It was a full house at the Robert J. Cabral Agricultural Center on Wednesday as the San Joaquin County Probation Department, in partnership with the Sierra Health Foundation, announced the Positive Youth Justice Initiative.
The Positive Youth Justice Initiative is an experimental program that focuses on helping “crossover youths” who are stuck in a cycle of going in and out of the juvenile justice system, and have a traumatic background or a history with child welfare services.
Chief Probation Officer Stephanie L. James said that the San Joaquin County initiative had already received $75,000 from the Sierra Health Foundation, and would receive an additional $400,000 in the next two years.
...."Our county defined crossover youths as youths who are wards of the court, are being supervised in the community, and have scored high risk or moderate high risk on our validated risk assessment instrument, the Positive Achievement Change Tool."
..."By implementing the PYJI strategies (wraparound services, trauma informed care, reducing ethnic disparities, using data driven decision-making and focusing on positive youth development), we are striving to improve the health and social outcomes for our youths."
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