okay it is 1204 we're going to go ahead and get the
cjcc meeting started for November 13th um can we do roll
call Monica aam Julia Lions here Grant Gerber Andy
alberado Mike wer here tweet
Schuman Doug marot here Bruce poette Katie
Beringer John yako Mark
Helwig elae Smith Marshall savitzky Kathy McCoy
belill traner you have a
quorum okay um certification with compliance with open meetings law let
the record show this meeting was notice to the public and the news media as
required by section 1984 of the Wisconsin statutes and we'll go back and
do the pledge of allegiance that I
skip Al toag United States America and to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liy and I know I get I better be checking
each section that I get it done here review of the meeting agenda is
there any
changes to be made okay hearing none uh public
comments seeing no public comments we'll go on to consideration of the approval
of minutes from the previous meeting make a motion to approve
second any discussion all in favor passed okay jail
report thank you the October 24 jail report we seen an average daily
population of 50 inmates 14 and a half females to 35 a half uh males average
probation probation incarceration were at 14 pre-sentence incarceration at
27.25 and sentence inmates at 8.75 we currently had four I electronic
monitoring uh the day that this Report was generated we had 50 inmates with a
unemployment rate of
71% any
questions did you have anything on the law library or mental health counseling
update I see that's on there okay
did we need to keep that on there or does that need can that just come off is
that like a was left over maybe from the last meeting I think it's already been
addressed
okay okay then moving on to criminal justice coordinator dad Grant
update and I think Andy do you have okay we'll let him get up and running here
so um Becky is traveling today and is unable to attend the meeting so she did
send me a report let me just see if I can
get I will just read it uh the 2025 Tad Grant application has been submitted and
we were asked to make edits in two areas uh one with the budget and one in the
treatment Court goals and objectives SE section edits were submit completed and
submitted last week but surpris we got an email this morning with more uh
request for information so that is still being worked on um and get I'm sure
she'll get that submitted Building Bridges has begun and we had our first
meeting on October 30th reaching rule is an implementation period the Grant
application was submitted on October 15th with the final presentation taking
place in February in Washington DC pre-trial they have begun taking people
off the wait list and will continue doing so treatment Court uh Becky you
like to recognize all the efforts of everyone that works together whether it
be Justice Point Staff Law Enforcement Court staff DA's office public defender
office Public Health pration parole aoda mental health and everyone that works
together but also particularly with recovery court because it takes a
significant amount of time in addition to people's regular workload to commit
to recovery court and we have a very supportive group that has been dedicated
from the beginning to make it work it's not easy there are a lot of different
ideas personalities experience and sometimes things get difficult and not
to mention the juggling of time management um she wants to make sure
everyone knows that their time and effort is making a difference um and she
can guarantee that the someone the time spent is worth it uh justice point is
hiring for new position s this are three peer systems Navigators one coordinated
response specialist and one pre-trial diversion case manager and they're
trying to have them filled by January 1st if possible jail programs they now
have a process in place for jail residents to sign a release to be
photographed when they complete their GED hsed and will share that information
if they wish they are having a holiday card creation event scheduled for
December 7th for residents to make a card to send to your loved one also on
the 7th Justice point is hosting an appreci appreciation day for
professional visitors volunteers and the Justice Point office to include snacks
and Beverages and
then the just the the statistics I'll put those up on the screen
so this is the active clients for pre-trial diversion and treatment
court so looks like we have 153 active in pre-trial 11 in
diversion and a in treatment cart one person successfully through
diversion and then 12 referrals for pre-trial and seven for
diversion program type by
race gender by program type
case type by
program that's
that if you have any questions email
[Laughter] Becky okay Alex can you put up the
health and Human Services report that's in
there and Joyce do you want to come up and speak to
that I'm going to be very quick um because I'm going to introduce our
whoops
my report because I'm going to introduce our peer recovery team so that they can
talk to you quickly about um the program that they've put together and uh what
some of the what they've been up to but I will just let you know the Naran
continues to come off the shelves it's being used pretty regularly especially
at the winter noock box that we have down there in the um grocery store so we
are replacing that quite frequently um we are working on new
