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Youth Court E-update

Date: October 2003 - Download PDF Version

Topic: Funding

Question: What type of funding does your youth court receive (e.g., grants, support from government agencies, donations and/or fund raisers, etc.)? Please try to be as specific as possible. Also, please give us a brief explanation of how you were able to obtain the various funds.

Responses from Coordinators:

Washington County Teen Court
Scott Gage
Coordinator
Washington County Juvenile Court
P.O. Box 3425
Fayetteville, AR 72702-3425
Phone: 479-444-1631
Fax: 479-444-1749
Lsgage129@cs.com

Our program was initially started with donated funds from an anonymous donor. The Teen Court program in Washington County began in 1996 through the efforts of Junior Auxiliary of Springdale. They obtained donations from an anonymous donor to fund a part-time salary for a coordinator.

After two years, the anonymous donor withdrew his support. We had two years of operation to present to county officials and the county took on the part-time salary for the Teen Court Coordinator as a part of the Juvenile Court budget.

We have written several grants over the years with local organizations to obtain funds for travel to the national conventions, a laptop computer, and a few other things. We only have one person on payroll and that is the coordinator (me), and this is a part-time salary paid through the Juvenile Court budget.

Pima County Teen Court
Adelita Grijalva
Program Manager
Pima Prevention Partnership
330 North Commerce Park, Loop #160
Tucson, AZ 85745
Phone: 520-326-2528 Ext.
Fax: 520-884-8820
agrijalva@pimaprevention.org

Pima County Teen Court currently has 11 funders. We continually try to collaborate with other programs to expand our services while maintaining quality. Our funders are:

AZ Supreme Court (through Juvenile Court)
City of Tucson through Community Development Block grants (one for Teen Court diversion program and other for volunteers)
Tucson Police Department
Pima County Community Action Alliance (Fed funds)
Pima County through Community Development Block grants (2 grants)
United Way
Private Foundations
Two other funding sources with Teen Court collaborating on federal grants.

We have written requests to Qwest, Walmart, private foundations etc for very specific program goals. Hope this information is helpful.

Willcox Youth Court
Sally White
Coordinator
Willcox Against Substance Abuse
City Magistrate Court
480 North Bisbee Avenue
Willcox, AZ 85643
Phone: 520-384-4777
Fax: 520-384-1141
wasa@qwest.net

Our youth court has received grants from Juvenile Justice Dept and Safe & Drug Free Schools & Communities - we have also received some funding from our local City Council as well as much needed "in kind" assistance from Magistrate Court, Justice of the Peace Court, Juvenile Probation and the Schools. None of these came in the form of a package for Youth Court, but had to be ferreted out - with the larger grants some assistance to youth court usually was just one component of a multi-faceted application, with the local help the kids themselves made presentations and requests. In developing our Youth Court through the Magistrate Court we were able to institute diversion fees for many cases (a % of what their fine would be in other courts) as well as fines under $100 - our plan is to have our court self sustaining within 10 years, although we will continue to be on the lookout for additional funds to help us.

Orange County Peer Court
Gwen Vieau
Business and Program Director
Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange Co.
17875 Von Karman., Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92614
Phone: 949-440-6757
Fax: 949-440-6710
gvieau@crfoc.com

We receive funding from The County of Orange (California). We have a Peer Court Advisory Council with representatives from Probation, DA's Office, schools, County Dept. of Ed., Constitutional Rights Foundation of OC (that's us, the lead agency receiving funding) & Superior Court (esp. judges). We originally received an OJJDP seed money grant of $20,000 per year & had to fund raise to cover additional expenses.

Currently, we are in the sixth year of our second, three-year grant with The County of Orange. We are hopeful that the County will be sending out an RFP soon for another three-year grant -- our current funding expires Sept. 2004. The Peer Court partner agencies all believe in the program & will encourage the County to continue funding it. However, funds are tight in our county, as well, & nothing is certain.

Members of the OC Grand Jury came to watch a session of Peer Court yesterday. The members were also on the juvenile services sub-committee. We had 230 students in the audience & they were impressed with the program. We are hopeful that this may be an encouraging sign of future funding.

