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Date:
August 2002 -
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Topic:
Funding
Question:
I would
appreciate it if you could send out a question to other Teen
Court Coordinators regarding how their Teen Courts are
funded. Thanks!
Responses
from
Coordinators:
Adelita Grijalva
Program Manager
Pima County Teen Court
Pima Prevention Partnership
330 North Commerce Park, #160
Tucson, AZ 85745
Phone:
520-884-8799
Fax: 520-884-8820
adelita_g@yahoo.com
Pima County Teen
Court in Tucson, Arizona has several funding sources, most
of which must be renewed through a grant process annually.
Teen Court receives funds from the City of Tucson (CDBG
funds and Outside Agency funds), Pima County (CDBG and
Outside Agency), Simpson Foundation (private/local funding
source) and Governor's Division of Drug Policy Office Safe
and Drug Free Schools and Communities to name a few. We have
found that we don't usually fit the criteria for Federal
grants.
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Brenda Myers
Youth Court Coordinator
Project Chance Youth Court - W.A. Perry Middle School
South Carolina Department of Education
1429 Senate Street Room 706-D
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: 803-734-0737
Fax: 803-734-0806
bmyers@sde.state.sc.us
At this time it is totally grant
funded. We received a grant for three years and we are
hoping that once the three years are up the state will take
over and provide full funding.
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David Garcia
Coordinator
Teen Court of Lea County, Inc.
1923 N. Dal Paso Suite C
P.O. Box 831
Hobbs, NM 88240
Phone:
505-393-7743
Fax: 505-393-1076
david.r.garcia@worldnet.att.net
I am the Vice-President for the
Association of New Mexico. Most of our Teen Courts are
funded by Department of Finance with the exception of four
teen courts, including mine. We are funded by the
Administrative Offices of the Courts. In additions I receive
funding from The City of Hobbs, and the Hobbs Schools.
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Deb Holland
Project Coordinator
Ontario County Youth Court
The Partnership for Ontario Co., Inc.
3088 County Complex Drive
Canandaigua, NY 14424
Phone:
716-396-4519
Fax: 716-396-8821
deb.holland@co.ontario.ny.us
Our court began funding with the
Byrne Grant and we are still receiving that. We have
received funding from our county's Youth Bureau and this
year will be receiving funding from United Way. In addition
we have received several small grants, generally $1,000.00
or so. We have another year (possibly 2 of Byrne money), but
the advisory committee is beginning to look for alternative
funding now. Our county has frozen spending and hiring for 3
years, so for the program to be institutionalized by the
county is unrealistic.
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Eric Watkins
Coordinator
Village of Owego Youth Court
Youth Services Unit
Owego Police Department
Owego, NY 13827
Phone:
607-687-2233
Fax: 607-687-2235
juvenile@stny.rr.com
The Owego Youth Court has been
funded by Title V federal funds through our state DCJS. In
October we will switch over to Byrne Memorial Funds.
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Evelyn Williams
Teen Court Program Coordinator
Lee County Teen Court
20th Judicial Court Administrator's Office - Florida
1039 SE 9th Place, #361
Cape Coral, FL 33990
Phone:
941-458-7084
Fax: 941-458-7083
egw7084@ca.cjis20.org
Lee County Florida Teen Court
is run under the Direction of the Court Administrator.
Teen court is a branch of the Juvenile Arbitration Program.
The Coordinator is employed by the court - and is
responsible for Juvenile Arbitration as well as teen court.
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Jennifer Strutz
Program Coordinator
Stayton Sublimity Youth Peer Court
362 N. Third Avenue
Stayton, OR 97383
Phone:
503-769-5749
Fax: 503-769-7573
Jastrutz@aol.com
Our Peer Court is funded by the
following: J
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AIBG
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Oregon Together (County health Dept.
D&A funding)
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City revenue
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Local civic clubs
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Fundraisers
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Local private foundations,
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County Children & Families
Commission.
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Julie Deckard
Teen Court Program Manager
Reach for Youth, Inc.
3505 North Washington Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46205
Phone:
317-920-5900
Fax: 317-920-5912
jdeckard@reachforyouth.org
Reach For Youth, Teen Court
program receives funds from several sources. Our 2 largest
sources come from United Way of Central Indiana and JAIBG.
In addition we receive a number of smaller grants from
various Foundations such as Hoover and Rotary. We also
charge a fee for workshops and jury duty.
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Kathleen Self
Executive Director
P.O. Box 48927
Sarasota, FL 34230
Phone:
941-951-4278
Fax: 941-951-4277
fatc@gte.net
O.K., You asked! Funding in
Florida: Florida's teen courts are administrated by various
agencies, i.e., clerks of courts, sheriff offices, court
administrations, and some are non-profit agencies.