billboard designs uh for overdose and The Vaping campaign
we have set a time period so we will pres be presenting about vaping to the
schools in March of next year um we did provide Naran to the election offices
throughout the county before election day and the Flyers that you're seeing
are the Flyers they're the new Flyers that we've given to um the inmate
tablets so the inmates can see those um while they are there and before they get
out so having said that come on up again so we have Britney on zoom and this is
Ken and I'm going to let them introduce themselves to you and then they did give
you some information in the report and I'll let you have
it Alex can you get it so Britney's on the screen
yep she's up we're ready to go well thank you guys for letting me to
be here um so last year we started doing the
peer recovery and Recovery coaching for here in soer county and over that time
span we've had um
close to 30 people that as far as like referrals that we got from
self-referrals and um agency
referrals and the reports here you know 11 of those they were in
jail inmate so it's kind of hard to actually start working with them because
it is a voluntary program and what what I've kind of
noticed is while we're working with them while they're in custody is that they're
more than willing to do [Music]
you know whatever it takes and then once they get out it's completely voluntary
and you know it's a little bit more of a struggle where they get they get other
ideas when they get out there but of the ones that we have worked with that have
kept coming back I was able to get 12 of them as
clients and of those 12 I was able to close out five of them where they
were you know confident in their ability to maintain their recovery and maintain
their sobriety and the other ones they just
either lost interest or they uh return to substance use or they just want
another route because it is a voluntary
program you know for each of those that we work with you know there is no there
is no cookie cutter uh you know method of recovery for where it's not going to
what work for one isn't going to work for all of them
so kind of what we do is we see what their needs are we kind of help you know
accommodate with those and see what we can do as far as helping them with them
and some of them it's simple as helping them find
employment others is finding what they need to do to get their driver's license
so that they can you know quit driving without a license and it makes it easier
to go to work and go to appointments and get on to the next step and just
explaining exploring the different Pathways of recovery with them because
there's you know like I said there's no no cookie cutter response to it where
what worked for me isn't going to work for
everybody and vice versa so kind of a nutshell that's what we do
is just kind of go Case by case and see what the needs are of people and see
what we can do to help them um I just want to mention that he he's being very
humble the first probably eight months of this program was just Ken getting all
of this set up so these 12 and these five that have graduated have been in
the last you know in a six month period of time of him working with them so I I
think that says a lot for what he's doing and now we have Britney who has
come on board um Ken has been on wrls a few times and you know one of the things
he mentions is you know Britney is a mother and he can't relate to people on
the mother's side of it but Britney can um so we're we're trying to to cover all
the bases but he's doing a it's really a super job so and we will give you these
numbers probably every quarter to just to keep you guys updated anything else
oh Britney you got anything to add um not really besides I'm Britney I'm new
this year and I am very excited to work with ch and Ken um they're they do
amazing things and I'm I'm excited to see where it goes this year for me
thank you we're very excited to have you guys thank
you so um so both of these two are working through americore I don't know
if we clearly said that for the peer recovery um so uh Kenneth is on a second
year Britney you had already put a year in with Marshfield you're on a second
year correct yep yes so she's transitioning over to us so we're very
excited to get her on board um and so that um we used Co arpa last year um
you'll remember I said I used braiding and blending in order to be able to um
kind of not use opioid dollars as much um going into the next year we we we've
designated and um that's part of what I'm going to show you today is how we
want to perhaps use our opioid funds so um I'm do you does anybody have any
questions related to this section before I move on in the agenda
I think I have a question I don't know if I can answer it
but may just you know how does somebody get to the here counselors what's the
intake the avenue to that do do you guys want to talk about the avenue to get
through in through what are referral referrals or how does the public know
that this is there are referrals um it's really so far it's been Ken putting the
word out um just around the community and talking to people that he knows um
but we've also received referrals the hospital has a referral form that they
can send to us um and then we're also working on a jail program so that we can
get into the jails a little bit more that's really where we'd like our Focus
