The Clermont County Juvenile Detention Center will be providing trauma informed case management and services after being awarded $56,051 from the Ohio Department of Youth Services.
The DYS awarded $1,628,804 in funding to 23 counties through the Detention Alternatives and Enhancements Initiative, which was created to keep juveniles from continuing down a path of crime, according to a press release from the DYS.
“Implementation grants will help fund physical plant enhancements as well as expand alternatives to secure detention, services and supports provided within the facilities,” the release states.
The alternatives could divert an estimated 800 from secure detention by June 2017. In addition, the DYS estimates the funding will benefit 4,200 who are required to spend time in detention.
About $400,000 of the funding will go towards physical improvements.
The applications were due on March 15 and the DYS announced the decision on May 4. In the applications, counties had to write what the program would entail, the target population, how the center would track performance and how many youth use the program or are expected to be diverted because of the program and the outcomes, said Regina Lurry, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative state coordinator.
“We’re looking forward to getting them started,” Lurry said.
[For more of this story, written by Kelly Cantwell, go to http://clermontsun.com/2016/06...er-receives-funding/]
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