Boys and Girls Club seeks DOC grant as Codington County hears JDAI youth-diversion update
Lewis Canfield told commissioners the Juvenile Diversion Alternatives Initiative has an 87% reported completion rate this fiscal year (266 of 386 referrals) and recommended continuing state-funded racial/ethnic-disparities programming; commissioners authorized the Boys and Girls Club to apply for about $19,000 in DOC grant funding to support diversion services.
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The Codington County Commission received a fiscal-year update June 9 from Lewis Canfield, director of youth diversion at the Boys and Girls Club in Watertown, who said the county's Juvenile Diversion Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) continued to reduce juvenile detention exposure for most participants while 2025 showed a small increase in average daily population caused by a few high-level felony cases.
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