Iron County receives $100,000 state grant

By RICHARD JENKINS

rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com

Hurley — Iron County will have an additional $100,000 to help combat truancy and other juvenile issues after the Iron County Human Services Board learned Monday the county has received a state grant.

The county was awarded the Young Justice Innovative Grant within the last month, according to Human Services Director Cally Kilger.

“It’s very exciting. We did not think we were going to get it,” she said.

She said the money will be used in collaboration with the other community stakeholders as part of an effort to reduce various issues that bring young people into contact with law enforcement.

“We are collaborating with the schools, law enforcement and the courts in order to work on truancy and some of those juvenile behaviors that we are seeing pop up pretty frequently,” Kilger said.

After the meeting, she told the Daily Globe the county’s effort will feature several prongs, including educational efforts as well as work with specific cases.

“There’s some educational components to (the effort). But it’s also looking at having a person … do a lot of case management with families, and to communicate and be that go-between between the schools and us and that kind of thing,” Kilger told the Daily Globe.

The grant will run through December 2020, according to Kilger.

In other action, the board:

—Learned the county will receive an extra $100,000 in state funding for children and family programs.

—Heard there is a delay in moving the county’s Aging and Disabilities Resource Center into its new location in the former Hurley VFW building as the county waits for the building’s phone system to be installed.