Low enrollment in juvenile program prompts calls for contracting and system fixes
Commissioners heard that the county's juvenile treatment program has near-zero active participants and discussed using the vacant juvenile-therapist budget to contract services with local providers while coordinating courts and probation referrals.
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County staff reported that active enrollment in the county juvenile program is currently very low and that referral pathways from municipal and circuit courts are not yielding expected participants. Commissioners and staff expressed concern that juveniles who appear in local news coverage are not being routed into the county program.
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