From fiscal year 2016-2017 through 2019-2020, seven of the eighteen DCJ-funded Colorado juvenile diversion programs received additional resources from the Marijuana Tax Fund to address substance use among the youth their programs serve. While all juvenile diversion programs worked to address the needs of youth in their programs, these seven programs received additional funds to explicitly support substance use-related training and certifications for staff, provision of substance use prevention/intervention curricula, and to offset costs that are otherwise passed on to the youth and family for substance use assessment and treatment, and drug and alcohol testing. This report examines a subset of diversion youth data from those programs receiving Marijuana Tax Fund dollars with a specific focus on comparing outcomes for the diversion youth who received services paid for by the Marijuana Tax Fund compared to those that did not receive these services within the funded programs.