Napa County Peer Court
Isadora Asch
Napa County Juvenile Probation
2350 Old Sonoma Road
Napa, CA 94559
Phone: 707-253-6080
Fax: 707-253-6098
Iasch@co.napa.ca.us

The Napa County Peer Court is funded currently through the interest from the TANF funds that Juvenile Probation gets. The program is under the umbrella of Juvenile Probation and the yearly interest is enough to fund our program.

Sonoma County Teen Court
Dyan Foster
Executive Director
Routes for Youth
3360 Coffey Lane #A2
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Phone: 707-527-6810
Fax: 707-546-2882
routes@ap.net

Routes For Youth - Sonoma County Teen Court receives funding from the Governors Office of Criminal Justice Planning, the City of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County Juvenile Probation, County Drug & Alcohol Prevention Funds and private foundations. It has been challenging, our budget grew from an initial $35k to now 300k. We have built upon Teen Court process and added many innovative components to address gang affiliated youth and have built a component for the parents of the youth. I would be happy to share some of our Root System components if folks are interested. I think we continue to attract funds due to the fact that we have built out of Teen Court a very comprehensive & holistic program. Teen Court is the core but we have other program elements that are responsive to the very unique & individualized challenges our youth community & their parents face.

We also have great collaborative relationships with our colleague agencies and have joint funding with them.

Durango Teen Court
Molly Martin
Coordinator
Durango High School
2390 Main Avenue
Durango, CO 81301
Phone: 970-259-1630 Ext. 364
mmartin@durango.k12.co.us

In the past I have received grants and private donations. This year, the school district has put in the majority of funds for my budget. I am still relying on grants to make up the rest.

Sussex Teen Court, Inc.
Sharon Simpkiss
Coordinator
PO Box 335
Georgetown, DE 19947
Phone: 302-856-9810
Fax: 302-856-9896
sussexteencourt@justice.com

Sussex Teen Court has applied for and got the Byrne Memorial Block Grant for 2003-2006 from the Criminal Justice Council Of Delaware. CJC gets this money from the Feds. This is a 3 year grant. We also get money from local orgs like Delaware Electric Cooperative, Lewes- Rehoboth Assoc. of Churches, etc.

Teen Court of Sarasota, Inc.
M. Kathleen Self
Executive Director
P.O. Box 48927
Sarasota, FL 34230
Phone: 941-861-8460
Fax: 941-841-8461
fatc@verizon.net

Sarasota County's Teen Court continues to operate as it has since 1988 as a non-profit agency. Initially we were funded entirely by a combination of grants but, as we developed our program's credibility and as new programs sprang up around the state, we began to orchestrate the development of legislation. We had an advantage as our program developer was, at that time, married to a state senator who helped us draft the bill that eventually became FSS 938.19.

Today, our budget of $262, 512 (+$82,800 in-kind which includes office space and phone donated by our county) consists of revenues from the following sources:

Legislation: FSS 938.19 $130,000
Private Community Grants: $47,625
Golf Tournament $12,000
Client Fees $5,600
Misc. Donations $6,000
Funds on reserve $54,787
Interest Income 1$,100

Within this budget we manage two program locations, 650+ referrals, in-house peer counseling groups for all clients, a secondary program for substance abuse clients (Camp X-RAYD-Examine Reality About Your Decisions). Camp XRAYD has lowered our recidivism rate among that specific clientele from 33% to 14%, based on six months. The biggest challenge facing us in Sarasota County, and throughout Florida, at this time is that the legislation provided by FSS 938.19 was taken into the constitutional revision, known as Article V, of our state constitution to revise the funding of the courts systems, shifting the responsibility from county to state. The legislation was amended, effective July, 2004, to delete the authority given local government to adopt an ordinance to collect a $3 fee on most traffic tickets and court costs. Forty one of Florida's fifty three Teen Courts are dependant on that fee to fund their programs.

