001[Music] Leslie 7c Lawrence Kelly Jo okay and I'm going to share a handout and I will acknowledge it stocks we are in the process of it stops at 1617 this our website by filling it back here so I will talk high-level about really beginning time you can follow this song referred to this as the candy waiting map and it starts down in your left hand corner and it just kind of walk you through how we got to where we are today so it actually started informally about two thousand five thousand people my time where there were some discussions around racial achievement disparities which we questions but during that time dr. Bruce Chapman was the deputy superintendent patients to support members and some district staff around how we can possibly start to look at the work
002and they did a book study and then a team attended the National and that team was made of district members dr. who's passing and Kevin Corral are the two that I know from district side and some community members and they went together and attended the summit back then there they attended beyond the birth that the decision was made for all the administrators to go through the training that was actually my first year or the summer after my first year I looked at Patrick because he was there too so he may be able to time in on some parts so all district administrators drilled in level district office and you're an administrator you attended be young and we said that near those are perched at the young diversity is a two-day training that the focus and
003purpose of it is to raise your level of racial consciousness and to talk about the disparities and the inequity specifically around white privilege and how full system so we all went through that and Lawrence high school can't we talk was introduced and it was pigeon only introduced by some black male community members to mentor black male students and it was talked about things that were happening in school as well as provide some mentorship so that started in 2002 2009-2010 next year at that time we contracted the PDG to do some surfaces there was a boardwalk workshop and then that was the district today and for members and administrators at the time I was a building principal so I'm speaking about the second they worked on the district equity they also established excellent home switch that
004I work for the next several years and also that year as far into our schools which we still currently have in place and the purpose of the Eaton the trip but it's to have a cadre of staff members that for instance you know about that it still continues most of these things that I'm talking about we and talk about as to where we right now so by the 1213 year we had a teens in all of our schools we started the avid program in avid is advancement and that was how to do specific strategies to for students take advanced classes help them to think about being in college and career-ready whether they choose to go to college or into her career it gives them some foundation you know the net that time PG has what
005they call the care program we introduced the care teams which they do more intentional walks around curriculum and equity we did at the time and 1314 we have some teams to connect the National summit be I think that's when we started staff of color or there was a discussion that says here that was a year that we hired teacher still serves in that capacity her title has changed Anika and Becky river Isen so they can be first be training because it was a cost savings to us to have internal people do it then we've started to create our own equity on it so the district got to be leadership it's like who's enrolled in classes differently different checkpoints or internal equity we started to view allocated data the quantitative data to drive and we started
006to be more about recruiting staff of color and also introduced the stock of color and support 1415 prior to this we didn't really have a strategic plan around how teachers were theme our teachers and staff were going through the university at this time we forward all of our numbers and we were more intentional about saying which schools have how many seats and we planned out beyond diversity that and so since then over ninety percent of our staff has been trained in at the certified staff majority of them were probably closer to like 95 percent but because of the constant turnover rate high staff and then finding time things that's where we always will probably we the focus of our annual MLK celebration recognized our staff a partnership with Kay use both the culture center and
007some activities and then one of the first early community partnerships and the partner but their staff we always provide for them our students are then 1516 we started to talk about Odysseys so this is something we're continue to talk about like having an equity policy we created a culture with relevant rubric for curriculum just to have a way for Lance to look at and then we also trained our ESC departments and they started their year we also introduced passports that year and they at that time their particular focus was around some policies and that were impacting students Harbin lies in that particular area after Klan we start to look at like our common areas our restrooms and our locker rooms and how that fortunately relevant we introduced culturally relevant teaching which is abaddon training and
