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Committee endorses state grant for Hartford's youth diversion team, will forward to full council
Summary
The Labor, Education, Workforce and Youth Development Committee heard a presentation on a state-funded youth diversion team (formerly juvenile review board), learned the program's $254,000 budget is chiefly for caseworkers and that the Village for Families and Children is the subcontractor; the committee voted unanimously to send a favorable recommendation to full council.
Assistant Majority Leader Amica Hernandez, chair of the Hartford Labor, Education, Workforce and Youth Development Committee, opened the February virtual meeting and invited Christina Baldwin, director of the City of Hartford Department of Families, Children and Youth, and Chris Marceli, assistant director for youth services, to present a state grant for the city's youth diversion team.
"This is our youth diversion team grant, formerly known as the juvenile review board grant," Baldwin said, framing the program as part of the city's Youth Service Bureau (YSB) responsibilities under state law. Marceli said the diversion team offers an alternative path for justice-involved youth and clarified eligibility: referrals are for arrestable…
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