Restitution/Community Service Work Program
The Partners Work Program helps youth who are court-ordered to perform community service hours and/or to pay restitution, which are any monetary damages owed to the crime victim.
•1070 juvenile offenders completed 25,496 hours of community service work in 2010.
• Juvenile offenders are referred to the Youth Accountability Program of the District Attorney’s Office, Municipal Courts, County Court, District Court and Division of Youth Corrections
• Restitution may be converted to a number of hours that the youth works, which in turn the program uses funds to pay to the courts for the monetary obligations. Consequently, crime victims receive money owed to them much more efficiently
• The general public and community businesses can ‘hire’ work crews to do a variety of clean-up and yard work. The money raised is used to help pay back crime victims
• In addition to satisfying court-ordered obligations, the work program also provides educational classes and instills work ethics, accountability and responsibility for their actions
• In 2010, $130,300 of restitution was paid back to crime victims in Mesa County
• 87% of the juvenile offenders, who are referred by the court system to the Partners Work Program, successfully complete the Program
”I was really surprised when my business received a check from the Partners program. I could not figure out what it was for. So I called Partners and found out that the 13 year old juvenile who had started a fire at my business actually worked to pay off over $4,000 for the damages done.” R. M. Business Owner.