008it specifically again his specific as well we started to learn more intentionally with our past program and plus some support so all of our second different students have a club or route where students can take part of can we talk how to continue through this but now it is open to any progress of how they end up identified racially or if they start to talk about Mike we start to be more intentional about microaggressions and offering microaggression also adopted the one to one that year but I also have to look at it with a equity have access to Internet and we partnered with the Schools Foundation in that first year and they provided the jeans which is a hot spot so we didn't stop in 1617 of Japan updated many of you know like 16
00917 boys laughing so for us dr. dole retired and when pile of the superintendent and has a community and we've just experienced some challenges and some opportunities during that year and so it forced us and really take a hard look and listen to our community about what how we were moving forward with we had to take a step back and we begin to refocus the deputy advisory I mean I kind of we had shifted them when our home was hired to 1617 was that each school would have but it really wasn't happening so at the end of the 17 18 some were doing it better than others but it wasn't at a level I would say satisfaction to several community members being engaged and we now our values we can assume once a month in
010this representation of a variety of parents as that our make sure that their five council and other they also started a delta which is an advisory group made up for only parents of color parents there they buy of racially as a person of color and they have a student also identified as well we knew the film as well once a month so the first year we spent a lot of time like identifying our purpose there this hurt here last year a lot of the focus around it so they provided a lot of influent that and they also provided a lot of input around what is informing our strategic plan we are so what the ship we also started a partnership for with the Midwest complaint thinner and it's a federally funded program that provides specific
011technical assistance to districts and our partnership initially with them to one they were helping us specifically around how did we engage our community typically and help so that they can make sure that they feel like that they're being heard and we are listening to them and wrapping back around and using data to make decisions they also helped us to relook at our culturally relevant rubric which we don't follow the rubric anymore because it was kind of check books are told that we are now intentionally embedding with our curriculum as but this year we on the front end we were trying to be more intentional about being proactive of the betting equity that then here in the future they're going to partner with us and our port members to really thoughtful about how the adoption will
012be policy around equity so that it's in what we do so we continue our partnership with EEG on diversity has Foundation Rachel we also partner with Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the library this past year they reached out to us and asked that they have their staff members attend beyond diversity so this entire year they had beyond diversity that we host and we're helps them learn to live first and second and the libraries actually so I'm not the library the hospital so they're sending 30 engage all of our those partnerships that we have the boys and girls in far more library there may be some others that I'm forgetting but are in the midst of and our strategic planning process of making such for some it felt like it's an isolation or our data we did
013it early on see early in the gaps and some of our disparities pressure disparities and then plateau and then some took a dip so we are now I mean we continue to be more intentional about that so what the firm who we partner with to do our strategic plan all the research shows and as we look at the research ask to be embedded so who yawn diversity is the specific education group is there two days foundational training and basically when it the poor agreements in which we have most of our spaces in the district to use either a engaged speak your truth variance discomfort in it and it's expected and except not enclosure is the foundation which is the premises are and so when you go we participate in the facilitators look at data look
014historically at the disparities and provides the historical contacts around why we see the disparities and then the six conditions which are a little or and for some that takes you know file to like apply it to what you do daily daily but the first one is to focal focus on the personal local intermediate the second one is to isolate race and when the focus on personal local immediate just means early generalize or say well they are that is to talk about your own personal experience in definitely use I statements - roller phrase just means asking what this race have to do with this situation or and when you're asking that question and she's make a lot of the impact that race may have on the situation they sitter and it also unfortunately to think about
015it really had a how race is impacting it you may have some listen voices at the table as well and that's number three which is normalized social conscious right and multiple perspectives so to Addison who's a part of this conversation that probably should be a part of the conversation and how do I think gay in the conversation fourth condition is to monitor and grieve with the agreements which about the conversation you're doing then the fifth one is to use a working definition of great as I'll come to a space and how we're defining race may be buried in the sixth one is to examine the president's involvement whiteness so just thinking about historically and institutionally how decisions were made policy was made possible could be in the compass I gave you the agreements into the
