Creating a pilot program to increase family participation in juvenile offender programs.
Summary
Requires the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to establish pilot programs to promote, using incentive as motivation, increased participation and success in juvenile offender evidence-based programs; the pilot programs shall be limited to evidence-based programs.
Requires that eligible counties for the pilot programs must have imposed the sales and use tax authorized by RCW 82.14.460 and that the pilot programs should be operational by March 1, 2010.
Requires the DSHS, in cooperation with the University of Washington, to evaluate the results of the pilot programs.
Requires the DSHS to provide a preliminary report to the Governor and the Legislature on the results of the pilot programs by December 1, 2011, and a final report by December 1, 2013.
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SSB 5141), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
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