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County brings youth intensive supervision services in-house to save levy and expand oversight

2090740 · January 9, 2025
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Summary

Marathon County plans to move intensive supervision services (ISS) for adjudicated youth from an external contractor into county management in 2025, citing fiscal savings and closer program oversight; two LTE staff already hired and county will report outcomes.

Marathon County social services staff told the Health and Human Services Committee that the county will operate its Intensive Support Services program in-house in 2025 rather than subcontract it.

The presenter said the ISS program, which provides monitoring, electronic monitoring, substance screening and weekly check-ins for adjudicated moderate- to high-risk youth, has historically been subcontracted to private vendors. “So this has always historically been a subcontracted program. We…

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