Children’s Advocates Roundtable

1. Children’s Advocates Roundtable The New Vision for Juvenile Justice – The Big Picture Panelist: Anna Johnson

2. 2019 - Implementation Efforts

3. A Positive Youth Justice System NICJR - David Muhammad • Strive to keep youth out of the system • Collaborate with youth and families • Build on strengths and address needs • Community based organizations should take the lead • Don’t lock youth up • Keep any probation time short • Keep youth in their homes and communities • Incarceration is harmful • Provide exceptional care • Reinvest https://nicjr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PYJS-Report-NICJR-Feb-2019.pdf

4. SB 439 (Mitchell):Keeping Younger Children Out of the Juvenile System • Establishes 12 years of age as the minimum age for which the juvenile court has jurisdiction and may adjudge an individual a ward of the court • Except for in the case of murder and forcible rape, sodomy or oral copulation.

5. SB 1812 (Asm Jones-Sawyer, Senator Bradford):Youth Reinvestment Grant • Improve outcomes for youth using trauma informed, community and health-based interventions in lieu of arrest and incarceration • $35,062,000, must be awarded to local jurisdictions through a competitive grant • Youth Reinvestment Grant – PDF • Bidder’s Conference February 14th, 2019

6. SB 1812 (Asm Jones-Sawyer, Senator Bradford):Tribal Youth Diversion Grant • Three percent, or $1,119,000, of the youth reinvestment grant must be awarded to Indian tribes for implementing diversion programs • Tribal Youth Diversion Grant - PDF • Bidder’s Conference is February 13th, 2019

7. SB 1811 (Assemblymember Gipson):Fostering Success Fund • $4 million to specifically support foster youth • Funds are for trauma informed community based interventions in lieu of arrest and incarceration • Funds dedicated to train law enforcement, group home and shelter staff - adolescent development practices, de-escalation techniques, culturally relevant and trauma informed interventions • Please register herefor the Webinar on February 12th, 2019

8. AB 2992 (Daly): CSEC Training for Law Enforcement • Requires CPOST to develop and implement a course on victims of human trafficking including the following topics: • Dynamics of CSEC • Impacts of trauma on development • Strategies to identify potential victims of commercial sexual exploitation • Mandatory reporting requirements related to commercial sexual exploitation • Appropriate interviewing, engagement and intervention techniques • Purpose, scope and use of interview resources • Local and state resources available to first responders • Perspectives of victims and their families • Issues of stigma • Other topics identified by subject matter experts

9. Prop 57: The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 • Permits parole for people with nonviolent convictions who complete the full sentence of their primary offense. • People who maintain good behavior and complete rehabilitation or education programs can earn credit toward release • Prevents prosecutors from transferring youth to adult court

10. SB 1391 (Lara): Keeping 14 and 15 Year-Olds Out of the Adult Criminal Juvenile System • Prohibits transfer of minors ages 14 or 15 from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction, unless the minor was not apprehended prior to the end of juvenile court jurisdiction.

11. 2019 - Advocacy Efforts

12. AB XXX (Stone): Expanding Prop 57 Credit Earning • Under Proposition 57, credit-earning opportunities were created for people positively participating in educational programs, vocational programs, leisure time activity groups, and for Good Time Credit. • These credit earning opportunities have allowed many people the opportunity to advance their release date, but these credits are not applied to the earliest possible parole hearing dates for people eligible for Youth Offender Parole or Elderly Parole. 

13. SB XXX (Monning): County Offices of Youth Development and Diversion (OYDD) • Established in Public Health • Coordinate interagency collaboration, • Manage youth diversion programs, • Fund community-based services as alternatives to arrest and incarceration • Establish a community-based infrastructure to link youth to culturally-relevant, trauma-informed, and developmentally-appropriate programs and services.

14. Youth Development and Pre-Arrest DiversionBudget Priorities • $80 million - Local Diversion Programs for youth disproportionately impacted by arrest and incarceration over a 3-year Youth Reinvestment Grant period • $10 million - Trauma-Informed Diversion Programs for Native American Youth • $10 million - Office of Youth Development and Diversion Pilot Counties • $7.575 million - Foster Youth Development, Diversion and Permanency Programs

15. Budget Ask: CSEC Training for Law Enforcement • Requires CPOST to mandate the AB 2992 training including the following topics: • Dynamics of CSEC • Impacts of trauma on development • Strategies to identify potential victims of commercial sexual exploitation • Mandatory reporting requirements related to commercial sexual exploitation • Appropriate interviewing, engagement and intervention techniques • Purpose, scope and use of interview resources • Local and state resources available to first responders • Perspectives of victims and their families • Issues of stigma • Other topics identified by subject matter experts