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Panel urges County to prioritize prevention, add probation staff and fund local continuum-of-care
Summary
Subcommittee recommended ordering actions from prevention to deep-end interventions, urged the county to supplement volatile state reclaim dollars with county funds, and requested immediate probation staffing increases alongside planning funding for a local continuum-of-care.
Members of the Cuyahoga County juvenile-justice subcommittee recommended that the report present actions in a prevention-to-deep-end order and urged county leaders to commit funding to sustain diversion and community-based alternatives rather than rely solely on fluctuating state "reclaim" dollars.
"I think a county that cares about young people is going to invest in more prosocial activities, diversion, and supports for their families,"…
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