to be to start with those jails and then the billboard signs that are out does
does lead them to the peer support Specialists on our website yeah I've
been interviewing at the jails jail for now about almost a year trying to get
enough people for some research we're doing and when I asked them how do we
reach you how do I get a message to you they always say those bleeping
Billboards and road signs so we know that they're seeing them and we know and
they've actually come into even Justice point one of the people on that
billboard is a case worker for justice point will be like oh I saw you on the
billboard so we know that that stuff's working um
good question anything
else okay then I'm going to go into um we still haven't heard anything further
on our additional Grant application that we had made um for
YJ but um we did we do have the two the tancy
uh Grant and another Grant that's come through so that um we're working on
filling well we can't fill Staffing for treny until uh January but uh the other
one we're working with our contracted service on to be able to fill that
position which is really more inhome treatment services that we're able to do
with the families um and then opioid settlement
funds to give you a look at this hopefully everybody can see the screen
and I tried to make everything big enough here so between August 2023 and
October 2024 um we had presented a budget of
$7,650 in 2023 we spent $177,300 and in 2024 we're uh projected
to spend close to 30,000 so of the um
127,000 budgeted we're spending close to 50 and again that's due to being able to
use other funds um to be able to meet these needs so this year we're under
budget by 880,000 um
we we put together not me not me Joyce put together all of the different things
that we've done with um overall for opioid um work and um I'll just kind of
quickly go through some of these um they've provided education and
collaboration between law enforcement and treatment providers on the ity of
fentanyl test strips and nxone that was really early on I almost forgot about
that um we've acquired um Naran distributor Grant and distributed over
1100 boxes and I can say that we did just get the additional Grant coming
through is that going to be a I can't even remember how many it's 90
cases yeah and so anyways we got a pretty good chunk of noock s coming that
we're able to distribute um we did evaluate the need for supervised
injection sites that's one of the harm reduction things and um we looked at
overdoses and most of them are occurring in home and not in public places so we
determine there's no need for that evaluated a need need for clean needle
exchange and based on interviews with inmates it was determined that this
would create a usage Island enticing others into our communities so we are
not doing that provided fentanyl drug overdose training in the schools and
students and so we served over 3,500 people with that and did researching on
vaping um options working with the school presentation and marketing and
that's going to be coming up worked with YJ clients for Vaping survey and input
um interviewed over 60 inmates I'm not even you might be a little over that now
um Joyce will continue until she reaches 100 uh researched opioid oh I have a
typo there prescribing guideline changes and ensure that providers are aware of
those changes in the current guidelines connected with Hospitals and Clinics
regarding refusal to participate in drug prescribing incentives so that's really
those when they give you gifts and things for prescribing certain drugs so
they do not do that participated and promoted in drug takeback um twice per
year we've collected 2117 controlled pounds of Controlled
Substances 65 of non-controlled old 80 pounds of sharps in
2023 collaborated with the prevention use Coalition conducted Community
overdose education and treatment and service providers at seven winds we had
171 residents attend that the career peer counseling program which you guys
just heard about created Flyers highlighting services available for
substance use and over 700 Flyers have been handed out at different events have
collaborated with namak Kong and Transit it to make sure bus service goes to
treatment providers uh collaborated with the
hospital we uh to provide a 3day supply of Suboxone and a warm handoff to
treatment services uh provided mat training for
law enforcement and First Responders and participated in recovery C Court
steering committee so quite a few things and more
things to come um so as we kind of pull things together obviously all of this
wasn't done with opioid settlement dollars it's all a big package and um
and multiple programs are working on different things so we'll try to package
up as a whole package of what all we're doing as a community um but for this now
we're going to focus on what we're getting in for opioid funds and where we
want those funds to go so how the opioid settlement funds work is that they come
in over time so we we kind of talked about that a little bit before but we
didn't really have a good spreadsheet setup to kind of show how funds were
coming in we get it from the Distributors um from
phies and from um the the um makers of it so
Jansen um so this is kind of the estimates over time as they come in just
so that you can kind of see how it's coming you don't have to memorize these
dollars but you can see we've got funds coming in through
