Oregon Juvenile Department Directors
Board Meeting Minutes
OYA -Salem
Present:
David Koch, Tim Loewen, Jeff Milligan, Molly Rogers, Debbie Patterson, Steve
Dye, Joe Christy, Ken Armstrong, Lisa Smith, Bob Jester, Faye Fagel, Karen Andall,
Charles Logan-Belford, Joe Van Meter, Georgia Gates, Glen Vest, Janine Wilson,
Janet Evans, CCF rep. Becky Eklund, DOE rep. Jay Gense, Jim Brougham via video
conference.
Tim Loewen brought the
meeting to order at 1:30 PM. He welcomed the guests, new OJDDA officers and
agency representatives to the meeting and then initiated introductions.
There was some further
discussion of the OJDDA Committees, please refer to the OJDDA web site for the
latest committee participants.
Staffing update
There was discussion of
staffing, including a new contract with Ken Armstrong for lobbying, a new
contract for Joe Van Meter as a Training Consultant, Barbara will continue to
do some work with the JCP project and the Executive Assistant interviews will
occurred this month. There are six people interested, and four have been
interviewed. A decision will be made in
the next week.
There was discussion of Joe
Van Meter’s request for additional compensation. After discussion, the request was
approved. Please email Tim Loewen if you
wish details on the discussion.
Training Report
Director Steve Dye reported
that the next Training committee meeting date will be set shortly and welcomed
the new directors to the committee.
Tim, Dave and Ken Armstrong,
OJDDA lobbyist, lead this discussion please get hold of Ken if you wish to
attend the meeting of the Juvenile Code revision committee. For in depth information on the current
Legislative issues call or email Ken and Dave for more information. Other issues discussed included:
Youth correctional facility
commitment time, some confusion on the language in some of the passes bills
though intended for adults could apply to Juveniles. The association should consider putting in
some clarification language in the next legislative session. i.e. in SB 39 the definition of a
Correctional Officer is of some concern.
Again if you have questions email or call Tim, Ken or Dave.
Juvenile Justice Summit Document Review; Jeff Milligan
The Juvenile Justice Summit
took place in September of 2004, to again look at the Juvenile Justice
system. As it was so close to this
legislative session it had limited legislation impact. Now is the time to begin planning for 2007,
what was interesting is that attendees said they learned a lot, it seemed only
a few folks knew the Juvenile Justice system.
The summit ended with people saying we need to build back the system
together.
Need for biennial review of
the system through something like the Juvenile Justice summit. Bob Jester joined and support Jeff’s commits
and the need to have regular review, as so many people are new. Many more people need to be involved with
this partnership.
One example of the Summit
outcomes was Lisa Smith is now meeting regularly with the Education
partners. Other outcomes; Bob J said the
Governor used some of the Summit information for OYA to remain fully funded
during this legislative session. Dave
thought there is more that restoring the full funding. Bob brought up the demand forecast to fund
the community side. Use the document to
move ahead with improving the system. A
little more work needs to be done and Bob, Jeff will work with Lisa to get this
accomplished.
Tim suggested each
recommendation have a work group with OYA, Juvenile Directors and other
partners as necessary. This work would
be done to develop a plan for working together the next legislative session.
More will be reported on this
in the near future.
There was then a brief break
prior to the start of the Partners meeting.
Joint Partners meeting
Tim Loewen announced that
Mickey Lansing of CCF called and will not be able to attend as she is at the
governors’ office. Ramona Foley of DHS
was called away, joining us were Jay Gense with DOE, Becky Ekeland with CCF.
Becky has now physically
moved to CCF. They are adjusting to the
new office and operations. U of O report
needs more work and she is meeting with NPR and UO next week to work on report,
your county data, risk protective factors, recidivism and a draft will be out
to you before it is published. They will
be going out with a new contract for bids on JPC for evaluation next few years.
Phil and Karen of OYA spoke
to the need for a shelter care, foster care, reception and evaluation center
workgroup to get going. The OYA
representatives are Debbie Rios, Linda Gesler and Cindi Liebe. Representatives for OJDDA Stan Mendenhall,
Molly Rogers and David Koch will work with the group.
Phil said they are
approaching the E-board next week for $750,000 to talk about training, policy,
central people to respond to complaints.
The presentation may be postponed.
There will be a meeting on November 8th on Sex Offender
meeting at the legislature Judiciary committee in hearing room F.
Department of Education; Jay
Gense, introduced himself and stated DOE is a department in transition. RFP’s for the school programs, in facilities
this is a new process for DOE. When all
is said and done with some restructuring, all OYA and Detention Facilities are
funded at there requested level or with a six % increase. All funding is to the
students.
Contractors are meeting
together on the 7th of November to discuss conversion of beds to BRS
or Youth Care Center youth they do not have the authority to fund these
programs. The local school district is
then responsible. Some concern for the
curriculum, currently all the same as in public school and he wants to see if
there are better ways to deliver the best education in a short period of time.
The meeting ended at
4:00.
The next meeting will be the
quarterly meeting in conduction with the AOC meeting in November in Eugene.
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Van Meter MS
OJDDA Training
Consultant