Commissioners authorize nearly $2.0 million in juvenile-court contracts for youth services

The Montgomery County Board of Commissioners authorized a cluster of Juvenile Court contracts on June 30 covering mentoring, emergency foster care, clinical oversight and multiple treatment and program services for court-involved youth for the July 1, 2026'June 30, 2027 contract year.

Resolutions approved individual contracts with maximum amounts: Clean Enterprises Ltd. for mentoring and cognitive-behavioral skills ($75,000); Daybreak for emergency foster care at up to $120 per bed per day (up to $43,800); Dr. Dennis Bingham for health-care oversight ($32,508); Deron Bell for community-based intervention ($75,000); neuropsychological assessments ($18,000); Johnny William Myers III for clinical services ($16,908); Lighthouse Youth Services inpatient sex-offender treatment ($193,000) and related outpatient services ($61,000 and $40,000); Michelle Schultz for mental-health services ($22,380); National Youth Advocate Program contracts including a $676,162.74 BHJJ FFT/IHBT program; South Community behavioral health services ($257,920); Sunlight Village mentorship ($200,000); Unlocking Potential Therapies ($210,256); and Wright State University quality-assurance services ($29,925). The sum of the listed line items is $1,974,859.74.

The resolutions set contract terms generally from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. The contracts cover an array of services intended to provide treatment, mentoring and community-based alternatives for court-involved youth. Commissioner Mary McDonald referenced recent workforce and community investments in her remarks to the board, noting in part that one local employer "plans to add more than six hundred jobs over time," to underscore broader workforce and social-support trends discussed separately at the meeting.

The items were presented as part of the consent docket; no separate public debate on the individual contracts was recorded in the minutes.