Juvenile courts emphasize prevention and warn early‑intervention funding cuts hampered services
WADCA and county juvenile-court leaders said courts prioritize prevention and community-based diversion but reported that early-intervention funding fell sharply, reducing programs and staff in many counties and limiting capacity for evidence-based local services.
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Judge Rochelle Anderson (co-chair, SCJA legislative committee) and Chris Simmons Meyer (juvenile court administrator, Clark County; WADCAA president) told the committee juvenile courts focus on prevention, early intervention and community supervision as the best way to keep youth out of secure placement.
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