Fare thee well.

Aloha!

This is a hello on this post and a goodbye for future posts. This has been a wonderful experience and I hope I have made an impact on the processes and procedures that effect youth at my Court center. Numbers wise, we averaged in the mid-eighties this past August, down from the 120's of last year and the mid 130's of two years ago.

The Detention Expediter position has not been posted for competitive process. This was a one year detail position I accepted last September 24, so I would have been bounced back to being a line Probation Officer on that date as the process for the Expediter hasn't even been started. Instead, upon the recommendation of my boss, I applied for a promotion and received it. I will now be the Detention Program Coordinator of Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement. We'll see if my first order of business can be to arrange a new title that isn't so wordy!!!

I will still be working with delinquent youth that are detained, and I hope to be able to make sure that juvenile detention reform is alive and well in our detention center. Thanks to the the three of you that read my blog and God bless each of you!!!

There are a lot of patriots in this country working hard each and every day to make this a better country. Thanks to everyone who is a part of the solution and I'll pray for everyone that is a part of the problem.

Ciao,

John Burkholder