Title II formula FY22 georgia criminal justice coordinating council project abstract the georgia formula grants program provides funding for delinquency prevention and intervention services

The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) was awarded a $1,405,084 Formula Grant from the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to support the Georgia Formula Grants Program. The program provides funding for delinquency prevention and intervention services with a focus on improving outcomes for Georgia's children and youth. Key activities include maintaining compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, reducing racial and ethnic disparities, ensuring proper detention of juvenile offenders, and providing evidence-based services for youth assessed as moderate to high risk of recidivism. The CJCC will work with the Georgia Juvenile Justice State Advisory Board and its subcommittees to implement Georgia's three-year juvenile justice plan and monitor performance. Funding will also support planning, administration of the state advisory group, compliance monitoring, disproportionate minority contact initiatives, and delinquency prevention alternatives to detention. The award period is from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2026.

By focusing on improving outcomes for georgia's children and youth, georgia will have a solid, consistent approach to helping local communities, child advocacy groups, and families find solutions to the never‐ending challenge of keeping children safe and sound. These formula grants program funds enable georgia to maintain compliance with the core protections for georgia's juveniles. The juvenile justice specialist works with the georgia juvenile justice state advisory board (SAG) and its subcommittees to monitor georgia's compliance with the jjdpa, assist with the preparation and implementation of the state's juvenile justice 3-year plan, and serve as a body of juvenile justice experts across the state. The part-time racial and ethnic disparities (red) coordinator works with the equity and justice for all youth (ejay) subcommittee to establish goals and reduce red in georgia. The juvenile detention compliance monitor ensures status offenders are not securely held, delinquent offenders are not securely held in adult facilities, except in limited circumstances, and all youth are sight and sound separated from adult offenders. Additionally, these funds provide evidence-based services to youth who are at moderate to high risk to recidivate as assessed by georgia's validated pre-disposition risk assessment instrument (pdra). Each subgrant is required to report progress on a monthly and annual basis. The goal of the program is to reduce the number of youth receiving out-of-home placements in their jurisdiction, while strengthening families, improving accountability in the juvenile justice system, and increasing safety in georgia's communities. Georgia will also target services to reduce violent crime and increase mental health services for youth at risk with the juvenile justice system. Towards this end, georgia is working to build capacity in communities to enable sustainability of activities and services. By providing funding for evidence-based practices and strengthening the use of needs assessment and evaluation tools, cjcc seeks to ensure the proper evaluation and funding of good, effective programs designed to treat juvenile delinquency and reduce recidivism. Georgia's focus program areas for the FY20 title II formula grant application are: planning and administration state advisory group allocation compliance monitoring disproportionate minority contact delinquency prevention alternatives to detention please note, georgia does not intend to use any portion of the project budget to conduct research.