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CJCC highlights youth-truancy hire and executive committee priorities; request made to consider county grant writer
Summary
The council reported a newly hired truancy and diversion worker, plans for outreach and a school-attendance campaign, and the CJCC executive committee asked the council to consider sponsoring a county grant-writer position to pursue funding for treatment, transportation and other services.
A newly hired truancy and diversion worker has begun field work in Sawyer County, according to a health and human services (HHS) report at the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council meeting. The HHS presenter said the worker started in June, has met with Judge Isham and local partners, and is helping clean up prior-year cases while meeting school officials and launching attendance campaigns and a website to connect families with resources.
The presenter offered a brief success example: a navigator visited a household and after that contact a student began attending school daily. Staff said the county expects funding for the truancy program to continue into the next fiscal year.
The council also reviewed executive committee priorities. The CJCC executive committee had ranked its top three priorities as 1) medication-assisted treatment (MAT) availability in the jail and a full-time nurse, 2) expanding mental-health services in the jail, and 3) youth-justice programming and truancy efforts. Committee members also recommended pursuing grant-writing capacity countywide; executive-committee members asked the council to request the county consider hiring a grant writer to support CJCC and other county projects.
Committee members described additional ongoing activity: the executive committee will use a checklist to evaluate CJCC functions and identify areas for improvement, will continue work on jail-to-work transition programs, and will meet monthly to move priorities forward. Staff also said they are assembling lists of organizations that accept community-service volunteers to help recovery-court participants meet required hours.
Council members discussed placement of future agenda items, including keeping an LCO (Lac Courte Oreilles) update and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on future agendas so partners have a standing opportunity to report. The meeting record shows the council set placeholders to avoid losing momentum on pending items and requested follow-up by staff.
