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Board of Directors Meeting September 23, 2019 Habitual Offender Monitoring and Enforcement Unit (HOME) and Early Childhood Court Item V.

Recommended Action: Information Only Strategic Plan Alignment: Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect The Juvenile Welfare Board (JWB) is approaching its third year of funding the system navigation positions through Personal Enrichment through Mental Health Services (PEMHS) for the Habitual Offender Monitoring Enforcement Unit (HOME). The unit is designed to provide intensive services to youth with five felonies or more and on home detention from incurring additional charges. Lieutenant Joanie Goodley

• f the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and Ms.Courtney Covington of PEMHS will be providing a review
• f the program and outcomes.

In addition, JWB will begin its second year of funding for Early Childhood Court effective October 1,

• 2019. This program is designed to serve dependent infants at birth and their siblings to ensure services are
• expedited. Judge Kimberly Todd presiding Judge of Early Childhood Court and Ms. Russia Collins

Program Director, will provide an overview of the program and its outcomes. Staff Resource: Judith Warren

H.O.M.E. NAVIGATOR ANNUAL RECIDIVISM REPORT

July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019

PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE “Leading The Way For A Safer Pinellas”

H.O.M.E. Navigator Program

• The Habitual Offender Monitoring Enforcement Task Force Navigator

Program:

• Is a partnership between law enforcement and PEMHS
• Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, St. Petersburg Police, Pinellas Park Police,

Clearwater Police and Largo Police Departments participate

• Officially began Oct. 1, 2017
• Referrals are supplied to PEMHS by H.O.M.E. Task Force members
• Includes DJJ Juvenile Probation Officer referrals
• Voluntary program
• Provides wrap-around services to clients and their families

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Recidivism Research

H.O.M.E. Navigator Program

• Since inception 52 juvenile clients & families have

received services

• 48 juvenile clients received services from July 2018 to

June 2019

• 17 of the 48 were carried over from the previous year.
• 31 of the 48 clients received services for a minimum
• f 90 days

Client Recidivism

• 11 (35%) of 31 clients did not

reoffend

• 9 of 11 had no confinement in

detention/commitment programs

• 20 (65%) of 31 clients were

arrested for a new felony or misdemeanor charge

Offense Comparison

• 20 of 31 clients were charged with

79* new offenses

• 79 new charges included 49 felonies

and 30 misdemeanors

• 45 (57%) of 79 offenses occurred

when services were offered

• 34 (43%) of 79 occurred when no

services were in place

*10 of 20 clients had multiple charges occurring during a single arrest event 57% 43%

Offense Comparison 2018-2019

During Services Not During Services

Client Offense Comparison

• An annual comparison of
• ffenses was conducted
• The 31 clients were arrested for

130 offenses in 2017/18

• The 31 clients were arrested for

79 offenses in 2018/19

• The number of offenses

decreased by 39%

130 79

Annual Client Offense Comparison

July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Client Comparison

• An annual comparison of clients

arrested was conducted

• Of the 31, 29 (94%) of clients

were arrested in 2017/18

• Of the 31, 20 (65%) of clients

were arrested in 2018/19

• The number of clients arrested

decreased by 31%

29 20 July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Annual Client Arrest Comparison

Personal Enrichment through Mental Health Services Sustainability Outcomes

1 2 3 4 5

Matrix Domain Scores

Matrix Domains

N = 31

H.O.M.E. Matrix Outcomes 18/19

PRE POST

Matrix Domain Scores Legend

1 - In Crisis 2 - Vulnerable 3 - Safe 4 - Bldg Capacity 5 - Empowered

Housing  21/31 Families identified Housing as a need  91% (19/21) were assisted and are currently stably housed

• 10 Families received move in assistance
• 3 Families received assistance to continue in their home
• 5 Families utilized a shelter stay and were housed via Rapid

Rehousing

• 1 Family the Navigator secured a grant for home repairs and the

Family maintained their home following a house fire

Education  13/31 Families identified Child Education as a need  77% (10/13) were assisted and continue to show improvement with their education

• 2 Youth Participated with the Home Builder Institute and completed their GED
• 4 Youth are working with the Adult Learning Center on the completion of their

GED

• 2 Youth attended the Summer Bridge Program and were scheduled to return to

school on track

• 1 Youth has worked on Credit Recovery and was promoted to the next grade
• 1 Youth who had been out of school returned and is rapidly catching up
• a Brother of a Youth attended the Anytown Program this Summer and earned .5

Social Sciences credit

• 1 Youth was enrolled in the Arts Conservatory for Teens afterschool program and

during this time his school attendance increased as well

Support/Parenting  13/31 Families identified a need for increased Support/Parenting  100% (13/13) were assisted with increasing this identified need

• 3 Parents became actively involved in their Youth’s education (school

attendance/grades and following up with school personnel)

• 1 Parent worked out assistance support with her utility bills through her employer-

decreasing the Family stress

• 6 Families, once connected, stated they rely on the support from DJJ/JPO-

afterschool programs (YAP and Paxen) and transportation for court appearances

• 2 Families effectively developed & have implemented House Rules and Behavior

Expectations

• 1 Family developed a supportive relationship with their Neighbor and the assistance

with covering Family needs has been a stress reducer for the mother

Questions?

Lieutenant Joni Goodley Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Director Courtney Covington Family and Community Services PEMHS

Early Childhood Court

Pinellas County-6th Judicial Circuit

Judicial Leadership

• Honorable Judge Kimberly Todd
• ECC in Pinellas implemented 2014
• Partnership with Zero to Three-Why Infants

and Toddlers?

• Barrier to sustaining ECC
• JWB Funding, collaboration, and support

Community Coordinator

“ The Community Coordinator is the one member of the Safe Babies

Court Team who focuses all professional energy on achieving the goals of the approach. The Community Coordinator welcomes stakeholders and parents to the table. They set the tone for how everyone interacts with each other. In all successful S afe Babies Court Teams, it has been the Community Coordinator whom everyone relied on to keep focused on the important work of the

team.”

• A Guide to Implementing S

afe Babies Court Team Approach, 2017

Impact to Families

• Co-parenting
• Icebreaker Meeting between bio families

and caregivers

• ECC Consults
• Families have more frequent opportunities

to discuss case progress and barriers. Child centered meetings that occur monthly to encourage collaboration and problem solving outside of the courtroom

• Early Intervention S

ervices

• Infants and toddlers receive Infant Mental

Health S ervices

• Have access to Child Parent Psychotherapy

and other intensive parent child interventions.

Community Coordination

• Monthly S

takeholders meeting

• Clinical S

ub Committee

• Co-parenting Measures S

ub Committee

• Community Trainings
• Pre Court Meetings

S uccessful Outcomes

FY 18-19

• 100%
• f cases reunified, reunification occurred within 12 months.
• No cases closed FY 18-19 have had a re-removal since

reunification.

• 21 children and their families are actively being served.
• ECC families have through use of FS

I and family incentive dollars had access to housing, food, transportation, enrichment activities,

• etc. This economic stability supports prevention of future

maltreatments.