Narcisse asks whether probation assesses youth mental health and trauma

know how to stay in my lane, but I'm excited about the things that's coming.

So whatever we can do as a union to help and build those, get involved in those programs, like I talk about kids with special needs, those kind of programs, yes, I believe that they're definitely doing it.

And in any way we can give input, I'm going to absolutely do it because I will always be an officer first.

I mean, our offices both have social workers, and I feel like they spend a lot of time putting together plans and finding programs in the community and seeing what's available.

I think our hardship is, one, being able to find a plan that really fits a client's individual need.

And a lot of the programs that are really good, they fill up.

And so there is a long waiting list.

And since for our kids in family court, at least, you know, our statute of limitations means that our cases are like really, really quick in comparison to the youth park cases.

So we necessarily can't wait for a two or three month wait list.

I think overall with the past administration when probation officers were no longer, were pulled out of the courtrooms and the liaisons were gone

and that direct immediate connection for even for an adjustment was lost.

But it's a two part problem.

It's not just for the Department of Probation and Programming.

It's also

for those cases when we're seeking dispositions that don't require probation's touch, where there's a shortage of programs.

I mean, we saw under the prior administration funding cuts to vital programs.

One was entirely cut.