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Juvenile courts emphasize prevention and warn early‑intervention funding cuts hampered services
Summary
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.
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.
"We focus on prevention, first and foremost," Judge Anderson said, describing a continuum from school-based truancy work and informal diversion to evidence-based community supervision for moderate- and…
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