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Riley County Community Corrections seeks staff and grant funding to sustain protective homes and drug testing
Summary
Community Corrections reported vacancies in juvenile intake staff, described the county's protective homes program and asked commissioners to authorize hiring and to apply for Clay County opioid-settlement funds and the Daniel Keating Foundation grant; all requests were approved by voice vote.
Megan Lewis, a representative of Riley County Community Corrections, told county commissioners on March 24 that the office is seeking to hire additional juvenile intake officers and plans to apply for outside funds to support protective homes and random drug testing in Clay County.
Lewis said her office is down two juvenile intake officers and requested authorization to advertise and hire two to three on-call officers for the summer so positions would be staffed and trained before the busier months. Commissioners moved and seconded the request and approved it by voice vote.
The request to hire follows a report Lewis gave about recent program activity. Lewis said February intake was low "—we had 4 intakes"—of which two were returned to a parent or guardian, one was placed with a relative and one was placed in an emergency shelter. She said juvenile intensive supervision included 10 Riley County youth, with an additional youth from Clay County,…
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