2038 as you can see though the those funds drop off considerably over the
years so how do we work with these funds in order to make the best use of them
over time what I propose doing is looking at um being able to pick a
budgeted amount that we want to spend each year focusing a higher amount of
dollars in the first five years and then start to taper off as we get some things
under our belt um so we'll have to see if you guys agree with this or not but
kind of played around to see what was that max amount I could get in that
budget so starting out we have a beginning balance right now going into
2025 of 296,000 so um if we spend 100,000 in
2025 2026 2027 2028 and 2029 um that still leaves us with enough
to be able to to start kind of keeping money coming in but spending down so and
we like dropped down to 80,000 to 75,000 70,000 until we get down to the end
where we'll only have about 29,000 to spend or 27,000 to spend in
2039 so that's kind of how I propose putting a budget together um as far as
how much we could spend each
year and then if we look at that oops I got my slides a
little mixed up if we look at that then we take that 100,000 and say okay what
do we need to spend money on using exhibits the exhibit e um and what we
did before was we looked at harm preent harm reduction prevention um treatment
and Recovery those are all things that are covered in exhibit E from different
levels um so recommendation would be that we look at spending $1,500 on drug
takeback Pro promotional materials it's something that we work with law
enforcement on um and I think it's a really successful program um but if we
can Market that even better and get that out um the other thing is is um we're
also try to make sure that we do it so that we have um availability to drop off
in the southern part of the County as well um prevention looking at um kind of
the same kind of campaigns that we've had uh we know that those are successful
getting into the schools uh vaping has been a big issue that we've heard on for
a while now uh we wanted to do it in the fall it just didn't work out with the
schools to be able to do that so um being able to plan that and get that
managed for the spring looking at 16,500 I have an area that's marked here
in highlighted yellow um as one area that we could potentially spend some
funding in depending on and I know we got the building bridges Grant and some
different things I don't know what that funding really is looking like for mat
um in the jail so we might need to assess
that uh medication assisted therapy so it's like the yeah it's here if you want
to know good point so uh looking at that um potentially helping with therapy
um in that area oops and um then in recovery we've got
our recovery coaches um so we only have to pay a small uh portion of um what
they get paid because amacore covers the other uh looking at sober activity and
events for Youth and adults so those you know people who are trying to be in
recovery there are no good places for them to gather and connect in um and
being able to offer some types of events or get togethers um is a recommended
activity to do another recommendation and this is
the one that's in yellow here is um providing support for family members
suffering with trauma due to addiction and that refers to I have that over on
the blue point blue part where it refers to assisting families who are dealing
with addiction to get them wraparound services such as parenting classes
paying for child care um helping Provide support of housing um it relate or any
Services related to children being removed from their homes due to opioid
use disorder um this is a recommendation that came through uh from one of our
board members who had seen this um from actually a district supervisor geez I
can't even talk today um having seen them use these funding in other counties
related to children who are removed from homes and helping to assist um
grandparents and those that are trying to help take care of these
kids um and then the other pieces uh the marketing and communication services
that we received through finden they help us do all of these flyers and
multiple Facebook posts and tons of different um communication services that
we just couldn't get done on our own and then for public health Staffing um
paying for an average of eight hours a week um for prevention planning data
collection grant writing overdose fatality reviews peer recovery oversight
and um the recovery sober planning services so Joyce and Jess spend way
more than that on there but um being able to keep them moving forward in that
direction so that is that kind of sums up um
where the recommendations would be for spending funding but what I didn't know
is where this group would want to focus um do we look at the mat in the jail do
we have about 22,500
left um and do we do we do that do we um split it and put some towards mat and
some towards helping families does anybody have any thoughts
on anything else I pull this back up for you question how are we getting the
Suboxone to individuals the Suboxone if for mat so
that would that comes directly at this point comes are you talking through jail
or in the general public general public general public would go either through
North lakes or through biki and um they have a treatment provider
they have treatment services and then they receive mat as part of their