016dip I heard you are or you think actually and just centering yourself so that you can't be gay or emotional which is really fun more meetings are challenging but our journey has been ball county okay Pike expectancy oh my deal and first achievement so what we're doing now is conversations about what we see those gaps are in terms of perfectly doing but what we're doing here today is a true testament to what of what's really possible and so I tell people that we can be the best school district that we have resources in that okay talking about Rick's but now let's talk about where we see the gaps in terms of poverty the gaps in terms of fairly things how we so there are some challenges but I'm excited about our that will what we
017want to do this partner culture so our staff is what I want to do is legacy work so when all of us we can look back in two years and say we've got a part I'm really kind of where we are like some of these images you I can say what I've observed is in but my experience have been I think seems still more big man had a filter this day they'll share like something all out and also Oh those students I think profession I was on this electric committee and they all talked about the meaning suppose they had no idea that was the biggest change I face of what an AP class room looked like really did I would say the other thing I saw as a teacher you know the reality is in
01813 years I worked for a super-intense federal federal turnover that occurs and this is one of the few one of the few ideas that visitors it's actually you know and I think that gets a great little buying staff when we custom to we have a superintendent and they throw out there this is kind of their their piece and then they gone and that piece is gone and that's in a filing cabinet this is stuck around I mean this predate I think that on that really doesn't only answer your question but that's what in that becomes part of the work they do what we've seen is this kind of individual then I'll just to battle apatriquen said there were like I think we like where we're in challenge on the challenges that we see with kids
019often kinds of that really childhood it that's a space for all of you touch financial we all [Music] so I I'm Casey to me I'm one of our assistant city managers for the city and two years ago in an effort that we'll get to eventually the city manager named me as our lgbtq+ liaison for our executives office and in that role I have sort of become a champion for equity and expanded into terms of racial equity in our organization here over the last year and Commissioner Ananda and I have worked a little bit visit with all of you today and we're going to talk a little bit about our recruitment hiring and benefits kind of policies and practices as an organization and then spend a little bit of time talking about some of our work
020with our advisory boards and commissions and then we'll get into a little bit about the government Alliance on race and equity our municipal Equality Index scorecard and then oh I got those in the wrong order and then the DMC study and I think the county may be speaking about that so we'll probably breeze through that one but just to kind of go back up to the top and talk a little bit about our recruitment hiring and benefits so as an employer and the city has been trying to be oh I liked the words more intentional we have been trying to be much more intentional with the work that we're doing in terms of being a attractive employer and recruiting diverse applicant pools some of our work has been through being much more intentional in our
021outreach efforts in terms of recruiting so looking to some maybe some organizations that we haven't looked to in the past two aimed at tracking a more diverse applicant pool so maybe that is the black municipal officials organization or women in law enforcement trying to reach out to folks to again recruit a more diverse applicant pool another effort that we made last year was to remove any question about criminal convictions on city applications so there has been a ban the Box effort you may have heard of that and so last year we were able to remove that off the front end of our city job application now that's not to say post offer that we don't still conduct appropriate background track background checks we do do that but the thought is by eliminating that on the
022front end you're not preventing folks who might otherwise be qualified from positions from applying also in terms of recruiting and hiring practices we have tried to increase diversity on our hiring panels in our organization racial equity continues to be an area where maybe we aren't as diverse as we could be so racial diversity on our hiring panels isn't always something that we're able to achieve but when we expand that definition networking definition of equity and we look at other areas whether it's gender or age or maybe position in the organization we try really hard to reach not just having all the higher-level managers on a hiring panel not having only municipal services and operation employees hiring those folks that are serving in that department again just attempts at trying to be aware of our implicit
023biases and try to get some diversity of perspective looking at that folks we do have annual diversity training or I'm sorry every other year diversity training for all of our employees and then each year our employees are also required to review and sign a statement of individual respect and that talks about how they behave in their workplace and how they interact with their workers their co-workers and their colleagues as far as benefits the city as an employer has also done some work in recent years to try to extend health care and other benefits in this area to domestic partners so the city is self-insured for our health care so because of that we're able to do a little bit maybe then some other agencies might be able to but there are a number of areas
