2007 California Welfare and Institutions Code Article 2. Performance And Accountability

CA Codes (wic:1960-1962)

1960.  The Legislature finds and declares that local youthful
offender justice programs, including both custodial and noncustodial
corrective services, are better suited to provide rehabilitative
services for certain youthful offenders than state-operated
facilities. Local communities are better able than the state to
provide these offenders with the programs they require, in closer
proximity to their families and communities, including, but not
limited to, all of the following:
   (a) Implementing risk and needs assessment tools and evaluations
to assist in the identification of appropriate youthful offender
dispositions and reentry plans.
   (b) Placements in secure and semisecure youthful offender
rehabilitative facilities and in private residential care programs,
with or without foster care waivers, supporting specialized programs
for youthful offenders.
   (c) Nonresidential dispositions such as day or evening treatment
programs, community service, restitution, and drug-alcohol and other
counseling programs based on an offender's assessed risks and needs.

   (d) House arrest, electronic monitoring, and intensive probation
supervision programs.
   (e) Reentry and aftercare programs based on individual aftercare
plans for each offender who is released from a public or private
placement or confinement facility.
   (f) Capacity building strategies to upgrade the training and
qualifications of juvenile justice and probation personnel serving
the juvenile justice caseload.
   (g) Regional program and placement networks, including direct
brokering and placement locating networks to facilitate out-of-county
dispositions for counties lacking programs or facilities.



1960.5.  (a) The State Commission on Juvenile Justice, pursuant to
Section 1798.5, shall develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master
Plan. On or before January 1, 2009, the commission shall develop and
make available for implementation by the counties the following
strategies:
   (1) Risk and needs assessment tools to evaluate the programming
and security needs of all youthful offenders and at-risk youth.
   (2) Juvenile justice universal data collection elements, which
shall be common to all counties.
   (3) Criteria and strategies to promote a continuum of
evidence-based responses to youthful offenders.
   (b) In drafting the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan, the
commission shall take into consideration both of the following:
   (1) Evidence-based programs and risk and needs assessment tools
currently in use by the counties.
   (2) The costs of implementing these strategies.
   (c) On or before May 1, 2008, the commission shall provide an
interim report to the Legislature, which shall include the status of
the work of the commission and the strategies it has identified to
date.



1961.  On or before January 1, 2008, each county shall prepare and
submit to the Corrections Standards Authority for approval a Juvenile
Justice Development Plan for youthful offenders who have not
committed an offense described in subdivision (b) of Section 707 and
are in the custody of the county commencing September 1, 2007. The
plan shall include both of the following:
   (a) A description of the programs, placements, services, or
strategies to be funded by the block grant allocation pursuant to
this chapter, including, but not limited to, the programs, tools, and
strategies outlined in Section 1960.
   (b) A description of any regional agreements or arrangements to be
supported by the block grant allocation pursuant to this chapter.
   (c) A description of how these new programs coordinate with
programs under Chapter 353 of the Statutes of 2000 (A.B. 1913).




1962.  (a) The Corrections Standards Authority, in consultation with
the Division of Juvenile Facilities, may provide technical
assistance to counties, including, but not limited to, regional
workshops, prior to issuing any Request for Proposal.
   (b) The Corrections Standards Authority may monitor and inspect
any programs or facilities supported by block grant funds allocated
pursuant to this chapter and may enforce violations of grant
requirements with suspensions or cancellations of grant funds.