The county Board of Commissioners is expected to vote on the contracts this morning.
Officials expect little opposition.
Success is measured by helping kids improve academic skills, stay off drugs and alcohol, and find jobs. Her Detroit agency was selected as one of five Care Management Organizations, or CMOs, to manage the system. The CMO plan is the county's response to the failure earlier this year of a program known as the Wayne County Juvenile Justice Block Grant proposal, which would have shifted authority over the delinquents from the state to the county. But the county and state could not agree on how large of a grant was needed. The county and state now split the costs 50-50 for treating delinquent youths, and caring for abused and neglected children.