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The Probation Connection Podcast
Listen to the Podcast from the Chief Probation Officers of California
Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC) Foundation launched their podcast, The California Probation Connection in 2022.
This podcast is a space that dives deeper into complex topics that face probation professionals, as well as everyone involved in our justice system.
Episodes feature chief probation officers who share their experiences and perspectives about issues involving California Probation and our justice system. The host of the podcast is CPOC Executive Director, Karen Pank.
You can enjoy listening to The California Probation Connection on podcast platforms, several linked below, or watch the podcast on YouTube. Links to all platforms can be found here: https://linktr.ee/caprobation
Spotlight: Meet Rosemarie Salazar
From Juvenile Detention to Business Owner and Mother of Three
Probation is a unique bridge between the community and justice with many different stories to share.
Rosemarie Salazar was on probation in San Bernardino County as a youth. Years later she still remembers the Group Counselors, now known as Probation Officers whose mentorship helped get her life back on track. Probation is a unique bridge that connects high needs youth with the trained experts in probation to help individuals like Rosemarie get the skills they need to build a bridge back to the community and live healthy and positive lives.
Tuolumne County Grand Jury heaps praise on juvenile hall staff, volunteers, programs
The Mother Lode Regional Juvenile Detention Facility received a glowing review from the 2018-19 Tuolumne County Civil Grand Jury in a new report.
The jury didn’t have anything negative to say about $20 million facility that started housing incarcerated youth in April 2017.
Tuolumne County Grand Jury heaps praise on juvenile hall staff, volunteers, programs
From The Union Democrat
The Mother Lode Regional Juvenile Detention Facility received a glowing review from the 2018-19 Tuolumne County Civil Grand Jury in a new report.
The jury didn’t have anything negative to say about $20 million facility that started housing incarcerated youth in April 2017. According to the 10-page report, recidivism among young offenders in the county has dropped from 49 percent to 19 percent since the hall opened.
Napa’s Juvenile Hall staff dedicated to youth mental health services, county watchdog says
From Napa Valley Register
Mental health services at Napa County Juvenile Hall meet state standards and are easily accessible to young people behind bars, the county watchdog says.
California’s Historic Juvenile Justice Evolution
Led by Chief Probation Officers, California has seen a historic shift in how we serve youth referred to our justice system.
Authored by Chief Stephanie James and Chief Allen Nance
California should be proud of the evolution and success in our juvenile justice over the last decade. Led by Chief Probation Officers, along with the state and community-based agencies, California has seen a historic shift in how we serve youth referred to our justice system. California has reduced usage of our local detention facilities by 60% and successfully serve 90% of youth in the juvenile justice system within our communities.
Sacramento County Probation Creates First-of-its-Kind Program for Youth
Sacramento Probation's multi-sensory de-escalation room increases safety for youth
Sacramento County’s multi-sensory de-escalation room is the first of its kind in a juvenile detention facility in the United States. This innovation creates a safe, trauma-informed environment that allows residents to de-escalate without use of force or an isolation room, which helps prevent violence and increases safety. This program is a 2018 California Association of Counties (CSAC) Challenge Award-winning program. CSAC Challenge Awards spotlight the most innovative programs in California Counties.
Riverside Probation: The Inspire Project
Relating to clients proves to have a strong effect on their willingness to participate in and achieve successful supervision
BY DEPUTY PROBATION OFFICER KOURTNEE GERVASI
The Adult Services Division embraces a human service approach toward supervision while focusing on components associated with an effective reduction in recidivism.
Solano Probation’s Center for Positive Change Graduates 71
With joy and tears Tuesday, 71 people described as “high-risk offenders” were honored for completing a rigorous program slated to help make their transition back into the community successful.
Gathered in the Solano County Events Center in Fairfield, the students of the Center for Positive Change, run by the county’s probation department, happily acknowledged an audience full of loved ones as they received their certificates from the program’s 2018 completion ceremony.
Some shared their stories, others celebrated in silence as they pondered the bright future ahead.
Probation Services Week 2018
HIGHLIGHT: Sacramento County Probation Break Away Bike Program
The Sacramento Probation Department knew they needed to address an important issue to help clients succeed in Sacramento’s Adult Drug Court – transportation.
Transportation is a critical issue for those re-entering society to be successful.
The Sacramento Probation Department created the Break Away Bike Program to address Adult Drug Court program participants who, upon release from custody, have no means of transportation to attend required treatment sessions and Court appearances.
The L.A. Model: Changing young lives at Campus Kilpatrick
Campus Kilpatrick is the flagship location of the Los Angeles County Probation Departmentʼs“L.A.Model”for juvenile rehabilitative service facilities. The Department,in partnership with other county departments and the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) successfully opened the first L.A. Model cottage at Campus Kilpatrick in July 2017.
Decade of Progress
Probation's Success with Juvenile Realignment
Click here to watch this engaging video which discusses the history of Juvenile Justice Realignment and what factors at the time contributed to its passage.
Take a closer look at how this historic reform impacted probation departments and how they were able to implement the reform with a focus on local treatment models for youth, evidence based rehabilitative strategies and better approaches to detention.
Juvenile crime rates plummet amid new approaches to tackling youth crime
San Diego County
When San Diego County went looking for grant funds to help build a 300-bed jail for juveniles, officials argued that the 1950s-era Juvenile Hall on Meadowlark Lane was strained to the breaking point.
“There is literally no more room at the inn,” the county warned in a grant application in 1999 seeking $36 million in construction funds for what would become, in 2004, the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility.
And things were only going to get worse: At the time, the county estimated it would need 1,284 beds to house all its juvenile offenders by 2015.
