{ "schema_version": 1, "dataset_id": "youth-opportunity-local-evidence-inventory", "version_id": "2026-10-07-v1", "verified_on": "2026-10-07", "status": "verified_official_source_inventory", "purpose": "Identify the official local records that can support the next Youth Opportunity evidence layer for Los Angeles County and Baltimore City without treating unlike administrative measures as comparable.", "comparison_boundary": "An identified official source is not automatically a comparable indicator. No value in this inventory is used to score or rank a jurisdiction.", "publication_boundary": "The inventory records public source families, definitions, coverage, and limitations. It does not publish extracted local values until geography, population, reporting period, numerator, denominator, and suppression rules are reconciled.", "status_definitions": { "official_source_identified": "The source is published by the responsible government or public education authority and is ready for definition-level review.", "definition_reconciliation_required": "The source is credible, but at least one population, geography, period, or administrative definition differs across jurisdictions.", "gap_remains": "No sufficiently specific official record has yet been identified for this dimension." }, "jurisdictions": [ { "id": "los-angeles-county", "name": "Los Angeles County", "geography": "Los Angeles County, California", "inventory_status": "official_sources_identified", "source_count": 7, "covered_dimensions": [ "school_connection", "safety_and_wellbeing", "paid_opportunity", "diversion_access", "detention_reliance", "care_and_education_continuity", "reentry_continuity" ], "remaining_gaps": ["adult_transfer", "family_connection"], "sources": [ { "id": "la-cde-absenteeism", "title": "California DataQuest absenteeism reports and downloadable files", "publisher": "California Department of Education", "url": "https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/crabtop.asp", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["school_connection"], "authority": "state education agency", "geography": "County, district, and school reporting options within California", "age_scope": "K–12 public-school enrollment; grade and student-group filters vary by report", "reporting_period": "School year", "update_cadence": "Annual", "format": "Interactive reports and downloadable files", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Provides chronic-absence definitions, counts, rates, student-group detail, and county-level reporting options.", "limitations": "School enrollment is not the same universe as all county residents under 18; California reporting rules and COVID-era gaps must remain explicit.", "next_action": "Extract the latest Los Angeles County record and document the eligible-student denominator before comparing with another school system." }, { "id": "la-ovp-open-data", "title": "Office of Violence Prevention Open Data Portal", "publisher": "Los Angeles County Department of Public Health", "url": "https://publichealth.lacounty.gov/ovp/OpenDataPortal.htm", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["safety_and_wellbeing"], "authority": "county public-health agency", "geography": "Los Angeles County, with service-planning-area and other local views where available", "age_scope": "Youth suicide data ages 10–24; firearm dashboards use broad age groups including ages 0–24", "reporting_period": "Varies by dashboard and underlying health record", "update_cadence": "Periodic", "format": "Interactive dashboards, tables, and fact sheets", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Documents injury intent, age group, source systems, rate denominators, and suppression limits.", "limitations": "The published age bands do not isolate ages 13–17, and hospital-treated injuries omit events without hospital or emergency-department treatment.", "next_action": "Select one disclosed age band and outcome that can be reproduced in Baltimore without relabeling it as a narrower youth measure." }, { "id": "la-youth-at-work", "title": "Youth@Work program and 2026 review", "publisher": "Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity", "url": "https://opportunity.lacounty.gov/youthatwork/", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["paid_opportunity"], "authority": "county economic-opportunity agency", "geography": "Los Angeles County program", "age_scope": "Ages 14–24", "reporting_period": "Current program plus 2026 program review", "update_cadence": "Program cycle and periodic review", "format": "Program page and linked review report", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Defines eligibility, paid-work structure, participant pathways, program demand, and stated capacity goals.", "limitations": "Program applicants, participants, placements, and completed outcomes are different denominators; the age range extends beyond the pilot's preferred under-18 scope.", "next_action": "Separate demand, enrollment, paid placement, and completion before selecting a public coverage measure." }, { "id": "la-dyd-data-reports", "title": "Department of Youth Development Data & Reports", "publisher": "Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development", "url": "https://dyd.lacounty.gov/data-reports/", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["diversion_access", "reentry_continuity"], "authority": "county youth-development agency", "geography": "Los Angeles County programs and referrals", "age_scope": "Program-specific youth populations", "reporting_period": "Quarterly diversion dashboards