GOOD NEWS: Many
of our teen courts (38 to date out of approx. 55 total),
with various administrators mentioned above, are funded
through F.S.S. 938.19 which provides a local county
government the option to adopt a local ordinance which
provides for the collection of a $3 fee on many traffic and
court cases. 5% of the fee goes to the clerk of court in any
jurisdiction that adopts the ordinance. In many instances
this revenue will support all of a teen court budget while
in smaller counties it provides a large part of a budget.
When we developed the legislation (from '92-'96) we knew it
would, in most instances, be population driven i.e. large
counties would collect a lot of fees and therefore could,
and should, have large Teen Courts and small counties would
have small programs. There is one exception, one small
county that is an acknowledged "speed trap" with huge a huge
# of tickets issued annually. What we also liked about the
legislation is that it has people who are breaking the law
paying for delinquency prevention!
BAD NEWS: The
problem is that some large counties have encountered
stumbling blocks and are not spending the money.
Interestingly, in some instances, it is not because they
could/should not have larger programs but the programs are
being "capped" re the number of referrals they can take. The
reason might be, in some instances, that other programs want
a part of the revenue, a serious concern to those who are
dependant on the revenue from the ordinance. One judicial
circuit has presented an amendment to the legislation.
The programs who
do not collect this revenue are funded through other grants
or agency budgets. The counties who have chosen not to pass
the ordinance have various reasons for not doing so. Since
the ordinance revenue alleviates using tax dollars it would
seem to be a great way to support prevention in any
community and to utilize an available revenue stream.
For those of us who started our
programs with nothing, this has made a huge difference. We
are eternally grateful to the senators and representatives
who have made it possible. Keeping it safe is now our
biggest challenge!
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Leslie Comeaux
Teen Court Coordinator
Keller, Halton City, Watauga Teen Court
7101 Whitley Road
Watauga, TX 76148
Phone:
817-514-5823
Fax: 817-281-1191
Lcomeaux47@hotmail.com
This teen court started out with
a 5 year grant. The three cities involved made up the
difference. Now that the grant is over, the three cities foot
the bill based on Population.
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Lori Wrzesinski
Director of Youth Services
Downers Grove Township
4340 Prince Street
Downers Grove, IL 60515
KIloverandyK@aol.com
In response to funding of peer
jury/teen courts, currently, our peer jury, which is
multi-jurisdictional and is administered by myself as an
employee of a township office, is funded through the tax
dollars allotted for our human services division. At this
time, I am also in the process of submitting a grant for
money that, for the 4th year, has been given to local law
enforcement agencies in Illinois through a JAIBG. Agencies
receiving the funding can opt to pass through their money to
another government entity and in our situation, one of the
seven villages served by our peer jury, received funding and
passed it through to us for us to apply. It is a specified
amount and of course various components are required for
grant submission.
Also, in the state of Illinois, the IJOA, being in its'
second year of existence, has conducted annual one day
meetings. The one held this year we discussed funding and
many of the peer juries simply held fund raising events. Who
you are as an organization will determine your limits in
what you can do to raise funds as well as what grants for
which you can apply.
If anyone has any questions, they can feel free to contact
me at my office.
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Thomas Hanover
West Seneca Youth Court
1250 Union Road
West Seneca, NY 14224-2950
Phone:
716-674-2284
Fax: 716-674-1063
hanover@wspolice.com
We fund our program in two ways.
The majority of our funding comes from various fund raising
activities that the court runs. We have a hot dog sale that
covers the majority of the monies and also some smaller
activities. Most of the administrative costs are covered by
the Town of West Seneca through its police department
budget. We have one detective that handles the court and
schedules the community service. He does this as part of his
regular duties in the department. Some of our administrative
costs are also covered under a JAIBG Grant from the federal
government that must be used in juvenile related programs.
We have no paid employees that work solely for he court and
the kids on the court use the time they spend in the court
as community service credits for school related clubs and
societies. We have a picnic for them each year along with a
recognition dinner, and as a senior in high school they
receive a scholarship to help defray their freshmen costs of
college.
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Marian Irvin
Teen Court Coordinator
Flagler County Teen Court
c/o Clerk's Office
201 East Moody Blvd., Room 138
P.O. Box 787
Bunnell, FL 32110
Phone:
386-437-7407
Fax: 386-586-2116
mirvin@clerk.co.flagler.fl.us
Flagler County's program since
inception has been funded by the Clerk of Court's Office
(through fines & fees). We now have adopted the ordinance,
which helps support the program.