024where we can control and define the familial relationship for those benefits so we've been able to do that in the in recent years and then also here recently we've been able to offer more trans gender inclusive benefits in our healthcare package that we offer to our employees and they're there it's the word I'm looking for dependents so we've been able to make some progress in that area I think missionary ananda is going to talk a little bit about our advisory boards and commissions for two sixty two out of a hundred possible point art on increasing ours finally a crime report you apparently has been order to get additional points just because we want the point but because we do want I self-selected group pack yourself through or they'll there I really like your to-do list
025obviously I'm only but one thing that I love for us to dig in more with me to job shadowing happy kids don't necessarily have to have some kind of college degree to get into that if we can somehow create a pipeline but I don't know if I talked to you about how how some high schools actually work but so is our water streets department yeah sorry just probably first off your face okay so just finally because if they don't feel like they want so especially since that department I know I guess what I would say is I have enough data say that again I've been sort of sitting good baby it's just been a nature items on my to-do list another comments I ain't sure we don't know what you don't know and so yes
026also really should how amazing would be over the way that time frustrated we need to start focusing on starting a new business those are very findeth and I think the chamber not that I want to speak for you but I think that is even have a shadowing well you try and help all organizations that are looking actually Kobe Wilson their director Patrick on the school's Foundation Board as well and so we'll probably need to work on having maybe one organization that really I think is the point person for these shadowing opportunities so filter get people to that opportunities without having too many places trying to coordinate with employers so they start the condition [Music] so okay what I when when we did the study session primarily is the session culminated in what are we gonna
027do with JDC in the future because things have changed sorry humans attention in the future because things have changed pretty dramatically the county signed on to the Annie casey foundation's juvenile detention alternatives initiatives in 2011 and part of the initiative is you're looking at conditions and confinement you're looking at risk assessment tools intake you're looking at probation culture and those kinds of things and through that work there are five counties in Kansas who signed on decklist being one of them Wyandotte Johnson Sedgwick and Shawnee and through that work really is what culminated in Senate bill 367 because a lot of a lot of things we're putting in place we're making a huge impact in terms of youth ending up in the deep end of the system so I wanted to kind of just share with
028the county and with you all where we're at and what we saw last year in terms of our kiddos last year well maybe it's been two years ago the county kind of reorganized and put most of the functions under one umbrella in terms of all county responsibilities in terms of youth and adults and so those those fall within my department so first of all criminal justice services involves these things Juvonen take assessment transient diversion immediate intervention programs conditions the conditions of release day school Community Corrections and jewelled attention those are all the juvenile functions that fall within my department and so we just talked about intake and assessment is where any youth in the community can be brought by law enforcement it can be zero to 18 can come through intake either as a child
029need of care which would be out of the care and control of a parent and/or as an alleged offender so in 2018 this kind of shows you where our intakes look like as you can see the juvenile offenders basically a count for 55 percent of the kiddos that we saw in intake there were 126 and there are 95 child needed care cases and there were six youth who fall within both categories one of the things that kind of skews well doesn't ask you because we don't really show it but one of the things that changes a part of the jda I work is that we have what we created was what they call an ata an agreement to appear and so an officer in the field rather than taking time and bringing a youth to
030intake can issue them a ticket and then they have 48 hours to report to intake to to go through the intake process but that way we don't take officers off the street and we don't have youth coming to intake unnecessarily for minor acting out kind of behaviors so you can kind of see the age groups I mean primarily what we're seeing is teenagers which shouldn't surprise anyone and 2018 and that's fairly specific we took over intake and assessment last July so we haven't had a full year so this is really six months worth of data for 2018 that we had this is just the demographic as you can see it's primarily male primarily white and primarily non-hispanic youth that we see I still think that's a fairly large african-american number coming into intake relative to
