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PART V ~ PROGRAM PLAN (cont.) Summarize the risk and resource assessment that has been conducted for the targeted area, including the needs or risk factors that will be met by the proposed project: The Unruly Diversion program addresses many of the risk factors. The Uniform Judicial Court Act defines the unruly child as "habitually disobedient of the reasonable and lawful commands of the parent, guardian, or other custodian and is ungovernable ". Family management problems and family conflict are two risk factors predictive of all five of the problem behaviors (substance abuse, delinquency, teen pregnancy, dropping out of school and violence). While the definition of unruly refers to the reasonable commands of parents, the unruly adolescent often behaves in the same manner while in school. In the school domain certain predictive risk factors are also present including "early and persistent anti-social behavior, academic failure beginning in late elementary school and lack of commitment to school. Finally, these behaviors extend to relationships with their peers as reflected in alienation and rebelliousness, friends who engage in problem behavior, favorable attitudes toward the problem behavior and the early initiation of problem behavior. These risk factors come to the attention of the community in a variety of ways. The child welfare system is investigating "adolescent maltreatment"; the court is citing youth for running away and curfew problems; the school is seeking to remedy truancy, school failure and school behavior (teasing and taunting) and homeless programs see youth who have been "kicked out or pushed out" of their homes. In Cass County the official statistics reflect the problem: 333 referrals were made to the East Central Juvenile Court in 2001 for unruly offenses (State CourtAdmiaistrator) ,/ 404 youth were charged with unruly offenses-some were diverted (State Court Administrator) 11.9% of youth in the Search Survey reported that "in the last four weeks they skipped school 2 or more times, 3.3% skipped more than 6 days ,/ 163 dropped out of school in 1996 according to Kids Coun~,,,(_~.% ~ 996 chi~d abuse and neg~ect rep~rts were ~ed in ~ 997 ir(C~ay~unty (ND Dept ~f Human Serviees) ,/ 318 children in~l~ay~.~Eounty were impacted by domestic~ce (ND Council of Abused ~Fomen's Services) The unruly diversion program focuses exclusively on adolescents with unruly behavior in the home, at school and with peers. Explain how the project will be coordinated with other programs and/or agencies serving youth: The Unruly Diversion Project is a collaborative effort involving the court, the schools and other service providers. The intent of the program is to identify those youth most in need and develop a plan using all of the resources of the community to keep the youth in the home, in school, and out of the juvenile justice system. Some of the collaborative efforts include: 1. the juvenile court acts as gate-keeper and stipulates that the youth referred are in serious conflict with their parents and at dsk of out-of-home placement. 2. interventions, short of longer term placement, may be utilized with parental consent including: emergency psychiatric placement drug & alcohol treatment safe beds- emergency foster care emergency shelter attendant care (LSS) 3. Other Youthworks programs Turnabout - after-school supervision, tutodng & counseling (a collaboration with the Fargo and W. Fargo Schools KEYS To Innervision - educational program teaching decision making Anger Management Program - support group teaching anger management Peer Support - provides youth tutors and peer counselors Family Counseling Cooperative - provides brief family therapy using part time therapists from the community