Trinity County Grand Jury • 2006-2007

Youth Services*

Published: June 05, 2007 5 pages

View Original PDF

⚠️ Translation Notice: This content has been automatically translated. The original English text is the official version. Translation may contain errors.

⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.

Findings and Recommendations 2 findings

There is no single entity within county government called "Youth Services." While many different entities within the county (both public and private) provide a variety of programs for youth ages 12-17, these programs are run quite independently of each other. There are only minimal county services for youth and virtually no coordination of these services.

Related Recommendations (1)

A percentage of property tax revenues should be designated for coordinated and increased services for youth. Investment now will save dollars later.

While county departments work with the Office of Education, State of California and private sources to fund projects, the existing revenue sources for prevention programs for this age group is quite elusive at best and is most often at risk of being terminated. Grant monies are difficult to find and the programs last only short periods of time.

Related Recommendations (1)

Provide consistent funding for pre-judicial youth programs. Also, support more generously the few programs that are in place and expand the range of services. Conclusion: If the county invested amounts now, directly, for pre-judicial youth programs, it will save the taxpayers measurable tax dollars in the future and result in more productive young adults. Responses Required: Entity

Conclusions 1

CL1

If the county invested amounts now, directly, for pre-judicial youth programs, it will save the taxpayers measurable tax dollars in the future and result in more productive young adults. Responses Required: Entity

No Responses Found 3

Government entities assigned to respond to this report. No response documents have been linked in our database.

Trinity County County

Trinity County Board of Supervisors Elected County Office

Trinity County Office of Education Agency

* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.