San Diego County Awarded $1 Million Grant To Help End Girls Incarceration 

The San Diego County Probation Department and nonprofit San Diego Youth Services are implementing a two-year grant valued at $1 million to implement a program intended to reduce, and ultimately end, the incarceration of girls and gender-expansive youth. The grant is from the Sierra Health Foundation, California Office of Youth and Community Restoration, and The Vera Institute of Justice. 

With the grant funding and strategic support from the state, the county probation department is implementing the San Diego Ending Girls Incarceration Initiative, which is focused on diversion, intervention, and community-based alternatives to detention. The county’s press . . .