Missouri

2014 Diversion Missouri Team (State-level)

Contacts:

Jessica Behle, Deputy Juvenile Officer for the 26th Judicial Circuit - State of Missouri

Tim Hadfield, Superintendent - Camdenton R-III Schools

Anne Janku, Research Manager - Office of State Courts Admin.

Beverly Newman, Chief Juvenile Officer - Seventeenth Judicial Circuit

Tammy Walden, Chief Juvenile Officer - 26th Judicial Circuit, State of Missouri

Capstone Description:

Develop a toolkit of standards, best-practices, and assessment tools to guide all jurisdictions in the state in aligning their diversion programs; Implement a truancy prevention program in a pilot school district to prevent court-involvement, in which a case manager will look into reasons behind truancy and connect the youth with appropriate services.

2012 MSI Missouri Team

Contacts:

Patricia  Breckenridge, Judge - Supreme Court of Missouri

Patricia (Patsy) Carter, Director, Children's Clinical Services - Missouri Department of Mental Health

Anne Dannerbeck Janku, Research Manager - Office of State Courts Administrator

Tim Decker, Director - Missouri Department of Social Services, Division of Youth Services

Tyrone Flowers, Founder and President - Higher M-Pact

Candace Shively, Director - Missouri Department of Social Services, Children's Division

Tammy Walden, Chief Juvenile Officer - 26th Judicial Circuit, Family Court/Juvenile Division

Capstone Description:

Develop a toolkit of standards, best-practices, and assessment tools to guide all jurisdictions in the state in aligning their diversion programs; Implement a truancy prevention program in a pilot school district to prevent court-involvement, in which a case manager will look into reasons behind truancy and connect the youth with appropriate services. 

Capstone Update (2015):

Some aspects of the project has changed and merged into the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) work. CYPM will be piloted in two communities as a larger overarching initiative. As part of the planning process, teams and partners will map out 40 youth's life history, review their system involvement, and identify any missed opportunities for agencies to provide support. Given the high number of assessment tools already in place within Children's Division, the team will not develop a separate risk assessment tool. However, the team plans to take an inventory of the information related to risk factors for crossing over from child welfare to juvenile justice

2008 MSI CPI Southeast Missouri Participant

Contact:

William (Bill) Heberle, Deputy Director - Missouri Division of Youth Services

Capstone Description:

Improve upon existing education and vocational outcomes for youth who will be served by a new joint case management approach.

2023 YIC Greene County, MO Team

Contacts: 

Adam Blasczyk, Assistant Superintendent, Greene County Juvenile Office

Danielle Tomasi, Superintendent, Greene County Juvenile Office

Capstone Description:

The Greene County Team seeks to hire a full-time Detention Clinical Coordinator to serve as a therapist and psychological consultant within their facility. This individual will provide direct individual and group clinical services and crisis intervention services, as well as develop new assessment tools and trainings to help facility staff better serve the youth in their care.

2017 RED St. Louis, MO 

Contact: 

Annette House, Regional Director, MO Department of Social Services, Children's Division

Capstone Description:

To establish multi-system collaborative group that will meet regularly to address racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity. In particular, the group will systematically share and analyze RED data, and develop protocols for intervention and diversion processes for youth with behavioral health needs in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.