Based on the knowledge that most of Florida's Teen Courts are not funded from court resources and therefore should not be part of Article V, many of us involved with Teen Courts throughout Florida are working diligently to provide a solution to the legislature regarding how this error can be corrected. Doing some research, I discovered a report, "An Overview of Florida's Criminal Justice Specialized" which clearly notes that Teen Courts are not court functions(www.fcc.state.fl.us/fcc/reports/courts/ctgen) which supports our challenge to the action taken by the legislature. I remain optimistic that this will be resolved. We have estimated that Florida's Teen Courts are serving approximately 20,000 youth @ an average of $400 per child compared to an expense of $4,000 per child that it would cost in the court system. The math: $72 million dollar savings! That is hard to overlook!

Dublin-Laurens County Teen Court
Will Smith
Executive Director
100 South Church Street
P.O. Box 4476
Dublin, GA 31040-4476
Phone: 478-277-1404
Fax: 478-277-1413
wtsmith@nlamerica.com

Dublin-Laurens County Teen Court continues to write grants for funding and we have a good relationship with our city/county government in receiving funding. Also, we have partnered with our United Way Agency for a funding source. Needless to say, we are working with our state representatives for permanent funding for our program if possible.

Lincolnshire Peer Jury Program
Patrick Quillinan
Commander
Lincolnshire Police Department
One Olde Half Day Road
Lincolnshire, IL 60069-3035
Phone: 847-883-9900
Fax: 847-883-9909
pquill@village.lincolnshire.il.us

Its part of the Police Department's budget. Minimal amount of money as our Village Prosecutor volunteers his time, the officer in charge is on duty and we use Law Enforcement Explorers to assist with court administration.

Oak Lawn Police Department Peer Jury
James Craig
Peer Jury Coordinator
c/o Oak Lawn Police Department
9446 Raymond Avenue
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
Phone: 708-424-5323
Fax: 708-424-5012
kidswrestling@juno.com

We are fortunate in Oak Lawn in that the Oak Lawn Police Department is the sponsor of our Peer Jury program. I, as the coordinator, am an unpaid volunteer. The two police officers who are part of the program are also unpaid for their time at our court dates. We occasionally have pizza parties for the jurors and give them a gift at Christmas time and the expenses for this is covered by the Police Department and/or the Police Club.

Teen Court Program
Chris Borton
Teen Court Coordinator
Youth Services Bureau of Huntington County
1344 Maple Drive
Huntington, IN 46750
Phone: 260-356-9681
Fax: 260-356-9683
ysbhc@mail.fwi.com

Funding has always been a BIG problem for us. The agency has carried that program since its existence. We do have a nominal user fee and the agency receives City and County funding which we use to help cover the costs. Recently we received a grant from the Local Anti-drug Coalition (Governor's Drug Free Community monies) since 40% of our cases were drug and/or alcohol related.

New Orleans Teen Court
Lorri Fentress
Executive Director
1450 Poydrus, Suite 210
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504-593-1818
Fax: 504-593-1824
lorrif@hotmail.com

In response to your inquiry the New Orleans Teen Court program receives funding from the Junior League as we are now denoted an activity of the JL (our initial funder and implementing agency). We also receive funding from JAIBG and Substance Abuse and Mental Health - both one-year grants. We wrote local foundations here in New Orleans and received money from Entergy, Wisner (a foundation out of the Mayor's office), the Bar Foundation, and 2 other local family foundations - again one year grants.

This year we do the same and fundraise as we are now trying to become our own stand alone entity. It is tough, yes. Especially considering the fact that we have not been able to get money from law firms or other major businesses here.

Montgomery County Teen Court
Georgine DeBord
Teen Court Coordinator
Montgomery County State's Attorney
50 Maryland Avenue
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: 240-777-7344
Fax: 240-777-7413
Georgine.Debord@MontgomeryCountyMd.gov

Montgomery County Maryland Teen Court is funded wholly by the State’s Attorney’s Office. They fund my position as Coordinator as well as a 20 hour per week Assistant. When the program started 8 years ago, we did not have the assistant position. This was added about three years ago. I just took this position over in January, and I am hoping to be able to apply for grants to enhance our program, as government funds are stretched.

