Texas Counties Receive $1.2 Million for Juvenile Programs

Each year, the Criminal Justice Division awards more than $113 million in grants for a variety of juvenile justice, criminal justice and victim services programs. The grants also fund crime control and prevention training for law enforcement officers and court personnel, substance abuse treatment and case management through juvenile drug courts, and risk assessments of young offenders.

Texas counties have been awarded $1.2 million to improve services within the juvenile justice system. These awards include:

• $143,987 to Bexar County to provide a drug court program that will include intensive judicial supervision, case management, professional counseling and drug testing services for misdemeanor juvenile drug offenders.
• $125,000 to Brooks County to provide a juvenile drug court that includes intensive court supervision, random drug-testing and counseling services for juvenile drug offenders
• $272,004 to Dallas County to administer the Dallas County Juvenile Information System, which provides a profile of a juvenile offender's criminal history to local law enforcement, judicial officials and education agencies and allows them to electronically manage offense reports, arrest notifications, court documents, and victim and witness notifications.
• $9,350 to Duval County to provide short-term detention services for juvenile offenders.
• $147,000 to Guadalupe County to provide intensive judicial supervision, substance abuse treatment, drug testing, academic assistance, and parenting and child development classes to juvenile drug offenders through a six-month juvenile drug court program.
• $88,881 to Hale County Juvenile Board to provide intensive supervision, rehabilitation and intervention services through a juvenile drug court to youth offenders who are referred to the program by the Hale County Juvenile Probation Office.
• $33,130 to Hays County to provide an alternative education and supervision program for permanently expelled middle and secondary school youth. The program will include grade-level academic enrichment services, life-skills training, physical education, case management services, and increased monitoring and enforcement of probation orders.
• $98,207 to Hill County to provide intensive supervision, rehabilitation and intervention services to juvenile drug offenders through a juvenile drug court program.
• $10,000 to Jim Hogg County to provide detention, evaluation and rehabilitative counseling services to juvenile offenders.
• $94,370 to Lamb County to provide evaluation and assessment services, support services, intervention and prevention services, community service activities and group counseling to juvenile offenders on probation in Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Briscoe, Motley and Dickens counties.
• $44,395 to Presidio County to provide intensive judicial supervision, substance abuse treatment, drug testing, academic assistance and life-skills education through a juvenile drug court program for primarily rural drug-abusing juveniles charged with nonviolent offenses.