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King County Superior Court At-Risk Youth Program
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| Contacts (1): |
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| Barbara Victome |
bvictome@dwafanm.org |
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Date Entered: |
11/18/2004 |
| City or Cities: |
Seattle |
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WA |
| Website: |
www.metrokc.gov |
Year of Inception: |
1995
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Geographic Area Covered:
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Countywide |
| Host Agency Name: |
King County Superior Court |
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Host Agency Type:
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Court
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Target Gender:
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Male, Female |
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Target Race/Ethnicity:
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African American, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, White |
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Target Grade:
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Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade |
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Target Income:
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Target Language:
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English, Spanish, Asian Pacific languages, African languages, Eastern European languages |
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Target Family Focus:
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Student only, Family-wide |
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Target Disciplinary Issues:
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Suspended youth, Expelled youth, Youth with juvenile justice involvement, status offenders |
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Other Characteristics:
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Youth overage for grade, Youth of age for grade but below grade level, School-based truancy professionals, Law-enforcement truancy professionals, Court-based truancy professionals
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| Description: |
This program uses multiple approaches along the truancy continuum to best respond to truant youth and their families. Community-based attendance workshops allow youth with few unexcused absences and no other major concerns to avoid formal court by creating an attendance contract. Community truancy boards allow youth and families a facilitated way to create an agreement with the school district to improve school attendance. Formal court and short-term case management provide a legal forum to resolve truancy and other issues for youth with multiple absences or concerns. The program provides technical assistance to schools and other agencies responding to youth in trouble.
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| How Program is Funded: |
Funding for this program comes from many sources including a state allocation to meet our mandated requirement to have a legal process, an OJJDP grant supports the attendance workshops and community truancy board development and county funding supports case management. |
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Evidence of Effectiveness:
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Internal evaluation in progress, Internal evaluation completed, External evaluation in progress
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How do you know your program is effective: The initial goal of the attendance workshops was to create more court time to hear more complicate truancy matters. In the first year of the workshops, preliminary hearings were reduced by 57%. In addition, 75% of the youth that attended did not go on to court on the truancy matter. This program asks for regular participant feedback on content and process in addition to more formal evaluation on the impact of programming on attendance, achievement and juvenile justice involvement.
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What has not worked in the program any why: Given the fact that this court serves 19 distinct school districts, it has been difficult to fully engage all of them in the pursuit of collaboration. Community truancy boards seem to be most effective when the court acts as a consultant in helping to establish them but they are operated and owned by the schools themselves.
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