May 18, 2009
Montebello Unified School District
Presentation By: Debbie Nelson, Director
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Established in 1903
Largest probation department in the world with
62,447 active adult probationers and approximately
20,000 active juvenile probationers.
Over 6,000 employees with an operating budget of
approximately $700 million.
Over two-thirds of the employees are engaged in a
professional aspect of probation work such as Deputy
Probation Officers, Pretrial Release Investigators and
Detention Services Officers.
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Consists of 9 Bureaus: Adult Field Services,
Juvenile Field Services, Juvenile Special Services,
Detention Services, Residential Treatment
Services, Placement Services, Management
Services, Quality Assurance Services, and
Information Systems.
Serves all municipal and superior courts of the
County.
Provides services to the community via sanctions
to the court, enforcing court orders, operating
correctional institutions, incarcerating
delinquents, assisting victims and providing
corrective assistance to individuals and families.
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Work locations include 3 juvenile detention
centers, 19 residential treatment
facilities/camps and 23 field service offices.
MISSION: Promote and enhance public safety,
ensure victims’ rights, and facilitate the
positive behavior change of adult and juvenile
probationers.
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Pretrial Services Division, Adult Investigations, Adult
Supervision and Special Services functions.
Services in 19 field offices and in more than 19 court
locations.
Pretrial Services consists of 7 programs: Bail
Deviation, Own Recognizance, Early Disposition, Drug
Treatment, Drug Court Electronic Monitoring and the
Civil Court Name Change Petition Program.
Pretrial Services completes over 88,000 eligibility
assessments/reports a year.
Adult Investigations conducts approximately 72,000
investigations per year.
The Bureau produces 92,000 supervision reports per
year.
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Juvenile population between 1,500 to 1,800
daily.
Provides intake, housing and transportation
services for minors detained in the 3 juvenile
halls for pre-adjudicated and post-disposition
wards of the juvenile court.
Provides comprehensive medical, dental, mental
health, educational, religious, recreational,
counseling, mentoring, and tutoring services,
on-site.
Behavior Management Program
Family Resource Center at each juvenile hall.
Operation Read Literacy Program
Camp Community Placement provides intensive
intervention and programming based upon
Evidenced Based Practices in a residential
treatment setting.
 Average daily population approximately 1,500
Services Include:
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Teaching Pro-social Skills
Getting Motivated to Change
Girls Moving On
Specialized Education Services and Tutoring
Vocational Training and Structured work experience
Athletic activities
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Juvenile Population of approximately 1,800 to
2,000 daily with 1,100 minors placed in group
homes.
Provides an environment for minors removed
from their homes which best addresses their
needs.
Out-of-Home care can be in a Group Home,
Psychiatric Hospital, with relatives and nonrelatives.
Provides youth development, community
transition, wraparound, and therapeutic services.
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Provide protection and safety to the
community.
Serve as an arm of the Superior Court.
Provide investigation and supervision services
on court ordered probationers.
Recommend appropriate dispositions for
juvenile offenders while preserving and
enhancing the family unit.
Provide probation services to non-probation
at-risk youth.
Juvenile Special Services Bureau consists of
very specialized, high profile programs
working with low to extremely high-risk
probationers.
Programs Include:
 Intake & Detention Control (IDC)
 Court Officer
 Intensive Gang Supervision Program (IGSP)
 Special Enforcement Operations (SEO)
 Camp Community Transition Program (CCTP)
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Community Detention Program (CDP)
Division of Juvenile Justice Re-Entry Program (DJJ)
LAPD Valley Operation Community Impact Team
Retail Service Vocation Program (RSVP)
Project Youth Embrace (Challenge Grant)
Abolish Chronic Truancy (ACT)
Watts Six Cities Anti-Gang Initiative
Young Women At Risk (YWAR)
Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act Programs
(JJCPA)
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Originally the Schiff-Cardenas Crime
Prevention Act of 2000
Renamed JJCPA in 2001
Authorized funding for county juvenile justice
programs.
Programs must be based on approaches
demonstrated to be effective in reducing
delinquency.
Each county submits an annual report to CSA
which compiles all the county reports into an
annual report to the legislature.
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Measures include arrests, incarcerations,
probation violations, and successful completion
of probation, restitution, and community service
( the Big Six).
Results on the “Big Six” are generally positive for
completion of probation, payment of restitution,
and completion of community service.
Results on the “Big Six” are generally negative for
probation violations (the more you look, the
more you see).
Arrests and incarcerations are mixed depending
on the comparison groups and increasing arrests
rates in the county may contaminate the
comparisons.
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Designed to provide a full spectrum of communitybased services to probation and non-probation, atrisk youth.
Probation Officers are placed in over 90 High Schools,
30 Middle Schools,7 Housing Developments and 4
Parks.
Officers are liaisons between schools, housing, parks
administration and the Juvenile Justice System.
Supervise probationers and provide services to atrisk youth at assigned schools.
Objective is to increase the opportunity for probation
and at-risk youth to achieve academic success and to
empower and support parents to become the primary
change agent for their children.
Collaborative Partners Include:
 L. A. City and County Parks and Recreation
 L.. A. City and County Housing Authority
 LAPD
 LASD
 Mental Health
 District Attorney
 LAUSD
 Superior Court
 Community-Based Agencies
Services Include:
 236 WIC
 Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
 Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
 Home-Based and Community-Based Gender
Specific for both males and females
 Employment Readiness
 Operation Read – Literacy Program
 Gang Intervention
 Home-Based High Risk/High Needs
 Substance Abuse Counseling
 After-School Enrichment
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Understand that services and monitoring
must be community-based provided in the
youth’s/family’s own ecology.
And, understand that education, youth
involved in pro-social activities to develop
pro-social skills, and strengthening the
family are strong protective factors.
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