The purpose of this program is to expand and enhance existing transitional treatment and re-entry services for youthful offenders focusing on existing Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services. In a report submitted to the Board of Supervisors by Contra Costa Health Services (study of Youth Access and Utilization of AOD Treatment in Contra Costa County, 1999), youth are underrepresented in publicly-funded AOD treatment programs. Youth who are referred are not entering treatment in appropriate numbers. The impacted youths have themselves recommended that funding and resources should be targeted on youth experimenting with alcohol and drugs. Youth in the juvenile justice system have almost four times the rate of abuse disorders than the general juvenile population in the United States. This program is intended to reduce the health and social costs to the public of substance abuse and dependence, and increase the safety of the community by reducing substance abuse related crime and violence. Efforts will focus on improving service linkage/transition for incarcerated youth from the facility to re-entry into the community and moving from intense parole to a less intensive form of general probation supervision. The Mental Health Service Act (MHSA) is funding transition and after care services to those youth experiencing mental illness, and this grant will provide for those who also suffer from substance abuse issues, a symptom many "high risk" criminal justice youth share. This grant will fund one, full-time case manager position and community-based treatment options for the grant term.