. >> my name is denise coleman, and i am from clark, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to present before you today. some of you i know, and some of you i do not. i wanted to start off by giving you an idea of and why it was created. there was nothing at the front end of the system to intervene in a young person's life, so what we do is we provide interventions of the point of our rest, so when the kid is arrested -- the point of arrest, so when the kid is arrested, we do an intervention, and through the assessment determine a case plan, and through that we will follow of to help about a young person may better decisions for themselves region to help the young person make better decisions for themselves, to do whatever needs to be done with respect to getting them back in school, going through expulsion hearings, so we go through those processes with them. the other purpose is to keep them from getting our arrested again. all of its is to get them in a place where they will not be a friend, make better decisions, and, for some goals for them in their lives the reagan we hav

. >> my name is denise coleman, and i am from clark, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to present before you today. some of you i know, and some of you i do not. i wanted to start off by giving you an idea of and why it was created. there was nothing at the front end of the system to intervene in a young person's life, so what we do is we provide interventions of the point of our rest