22] someone appointed to run be a regional uh guy for that area um he's just just

[49:26] now getting started so and their goal is to get their hands on the worst of the

[49:31] worst kids in the neighborhood and hopefully put their neighbors house a

[49:36] hope out of business by getting them on the right path and stuff like that

[49:40] beforehand um other than that uh I think there's a

[49:44] bed or two open at House of Hope currently and things are just kind of

[49:48] still plugging away in the right direction for the community stuff short

[49:51] and sweet okay any questions for Grant

[49:58] okay moving on to board appointed committee

[50:04] updates okay seeing none any correspondence reports or conferences

[50:14] updates okay then I think we'll call this meeting adjourned thank you

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