Will County Judicial Committee met May 1.

By Angelica Saylo Pilo

Jun 29, 2018

Here is the minutes provided by the Committee:

I. Call To Order / Roll Call

Chair Darren Bennefield called the meeting to order at 9:05 AM

Attendee

Darren Bennefield Chair Present

Gretchen Fritz Vice Chair Absent

Kenneth E. Harris Member Absent

Tim Kraulidis Member Present

Tyler Marcum Member Present

Debbie Militello Member Present

Beth Rice Member Present

Also Present: H. Brooks and M. Johannsen.

Present from the State's Attorney's Office: M. Tatroe

Ii. Pledge Of Allegiance To The Flag

Mr. Marcum led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

Iii. Approval Of Minutes

1. WC Judicial Committee - Joint with Public Health & Safety Comm - Apr 3, 2018 9:00 AM

Result: Approved [Unanimous]

Mover: Beth Rice, Member

Seconder: Tim Kraulidis, Member

Ayes: Bennefield, Kraulidis, Marcum, Militello, Rice

Absent: Fritz, Harris

Iv. Old Business

V. New Business

1. NACO Achievement Award Nomination

(Julie McCabe-Sterr, Will County State's Attorney's Office)

Ms. McCabe-Sterr explained that a few months back she was approached about writing an application for a National Association of Counties (NACo) award on the Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) program. She reviewed the attached documents regarding the application and it's process.

She is confident the County will win this award, it is an incredible program.

Ms. Rice asked in regards to the adverse childhood experience and trauma, how do you treat in the program.

Ms. McCabe-Sterr stated right now they have a men's trauma group and a women's. There are facilitator guides in their LCSW and their MSW Teach that group. They take a small group, 6-10 people at a time, and work them through a really intense program. To identify what those traumatic issues are, recognizing them, owning them and then seeing where you move on from that. At the heroin forum in Romeoville, the keynote speaker is on adverse childhood experiences, she will go into depth on how that affects people. It is often a decade later that these come up. Everyone gets a mental health assessment, it took years to do this for everyone. Their federal drug court grant runs out next October, so she did ask ICJIA if there is any chance they could pick up that funding.

Vi. Other New Business

Vii. Public Comment

Viii. Chairman's Report / Announcements

Ix. Executive Session

X. Adjournment

1. Motion to Adjourn

Result: Approved [Unanimous]

Mover: Beth Rice, Member

Seconder: Tim Kraulidis, Member

Ayes: Bennefield, Kraulidis, Marcum, Militello, Rice

Absent: Fritz, Harris

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