Deputy Speaker Williams Questions Juvenile Justice Prevention and Community Programs
Deputy Speaker Nantasha Williams asks how ACS plans to identify youth at risk of system involvement and what community-based programs are being expanded to prevent juvenile justice contact.
In the city's preliminary racial equity plan, ACS states that it plans to support young people in preventing contact with the juvenile justice system by expanding community-based programs that serve youth before they come to the attention of family court.
How does ACS plan to identify youth who may be at risk of system involvement?
And what specific community-based programs or interventions does the agency plan to expand or invest in, and what resources are included, if any, in the exec plan to support this work.
Uh 24 additional young women who will be served via this expansion.
It's a program that started in Brooklyn and is going to be expanded to Queens and the Bronx.
FY27, there's also a 0.8 million CTL being added into that budget.
ACES, which is a program, it's the only ROCA program that exists in the city.
It's an extremely important for heavily street involved young people.
It's one of the only of its kind in the city.
Also before we move on, Councilmember Lee, can we correct something for the record from one of your earlier questions?