[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