2009 Kitsap County Budget Book - Kitsap County Government

JUVENILE SERVICES
III. 2008 Accomplishments
• Development of Summer KAMP (Kitsap Adolescent Motivational Program) by probation officers in the Offender Unit to
provide practical life skills training and pro-social recreation to youth on probation in an effort to reduce the risk to re-offend
when school is out during the summer months.
• Kitsap Adolescent Recovery Services (KARS) staff trained in the Matrix model, an evidence-based chemical dependency
treatment model.
• Began a partnership with Olympic College to place Chemical Dependency interns in the KARS program.
• KARS staff invited to present on the Matrix model at the 2008 Institute on Addictions Treatment Conference in Yakima.
• Expansion of office space for KARS treatment staff.
• 97% of the youth served by our Truancy Intervention program returned to school or another school program.
• Recruited twenty-one (21) Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers.
• Legislature authorized increased spending for CASA Programs. Kitsap County’s share is in excess of $157,000 per year.
Non-offender Unit increased by 1.5 FTEs.
• Non-Offender Unit Supervisor, as a member of the National CASA Quality Assurance Board, revised the state and local
program’s standards of compliance.
• Secured a grant from AOC for a parent-to-parent program in the Non-Offender Unit.
• Secured a grant from Administrative Office of the Courts for a Unified Family Court.
• Secured funding to expand attorney-client interview office space.
• Completion of a new CASA office/library funded by a state grant.
• CASA training approved as an Olympic College course.
• In partnership with the Department of Ecology, performed quarterly litter control on a 22- mile stretch of Highway 3.
• Cultural Diversity training provided to all department staff.
IV. 2009 Goals and Objectives
We will contribute to Safe and Healthy Communities and Effective and Efficient County Services by:
• Providing enhanced services to the community by reducing the caseloads of the Court Services Officers supervising
moderate to high-risk offenders.
• Providing enhanced services to the community by reducing the caseloads of the Court Services Officers working with
dependent children.
• Implementing Unified Family Court.
• Enhancing services to the community by increasing the number of youth served by a Truancy Interventionist.
• Continuing to support the Kitsap County Transitional School (KATS) as a means of keeping youth in school and off the
streets, out of detention, and reducing costs to the taxpayer. Exploring the placement of truant youth in KATS.
• Partnering with schools, Boys & Girls Club, Law Enforcement agencies, and the Prosecutor’s Office to interdict and
prevent, by way of education and intervention, behaviors that might lead to gang violence in our community.
• Expanding the Kitsap Adolescent Recovery Services (K.A.R.S.) drug and alcohol program within the department, which will
increase access to services, and by partnering with the Kitsap Recovery Center for training and Policy and Procedures
development. Providing programs that are effective in reducing felony recidivism and cost efficient to taxpayers.
V. Program Overview
Program:
Court Services
Description: Court Services consists of two basic units:
The Offender Unit provides evaluation and assessment of youth to determine risk to re-offend, referral for appropriate
services/treatment, and monitoring for compliance with court orders. Offender Unit programs include Drug Court, CDDA
(Chemical Dependency Disposition Alternative (CDDA), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Aggression Replacement
Training (ART), and Mentoring.
The Non-Offender Unit provides truancy intervention and prevention services, At-Risk Youth (ARY) and Child in Need of
Services (CHINS) for adolescents, and Guardian ad litem (GAL) services for abused and neglected children in dependency
matters. It is our intention to expand Drug and Alcohol Services into the truancy and at-risk population to prevent entry into
the criminal justice system.
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