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Cass County Delinquency Prevention Plan Diversion -- Current Funding: Juvenile Court ($21,500) R5CSCC ($31,000) -- Co-Payments: For families receiving brief family therapy there is fee based on ability to pay -- Expansion requirements: We believe that there is a need to serve approximately 100 youth Goals The following goal has been established for the unruly diversion project: Youthworks, in collaboration with the Juvenile Court will provide intensive casework for 60 "deep-end, unruly youth and their families who with the staff collaboratively develop a diversion plan focused on keeping the youth at home, in the community and out of the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The outcome that has been established is as follows: Eighty-five percent of the youth referred to the Youth works Unruly Program will remain in the custody of their parents, in school and in the community. Objectives -- Numbers of clients to be served Baseline 2002 60 vouth 2003 80 youth 2004 100 youth 2005 120 youth Budget: Baseline 2002 $ 88,863 2003 $ 92,418 2004 $ 96,114 2005 $ 99,958 Inflation Factor: 4% per year Personnel Fringe Operating $ 62,228 $ 15,326 $ 8,009 Ongoing Funding Strategy There is a need for state-wide diversion funding and it is being pursued by the court. There have been successful demonstrations showing that their is a reduction in longer-term placement and hence a savings of county and state child welfare dollars. In the demonstration projects funding has come from the court, the counties (via child welfare), and the Regional Children's Service Coordinating Committees. Brief family therapy is provided and a fee is charged based on ability to pay, Attempts have been made to secure Federal funding (Family Focused/IV -E) but the funding is committed at this time, 2004 Funding Update, Refinancing is no longer available to the Court or the CSCC, The CSCC will be defunct in 2005, Some of its funding has been transferred to a donor advised fund managed by the Dakota Medical Foundation. The Dakota Medical Foundation has committed $5000 for the diversion project for 2004-05. See the Youthworks application for additional information on 2004-05 funding. Page 7