Lansing Teen Court
Michael Botke
Director
217 South Capitol Avenue - 230
Lansing, MI 48933
Phone: 517-371-2823
Fax: 517-371-2836
teencourtlansing@cooley.edu

Primary (Current Funding/Inkind) Partners:

City of Lansing, Human Relations and Community Services: $25,000 (July 1, 03 – June 30, 04)
Mid-South Substance Abuse Commission: $25,000 (January 1, 03 – December 31, 2003)
Capital Area United Way: $25,196 (April 1, 03 – March 31, 2004)
City of Lansing, Mayor’s Drug Free Youth Task Force: $2,000 (October 1, 02 – September 30, 03)
Thomas M. Cooley Law School Provides In Kind Office Space, Moot Court Space and Volunteer Support and technical resources

Oakland County Teen Court
Tasha Hanson
Teen Court Coordinator
Oakland County Prosecutor's Office
1200 N. Telegraph Road
Pontiac, MI 48341
Phone: 248-858-1553
Fax: 248-975-4265
hansont@co.oakland.mi.us

Oakland County does a match with the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant (JAIBG). JAIBG fronts most of the money and then the Oakland County government gives the rest.

Monica Bogner
Dakota Co. Attorney Office
1560 Hwy 55
Hastings, MN 55033
Phone: 651-438-4440
Fax: 651-438-4500
monica.bogner@co.dakota.mn.us

Juvenile Accountability Block Grant from 7 of our fifteen law enforcement agencies and one grant through the Local Collaborative Time Study funds.

Martin County Teen Court
Amy Yackley
Coordinator
201 Lake Avenue, Room 308
Fairmont, MN 56031
507-238-3215
amy.yackley@co.martin.mn.us

I receive funds from the Youth Intervention & Prevention Association, which is a state funded grant. Due to the budget cuts, we will be losing money for 2004 & 2005, therefore I have applied for another grant, which is also a grant state for juvenile programs. YIPA is very good about sending notices of grants to apply for, therefore that is where I have learned of the new grant. The Internet would probably be a good place to go to search for grants for youth intervention programs.

Christian/Taney Teen Court
Darlene Rea
Coordinator
38th Judicial Circuit
PO Box 482
Forsyth, MO 65653
Phone: 417-546-3411
Fax: 417-546-2110
Darlene_Rea@osca.state.mo.us

Missouri/Division of Youth Services Grant.

Monica Jensen
Community Relations Director
Dakota County Attorney's Office
Phone: 651-438-4440

The budget for the position of Peer Court Coordinator is approximately $65,000. We receive funding from two sources: Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant (JAIBG) dollars that are turned over to our Office from the local police departments receiving the funds and the balance is made up with Local Collaborative Time Study funds (LCTS).

Cumberland County Teen Court
Michelle Crawford-Jones
Teen Court Director
Cumberland Co. Dispute Resolution Center
155 Gillespie Street
Fayetteville, NC 28301
Phone: 910-486-9465
Fax: 910-486-8369
bpeaceful@aol.com

We are funded through our local JCPC; however, I am a member of the North Carolina Teen Court Association (NCTCA) and we are in the process of writing a grant to supplement some of our funds.

Pender County Teen Court
Amanda Jordan
Teen Court Coordinator
Mediation Center of Cape Fear
108-A Cinema Dr.
Wilmington, NC 28403
Phone: 910-362-8000
Fax: 910-362-8001
teencourt@wemediate.net

For our Teen Court we receive funding through our local JCPC (Juvenile Crime Prevention Council). We applied/requested funding, have received it, and report directly to the council and an area district manager from DJJDP.

Cass County Youth Court
Jason Bergstrand
Youth Court Coordinator
c/o Lutheran Social Services
1325 11th Street So.
Fargo, ND 58107
Phone: 701-271-3253
Fax: 701-235-7359
Jbergstrand@lssnd.org

We receive monies from the following sources:

JABG funds (grant) Juvenile Accountability Block Grant
North Dakota Department of Transportation (grant) Highway Safety Grant
Project Safe Neighborhood
U.S. Department of Justice (grant)
Addressing guns and violence Grant
Local Foundations: Svee Foundation FM Area Foundation

We also raise money annually by requesting support from local service clubs. We have also done some local fundraising activities.

