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Board approves juvenile detention education contract and small grants for youth services
Summary
The commissioners approved a multi-year education contract to serve residents at the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center (ERESC reports serving ~93 students and 8 graduates last year) and approved a $57,000 Urban League agreement to support youth on probation.
The board approved a set of items from the Division of Youth Services that included a contracted education services agreement and a grant-funded program for probationary youth.
Warden Warren Barclay introduced education providers and ERESC superintendent Dr. Lati Walter McLeod described services for residents at the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center, saying the program ensures students meet graduation requirements and receive services aligned with their individual education programs (IEPs). Staff said ERESC currently serves about 93 students at the facility and that eight residents completed senior-year requirements and graduated last year.
Commissioners asked for outcome metrics such as graduation rates and per-student costs. McInerney and others suggested follow-up reporting on graduation and performance metrics would be useful. The board moved and approved Resolution 11, authorizing the education services contract and associated funding (board discussion noted the county provides $11.9 million for the program over the contract period as described in the presentation). The board also approved Resolution 12, a $57,000 agreement with the Urban League of Essex County to deliver life-skills and job-skills programming to youth on probation (grant-funded).
What happens next: Administration and the contracted provider will provide requested metrics to the board about graduation outcomes and per-student services as requested during the discussion.