and annual or periodic reports", "update_cadence": "Quarterly and annual", "format": "Dashboards and reports", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Publishes diversion referrals, enrollments, completions, outcomes, equity, cost-benefit, and RAY reentry reporting.", "limitations": "Referral, enrollment, completion, and reentry populations are not interchangeable and may reflect program operations rather than all eligible youth.", "next_action": "Map every proposed rate to a named program stage and eligible universe." }, { "id": "la-dyd-youth-diversion", "title": "Youth Diversion", "publisher": "Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development", "url": "https://dyd.lacounty.gov/youth-diversion/", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["diversion_access"], "authority": "county youth-development agency", "geography": "Los Angeles County diversion network", "age_scope": "Program eligibility defined by the county diversion model", "reporting_period": "Current program description", "update_cadence": "As program information changes", "format": "Official program documentation", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Identifies the responsible authority, service model, and county diversion pathway.", "limitations": "A program description does not by itself measure access, completion, capacity, or outcomes.", "next_action": "Pair the program definition with the quarterly numerator and an explicit eligible-referral denominator." }, { "id": "la-poc-dashboard", "title": "Juvenile Detention Data Dashboard", "publisher": "Los Angeles County Probation Oversight Commission", "url": "https://poc.lacounty.gov/dashboard/", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["detention_reliance"], "authority": "county oversight commission using Probation Department data", "geography": "Los Angeles County juvenile detention system", "age_scope": "Youth represented in juvenile detention records", "reporting_period": "Monthly records beginning in 2022", "update_cadence": "Monthly or as county data are supplied", "format": "Interactive dashboard", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Provides intake, population, demographic, age, case-status, and Secure Youth Treatment Facility views.", "limitations": "The commission discloses incomplete fields; admissions, snapshots, and unique young people must not be conflated.", "next_action": "Choose one detention unit and confirm completeness before extracting any rate." }, { "id": "la-poc-reports", "title": "Probation Oversight Commission reports", "publisher": "Los Angeles County Probation Oversight Commission", "url": "https://poc.lacounty.gov/reports/", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["detention_reliance", "care_and_education_continuity", "reentry_continuity"], "authority": "county oversight commission", "geography": "Los Angeles County juvenile facilities and probation operations", "age_scope": "Report-specific youth populations", "reporting_period": "Annual and issue-specific reporting", "update_cadence": "Periodic", "format": "Oversight reports", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Collects independent oversight material on detention, education, performance indicators, PREA, and facility conditions.", "limitations": "Issue-specific reports may use different populations, time windows, and facility scopes.", "next_action": "Index report-level definitions before selecting a continuity or facility-condition measure." } ] }, { "id": "baltimore-city", "name": "Baltimore City", "geography": "Baltimore City, Maryland", "inventory_status": "official_sources_identified", "source_count": 7, "covered_dimensions": [ "school_connection", "safety_and_wellbeing", "paid_opportunity", "diversion_access", "detention_reliance", "adult_transfer", "care_and_education_continuity", "reentry_continuity" ], "remaining_gaps": ["family_connection"], "sources": [ { "id": "baltimore-msde-report-card", "title": "Maryland Report Card", "publisher": "Maryland State Department of Education", "url": "https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["school_connection"], "authority": "state education agency", "geography": "State, district, and school views including Baltimore City Public Schools", "age_scope": "Public-school students; measure-specific cohorts and eligible-student groups", "reporting_period": "School year and graduation cohort", "update_cadence": "Annual", "format": "Interactive report card", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Publishes achievement, growth, graduation, postsecondary readiness, chronic absence, school survey, and curriculum-access measures.", "limitations": "District boundaries and school cohorts do not match every city-resident universe; each measure has its own eligibility definition.", "next_action": "Document the Baltimore City district universe and denominator for chronic absence or graduation before publication." }, { "id": "baltimore-mdh-yrbs", "title": "Baltimore City Youth Risk Behavior Survey tables and trends", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Health", "url": "https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/ccdpc/Reports/Pages/YRBS-2022-2023.aspx", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["safety_and_wellbeing"], "authority": "state public-health agency", "geography": "Baltimore City public middle and high schools", "age_scope": "Surveyed public middle- and high-school students", "reporting_period": "2022–2023 release with trend reports", "update_cadence": "Biennial survey cycle", "format": "Detail tables, summaries, and