Trial by Peers
L-Ikera Smith
Coordinator
Clark County Bar Association
530 S. 8th Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702-387-6011
Fax: 702-387-7867
lsmith@clarkcountybar.org

Grants- mostly county, city and some other local organizations. Fundraisers and donations also.

Glen Cove Teen Court
Susan Altamore Carusi
Coordinator
Gleb Cove City Court
13 Glen Street
Glen Cove, NY 11542
Phone: 516-676-0109
Fax: 516-676-1570
susanaltamore@sprintmail.com

The Glen Cove Teen Court receives its funding through a grant from the NY State Division of Criminal Justice Services. We are sponsored for this grant by our local State Senator. The grant requires that matching funds be provided by the municipality; in this case the Nassau County Office of Court Administration provides the matching funds on behalf of the city of Glen Cove.

Huntington Youth Court
Corinne Lesko
Director
Huntington Youth Bureau
423 Park Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
Phone: 631-271-5644
Fax: 631-271-1360
corecam1121@aol.com

The town funds most of our program because it was spearheaded by our town councilman; however we get 26K from the Byrne Grant from the state.

La Pine Teen Court
Mary Fleischmann
Program Coordinator
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office
P.O. Box 2035
La Pine, OR 97739
Phone: 541-536-5002
Fax: 541-536-5766
marye@deschutes.org

My program has been through a lot of changes regarding funding since it's inception. We originally started out with 5 hours a week which the Deschutes Co. Juvenile Dept. covered. The program then increased to 20 hours a week which was funded through dollars from our county Commission on Children and Families. The program went to Full Time in 1993 and continued receiving funding from the CCF and the Juvenile Dept. In 2000 the dollars were running out and the Deschutes Co. Sheriff's office picked up the program. The program was slated to be cut in June of 2003 due to budget cuts, but the Juvenile Dept. again picked up the program. Presently the Juvenile Dept. has covered the costs of the program with some assistance from the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant.

Dollars are tight, and it would be great if on a National level, Juvenile Prevention dollars could be diverted to all Youth Courts, so that they can have sustainability.

Elizabeth Adams
Statewide Expansion Coordinator
Office of Safe Schools and Youth Services
SC Department of Education
1429 Senate Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: 803-734-5801
Fax: 803-734-0806
eadams@sde.state.sc.us

Our youth court program at the SC Department of Education (Project CHANCE) received JAIBG funding totaling approximately $250,000 annually for 3 years. This funding provides a statewide coordinator's position (me) and 10 youth court sites. Each site must have a 10% cash match, which each school district provides. I have match money from the Sister's of Charity Foundation and the SC Bar Association.

Beth DeHart
Program Manager
SC Youth Court Association
SC Bar - LRE
950 Taylor Street
P.O. Box 608
Columbia, SC 29202
Phone: 803-252-5139
Fax: 803-799-4118
beth.dehart@scbar.org

In SC, several courts have received JAIBG or formula funding through the Justice Department. Others do private fund raising, and others, after several years of success, have convinced their localities to write them into the budget (police, sheriff, solicitor, DJJ, etc.)

Lawrence County Teen Court
Marlene Todd
Director
P.O. Box 227
68 Sherman Street, Suite 213
Deadwood, SD 57732
Phone: 605-722-8889
Fax: 605-722-8888
teencrt@mato.com

Our Teen Court is fortunate in that we have great local support. We are included in the yearly budget for the three towns that we service as well as for the county. Also, we are the recipient of the JAIBG grant money for these entities. We must solicit donations which our local civic groups step up to the plate every year and provide us some funding. Also, we receive Court restitution from the formal court system. Periodically, instead of ordering a fine, the Judge orders that the defendant pay a certain dollar amount to the Teen Court program. Also, we charge court costs of $20.00 per youth that enters our program. We have received a couple of endowments from local individuals that stipulate that they would like the money to remain in an interest bearing account, but that we can use the interest as we need. We have received memorials from several families in the area as well. We do NOT use fundraisers.

