Girls Research in Missouri

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Girls Research in Missouri

• Shanté Lampley, M.A.
• JDAI Site Coordinator
• St Louis City

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Missouri JDAI Sites

• Jackson County (Kansas City)
• Greene County (Springfield)
• St Louis City
• St Louis County

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Research Process

• As a group, sites agreed to examine two reasons
  girls were detained
• Technical probation violations
• Overrides into detention

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Reseach Process

• Quantitative data gathered from State validation
  study
• Study period 7/31/07-1/11/08
• Obtained initial data on girls detained for
  overrides, Capias, probation violations and
  none
• Information was already available

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Research Process

• Qualitative data collected from case files
• Reviewed files of all girls detained during the
  study period
• Sites were able to gain deeper understanding of
  complex issues with detained girls
• Themes identified and summarized

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FINDINGS-All Missouri Sites

• Majority of those detained were African-American.
• Detained males had prior referrals more than
  females.
• Females more likely to be detained as a result of
  an override decision.

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FINDINGS contd

• Males detained at higher proportion for serious
  offenses
• (i.e. felonies).
• Females detained at higher proportion for
  misdemeanors, infractions and other offenses.

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FINDINGS contd

• Females were more likely than males to have a
  history of escape, FTA, or out of State running.
• Females were more likely to have a history of
  child abuse or neglect.

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Additional Findings

• Parents with ineffective management styles
• Parental history of mental disorder
• Parental substance abuse

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St Louis City Findings

• 100 of girls detained during the study period
  were African-American
• Length of stay was high for girls detained on
  technical probation violations (avg. 28.8 days)
• More females present for capias, court order
  detentions, or warrants

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St Louis City Findings

• High concentration of Childrens Division cases
  in probation violation sample.
• A number of girls in sample received mental heath
  services
• (i.e. MST, psychiatric placement, and
  counseling)

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St Louis City Reform EffortsAverage Length of
Stay and Average Daily Population by Gender
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St Louis City-2007 Admissions by Gender and
Offense
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St Louis City Reform Efforts2007 Overrides
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St Louis City2007 Overrides
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MissouriGirls Workplan

• Address detentions of Dual System Cases
  (Childrens Division and Delinquency)
• Develop protocols for RAI administration that
  require screener to contact CD to take youth when
  they have custody just as a custodial parent
  would be contacted
• Develop protocols with law enforcement so that
  law enforcement takes youth to CD just as they
  would take youth to their custodial parent. 

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MissouriGirls Workplan contd

• Develop and implement gender responsive response
  and reward grid.
• Review practices and policies on case management
  for girls. 

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MissouriGirls Workplan contd

• Deepen research on warrants
• Separate research by type of warrant
  (disaggregate warrants by reason (i.e., FTA,
  arrests)
• Quantitative analysis cross-referencing warrant
  by type with event, gender, race/ethnicity, and
  geography
• Qualitative detail on use of FTA warrants.

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Services

• Counseling
• Mentoring Stepping Stones
• Respite
• Sista Keeper
• YWCA Y-Teens
• My Sisters Keeper
• Hart to Hart

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MissouriJDAI Site Coordinators

• Shanté Lampley
• St Louis City
• [phone]
• Shante.Lampley_at_courts.mo.gov
• Denny Atherton
• Jackson County (816)-881-6510
• Denny.Atherton_at_courts.mo.gov

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DeShane Reed Greene County (417)
829-6132 DeShane.Reed_at_courts.mo.gov Jeff Osburg
St Louis County [phone]
Jeff.Osburg_at_courts.mo.gov John Thomas St Louis
County [phone] John.Thomas_at_courts.mo.go
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