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Provides a structured intervention program that aims to reduce recidivism among youth. The program is designed to be both educational and rehabilitative by offering participants the opportunity to make amends for their misdeeds as well as learn important life skills while gaining work experience. Diversion is a program that provides juvenile first-time offenders an opportunity to avoid a permanent criminal record by completing a series of workshops and service hours, and engaging in other activities depending on the severity of the offense. This is a year-round program providing an opportunity for participants to learn about restorative justice while developing social skills through community service or other community-building activities.

Community corrections system with services including:

• Alcohol/drug awareness class

• Anger assessment/management program

• Assistance to crime victims

• Community service work programs

• Correctional facilities

• Diversion of appropriate low-risk offenders

• Monitoring and enforcement of court orders

• Probation services for adult and juvenile offenders

• Sex offender treatment programs

• Theft awareness class

• Tobacco education

• Vandalism/property offender class

Probation and Parole Services include the following programs: ???- Adult and juvenile diversion ?- Community work service ?- Electronic home monitoring ?- Victim restitution

• Coordinates placement of offenders in appropriate community and residential programs

• Juvenile diversion

• Pre-trial bail evaluations

• Pretrial supervision

• Provides electronic monitoring of cases

• Provides the court with necessary reports such as pre-dispositional reports, probation violation reports, reference reports, review and discharge reports, chemical use assessments, domestic abuse investigations, chemical use prescreen reports, and mental health screens

• Provides local community service work crews

• Provides probation supervision to juvenile, adult misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor offenders

• Provides random drug and alcohol testing

• Refers offenders to selected education and treatment programs based on their individual needs

Diversion services help youth make better choices and parents recognize signs and symptoms. Topics include:

• Chemical Awareness Program (CAP) (tobacco, e-cigs, alcohol, and drugs) (not a treatment program)

• Restorative Justice Conferencing: Mediation that includes offender, victims, and their respective support groups

• Community work service hours

• Creative Responses to Conflict (helping the youth to develop alternative ways in dealing with conflict)

• Restitution

• Bullying Awareness Program (BAP)

• Distracted Driving Awareness Program (DDAP) (helping young drivers become educated on how to prevent risky behaviors and attitudes while driving or prior to being a licensed driver)

• Responsible Social Media Use (RSMU) (helping youth who are struggling to use social media in a healthy way)

• Theft Awareness Program (TAP)

• Teen Intervene Program (TI)

Provides programming, supervision, and monitoring of adult and juvenile offenders to reduce the risk of recidivism and assure public safety. Services include:

• Adult and juvenile probation

• Adult and juvenile diversion

• Adult parole

• Drug court

• Juvenile court

• Truancy court

• Unpaid community work service

Provides a system of services to adults and juveniles. Services include: ?- Services for Adults: Conditional release, court intake, pre-sentence investigation, restitution, home monitoring, work release, sentencing to service, community work service, probation supervision, restorative conferencing, and cognitive behavioral interventions

• Services for Juveniles: Court intake, predisposition investigations, residential and nonresidential programs, New Chance Extended Day Treatment, community work service, probation supervision, detention services, restitution, after school programs, drug court, in home counseling, restorative conferencing, and cognitive behavioral interventions

Provides community correction services and facilitates evidence-based and restorative practices to enhance public safety. Services include:

• Adult and juvenile diversion programs
• Electronic monitoring
• Intensive supervision of repeat DWI offenders
• Pre-dispositional reports
• Pre-sentence investigations
• Random drug and alcohol testing
• Supervision of all juvenile and adult misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, and felony offenders

Addresses adult misdemeanor/gross misdemeanor and juvenile cases, offering supervision, case management, program compliance monitoring, and support for treatment, including referrals to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) programs. Additionally, it provides community service options linked to probation conditions, guided by formal agreements and procedures.

• Diversion: Allows lower level offenders to avoid court convictions by completing a set of conditions

• Probation supervision

• Sentence to Serve (STS): Jail alternative work program for lower risk offenders

Provides a system of services to adults and juveniles. Services include: ?- Services for Adults: Conditional release, court intake, pre-sentence investigation, restitution, home monitoring, work release, sentencing to service, community work service, probation supervision, restorative conferencing, and cognitive behavioral interventions

• Services for Juveniles: Court intake, predisposition investigations, residential and nonresidential programs, New Chance Extended Day Treatment, community work service, probation supervision, detention services, restitution, after school programs, drug court, in home counseling, restorative conferencing, and cognitive behavioral interventions

Community Work Service Program: Juveniles are assigned to do community work service, either through juvenile court or the diversion process, to work on projects throughout the county under the supervision of an adult supervisor. These work sites have been recruited and are continually montored by the Juvenile STS Crew Leader. Community service work sites offer a varied degree of work experiences that allow the juveniles to provide a service to their community. Drug testing Electronic Surveillance Program: Utilizes electronic surveillance equipment for juveniles as an alternative to detention. Probation Officers make recommendations to the District Court regarding the appropriateness of releasing a juvenile on electronic monitoring to his/her parent or guardian's custody pending further hearings or disposition. Nicollet County Probation also uses electronic monitoring as a condition/sanction of a juvenile's probation. This option is used for juvenile offenders, both as an alternative for detention, as well as short term consequential programming. First Time Offenders Programs: Provides a number of opportunities for first time juvenile offenders. Many of these are educational groups, which are run within the department, as well as several where referrals are made to other agencies. Popular options outside the department include; the ARCHER Program (At Risk Chemical Health Education and Resilience) and the PERT Program (Program for Encouragement of Responsible Thinking). Juvenile Diversion Program: Offered for first time minor offenders. These juveniles are diverted from the juvenile court upon agreement of the County Attorney's Office and the Probation Department. The Probation Department meets with these juveniles and their parent(s) and provides programming that will deter further delinquent activity. Project Nighthawk:?Joins probation officers and law enforcement in partnership to ensure compliance of court orders through random home visits to hold clients accountable to probation conditions, such as drug and alcohol testing. Randomly schedules visits on a weekly basis.

