Detention Committee

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Newsletter Dec 2005

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Mission, Vision, Core Values for Detention Centers

2005 Meeting Minutes

2004 Meeting Minutes

Detention Committee meetings will be held in conjunction with every IPCSA conference, with a start time targeted for 9AM on the Wednesday of each conference. Anyone interested in attending the meetings is welcome, and anyone with an interest in joining the committee may do so by contacting Connie Kaiser at (217)384-3780  ckaiser@co.champaign.il.us

Detention Committee

 The Detention Committee had a great turnout for the meeting held April 26, 2006 in conjunction with the spring IPCSA conference in Springfield. Committee Chairperson, Connie Kaiser who also serves as the liaison between the Illinois Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative and IPCSA, shared the following update information regarding the JDAI and Detention Reform movement with the Detention Committee:

Quarterly JDAI sites meetings are being held and the effort continues to encourage support and participation by new sites

Efforts to educate probation, justice and community stakeholders on detention reform continue

A quality assurance process is being developed to ensure that accurate and timely data is entered into the JMIS system for all minors in detention-AOIC has been reviewing data and keeping in touch with counties regarding errors in reports

Effort is under way to utilize standard qualitative and quantitative data to measure progress of statewide initiative and for operational purposes--A standardized data collection tool has been provided to the JDAI sites in February in order to begin the collection of standardized data that will in turn be used for systematic improvement recommendations and decision-making

IJDAI data will be incorporated into the AOIC annual plan this year

Standardized detention screening instrument pilot is well under way-first batch of data has been gathered and examined by JDAI partners and sites, and effort to expand the pilot to include other facilities is also being made, with DHS gathering and disseminating the information

The JDAI partners are working with JDAI sites and other jurisdictions, as those jurisdictions indicate interest in reform, to identify the continuum of available and needed alternatives in their jurisdictions

JDAI partners will also assist sites with developing strategies to fill gaps in the continuum of community-based programs--The partnership with DHS appears to bring some meaningful assistance to all regions of the state as DHS has ties to services in the communities that are beneficial to Probation and Detention when they are seeking out community-based programs and services

JDAI sites are being asked to collect case processing data for review to identify and overcome barriers to expeditious case processing

Three JDAI sites with detention facilities have completed the Youth Law Center Model reviews of their facilities in an effort to assure that detention and alternatives’ facility conditions are safe and health and incorporate programming focused on building competencies and successfully returning youth to the community

Teams from the pilot sites involved in the Youth Law Center Model reviews with JDAI partners are debriefing regarding the process

A subcommittee comprised of detention managers, probation staff, AOIC and other stakeholders will come together to develop AOIC juvenile detention standards and plan for ongoing monitoring and a structure that will provide incentive to improve program standards

The JDAI partners are working with JDAI sites to assist them in how to identify and address issues of racial disparity and to assist juvenile detention centers in identifying and addressing the program needs of specific groups of residents

JDAI partners are assisting sites in review of detention data to identify and address special populations that drive detention usage in each site-i.e. alternative sanctioning for probation violators, contempt of court, etc.

JDAI partners are reviewing JDAI sites’ individual action plans and technical assistance and training plans are being developed to support the site action plans

All detention facility administrators and practitioners were encouraged and welcomed to participate I the effort to further the JDAI initiative and informed that any partner would be happy to provide guidance or suggestions about how to begin participation in the JDAI movement

      The Detention Committee urged AOIC and the JDAI partners to look closely at the Juvenile Detention Standards developed by the Detention Standards committee workgroup that was appointed in 2001. It is agreed by most detention administrators that those standards would be an appropriate starting point in developing such standards for adoption.

      Committee member, Keith Willis shared recent email correspondence with Senator Cullerton regarding Senate Bill 458 in which he expressed to Senator Cullerton many of the concerns of members of the detention committee related to the bill’s possible passage. Senator Cullerton acknowledged that she is aware of the increased personnel, programmatic and other costs that will be required. Senator Cullerton further expressed that she would be glad to hear from the Illinois Juvenile Detention Community regarding information we would like to provide or concerns that we would like given consideration in regard to this legislation that raises the age of delinquency. It was also agreed by detention committee members that any time a detention facility or jurisdiction was hosting training opportunities and it was possible to open the training for other counties’ staff participation, notices would be sent to neighboring counties to share such opportunities.