Juvenile Reentry Grant

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The Juvenile Reentry Grant (JRG) program was created to support local supervision of young offenders released from the Division of Juvenile Facilities. Its primary purpose is to reimburse county probation departments for expenses related to housing these individuals, covering costs for supervision, programming, education, and incarceration after their release from the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) or a Secure Youth Treatment Facility (SYTF).

County Allocations

The Office of Youth and Community Restoration (OYCR) provides an annual report identifying each ward discharged from a DJJ facility or SYTF facility and a second report on discharged wards who are returned to a local juvenile detention facility for violating a condition of court-ordered supervision during the first 24 months after the ward’s initial release to local supervision.

This data is organized into a single report and submitted to the Department of Finance on an annual basis. When a claim for reimbursement is approved, payment is made directly to county probation departments by the State Controller’s Office.

JRG funding is not awarded based on submitted proposals. Rather, JRG funds are provided as reimbursement to county probation departments that housed one or more youthful offenders in a local juvenile detention facility, under the following criteria:

• • The youth was released from a DJJ or SYTF facility within the past 24 months.
  • After the youth’s release from a DJJ or SYTF facility, he/she received a probation violation.
  • Upon violating probation, the youth was/is housed in a county juvenile detention facility (not an adult facility).

When is the Juvenile Reentry Grant Report due?

Report is due by August 1 of each fiscal year.

Juvenile Reentry Grant Resources

Offenders Probation Violation

FY2024-25 Juvenile Reentry Grant Reporting Template – DJJ

FY2024-25 Juvenile Reentry Grant Reporting Template – SYTF

Youth concluded baseline term or modified baseline term

FY2024-25 Juvenile Reentry Grant Reporting Template – SYTF or LRP

Juvenile Reentry Grant Governing Statutes

Welfare & Institutions Code (WIC) Sections 1980 et seq., authorize counties to receive annual allocations from the Juvenile Reentry Fund and specifies these funds “shall be expended exclusively to address local program needs for persons discharged from the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities. County probation departments, in expending the Juvenile Reentry Grant allocation, shall provide evidence-based supervision and detention practices and rehabilitative services to persons who are subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court who were committed to and discharged from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. “Evidence-based” refers to supervision and detention policies, procedures, programs, and practices demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals on probation or under post release supervision.” The WIC codes further specify that “The funding provided under this chapter is intended to provide payment in full for all local government costs of the supervision, programming, education, incarceration or any other cost resulting from persons discharged from custody or held in local facilities pursuant to the provisions of this act.”

Stats. 2024, Ch. 50, Sec. 10. (AB 169) (3) Existing law establishes the Juvenile Reentry Grant to provide for the local supervision of persons discharged from the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. Existing law requires the amount allocated to each county probation department from the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account be distributed pursuant to specified criteria. Existing law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide an annual report to the Department of Finance regarding each discharged ward returned to a local juvenile detention facility, as specified. Under existing law, the Division of Juvenile Justice closed on June 30, 2023.