MISSION STATEMENT

To provide quality services within our community through effective and efficient utilization of available resources, in order to assure offenders accountability, treatment, public safety, and community participation, while guaranteeing the rights of all citizens. (MJPOA July, 1999)

SERVICES

• conduct informal youth court proceedings and provide for informal adjustments;
• make pre-dispositional studies and submit reports and recommendations to the court;
• supervise, assist, and counsel youth placed on probation or under the probation officer's supervision, including enforcement of the terms of probation or intervention;
• assist any public and private community and work projects engaged in by youth to pay fines, make restitution, and pay any other costs ordered by the court that are associated with youth delinquency or need for intervention;
• perform other functions designated by the youth court judge.