031the community community's population of people of color here we go so the the juvenile justice reform efforts basically when we have this detention assessment instrument we determine if they can qualify for detention most youth are not going to qualify a simple battery assault behavior at school whatever shoplifting those are not going to qualify you'll be booked and released but you will not come into detention at all so it's really detention is reserved for you that can be a really serious crime so we have some shooters in there and people who have done some pretty serious stuff so what we see is a dramatic shift in the population in detention away from minor offenses to more like felony level offenses or and or currently acting out generally the only thing we override for is if there's
032a weapon involved so if there's a gun involved we will do an override for the court to review and what that happens so you can see in 2018 the notice to appear what we call an ata accounted for two hundred ninety nine two thousand nine hundred twenty two notice of two appears were issued in Douglas County which it's called agreement to appear not Douglas cane in the state of Kansas there were two thousand nine hundred twenty two in Lawrence we call it an agreement to appear but it's been it's had a significant impact in not having kids coming into the system and necessarily this is just some agreement to appear data you can see over the years kind of what it looks like in our community this is just Douglas County data we would notify
033the district attorney that they didn't appear before us we will will continue to to attempt to contact him and generally if they end up going to court we're gonna see him again for the processing piece we do all the booking of juveniles for the sheriff's office sure well nan agreement to appear means that those are youth who are brought in by law enforcement to intake so we're trying to do is avoid having law enforcement off the street yes this includes everybody mm-hmm no generally though most 80s are current criminal behavior because most people most youth who are child need to care they're looking at what are we going to do with this youth and we're the response we're responsible for finding a place for them to land you know with the relative other parent or
034someone else in the community who care for them so it's primarily just criminal offenses that get the ATA but it might be something minor like a shoplift at Dylan's or Walmart or something like that and it wouldn't rise to the level of needing to be brought in because the crime isn't very serious [Music] it's yeah they can be 0 at 18 and it's generally out of the care and control of parents if the parents have been arrested if the youth is out after curfew and they can't find a parent to release them to I mean there's just a variety of reasons that a youth might be a child need a care most generally we can place them back at home with with you know some work getting getting a hold of the responsible parents to
035take them there are times we put youth in police protective custody because there's issues at home that need to be resolved and so they can go into PP see what they call the police protective custody for 72 hours and then they're going to be seen before the judge to decide the next course of action for that for that kiddo it's really a good cooling-off period to so if you have an issue at home it may not be something where you need to be removed but it may be a good cooling off or ready to kind of sit back and reevaluate what's going on everything yeah also we years ago we took over the K you turrón Singh diversion program from SR what was then SRS which is now C DCF and they originally had one
036staff member was the support person for that program and opted not to to continue and we felt like that was the biggest deciding point where a youth might end up in the deep end of the system is if we can't get him reengaged in school and so the county at that time we made a decision to provide the staff support to the kku truancy program so we could try and keep these kids in school and not end up in the deep end of the system yeah yeah it's a it's been a really great program we do it with the school applied Behavioral Sciences they have senior intern students who mentor students that are on the Trinity caseload and they're required to meet with them so many hours a week doing academic work and then just
037fun time activities when they're succeeding in attending school and as you can see we worked with 71 youth in the 2017-2018 school year it's always hard because the school year doesn't really fall within a calendar year but even if we get a youth assigned for truancy say in May and we haven't really had a chance to work with them we're gonna carry that case over into the fall and provide them a support so hopefully we don't start with the currency problem at the beginning of the next year and that's kind of different because SRS used to close the cases all at the end of May regardless of the status and if they've not completed we continue to keep that case open and offer services to the family in the hopes that we can keep those
038kids in school day school is really what we're seeing when we only serve kids to ninth grade and then mostly what we're seeing in day school is the youth that are going to the shelter currency program who are not successful we've seen a huge uptick in the number of currency students who attend a school and it's worked out really well it's been great and the day school is a fabulous partnership between the county of the court and the school district and we serve a tenant I think last year we ended the school year with 41 students assigned today school after ninth grade they go to these shelters trancey program so we only do it with it has to do with there are there are two different truancy programs applied be here with sciences he's at
