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Community Corrections director reports caseloads and new supports; Ottawa County has small local caseload
Summary
Michelle Callam, director of 28th Judicial Community Corrections, reported program caseloads and services, including a care closet, staff trauma supports, quarterly quality audits, youth-practice-model participation and that a state funding cut is on hold while the funding formula is analyzed.
Michelle Callam, Director of 28th Judicial Community Corrections, delivered a semi-annual update to the commission describing program size and recent initiatives. Callam said the program is serving 396 adults (three of them from Ottawa County), 79 adults on drug court, 97 pre-trial clients (three in Ottawa County), 88 juveniles (two from Ottawa County), and three Intake and Assessment Response cases located in Ottawa County. She described a newly started "care closet" to supply people returning from custody with season-appropriate clothing and other items and said the program has new staff supports for first- and secondary-trauma.
Callam said Community Corrections has contracted for quarterly quality-assurance assessments and participates in the Youth Practice Model that brings juvenile stakeholders together. She noted the Department of Corrections entered a two-year agreement with the state to pause funding cuts while the funding formula is analyzed and that she submitted a comprehensive plan describing program spending. "They have mailed in the comprehensive plan which tells the Kansas Department of Corrections what is being done with the money that is allocated," Callam said.
