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0Mmupity Lakes Area Restorative Justice Project - 2011 Year End Report A year of Improved Organization, Increased Program Strength & Lakes Area Restorative Continued service to the Citizens of Crow Win Count Justice Project g y X1011 found us completing our 6th year of program operations. Our new director, Jim Oraskovich, finished his first year with LARJP in August. Under Jim's leadership we completed our Strategic Planning update. The Board reviewed our original goals and objectives, as well as the valuable input we received during our Stakeholders meeting on November 29th, 2010. With this information the Board was able to refine and redefine our goals and objectives to ensure we continue to meet the needs of our community now and over the next several years. With this update of our goals and objectives we found possible areas for expanding services to the County, using our experience and expertise with restorative justice principals to address unmet needs. Initial groundwork has been laid to start working more closely with area schools, social services and the County Attorney's office to address the ongoing and growing issues of bullying, harassment, technology miss use and truancy in our area schools. Discussions have also been started with the probation office about the possibility of being involved during the pre - dispositional investigation process. Being involved in this manner will afford victims of juvenile offender crimes being processed by the court system the opportunity to meet with offenders and provide input for restitution and reparation that they would otherwise not have. We again offered two Volunteer training sessions this year, one in the spring and another this fall. There is always a never ending need to maintain a fairly large group of volunteers to draw from as the caseload can fluctuate greatly as to when the cases are referred to us. We also added a member to our part-time paid staff group, by bringing on one of our more experienced Volunteer Facilitators, Terri Nault, as our new Volunteer Coordinator at half the time allotted for our Executive Director and Program Services Director, Stephanie Haider. Terri is now in charge of organizing, distributing, follow -up and assisting on the cases with the volunteers. This will free up time for Stephanie to work more closely with our collaborating partners in addressing the new areas of service as discussed above; getting the details worked out and handling more of that caseload. Our caseload for the year was consistent with our annual average. From the statistical information below you will see that even though our individual offender count was down, our actual victim count was the highest it has ever been. We also continue to see a large number of extended family and community members participating in our program, which greatly helps these juvenile offenders succeed and continue to make better choices. So the overall number of people involved in individual cases continues to increase as well as the complexities of the cases referred. 5 yr Client Comparison \ / • Numberof Offenders: • Numberof Victims: r Numberof Community Participants: \ 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 / \ Annual Case Outcomes ■ Successful Offenders Unsuccessfully Offenders ■ Aborted Offenders ■ Declined Offenders 14 18 93 209 62 958 .11 L,2 __ 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 18 Offenders referred in 2011 still have open files in progress. / All Conference participants are asked to fill out a survey form to rate their satisfaction on a number of issues as they relate to the conference itself, their overall experience with our program and if they have had court experience, how does this process compare. We use this information to ensure we are meeting the needs of our clients, providing a safe and respectful environment for their needs to be addressed as well as providing a forum for areas of need to be identified. Any areas of need identified are then used to design and implement our staff and volunteer training sessions to ensure those areas of need are addressed. Based on the 2011 Conference Surveys received our Client satisfaction rates in the following areas are: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best: Rate your satisfaction with the conference process: 9.2 Rate the process as to how fairly you were treated: 9.34 Rate as to how fairly everyone else was treated: 9.43 Rate your satisfaction on the agreed upon contract: 9.36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you have a better understanding of how others were affected by this incident? 96% Yes Were all of your questions / concerns addressed through this process? 94.5% Yes 'f faced with a similar incident in the future would you choose the conferencing process? 100% Yes `--Do you feel participating in the conference was preferable to having the situation handed by the court? 96% Yes Financial Restitution collected for Victims in 2011 - $3,633.00. Dollar Value of Community Service Hours performed by the Offenders was over $10,800 for the almost 600 hours of work done.