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Meltdown in Juvenile Probation
At-risk kids to lose community-based services due to Department’s muddled funding process
On June 28th, three days before the start of the new fiscal year, 54 community-based organizations (CBOs) turned up at a meeting in front of the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Commission to learn the fate of their contracts with the Juvenile Probation Department (JPD). San Francisco’s Chief Probation Officer William P. Siffermann issued a memo at the meeting outlining his funding recommendations. His memo, like the strange process he had initiated, was received with little pleasure and raised serious questions about the Department’s management.
San Francisco’s JPD maintains contracts with many local CBOs to ensure that youth under the Department’s supervision have ample access to community resources. For more than a decade, the city and its probation department have understood that youth on probation will fare better when involved in programs that provide a broad array of social services. Over the last ten years, CBOs have assumed a broader role in the providing services to high risk youths under the probation department’s jurisdiction. The working relationship between JPD and local CBOs has resulted in a substantial decline in the recidivism rate of kids who participate in CBO programs.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3490#more
San Francisco’s JPD maintains contracts with many local CBOs to ensure that youth under the Department’s supervision have ample access to community resources. For more than a decade, the city and its probation department have understood that youth on probation will fare better when involved in programs that provide a broad array of social services. Over the last ten years, CBOs have assumed a broader role in the providing services to high risk youths under the probation department’s jurisdiction. The working relationship between JPD and local CBOs has resulted in a substantial decline in the recidivism rate of kids who participate in CBO programs.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3490#more
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