039the K you Management Center he's doing law enforcement leadership classes yeah it's similar kind of yeah that's funded by the county aligned with day school yep yeah it had to do with compulsory attendance and that youth can sign out in high school so we just had to have some kind of a cut-off to determine who would serve whom this so this just shows you the age groups of the youth that we served that was sort of surprising to me when we took over turan see I didn't realize we would need car seats for students and you know we know those are family issues more than they are kid issues but we really do continue to work with them and and we offered the mentoring services even after they complete currency so youth have the opportunity
040to continue with their mentor even they've completed the program and we have a lot of youth who take us up on that because they really enjoy the relationship with the K you interns hmm I don't have it with me but I can get it for you mm-hmm yeah it's an incredibly successful program so we feel like if we it's one of those risk and protective factors if you can get kids engaged in school and feel connected in school feel success in school they're more likely to complete high school and obviously go into more success in terms of earning this is just the demographic by gender race and ethnicity ethnicity and a school we've had day school for 21 years surprising even I have to got surprised by that it's something we started back in 1988
041with the district court to superintendent at the time what was happening it in 1998 was the detention center was over full we were over capacity trying to figure out what we're gonna do with kids and what we did was we kind of did a breakdown of who was in there and primarily the reason they were in there was for probate probation violations related to school attendance and/or school behavior and so with the 51 thousand dollar grant we started a school in detention and we felt like if we could provide more supports in the community and keep that kid in school we could keep him from being in the deep end or being out of home placement all together and I think it's been incredibly successful at doing that when we started when we took over
042when we took over case management from SRS when the juvenile offender caseload moved to the county we had about a hundred youth in custody at that time right now well now would not be the factor because we don't have kids and cassadee other than at the Correctional Facility but our case that would be less than fifteen before we ended case management for offenders so it was significant and we were keeping more kids at home and not needing out of home placement and even when we have we have kids in day school who are in kvc custody Cavalli's center custody but a tenday school every day even though they don't live in the community they're from this community and they attend school here and it's just I think it's just a way for some stability it's
043something that they know and feel supported in we have a number of kids graduate from day school but I don't know if we have that I'm sure we could dig it up because we keep ridiculous amounts of information this just shows you the average daily population in a school for the last through 2018 I think this is probably through December based on when we did these presentation for the county yeah we have a number of kids who graduate from high school and or completed GED that's the other thing we do is if if they're not in a position to graduate because of their credits we're going to work towards looking if they're able to pass a GED so we'll do all the pretest and even facilitate their attendance at GED completion and will follow through
044until they get it done and we pay for it we make sure it happens so that we can ensure that that they finished their high school curriculum in one way or another this kind of just shows you the 2018 you can see the number of child needed care or turn Z cases as well it's not up from there year before but we're just seeing a lot more of it than we did in the years past which I think it's a really good use of day school then this is the demographic just breaking down by generation ethnicity again four-day school students and in those two school years then we have the juvenile offender programs immediate intervention programs is what if came out of Senate bill 367 so if the youth comes to intake and they committed
045a shoplifting or it can be really almost any battery obstruction that kind of thing they can be offered an IIP which is essentially a supervised diversion there are four levels of that diversion and that's prescribed so the like administrative level it's three months we absolutely have no contact with the youth and they can complete without any interaction we don't have any more law enforcement contact then the case closes and there's no criminal charges or anything so all that is dropped and so the next each level has a prescribed timeline in half and we're allowed to actually converse or meet with that student or that youth and we found that to be pretty successful we're actually in Kansas Lawrence the number one Douglas County's the biggest user of IEP across the whole state which is pretty
046amazing we're pretty pleased and then conditions are released supervision basically those are youth who are detained but the courts want to be supervising them until they determine what's going to happen next and so if a youth is on an IEP or conditions of release if they end up getting subsequent charges we will count the time they're good time towards their next sentence if they have a sentence so for youth on conditions of release has been on conditions of release or six months but there's would be nine they're only going to have three minutes of supervision in addition to what they very done so we count all that time so they have more control of when they're done than they used to so it's a really positive thing as you can see the supervised diversion or