treatment so they go directly to that source to get that treatment in the jail
um we have we work with the lco pharmacy at this point to get mat because we're
able to provide some but we're not we're not able to induce or have an induction
meaning you can't put if they haven't already been on it we can't start it and
that's what we're going through all the training and doing the grant
for so so if they didn't come in the jail
already on Suboxone there's nothing that at this point we don't have a program
set up that we can do that but we are moving in that direction I just don't
know how much that Grant is covering as we move
forward thank
you other thoughts on spending oh yeah I just have a question so um what about
mental health counseling so we have for the jail or in
general in general in general we well well we so we are we have a change
coming I don't know if everybody has heard but Joe Bodo has put in his
retirement um so right now we're reassessing where we're at we did have
we do have in our um um budget to hire a counselor or a therapist and then we
have Joe's position which had therapy attached to it as well so we're in the
process of redetermining that so we do have that is funded through the budget
already and as far as the jail goes are we providing enough hours at this
point at this point with our inmate population as low as is uh yeah I would
say we are okay my only concern is that we don't have um a provider who is
trained an sud so that would be something that we would be looking at
and perhaps be able to connect to some of the Staffing that we'd be looking
at and I and again as we develop through Building Bridges what that plan looks
like and how we move forward we help drive that so we'll keep bringing that
and we have a training coming up in January good thank you you mentioned
that the counselor is in the budget I mean do we have one or we do you have
for the HHS budget I we have positions approved so we to move
forward did you oh your light was on I was just looking to see if you had a
comment yet Oh I thought you saw the light out of my head was thinking about
I mean I think to both your questions with well last year we made a change
with mental health Counseling in the jail I think was positive where we
brought that in direct rather than working through the medical provider but
you know that's always going to be up for assessing how it ties in let me go
back maybe I think we've had some separation there I don't know when that
started but we're not our County staff has not been providing Mental Health
Services in the jail for quite a while it doesn't need to be that way
necessarily although we have a good provider now but I think anytime we have
a vacancy and sign this is a significant one they I think there's going to be
some adjustments as to how we deliver services in the mental health area so
it's the time for us to assess it now and figure out how we're going to move
ahead because it does tie in multiple programs in in human
services so there's we're already starting the work Madam chair I would
just like to add two regarding the mental health issue yesterday we had our
annual jail inspection and part of that uh process
includes he or she in this case we have a new jail inspector and it's a he Doug
went through and interviewed quite a few the inmates and he commented how
obviously we are on top of a lot of the mental health because of the feedback he
got and then he has the comparison dealing with the rest of the jails in
Northwestern Wisconsin as a comparison so I thought that was pretty positive
and enlightening
wonderful boy we're all getting inspection I just had three surveys
under my belt in the last two
weeks okay um so any other recommendations or would
you like me I mean one of the things that I could do because I didn't this
just came to me as far as the um recommendation to be considering working
with families um that are impacted would you like me to put together a little bit
more um what that spending would look like and figure out what Ma a little bit
more about mat and bring that back next month
yeah okay yes any other
questions uh I just want to say that uh you're doing I I don't have any
additions to your budget I think you've done a fantastic job and you all are
doing a very good job thank you thank you
guys okay if there aren't any other questions we can uh have uh Sarah come
up and speak to YJ and uh she has a PowerPoint I can share as
well maybe so I can start with our numbers
for September uh we had a total of Le 11 new referrals that came in we were able
to handle two of those through a current supervision order which means that we
already have the juvenile honor case load and instead of creating a new
either court order or working informally we just handle it through their current
order um we had one physical custody temporary physical custody in the month
of September we had five recommendations to the DA to file a petition uh we had
one recommendation for informal supervision or a DPA and we counseled
and closed one of those as well um in the month of September we had seven out
of home placements for youth Justice uh we had one secure detention hold and we
had two active capses um at this time I know we have
one active capus so we were able to handle one of those um and I know at
