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Senators discuss temporary use of life-skills center for hard-to-place youth, ask for data and time-limited authorization
Summary
Committee members and local zone directors discussed using a state life-skills and transition center as a temporary placement for youth with severe behavioral needs, and senators proposed time-limited authority and regular reporting to collect data and shape long-term solutions.
Senators and local human services officials discussed a short-term use of the state-operated Life Skills and Transition Center as a placement option for youth who are hard to place in foster care or community settings and called for a time-limited authorization and regular reporting to evaluate the approach.
Kim Jacobson, director of the Agassi Valley Human Service Zone and president of the Zone Directors Association, told the committee the center has been used to place youth the system had difficulty placing elsewhere and that the program reported positive outcomes for children placed there. "We have had a number of youth that are in the foster care system placed there since that time. And we're happy to report we've had really good outcomes," Jacobson said,…
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