| The Los Angeles County Probation Department is trying a new approach to
serving mid-risk youth who are put on probation for the first time. Over
the last two years, the county has been implementing this new
community-based program. The program is build around a collaboration between
probation staff and social service staff who are collocated at the same
site. The model features case planning to coordinate needed services for
the youth ands their families, intensive supervision of youth using a
graduated sanctions protocol, and daily after-school activities including
tutoring, mentoring, recreation and substance abuse education
A comprehensive evaluation of this program is underway. This presentation
reports preliminary findings from the process evaluation that relates
aspects of ten unique sites participating and gender and risk level of
client to services received, agency characteristics including philosophic
approaches to service delivery, and risk levels of participating youth to
program implementation goals and initial program completion goals.
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Updated 05/20/2006