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PROGRAM PLAN (page 2 of 3) 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 ofthe 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, suspension, school failure and school behavior (teasing and taunting) and homeless programs see youth who have been "kicked out or pushed our' 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 Court Administrator) ,¡' 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 Count ,¡' 996 child abuse and neglect reports were filed in 1997 in Cass County (NO Oept of Human Services) ,¡' 318 ch ildren in Cass County were impacted by domestic violence (NO Council of Abused Women's Services) Youthworks statistics show that: ,¡' 110 students were referred to the Youth works out-of-school suspension program in the 2003-04 school year ,¡' 38 truants were referred to Youthworks truancy program in the 2003-04 school year ,¡' 118 families received information & referral based on contacts directed by the Juvenile Court in the previous 12 months and 36 youth with citations were provided more intensive services and case management The unruly diversion program focuses exclusively on adolescents with unruly behavior in the home, at school and with peers.