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Sedgwick
County Department of Corrections
2008
- 2009 Key Initiatives
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To reduce recidivism and promote public
safety, assigned staff at each program is responsible to implement and
refine an approved plan of evidence-based strategies geared to increase
client success.
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To assertively seek funding and programmatic
opportunities at all levels to enable our clients to succeed in being
more productive citizens. The state-mandated juvenile justice graduated
sanctions grant that funds intake, intensive supervision and case
management is the most critical target area for advocacy at this time.
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To successfully implement the new SB-14 Risk
Reduction Initiative grant program of evidence based strategies to
reduce probation revocations in Community Corrections 20% by 2010.
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To improve management of adjudicated youth
who have committed sex offenses, a multi-disciplinary team of
professionals who work with these youth has been established and a
federal grant has been obtained to implement and refine strategies to
improve services and enhance public safety through 2009.
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To participate as a pilot site with the
Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority in a federally-funded re-entry
grant project titled Project S.T.A.R. (Success Through Achieving
Reintegration). The mission is to implement proven practices to reduce
recidivism of juveniles transitioning from correctional facilities to
the community by 2011.
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To work with the MacArthur Foundation Models
for Change, DMC Action Network, and state and local partners to study,
design and implement strategies to address the overrepresentation of
minority youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system.
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To implement Performance Based Standards at
Judge Riddel Boys Ranch and participate in a statewide project with
other residential service providers and the Kansas Juvenile Justice
Authority to benchmark service delivery and quality standards.
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To maintain and promote respectful and
inclusive workplaces, all staff will complete ongoing diversity training
and continue using the established M.E.E.T. model to help recognize,
respond to, and resolve day-to-day workplace situations.
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To continue to participate
fully in the planning, implementation, operation and/or monitoring of
any county-approved programs from the Criminal Justice Alternatives
Master Plan to reduce demand for adult detention services.
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To refine the mission and procedures at Judge
James V. Riddel Boys Ranch to fit the new statewide policy changes for
youth residential center placements.
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To reduce recidivism and promote public
safety, staff at each program will be responsible to study, design and
implement evidence-based strategies geared to increase client success.
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Progress: Work is being done
across the department to address this multi-year initiative in both
juvenile and adult programs. New grants were secured to advance
these strategies and significantly increase the pace for system
change. These include a risk reduction initiative with adult felons
in Community Corrections, sex-offender management and reentry pilot
projects with juvenile offenders and acceptance into the MacArthur
Foundation Models for Change initiative to address disproportionate
minority contact in the juvenile justice system. Other significant
steps include: use of objective assessment tools measuring the risk
to reoffend with juvenile offenders assigned to juvenile field
services; and early screening assessment for the same purpose at
juvenile intake and assessment; implementation of aggression
replacement training for residents at JRBR; bringing Dr. Edward
Latessa to Wichita to train the justice community, local funders and
providers to the latest research on what works in changing criminal
behavior; and expanded programming for residents in juvenile
detention and residential shelter care. Plans for each program to
advance this work in 2008 have been developed.
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To assertively see appropriate funding and
programmatic opportunities at all levels that enable our clients to
succeed in being more productive citizens. Two critical areas are the
state-mandated community corrections and juvenile justice graduated
sanctions grants that fund local intake, intensive supervision and case
management.
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To improve management of adjudicated youth
who have committed sex offenses, a multi-disciplinary team of
professionals who work with these youth has been established and will
work to analyze data, plan and implement strategies to improve services
and enhance public safety.
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To work in partnership with state and local
stakeholders to carry out the remaining year of a three year pilot
project to study, report and address the overrepresentation of minority
youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system.
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Progress: Accomplished and
additional funding has been secured to sustain and expand these
efforts. Sedgwick County was accepted into the MacArthur Foundation
Models for Change, DMC Action Network, to participate at the
national level for the next three years in advancing work on DMC.
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To maintain and promote respectful and
inclusive workplaces, all staff will complete ongoing diversity training
and continue the established M.E.E.T. model to help recognize, respond
to, and resolve day-to-day workplace situations.
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To continue to participate fully in the
planning, implementation, operation and/or monitoring of any
county-approved programs from the Criminal Justice Alternatives Master
Plan to reduce demand for adult detention services.
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To improve the success of adult parolees
returning to the community from Kansas prisons, we shall continue
partnership with the Kansas Department of Corrections in funding and
monitoring the Sedgwick County Offender Reentry Pilot Project.
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of Corrections
last update:
02/20/08
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Wichita, KS 67211
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