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Ensure your court's probation services meet the evidence-based interventions standard by incorporating relevant training and quality assurance processes. Take advantage of DYS-funded programs and technical assistance from the Bureau of Courts and Community Services. Host training sessions like Carey Guide and Motivational Interviewing to enhance your probation services. Identify risk levels using appropriate assessment tools to provide suitable intervention services. Grant-funded programs must incorporate evidence-based interventions for youth oversight and supervision.
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Enhanced Probation Services Perry Palumbo, Program Development Manager
Enhanced Probation Services • All courts funding probation staff under the Subsidy Grant will need to incorporate one or more evidence based interventions into their probation services by July 1, 2019. • Staff will need to receive relevant training, the intervention(s) will need to be implemented, and quality assurance processes put in place by that time. • The Bureau of Courts and Community Services will be available to provide technical assistance to courts.
Enhanced Probation Services • During FY 2018, DYS is providing over $300,000 in supplemental funds to courts for training, technical assistance, and program materials to enhance their probation services. At least 42 juvenile courts are involved in this process.
Enhanced Probation Services • Carey Guide training session will be hosted by the following courts – Adams, Clark, Hamilton, Jackson, Lake, Marion, Shelby, and Williams. • Motivational Interviewing training sessions will be hosted by the following courts – Clermont, Greene, Jefferson, Madison, and Montgomery. • The Hancock County Juvenile Court will host an EPICS training session and the Marion County Juvenile Court will host a Core Correctional Practice training session.
Other grant funded programs where court staff provide oversight and/or supervision of youth (such as drug court, special docket, truancy, or compliance programs) also will be need to incorporate an evidence-based or hybrid intervention in the near future. Activities such as community service, monitoring/curfew checks, etc., will not be required to meet this standard. In order to determine the risk level of youth (moderate and high risk youth should receive the intervention services, low risk youth may receive some limited intervention services), the court needs to be using a risk assessment tool with at least adjudicated youth (OYAS, YLS/CMI, YASI, GAIN, etc.). The OYAS is the preferred tool as it was specifically developed for Ohio youth. Grant funded diversion programs (including truancy diversion and mediation programs) will need to meet the critical diversion components of not requiring youth to attend a formal court hearing, and not requiring youth to participate in supervision probation-like services.