047supervised probation the numbers are way down it's to 25 and this is what we kind of anticipated with the new law is we wouldn't see as many youth adjudicated or have criminal records we would see more youth dealt with in the early phases and we wouldn't see as many kids come full circle we have eight youth and juvenile correctional facility at this time I will tell you all of them are on the honors pod every single one of them so that's a really positive thing so obviously they've gotten a lot of out of their time with us and with the state conditional releases youth that are we that are released from the correctional facility that we monitor for a period of time they determine that they don't commit new crimes we have to curtis's supervision
048youth who are out of County kids that came to our County to live and we supervise them for other courts and then we had three youth that came from out of state that we supervised for other states it kind of gives you an idea of who we're seeing at the facility well the eye piece brand-new we only started that JD seemed that the detention numbers are way down and we anticipate they will stay down and that's why we're trying to figure out how we want to reach people or what do we want to do we had a recent meeting with DCF about the crossover kids who are really offenders but they're really on the child needed care side of the world and they're having a hard time finding appropriate placements July 1st there's the big
049change where we won't they want to allow what they call valid quarter or violators kids who run away from placements constantly are now able to be in a detention or a secure care center that will no longer the detention portion will and on July 1st so there's about I want to say 25 youths that are in detention centers for running behaviors and they've got to figure out what to do it's a moduli one they're panicked and I think we want to help be a part of that solution but we haven't made all the decisions about how that's going to look like I said we're diverting kids they said in Kansas with tooth they had 1788 kids diverted through IIP and we're a big part of that this is just a demographic on the immediate intervention
050programs like I said they're basically four levels pre and post and they're prescribed so it tells you the most of the kids were level one which would be like super like administration level and most of those clothes we never actually sometimes suggest to have to call him to do the paperwork and that's the last time we see him so 60 68 percent show it's successful on just that initial IEP and they can still take they can still help be offered an additional IEP so it's not like you're gonna go into court because you failed one time we'll talk to the DA and say we want to give us kiddo another try or they may want us to give them another try and so they could still pass in the second or even third time it's
051just they're gonna get they may move up a level but they're still going to be given the opportunity not to have a criminal history this is just the IEP demographic conditions of release like you said it's kids who've been in the detention center that the courts want to release on supervision and we're gonna monitor them fairly low level the thing about statistics in detention are in even in criminal justices they're not always clean because think people carry over from year to year and so you don't want to count them too many times so we try to be very careful about that so this just tells you the average daily population of youth on conditions of release and then the average length of stay on conditions of release for those youths so the average length of
052sailin conditions our release has increased but then there was only three and 2018 I'm having a hard time with your this is the graph the demographics on those youth on conditions of release just so you have an idea of who we're serving I believe this presentation is on the on the county website so if you want to look at it you're welcome to do so then in 20 some er of 2017 fall of 2018 we started house or a fall of 2017 we started house arrest and the house arrest was really first established for the adults but the commission made a decision to include juveniles as well so house arrest is set up so the court can put a youth or adult on house arrest that we do not charge that client any money we
053don't want to be be a barrier for them being released because they can't afford it so we have a number of youth any given time usually nine about nine kids that are on can some kind of house arrest program and they're monitored by staff house arrest staff and by detention center staff on the evenings and weekends so we only had so this kind of gives you the demographic of the daily rate for those and everything like this day on house arrest so generally it's usually youth who've come through the detention center that the court wants to give the opportunity to go back in the community and maintain community ties maintain jobs and try and be successful without being in the institution and this is the Community Corrections demographics average like this day and the ADP