this time the total number of out of home placements has come down as well
however of course we have the juveniles in line then waiting to go to placement
as well um for the month of September remember
we had a total of 36 open youth Justice cases I am currently as a supervisor
overseeing three of those cases Shannon Krauss has a total of 15 ongoing cases
and there were three pending court cases Kim Lambert has a total of 13 ongoing
cases and three pending in court and Amy Thompson who was hired to be our foster
care kinship coordinator um is also helping out with youth Justice because
we are we continue to be quite busy uh so she at that time had four ongoing and
that she has one pending in court um so what I wanted to do is go
over what youth Justice looks like and what our day-to-day work looks like I
think this might be a repeat for some of you I know I've gone over this in
different law enforcement trainings and at the HHS board meeting um but
youth Justice is a Statewide program to rehabilitate juveniles from the ages of
10 to 16 years old in the state of Wisconsin uh 17-year-olds as are charged
as adults um the goal of Youth Justice is to prevent juveniles for from
entering the adult system through identifying needs and implementing
Services uh when possible informal supervision should be attempted which
keeps the youth out of the court system this is called a deferred prosecution
agreement or a DPA the typical time frame for a juvenile to be involved with
us in our services is typically 6 to 12 months depending on the seriousness of
the referral that we
receive some of the different strategies that we use are intervention and
prevention building relationships we use an assessment tool
called the Yazi which helps us identify their risk level uh we acknowledge
diversity we identify services and we provide support not only
to the juvenile but often times to the family and school
meetings um we often work to engage and Empower
parents to help them learn how to implement consequences and also
Implement rewards
um we'd like to increase Community knowledge and we continue education and
training uh the youth Justice process this looks typically looks like law
enforcement sending us a referral that is related to a delinquent crime in the
community um they come in with their family ideally sometimes we get no shows
um but they come in for a meeting and we sit down we talk about the incident that
brought them to the meeting and different whether there's aoda history
in the family um if there's truancy concerns we get a just a better feel of
everything that's going on in the home after that meeting we make a
recommendation of we can either councel en close that referral and give them a
warning we can choose to do the Deferred prosecution agreement as an informal
supervision or we can request for the da to uh file a delinquent petition in the
case so after we make our recommendation the da then has 20 days to make his
recommendation which can be at times in disagreement with what we're
recommending and he might think the cas is significant enough to go to court
versus the informal however he hasn't disagreed with
me that's
good um what happens on a DPA the informal supervision so this is an
informal agreement between the family and the juvenile that they're agreeing
to work with with the Department on they might have to commit complete community
service hours they may have restitution therapy counseling they have reoccurring
meetings with uh the youth Justice worker this happens one to four times
per month they may have to do random drug screens this agreement may also be
revoked if they're not in compliance with what we agreed to and when that
happens we then request a delinquent petition be filed with the da
uh so if the the case gets sent to court the da files the delinquent petition
which gets us in front of the judge a plea hearing is scheduled in adult terms
that would be initial appearance uh a status hearing or fact
finding is then scheduled which the fact finding an adult terms would be
trial um a dispositional hearing is scheduled so that would be sentencing in
adult terms our day-to-day work in youth
Justice is quite consuming at times depending on
the risk level of the juvenile which I know I've previously mentioned that the
kids that we're working with are typically moderate to high-risk level
which means they they take a lot of our time
um we it's rare that we see a low to moderate risk kid in our County um so
when workers get involved they have regular meetings with the juvenile again
this could be one to four times per month and it could be we're meeting for
one time per week so every once a week for a month and then after that month if
it's determined the kiddo is doing what they need to do they're on a better
track we can lessen that time and we can also if they fall off track add more
meetings as well um we will often utilize carry guides
surrounding areas to be in determined an area of concern examples are drugs and
alcohol antisocial FR groups family anger and general life
skills um the workers May assist with getting therapy and counseling set up um
and workers attend school meetings and offer support so a lot of times what
we've found is our families are not like these kids
are in this situation because of the lack of consistency and support from
their family so when we ask families to schedule therapy meetings or
