Alaska

2008 MSI CPI Alaska Participants

Contact:

Tony Newman, Senior Manager - Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice

Description:

Develop comprehensive results-based accountability measures for AK DOJJ.

Contact:

Courtney O'Byrne King, Program Coordinator - State of Alaska

Description:

Create resource guide/SOP for dealing with youth with mental health needs, at risk of referral to a psychiatric treatment facility placement.

Contact:

Leonard Wood, Chief Probation Officer - State of Alaska

Description:

Joint case management for crossover youth, by creating (1) information sharing in case management computer systems, and (2) joint court hearings.

2009 MSI Alaska Participant 

Contact:

Virginia (Ginny) Espenshade, Executive Director - Kenai Peninsula Youth Court

Description:

Train Youth (Peer) Courts on crossover youth and add this to the training curriculum. Connect Youth Courts with Foster Care advocacy group. Hopefully formalize a policy and procedure for using Youth Courts to hear cases in which crossover youth actions at group homes (like stealing from the home or pushing staff) are criminalized. 

2010 MSI Selawick Tribe, AK Team 

Contacts:

Phyllis Carlson, Director Rural Education - Alaska Department of Education and Early Development 

Patrick Hefley, Deputy Commissioner - Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

Michael Lesmann, Community Relations Manager - Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children's Services

Barbara Murray, Social Services Program Coordinator/Juvenile Justice Specialist - Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Juvenile Justice

Stephen Williams, Program Officer - Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority

Description:

Develop method of tracking data regarding youth from the Selawick Tribe who become involved in the juvenile justice system, and identify services that can help decrease their rates of recidivism.