2008 Certificate Program for Individuals Capstone Examples

• Focus on data collection and post screening coordination of services for juvenile justice/mental health system involved youth. Also included is a financial mapping process to assess the potential for deploying existing resources.
• Support reform efforts and maximize the resources available resulting from the Title IV-E Waiver.
• Prepare young people served by the Department of Social Services and the juvenile/family court system to enter the field of work or continue their post-secondard education.
• Plan/implement a pilot diversion program that would redirect youth referred to the County Attorney's Office for a low-level offense stemming from an incident in a school into individual and family assessment, followed by case management vocational and employment training.
• Create a service delivery system that promotes health youth development. Identify all of the services delivered to at risk youth and their families by county departments and contracted community agencies, the funding sources for these services and whether or not these services are similiar in nature and provided bymore than one county department. The outcome of the analysis will be recommendations on how services can be integrated across departments to improve access and outcomes for at risk youth and their families.
• Develop a new, comprehensive performance measure structure that better reflects the agency's mission and sets up an opportunity to better collaborative with agency partners.
• Create an interagency wraparound (pilot) model to serve juvenile justice youth as they leave facilities.
• Publish a white paper/report on the number of "dual system" children who end up committed to the juvenile justice system as compared to the rate of commitment of the general youth population in the state.
• Develop a report analyzing the service needes of crossover youth, examining the intensity of services required by these youth in the following areas: mental health, special education and substance abuse treatment.