Early Intervention and Post Adjudication Community Court Program

The EICC will mobilize a network of social services, substance use treatment, active case managers with restorative justice and accountability systems to actively intervene with youth, first-time and repeat offenders. The final program will utilize alternative sanctions with judicially supervised substance use disorder treatment and community-based services to intervene with marginalized youth. A key component will be to locate the community court activities within the neighborhood so that it is a familiar and accessible resource for citizens.

If the scope change is approved, a group will be formed to identify community programs and services that will be used to address the underlying issues that have led to criminal behavior. The planning group will include the Municipal Court, Corrections, mental health service providers, substance use providers, and social service providers. Once the needs for programming are identified, the Court and Corrections will identify those participants for both diversionary and post adjudication programming.

The desire is to support a minimum of 5 individuals per month, totaling 60 a year in the diversion track. Each individual participating period will span 150 days, and it is expected that 30 participants will successfully complete the program and will no longer be involved in the criminal justice system. The post-adjudication track will serve a minimum of 3 individuals per month, totaling 40 individuals per year. Each individual participating period will span 120 days, and it is expected that 20 participants will successfully complete the program and will not recidivate. EICC is expecting a total of 70 individuals to complete, between both tracks. The participants will participate in case management to determine substance use treatment, drug and alcohol testing, mental health services and other supportive services.