aoda they don't see it as a priority and we are often having to step in and and
do some of that parental type role um when when we do that we're able to ask
the court as long as they're under a court order we can ask the court to give
us the department legal custody for the duration of the order that means that we
can step in we can sign needed medical releases we can get them set up in
therapy
um let's see at time while we try to empower the
parent like I said to um implement the consequences and rewards sometimes
parents feel you especially when they have a teenage son that now they're
bigger than them and they can't make them do anything so in circumstances
when that happens our department can often step in and kind of be the
disciplinary for of better terms um I have had different cases in the past
where I've taken a juvenile's Xbox for the entire summer because the parent
couldn't do it so there are things we can do um we can also Implement 72-hour
holds which would be insecure Juvenile Detention we can do house arrest on an
ankle monitor um or we can add community service hours to whatever agreement
they're on um when they are court involved we can ask for extensions we
can change ask for a change in placement uh and we can do permanency reviews if
they have been taken out of the home
um when we do a temporary physical custody this is also known as a
TPC they the day turns very chaotic very quickly and I think all entities whether
it's the DA's office or the courts the ja
everyone's day is chaotic um because everyone's rushing to try to get this
hearing in because if we take a juvenile into custody they have to be in front of
the judge within 24 hours
um these are OB obviously unexpected and unplanned occurrences that typically
happen after the work day or during the night uh juveniles may be taken into
custody and plac in the juvenile detention Detention Center or placed at
an appropriate unsecure location which may be a family members home the problem
we often run into talking about families is these families often don't have the
people to say this family member is an appropriate person for this kiddo to go
to because there is that the family trauma and whether it's
people using drugs or alcohol it's a big struggle in our County to find that
appropriateness um
see I'm going to skip over some of this just because I feel like it's repetitive
um so when when we do remove youth from the home this should be when all less
restrictive options have been attempted and they were
unsuccessful um PE kids that go to the Detention
Center they are typically charged with pretty significant crimes um disorderly
conduct and whatnot is typically not one of them Tru Andy marijuana um it's more
so for battery and um significant assaults that they would be place
there um once a youth is removed from their
home the permanency reviews are completed every six months the six-month
review is completed within the agency and the yearly review is in front of the
court um and just going
over like how time consuming this kind of thing is when we take a kid
out of custody it greatly increases the workers's workload with having to do all
this extra paperwork the permanency reviews um and getting all the needed
information to different placements to consider them which is their full
history school history IEP information day treatment record social history
legal history and more so just giving an idea of kind of what the day-to-day work
looks like as some may be
unaware any
questions so what is the recommended case load per
worker that's a great question so when I had
worked can have Bruce roll his eyes when um sorry I got
distracted that's weird um so when I've worked in different
counties I and then I came to Sawyer County I had asked myself like why is it
so much more difficult here managing 15 cases than it was in the other counties
that I was in and the answer to that it came to me it's because of our the the
risk level of the kids that we're working with here and that moderate to
high just demands so much more of our attention and our county
has while taking kids out of their home is not youth Justice's goal like we
don't want that to be the outcome but the reality here is it's so
needed I think and overdue and we're we're cleaning up some of what hasn't
been done for a while so to answer your question I'd say
15 where the workers are right now would be Max for the kind of work we're doing
here um and would say in a different County you you could probably do 15 to
18
successfully anything
else no thank you okay any updates on Community
Services no still sitting pretty good there um Timber Bay did hire or as
someone appointed to run be a regional uh guy for that area um he's just just
now getting started so and their goal is to get their hands on the worst of the
worst kids in the neighborhood and hopefully put their neighbors house a
hope out of business by getting them on the right path and stuff like that
beforehand um other than that uh I think there's a
bed or two open at House of Hope currently and things are just kind of
still plugging away in the right direction for the community stuff short
and sweet okay any questions for Grant
okay moving on to board appointed committee
updates okay seeing none any correspondence reports or conferences
updates okay then I think we'll call this meeting adjourned thank you