Contra Costa County Grand Jury
• 2010-2011
• Agency Response
Subject: Response to Civil Grand Jury Report No. 1108, Entitled "bridging the GAP at the Orin Allen Youth*
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F4
Findings and Recommendations 6 findings
F1
Orin Allen (Youth Rehabilitation Facility) is a cost-effective alternative to the Juvenile Hall facility. Response: The County agrees with the finding.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
Orin Allen (Youth Rehabilitation Facility) should remain open to provide programs for non-violent youth offenders. Response: The recommendation has been implemented. The recently adopted State and County budgets make provision to fund the OAYRF for FY 2011/12.
F2
There is no formal training in construction, food preparation or horticulture. Response: The County agrees with the finding. There is no dispute there is no formalized and highly structured offering in construction, food preparation and horticulture. However, there is a wood shop class offered to the youth and several large areas of the raised planting beds have been planted with tomatoes and several other vegetables. The plan is to incorporate food preparation with the items harvested.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
Probation and Office of Education should explore adding vocational classes to supplement classroom 7/27/2011 8:27 AM 3 of 4 • education with the assistance of General Services. Response: The recommendation has been implemented. Discussions have been going on for some time between Probation and the Office of Education to develop and implement vocational classes to supplement classroom education. Several Paxton/Patterson vocational-type classes have been purchased by the Office of Education and will be implemented during the fall semester.
F3
Residents do not routinely perform minor facility maintenance and repairs. Response: The County agrees with the finding. Conversations have already begun to set up a protocol with the wood shop instructor to replace and/or repair benches or other wood related objects at the facility.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
Office of Education should consider incorporating minor repair and maintenance projects into the current woodshop curriculum to supplement classroom instruction. Response: The recommendation has been implemented. Probation and the Office of Education have discussed and plan to implement minor repair and maintenance projects at the facility (with the appropriate approval and support of the County General Services Department).
F5
Management personnel at the Office of Education have varying levels of knowledge about the execution of their educational programs currently offered at Orin Allen. Response: N/A
No recommendations for this finding
F6
The Rossmoor Senior Tutors provide a valuable service to the residents of the Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Facility. Response: The County agrees with the finding.
Related Recommendations (1)
R6
The Board of Supervisors should publicly recognize the Rossmoor Senior Tutors for their long and dedicated service to Orin Allen. Response: The recommendation will be implemented The County values the contributions of all of the volunteers who generously devote their time, wisdom, and talents to mentor, coach, and educate the wards at OAYRF.
F7
Community volunteers provide additional enrichment opportunities for Orin Allen residents. Response: The County agrees with the finding. Section 933.05(b) requires a response to the designated recommendations of the Grand Jury.
Related Recommendations (1)
R7
The Board of Supervisors should assign a liaison to solicit community volunteers to provide enrichment programs for the Orin Allen residents. Response: The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not reasonable. While the County agrees with the recommendation and would implement it if there were sufficient staff resources to do so, the FY 2011/12 budget is not sufficient to support any functions beyond the basic operation of the OAYRF. State public safety realignment and associated funding is directly related to the adult prison population and cannot be redirected to juvenile detention programs. While adult probation supervision programs were bolstered through state realignment, County juvenile supervision programs were actually reduced in the FY 2011/12 budget. CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION: In order to comply with statutory requirements, the Board of Supervisors must provide a response to the Superior Court no later than September 6, 2011. The last Board meeting prior to the September 6, 2011 deadline is on August 16, 2011. If the Board decides to not adopt the proposed response today, it must adopt a response by August 16, 2011 in order to comply with the statutory deadline. CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT: None. 7/27/2011 8;27 AM 4 of 4
* 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.