4 NEO counties join together to reduce juvenile delinquency

YOUNGSTOWN — The juvenile courts and other agencies in four Northeast Ohio counties are collaborating to reduce repeated juvenile delinquency and to keep minors in their family homes and out of institutions.

The Mahoning, Trumbull, Ashtabula and Geauga county juvenile courts are working together in a partnership, known as the Northeastern Ohio Regional Reclaim Collaborative.

The Ohio Department of Youth Services is funding this effort at $250,000 annually for up to five years.

The effort here is one of only two multicounty collaboratives funded by this program, the other being in southeast Ohio.

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