Attending:

Members – John Chrest, Wood County; Lynn Green, Dane County; Mary Jo Keating, Outagamie County; Charmian Klyve, Rock County; Beverly Marten, Jefferson County; Dave Sarow, Polk County (WJCIA); Ann Wondergem, Sheboygan County; Silvia Jackson, Pam Eitland, Elaine Olson and Shelley Hagan, WI-DOC-DJC.

Others – Kerrie Bischoff, Office of Justice Assistance; Sarah Diedrick, WI Counties Association; Mark Wehrly, WI Council on Children and Families

It was announced that Jim Moeser resigned as DJC Administrator and returned to his former position in the Dane County court system. Deirdre Morgan will serve as Acting Administrator in addition to her position as Executive Assistant to Secretary Frank. [Update: Charles Tubbs was appointed DJC Administrator effective March 22, 2004.] The minutes of the September 23, 2003 meeting were approved as submitted.

2. Data collection and dissemination. There was consensus that DJC and the counties work together to build a voluntary juvenile justice data reporting system. It was emphasized that data should provide a comprehensive picture of the juvenile justice system, beyond correctional or other out-of-home placement. County-provided data should be supplemented by data reported through other systems, such as CCAP, HSRS, WiSACWIS and UCR. A workgroup will develop a proposed list of data elements to be collected (Shelley Hagan, Mary Jo Keating, Dave Sarow, and staff from Dane and Sheboygan counties). It was hoped that OJA’s work with the Office of State Courts to obtain data from CCAP would provide additional data elements.

Mary Jo Keating suggested in might be useful to update the county juvenile justice resource inventory that was last compiled in 1994, describing each county’s continuum of juvenile justice services, and/or the "early intervention report" prepared in 1995 during the transition of juvenile services from DHSS to DOC. Copies of the 1994 and 1995 reports will be distributed to the TAC prior to the next meeting, to facilitate further discussion.

Pam Eitland presented a summary of the participation in and major findings of the five JJ listening sessions DJC held around the State in October-December 2003. [Note: The summaries are available on the DJC web site http://www.wi-doc.com/index_juvenile.htm under "What’s New." Silvia Jackson handed out "DJC Proposed Priorities from Listening Session Feedback" based on the DJC Management Team’s analysis of the listening sessions and their recommendation for Division follow-up. (Attached to minutes.) In addition to the five areas outlined in the document, a sixth area, State agency collaboration, will be pursued.

The discussion began with the role of the child welfare Training Partnerships in providing training for juvenile justice line staff. Several members expressed their view that at the county agency level, child welfare and juvenile justice needed to work together, and the Training Partnerships should reinforce that collaboration rather than imposing unnecessary divisions. Apparently some of the regional Partnership agencies have expressed interest in juvenile justice training, but the state Training Partnership Council has resisted this direction. Counties were interested in expressing their views to the Council.

Mark Wehrly presented the results of a survey sent to county agency and youth program directors to determine preferred topics for training. DJC contracted with WCCF to facilitate topical training sessions during Spring 2004, to replace the sessions previously offered through the DOC Training Center. The top three topics appear to be creative dispositions, age-appropriate services for older and younger youth, and family-based services in juvenile justice and child welfare. [Update: Information on the training sessions and on-line registration may be found on the WCCF web site at http://www.wccf.org/JJtrainings.htm.]

The next TAC meeting will be Friday, May 21st, from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm in Madison.

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