Pennington County Teen Court
Michele Brink-Gluhosky
Teen Court Coordinator
Pennington County State's Attorney's Office
300 Kansas City Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone: 605-394-2531
Fax: 605-394-2616
michellebg@co.pennington.sd.us

Teen Court started in 2001 as an addition to our juvenile diversion program in the State's Attorney's Office. Our budget has been fully funded by the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant since then. This year, this funding was cut significantly, but we are fortunate that the State's Attorney's Office has included us in the budget this year and is filling in the missing funds.

Various Donations:

Offered to clean up after a softball tournament and they donated the funds raised to us.
Our district court organized a basketball game between the executive and judicial branches and they donated funds to TC.
We receive some fine money from the magistrate court (misdemeanor court) when people plea and donate to us instead of a fine or record.
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Allen Teen Court
Elizabeth Walsh
Coordinator
c/o Allen Municipal Court
1 Butler Circle
Allen, TX 75013
Phone: 972-727-0210
Fax: 972-727-0104
lwalsh@cityofallen.org

Allen Teen Court and our First Offender's Program have been receiving funds through the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants (JAIBG) which is a program administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), a program in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

Hurst-Euless-Bedford Teen Court
Debbie Carlisle
Coordinator
2000 Forest Ridge Drive
Bedford, TX 76021
Phone: 817-952-2468
Fax: 817-952-2463
dcarlisle@ci.bedford.tx.us

Funding for the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Teen Court program is divided equally among the three cities. Recently, Texas Legislature amended Article 102.0171, Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows county & district courts to collect a court cost for juvenile delinquency prevention programs. This funding can go towards Teen Court programs to help fund operations and/or programs.

College Station Teen Court
Peggy Calliham
Coordinator
PO Box 9960
College Station, TX 77842
Phone: 409-764-3499
Fax: 409-764-3894
pcalliham@ci.college-station.tx.us

Our court is funded as a function of the City of College Station just like the other departments. It is my belief that unless these courts have permanently committed funding they begin to flounder because there is too much at stake to rely upon fund raising and off and on funding.

It needs to be a commitment on the part of the city or county or whoever that their youth are their future and that educating them in the law and civic responsibility early on will pay off in the future.

Its no different than funding schools. You must be dedicated to educating young people.

Midland Teen Court
Mary Beck
Executive Director
Midland Teen Court, Inc.
615 West Missouri, #226
Midland, TX 79701-5017
Phone: 432-689-1065
Fax: 432-689-1087
mbeck@midlandteencourt.org

Midland Teen Court, Inc., is a non-profit recognized as a 501(c)(3) by the IRS--a requirement to receive grant funds from most foundations. We receive funds from the City of Midland, Midland County, Midland ISD, Greenwood ISD, local foundations, churches, corporations and private individuals. Funding requests (grant applications) are presented annually in the format required by the specific grantor; follow-up reports are made to all funders quarterly. Jurors in our Municipal Court are given the option of waiving their juror payment ($6/day?) to Midland Teen Court or another couple of nonprofits. A Board member raises funds through letter and personal contacts for our annual scholarship(s) awarded to selected graduating volunteers.

Denton County Teen Court
Deborah Hollifield
Teen Court Coordinator
6301 Main Street, Ste. 100
The Colony, TX 75056
Phone: 972-434-7200
Fax: 972-434-7201
dhollifield@co.denton.tx.us

All our staff is volunteer, including the judge. The county provides $1k a year in the judge's budget dedicated to Teen Court use. We use it mostly for pizzas on court night to feed (and attract) jurors, and for trophies at the end of the year.

Salt Lake Peer Court
Kathleen Zeitlin
Program Director
645 South 200 East, #101
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: 801-322-1815
Fax: 801-322-9732
slpcourt@Xmission.com

Salt Lake Peer Court (a non-profit program) is currently receiving funding from the sources below, which will take us through June, 2004. Beyond that, we currently do not know how we will continue to fund the program, although we believe we will have similar funding from the school district's Safe & Drug Free School federal grants and, hopefully, from 1 or 2 private foundations. This will NOT be adequate to fund the program as is. We may have to downsize drastically, but we're going to do our best to try to get the funding we need to keep the program as is.