• Diversion Program Monitoring for Adults: Low-level felony offenders with little or no prior criminal record may be court-ordered into the Diversion Program. Diversion allows certain property and drug offenders to avoid a felony conviction if they complete a probationary period with specific conditions. Offenders may be required to pay restitution to their victims, complete community work service, and undergo chemical dependency treatment.

?- Diversion Program Monitoring for Juveniles: Low-level juvenile offenders with little or no prior criminal record may be offered diversion as an alternative option to appearing in court. Youth in the Diversion Program will not have to appear in front of a judge, have a court record or be placed on probation. Diversion consequences are typically less significant than those imposed by the court. ?- Case management

• Information and referral to services

?- Probation supervision for adult and juvenile offenders as ordered by the court, including Adult Probation Service Center and Juvenile Probation, home electronic monitoring, remote electronic alcohol monitoring, and specialized domestic abuse and sexual offender supervision

Diversion services help youth make better choices and parents recognize signs and symptoms. Topics include:

• Chemical Awareness Program (CAP) (tobacco, e-cigs, alcohol, and drugs) (not a treatment program)

• Restorative Justice Conferencing: Mediation that includes offender, victims, and their respective support groups

• Community work service hours

• Creative Responses to Conflict (helping the youth to develop alternative ways in dealing with conflict)

• Restitution

• Bullying Awareness Program (BAP)

• Distracted Driving Awareness Program (DDAP) (helping young drivers become educated on how to prevent risky behaviors and attitudes while driving or prior to being a licensed driver)

• Responsible Social Media Use (RSMU) (helping youth who are struggling to use social media in a healthy way)

• Theft Awareness Program (TAP)

• Teen Intervene Program (TI)

Offers a comprehensive range of services aimed at supporting rehabilitation and ensuring public safety. Services include diversion programs for first-time offenders, unsupervised probation, and supervision for both adult and juvenile offenders, including those under the Interstate Compact. Additionally, the department facilitates community service and restitution programs, the Sentencing to Service Program, drug testing, educational information, counseling, and the Community Plus Program.

Supervision of all court assigned adult misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, and felony offenders in a pretrial release program, and preparation of domestic abuse investigations Services include:

• Drug Testing

• Electronic Surveillance Program

• MADD Panel

• Pretrial Conditional Release Program

• Pretrial Bail Evaluations

• Project Nighthawk

• Sentence to Service (STS)

Community corrections system with services including:

• Assistance to crime victims

• Community service work programs

• Diversion of appropriate low-risk offenders

• Monitoring and enforcement of court orders

• Probation services for adult and juvenile offenders

Provides a system of services to adults and juveniles. Services include: ?- Services for Adults: Conditional release, court intake, pre-sentence investigation, restitution, home monitoring, work release, sentencing to service, community work service, probation supervision, restorative conferencing, and cognitive behavioral interventions

• Services for Juveniles: Court intake, predisposition investigations, residential and nonresidential programs, New Chance Extended Day Treatment, community work service, probation supervision, detention services, restitution, after school programs, drug court, in home counseling, restorative conferencing, and cognitive behavioral interventions

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Supervision of all court assigned adult misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, and felony offenders in a pretrial release program, and preparation of domestic abuse investigations Services include:

• Drug Testing

• Electronic Surveillance Program

• MADD Panel

• Pretrial Conditional Release Program

• Pretrial Bail Evaluations

• Project Nighthawk

• Sentence to Service (STS)

Community corrections system with services including:

• Assistance to crime victims

• Community service work programs

• Diversion of appropriate low-risk offenders

• Monitoring and enforcement of court orders

• Probation services for adult and juvenile offenders

Community corrections system with services including:

• Alcohol/drug awareness class

• Anger assessment/management program

• Assistance to crime victims

• Community service work programs

• Correctional facilities

• Diversion of appropriate low-risk offenders

• Monitoring and enforcement of court orders

• Probation services for adult and juvenile offenders

• Sex offender treatment programs

• Theft awareness class

• Tobacco education

• Vandalism/property offender class

Responsible for supervising all juvenile probation cases assigned by Otter Tail County District Court and all juvenile parole cases for Otter Tail County residents through the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Additionally, supervises all gross misdemeanor and misdemeanor files sentenced in Otter Tail County District Court or those files sentenced in a different court if the client resides in Otter Tail County.

• Diversion: Allows lower level offenders to avoid court convictions by completing a set of conditions

• Probation supervision

• Sentence to Serve (STS): Jail alternative work program for lower risk offenders