054for youth and its of supervised probation so the average daily population decrease by 3% but the length of stay increased by 8% from one year to the next and we kind of anticipated that more serious offenders who were assigned to jasp would end up staying larger because they have longer sentences based on more serious crimes because if their lower level or low-risk they would probably be assigned to court services and those are the youth who are not going to spend as much time on supervision and this is just the demographics for isp youth in 2017 2018 as a comparison and then we just talked about the future of je-vc and we don't need to talk about that mm-hmm yes well it's basically traffic stops I believe is what they're studying it's actual traffic stops not
055arrests I mean they're gonna they are going to evaluate each traffic stop and what happened at that traffic stop arrests occurred but it's not going to really impact what we're doing I think you know the state's working on some things to look at DMC we've been looking at it for a long time our numbers are down but the dis personality of it hasn't changed unfortunately and that is part of the work of the antique AC foundation although there's been some turnover at do you see at department Corrections so we have not had a leader in that respect and hopefully we'll get back to that task of looking at racial and ethnic disparities in the correctional system and it's not just on the juvenile side it's on the adult side as well if you look at
056every demographic we have as a department you're gonna see that disparity everywhere we can get through the DMT study first for ya for that and then use those no we don't really I mean we asked him about it to make sure that we're meeting their needs but we don't track it at the meeting these crossover youth what you know Katie you see juvenile services busy patting themselves I'm back because we've kept a lot of kids out of the system but we've really just shifted some of that issue to the DCF side of the world there are a number of youth already who are what they call one eight or where they spend the night in the office or in a foster home and come back out every day to the office I want to say
057there's 75 kids that are doing that currently so we know there are 25 youth and detention centers for unning behavior the minute we open the door they're going to keep running and and I think there's they're just some management issues with certain kids that need more services that the current programs and services that DCF have aren't going to meet their needs correct or through Cavalli it could be through KBC but they're technically assigned to the custody of DCF who with with whichever management agency supervises them in their jurisdiction you'll see KBC you'll see you think custody yes for sure question because really it's a housing in issue I don't know I mean I know at one time we had to stop the first stop program for kids and placements believing the placements have kind of
058it's kind of been an interesting thing where they wanted to shift the defenders out of the offender world but they kind of closed there was this whole situation where they separated child Anita care kids from juvenile offender kids because they were supposedly so harmful for each other but now we're right back to where we were we're just not calling them offenders where they're really they're classified as child Anita care they may have some offender issues but a lot of times it's they have a lot of mental health issues and/or behavioral issues that make them very difficult to serve [Music] I think the issue have been it's more of a housing problem than a and then the school connect the school connection is involved because if you can't find housing in the community where the youth
059resides and you can't stay connected to school so it's like an all-around failure if you can't get youth served in the community [Music] mm-hmm yeah in the Kansas in Kansas in the Northeast in Northeast in northeast Kansas there's about twenty five kids and detentions I'm sorry Oh two do I think from Douglas and that doesn't mean I don't know what other kids in Douglas are insecure care I don't know how many kids are insecure care I was saying in Northeast I'm sorry I should have been there to either secure care or something take off mm-hmm yeah how do you engage them yeah so there's there's a real there's secure care centers in Geary County st. Francis has one at subject county there's nothing in the northeast for kids and secure care a one-nighter yeah yeah
060he was in at Justin and he would come back every day it's unconscionable to think a kid's gonna live it basically out of a suitcase every day you'd go to the KBC office get his clothes go to Ashton for the night come back to the day school in the day go to go to KBC office go back to HSN no it's your Lawrence mm-hmm but we've we've had the bus drop him off at KBC and afternoon we don't have a wish list sometimes the dilemma is that they want to stay in Disco but we have no legal reasons to keep them and the school districts been we do a nice credit recovery in the summer month of June and it's basically you stay as long as it takes you to complete the work it's amazing
061how quickly they get worked in when they know that they can control their out date they it's really productive it was really successful I think we only have two left they're still attending out of the 21 summer school for some of the students this is the first success they feel in school partly because they don't attend and they're just I mean they have a history of failure and so when their get connected and they have supports and they really see good grades and I mean they're not it's not because of lack of intelligence it's really a lack of attendance a lack of feeling supported in school for whatever reason that is and sometimes it's the fine amic in terms of valuing academics and valuing attendance in school because I think sometimes be able to look
062at the long-term cost of not attending school or not graduating it's big well thank you for your time [Music]