Salt Lake Police Department (federal Block Grant funding - although they cut our funding by 1/4, even though the money they received from the feds was cut in half. So they have told me not to expect anything next October, 2004)
Salt Lake School District (federal grant money for the Safe & Drug Free School program)
Two private foundations
Possibly: Weed & Seed (We're waiting to hear if we're getting any money from the local Weed & Seed. If they get the money, I think we will.)

Northwest Youth Services/Whatcom Co Teen Court
Cathy Beaty
Northwest Youth Services
1020 N. State Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
Phone: 360-734-9862 Ext. 130
Fax: 360-734-4720
cathybnwys@hotmail.com

We are also really struggling this year as our 3-year non-renewable grant from the Governor's Juvenile Justice Committee expired in June 2003. So, far our funding is coming from numerous sources: United Way, a local community foundation, individual law firms, the local Bar Assoc, a number of rotary clubs, local businesses, small grants and our local city and county governments. We have had to make numerous presentations to service clubs as well as individual meetings with business owners and private attorneys. We are hoping to convince our local governments to at least provide half our operating expenses in their annual budgets, but know that will be a hard sell in these economic times.

University Place Youth Court
Ann Francis
c/o Community Prosecutor, University Place
3631 74th Avenue W, Suite A
University Place, WA 98466
Phone: 253-798-7836
Fax: 253-798-4867
AFRANCI@co.pierce.wa.us

Our funding for University Place Youth Court originated from a Community Prosecution Grant from the Department of Justice. That grant has now expired, and so we have been negotiating with city and county officials to keep the funding going. We are trying to appeal to 3 main stakeholders to perhaps share the costs; the City of UP, the Prosecutor, and Juvenile Court. A law enforcement sales tax levy is up for a vote next month, and if it passes, University Place Youth Court will likely be funded via the additional tax. We also apply for every grant that we can qualify for, and just yesterday received a check from the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation.

Vilas County Teen Court
Nancy Anne Livingston
Teen Court Coordinator
330 Court Street
Eagle River, WI 54521
Phone: 715-479-3749
Fax: 715-479-1978
nancy.livingston@ces.uwex.edu

I am employed by the University of Wisconsin Extension in Vilas County. Teen Court is in my job description, so I have a budget line for the program, some of the monies in that line item comes from some Social Services' federal/state grant dollars and varies from year to year. We have on occasion been recipients of donations from various sources - a County township board, etc.

Green River Teen Court
Peggy Beckum
Municipal Judge
City of Green River
50 East Second Street North
Green River, WY 82935
Phone: 307-872-6116
Fax: 307-872-0567
pbeckum@cityofgreenriver.org

Our Teen Court is totally funded by city government funds. The Governing Body puts money in my budget every year for Teen Court. The Governing Body decided they didn't want to prosecute DWUI offenders through the city court as it was costing so much and we were short on jail space. The Mayor and Council decided to focus on youth intervention and crime prevention. We have Teen Court every other Thursday beginning at 4:00 p.m. The youth are out of school by then and we have access to more rooms at the city hall at that time. The Mayor also has a Youth Council and they are working on starting a youth center. I have not had to ask for any kind of help from other agencies and have not obtained any grants.

Tusha Richardson
PTRL247@aol.com

We get the funding from a grant from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant funds.

Dixie Tomkiewicz
DorothyTOmkiewicz@mcjc.maricopa.gov

The Maricopa County Juvenile Court Teen Court funding for both the schools and limited jurisdiction courts is a part of the County Budget of the Maricopa Bounty Board of Supervisors. From the very on-set of the Teen Court, funding (almost 12 years ago), the Board has been a "partner" in the project. The National Study by The Urban Institute has also helped. The Teen Court Program has been a "priority" with the Board because they have been consulted, advised and made to feel very involved. This year has been tough, however, and I have been told to either expand the 'Courts' program or lose my job. My contract only runs two months at a time so that my progress may be watched. The Teen Court Program is not a program unto itself, but a part of the total program that also involves two probation officers and a supervisor from Juvenile Court. We all work together, helping each other with the different courts and school programs. We are currently set to expand to five more courts, which will involve many more schools and even more volunteer youth. A successful program with lots of involvement from many aspects of the community, with a low recidivism track record, and operated by minimal support staff will bring great support from the funding agency.

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