BOARD TO VOTE ON YOUTH PROGRAM.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer VENTURA - Hoping to keep local youths out of the juvenile justice system, Ventura County supervisors today will consider spending $2.6 million on truancy abatement and other prevention programs for at-risk teens. The programs - to be funded by $243 million in state money earmarked for crime prevention - include expanding gang- and truancy-prevention projects. The multiagency plan also calls for conducting risk assessments of young offenders A young offender is a person of either gender who has been convicted or cautioned for a criminal offence. Criminal justice systems often deal with young offenders differently from adult offenders, but different countries apply the term 'young offender' to different age groups , establishing transitional care This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. centers and enhancing services at juvenile halls. ``This is a very involved project,'' said Nancy Pierce, the Probation Department's division manager for the Colston Youth Center. ``We're very excited.'' If approved today by the Board of Supervisors, the program will be forwarded to the state Board of Corrections for consideration. ``The Board of Corrections has already approved the project in concept,'' Pierce said. ``We're comfortable that it will be approved.'' The yearlong programs are being developed jointly by the county Probation, District Attorney, Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was , Human Services, Public Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract and Behavioral Health Behavioral health was first used in the 1980's to name the combination of the fields mental health and substance abuse. As an example, an organization serving both mental health and substance abuse clients might refer to its practice as behavioral health or departments, along with the Oxnard Police Department and county Superintendent of Schools Office. Through risk assessment programs, probation officers probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. will determine the likelihood of continued delinquent behavior and decide on the most appropriate intervention effort. Transitional programs The Transitional Program, the full name of which is The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, is a political platform adopted by the 1938 founding congress of the Fourth International, the international Leninist organization founded by Leon were listed as the top priority, providing support for teens leaving juvenile detention facilities. ``After-care is a vital, long-needed component for success when the youth return to the community,'' Cal Remington, chief probation officer, said in a letter to supervisors. ``Without after-care, the appropriate behavior the youth learn in the facilities is lost.'' Through transitional care, youths will be slowly reintroduced into the community and allowed to make some decisions, while being advised of the consequences. At the same time, they will be offered counseling and educational and vocational programs. Nearly 500 youths will be helped by transitional programs during the yearlong program, officials said. |
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