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Idaho
Association of County Juvenile Justice Administrators McCall
Super 8 Motel March 8, 2001 Present:
John Triplett, Terry Lewis, Shelly Smith, Elaine Broyles, Bill Lasley,
Matt Olsen, Jim Lawless, Don Garner, Greg Goody, Brian Walker, Steve Barton,
Doug Brown, Steve Jett Call
To Order and Introductions Steve
Barton motioned to accept minutes, Elaine Broyles seconded. Treasurer’s
report: $2813.76
One more membership received, not deposited as yet. Brian
has been talking to the counties in the eastern part of the State concerning
membership. IACJJA
Objectives, Goals, Mission, Bylaws The
bylaws were discussed and amended. The
new bylaws are attached. Mission
statement was discussed. A draft of
the mission statement will be distributed to all the members for input. Objectives
of the Association were brought up. Several
ideas that were discussed at the last meeting included Mental health, substance
abuse, sharing information, participation on the IJOS Board and other
committees, etc. Others include
continuing improvement of professionalism throughout the state through training,
continued collaboration with DJC and other stakeholders, promote more effective
Substance Abuse treatment programs, and promoting unified county Juvenile
Justice systems throughout the state. We
also need to continue and improve on furnishing information and training for all
counties. It
was motioned that the goals be put out in a draft form, sent out to membership
for input and prioritization , seconded and passed. Joint
Meeting Items. Thanks to Terry
Lewis and Jim Lawless for the setup yesterday for the joint meeting.
Legislative
issues
Code
of ethics. Incident
Report Classification. Pat Lambert
from the State of Utah’s Division of Youth Corrections has offered to come up
and do a demonstration of the incident report classification system that has
been developed in Utah. The system
takes out some of the chances for serious incidents to be overlooked and treated
the wrong way. In 1997, he gave the
presentation at the IJJA conference and received very good reviews.
It was agreed that Steve Jett will contact the detention administrators
and then get with Pat for dates and arrangements. Administrator’s
Meeting Conflicts It was brought to
Steve’s attention that there have been conflicts with the JJCommission
meetings. We need to be careful
that we do not conflict with those meetings, and any other related meetings that
may be scheduled around the state, including the Post Council, JJTraining
council, etc. Detention Inspections 1:8 ratio. Steve brought up the fact that Roch will simply be looking at the staffing patterns throughout the state. He will not be judging the detention centers on the recommended language. IAC
Justice and Public Safety Committee-Jurisdiction and Policy Statement.
Doug discussed the Statement put out by the IAC and the fact that this
supports the overall mission of the association.
Technical
Assistance for training for evaluating programs. Since it is desirable to know whether or not the various
programs in the state are really working or not, we agreed that it would be good
to have some training in evaluating the programs.
Brian has contacted OJJDP concerning getting technical assistance but no
information has been obtained yet. Brian
has asked that administrators email him with specific programs that may have
research available. The people that
have presented “What works” may also be an option.
The original idea was to be instructed in evaluation of our programs.
It would be desirable to include private providers in the training.
Sharon
and Roch will be putting on training concerning the compliance monitoring
guidelines. The detention
administrators are very interested in participating in this training.
The
issue of discretionary detention time that is being utilized in several counties
was discussed. Adjourned.
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