Iowa

2008 MSI CPT Iowa Team

Contacts:

George Boykin, County Board of Supervisor and Director - Woodbury County, Iowa & Sanford Center

Leesa McNeil, Court Administrator - 3rd Judicial District, Iowa

Mike McTaggart, Educational Director, Boys & Girls Home - Sioux City School District

Gary Niles, Chief Juvenile Court Officer - 3rd Judicial District, Iowa

Pat Penning, Service Area Administrator - Department of Human Services

Mari  Samuelson, Vice President - Jackson Recovery

Dewey Sloan, Assistant County Attorney - Woodbury County, Iowa

Capstone Description:

N/A

2013 RED Cedar Rapids, IA Team

Contacts:

Bernie Bordignon, Juvenile Court Officer IV - State of Iowa 6th Judicial District

Karl Cassell, Executive Director - Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission

Christy Hamblin, Sgt. - Cedar Rapids Police

Paul Hayes, Learning Supports Facilitator - Cedar Rapids Community Schools

Casey Jones, District Associate Judge - State of Iowa--Judicial Branch

Capstone Description:

1. Give community presentations on RED in Cedar Rapids to raise awareness of the issue. 

2. Arrange trainings at local high school on restorative justice and motivational interviewing.

3. Start a mentoring program for students at 6th and 9th grade at local middle school and high school.

2012 MSI Cedar Rapids, IA Participant

Contact:

Betty Hopkins, Juvenile Court Officer IV - State of Iowa

Capstone Description:

Facilitate multi-agency, multi-sectoral collaborative with the intent to reduce law enforcement responses to elementary schools; introduce an information sharing agreement that is currently being reviewed by various stakeholders; develop referral and resource guide to divert school-based offenses.

Capstone Update (2013):

Betty met with leaders from the Cedar Rapids Community Schools to start discussion on how to better respond to struggling students in elementary schools in the jurisdiction. She also convened a meeting to bring together Cedar Rapids schools, law enforcement, human services, juvenile court office staff, ad local mental health and behavioral health providers to better support youth in the community through interagency collaboration. An interagency committee, A-MAC was established, and different workgroups were identified. A-MAC also developed a quick reference guide for school administrators to access along with criteria for transitioning students in and out of placements and other services in schools.

2013 RED Johnson County Team

Contacts:

Kevin Bailey, Detective-juvenile - Iowa City Police Department *Note: Kevin Bailey was promoted to Sergeant with the Iowa City Police Department.

Sara Barron, Community Relations Director - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County

Deborah Minot, District Associate Judge - State of Iowa

Joan Vanden Berg, Youth and Family Development Coordinator - Iowa City Community School District

Christopher Wyatt, Johnson County Juvenile Court Services Supervisor - State of Iowa-Johnson Co. Juvenile Court Services *Note: Christopher Wyatt was promoted to Chief Juvenile Court Officer in the 6th Judicial District.

Capstone Description:

To reduce racial and ethnic disparities in Disorderly Conduct charges in schools through re-defining protocols for school staff to contact law enforcement for youth’s problem behaviors, implementing a uniform set of graduated sanctions for in-school behaviors to limit law enforcement intervention, and creating a community-based diversion program (LADDERS) to address youth’s problem/disorderly behaviors (includes youth from school settings as well as communities).

Capstone Update (2019):

The Capstone Project was implemented at the beginning of 2013-2014 school year. In 2012, there were 40 arrests in schools for disorderly conduct, of which 30 (75 percent) were African American youth. In 2014, there were 18 arrests for disorderly conduct, of which 9 (50 percent) were African American youth. In terms of the diversion efforts, there was a total of 95 referrals to the diversion program in between 2014 and 2019; 70 out of the 95 referred youth were African American, and all have successfully completed the diversion program with about 14% reoffense rate (13 out of 95 youth reoffended). Since the inception of the LADDERS, school arrests for disorderly conduct have reduced by over 60 percent; arrests of African American youth have reduced from 75 percent to 67 percent; charges of African American youth reduced from 90% to 50%.

2018 RED Muscatine County Team

Contacts:

Joan Black, Assistant County Attorney Muscatine County Attorney

Scott Hobart, Chief Juvenile Court Officer Judicial Branch, State of Iowa

Shauna Koppenhaver, Assistant Principal Muscatine Community Schools

Shawn Lucas, Juvenile Court Officer III State of Iowa

Nicole Mann, Eastern Iowa Decategorization Coordinator Scott County Kids

Whitni Pena, Police Officer City Of Muscatine

Mike Sterner, Bi-Lingual At-Risk Coordinator Muscatine Community School District

Kim Warren, Aligned Impact Muscatine Director United Way of Muscatine

Capstone Description:

The Capstone Project is focused on preventing youth from entering the juvenile justice system by developing and expanding diversionary options for first time misdemeanor offenders. The team will develop a MOU with local law enforcement and Juvenile Court Services to divert youth, provide diversion training to law enforcement officers, and engage families in the diversion process.

2010 MSI (Private) Sioux City, IA Participant 

Contact:

James France, Executive Director - Siouxland Human Investment Partnership

Capstone Description:

Create inter-agency computer case management system, with a focus on tracking and ensuring the timely recording and transmission of academic records, thereby enhancing academic transition for youth.

Capstone Update (2012):

Siouxland Human Investment Partnership (SHIP) secured a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services in 2011 and have began to develop a technological solution for agencies to share academic records for youth in transition. A MOU will be signed between collaboration partners, and a pilot project with two school districts will begin testing the new policies and procedures and utilizing the software.

2011 MSI (Private) Linn County, IA Participant 

Contact:

Michael Mitchell, Assistant Executive Director - Four Oaks

Description:

Help youth successfully reintegrate into the community after placement in residential settings by providing parent partners (successful parents of reentered kid from JJ who are trained to lead Family Team Meetings for new parents going through the same thing) and comprehensive case management across domains (education, mental health, etc.)