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Marjorie
Maniccia
Bethlehem Youth Court
261 Elm Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054
Phone:
518-478-9544
Fax: 518-439-2144
BYC261@empireone.net
We started off with Federal
Byrne Grant money, office space from the Town in which we
are located (but are not part of the municipality) and
private donations. When Byrne expired we were lucky enough
to get Title V funds, still more private grants and
community donations.
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Marlene Todd
Lawrence County Teen Court
Director
P.O. Box 227
Deadwood, SD 57732
Phone:
605-722-8889
Fax: 605-722-8888
teencrt@mato.com
Our Teen Court is set up as a
501(c) 3 non-profit organization. We receive funds from the
county, the three major towns in our county, donations from
local entities in the area, court restitution (our Judges
will periodically order an adult offender to pay restitution
to teen court in lieu of a fine) and our court costs (each
offender must pay $20.00 court costs to attend teen court).
We have found that our program speaks so highly of itself by
the success rate and the low cost of maintenance that our
communities have really been supportive. I am a firm
believer in getting your local support before you attempt to
go after any grant dollars. Local support will stick with
you as long as you show the need, but grant dollars can go
away with a change in administration.
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Mary Fleischmann
Program Coordinator
La Pine Teen Court
P.O. Box 2035
La Pine, OR 97739
Phone:
541-536-5002
Fax: 541-536-5766
Mary_Engstrom@co.deschutes.or.us
Initially my court was funded
through our local Commission on Children and Families, but
once that funding dried up, our County Sheriff's office
picked up the program. The four diversion/teen court
programs in our county receive JAIBG funding which gives us
funds for things we do not have dollars in our budget for,
such as training opportunities for our teen court youth, as
well as coordinators.
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Michael Botke
Director
City of Lansing Teen Court
217 South Capitol Avenue, 7th Floor, Office 714
Lansing, MI 48933
Phone:
517-371-2823
Fax: 517-371-2836
teencourtlansing@cooley.edu
Primary
(Current) Funding Partners:
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City of Lansing, Human Relations and Community Services:
$25,000 Grant
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Mid-South
Substance Abuse Commission: $25,000 Grant
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Capital Area
United Way: $23,997 Grant
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City of Lansing,
Mayor’s Drug Free Youth Task Force: $2,500 Grant
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(*Pending August 1, 2002 announcement - Partnership Grant
through State of Michigan, Office of Drug Control Policy
$333,000)
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Michele George
Coordinator
Teen Court of Huerfano County
401 Main Street, Suite304
Walsenburg, CO 81089
Phone:
719-742-0240
Fax: 719-738-1267
hcteencourt@yahoo.com
Teen Court Of Huerfano County is
funded through its local school district and 1 fundraiser a
year. I also receive funding once in a while from a grant.
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Myra Weeks
Coordinator
Wichita County Teen Court
Wichita County Courthouse
900 7th Street, Room 212
Wichita Falls, TX 76301-2482
Phone:
940-715-8575
Fax: 940-766-8177
Myra.Weeks@co.wichita.tx.us
Wichita County Teen Court was a
start up project of the Junior League. Since then our
funding breakdown is as follows:
Our annual
budget is approximately $53,000 per year.
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Olivia
Harrington
Teen Court Coordinator
Duncanville Teen Court
P.O. Box 380280
Duncanville, TX 75138-0280
Phone:
972-780-5063
Fax: 972-780-6463
Oharrington@ci.duncanville.tx.us
By our City Budget.
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Shirley Zahn
Program Coordinator
Winnebago County Teen Court
504 Algoma Boulevard
Oshkosh, WI 54901
Phone:
920-236-1120
Fax: 920-303-3030
szahn@co.winnebago.wi.us
Winnebago County Teen Court was
started with grant funding. We are now funded completely by
tax dollars through Winnebago County. Our program is under
the Circuit Court in the table of organization.
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Susan
Martin-Wolf
Teen Court Coordinator
Fort Worth Teen Court
1000 Throckmorton
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Phone:
817-871-7642
Fax: 817-871-8670
WolfS@ci.fort-worth.tx.us
Some of the Teen Courts in Texas
are funded 100% by the City, County or several cities within
the county. Others are totally non-profit and are
funded by grants and fundraisers. Others are under the
umbrella of other non-profit agencies (i.e. Boys & Girls
Club, YMCA, Camp Fire, etc). Fort Worth's Teen Court is
public/private non-profit. The City pays 2 full time
salaries, provides office and courtrooms and most supplies.
The non-profit board of directors, funded by small grants
from foundations, provides a part-time staff, the awards
banquets, Teen Attorney training, conference and membership
fees and some office furniture including TV/VCR's for class.
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