What we do
California law requires each county to establish a Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council (JJCC).
San Francisco's Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council must:
- Create and put in place county-based responses to juvenile crime
- Create the county’s multi-agency Local Action Plan to serve juvenile justice-involved youth
- Review, update, and submit the Local Action Plan on an annual basis to the Office of Youth and Community Restoration by May 1 of each year.
Who we are
The Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council must include the Chief Probation Officer, as chair, and 1 representative from each of the following:
- District Attorney’s Office
- Public Defender’s Office
- Sheriff’s Office
- Board of Supervisors
- Department of Social Services (Human Services Agency)
- Department of Mental Health (Department of Public Health)
- Police Department
- School District
- A Community-Based Agency Drug and Alcohol Program*
- An At-large Community Representative*
*San Francisco’s 2 required community seats are filled by the Community Assessment and Resource Center (CARC) and the Juvenile Justice Providers Association (JJPA).
The San Francisco Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council also includes representatives from:
- Recreation and Parks Department
- Department of Children, Youth, and their Families
- Adult Probation
- Mayor’s Office of Housing
- San Francisco Youth Commission
- Juvenile Advisory Council
- Superior Court, Unified Family Court
- Juvenile Justice Commission
- Juvenile Probation Commission