Contra Costa wins $1 million grant to expand juvenile diversion program

The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has received a $1 million state grant to establish a countywide juvenile diversion pre-filing program focusing on “restorative justice,” in which young people who have committed crimes work with their victims to atone for damages made.

This will be the first countywide juvenile diversion program for Contra Costa County, and comes on the announcement earlier this spring that the district attorney’s office was starting a pilot program in Richmond for the fall of 2019. The California Board of State and Community Corrections grant will enable the pilot program in Richmond to be expanded and eventually taken countywide.