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Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022 Juvenile Justice Youth Service Program (JJYSP) grant awarded to the Lake County State's Attorney's Office by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC) through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to implement A Step Up Program that helps address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes, including an emergency appropriation of $50,485 in grant funds.
Staff Summary
* The Lake County Juvenile Justice Council (JJC) is a collaborative effort of many government and private agencies addressing juvenile justice procedures and programs and is run by the Lake County State's Attorney's Office.
* The JJC proposed to IJJC to implement a JJYSP, Step Up, in Lake County to help address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes. Step Up is an acronym for Stop-Think-Evaluate-Plan-Use-Patience. Through the Step Up Program, youth and their parent(s) work with social workers for more than 21 weeks in group therapy sessions. The sessions utilize a restorative justice and Circumplex Family Systems Model to focus on accountability, empathy, communication, but also restoring relationships and establishing appropriate authority within the home.
* Anticipated outcomes for providing the Step Up program as a developmentally appropriate, individualized support and services option for these youth relate to skill attainment, the use of effective conflict reduction and communication strategies, improved mental health, and need for police intervention. All of which will improve the juvenile recidivism rate for these youth.
* The Lake County State's Attorney's Office has been awarded a 12-month JJYSP Grant in the amount of $55,740 from the IJJC through the IDHS.
* The grant term is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
* The Lake County State's Attorney's Office will use the grant funding to implement a Step Up Program in Lake County by subcontracti...
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