trend reports", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Provides city-specific injury, violence, mental-health, and other wellbeing measures with school-level survey definitions.", "limitations": "Survey estimates represent enrolled students who participated, not all Baltimore City youth; weighting and uncertainty must accompany any published value.", "next_action": "Select a protective wellbeing measure only after sample, weighting, confidence, and suppression documentation are captured." }, { "id": "baltimore-mdh-firearm-dashboard", "title": "Maryland Firearm Violence Data Dashboard", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Health", "url": "https://health.maryland.gov/violence-prevention/Pages/Data.aspx", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["safety_and_wellbeing"], "authority": "state public-health agency", "geography": "Maryland counties, Baltimore City, and ZIP codes where available", "age_scope": "Age-group filters, including youth-related views", "reporting_period": "Historical data from 2015 with current provisional updates", "update_cadence": "Monthly", "format": "Interactive dashboard and documentation", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Combines mortality, emergency-department, and violent-death reporting with geographic and demographic filters.", "limitations": "Fatalities, emergency visits, and incident circumstances come from different systems and should not be merged; provisional data can change.", "next_action": "Match a Baltimore City age band and injury definition to the LA public-health source before any side-by-side display." }, { "id": "baltimore-youthworks", "title": "YouthWorks", "publisher": "Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Employment Development", "url": "https://youthworks.oedworks.com/customPage.cfm?PageId=7", "axis": "opportunity_conditions", "dimensions": ["paid_opportunity"], "authority": "city workforce agency", "geography": "Baltimore City program", "age_scope": "Baltimore City residents ages 14–21; subprogram ages vary", "reporting_period": "Current program cycle", "update_cadence": "Annual and program-cycle updates", "format": "Official program and application documentation", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Defines paid-work eligibility, current program design, year-round options, and a justice-involved youth employment pathway.", "limitations": "Applications do not equal placements, and placements do not equal completion; the age range differs from LA Youth@Work.", "next_action": "Pair the program definition with an official annual count of offers, placements, and completions." }, { "id": "baltimore-djs-dashboards", "title": "Department of Juvenile Services Data Dashboards", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Juvenile Services", "url": "https://djs.maryland.gov/data-dashboards", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["diversion_access", "detention_reliance", "adult_transfer", "reentry_continuity"], "authority": "state juvenile-services agency", "geography": "Maryland with county and municipality filters where supported", "age_scope": "Youth represented in DJS intake, detention, supervision, placement, and recidivism data", "reporting_period": "Dashboard-specific time series", "update_cadence": "As DJS dashboards are updated", "format": "Interactive dashboards", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Separates intake, detention, supervision, committed treatment, equity, and recidivism and defines the records shown.", "limitations": "Complaints, admissions, daily populations, supervised youth, and recidivism cohorts are different units; filters do not guarantee every view is available at city level.", "next_action": "Confirm Baltimore City availability and preserve each dashboard's numerator, denominator, and cohort definition." }, { "id": "baltimore-djs-bcjjc-guide", "title": "FY 2025 Data Resource Guide — Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Juvenile Services", "url": "https://djs.maryland.gov/media/190", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["detention_reliance", "adult_transfer"], "authority": "state juvenile-services agency", "geography": "Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center; source jurisdiction is separately reported", "age_scope": "Facility admissions, including youth charged in juvenile and adult court", "reporting_period": "Fiscal years 2023–2025", "update_cadence": "Annual", "format": "Facility data guide", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Reports admissions, age, race and ethnicity, source jurisdiction, adult-court admissions, and length of stay.", "limitations": "Facility admissions are events rather than unique young people, and the facility population is not identical to Baltimore City residents.", "next_action": "Keep source jurisdiction and admission events explicit before using this record in a city-level response measure." }, { "id": "baltimore-djs-jsep", "title": "Juvenile Services Education Program Resources and Reporting", "publisher": "Maryland Department of Juvenile Services", "url": "https://djs.maryland.gov/jsep-resources-and-reporting", "axis": "system_response", "dimensions": ["care_and_education_continuity"], "authority": "state juvenile-services education program", "geography": "Maryland DJS education program with facility-specific audits and reports", "age_scope": "Students receiving education in DJS settings", "reporting_period": "Annual reports and facility audit periods", "update_cadence": "Annual and audit cycle", "format": "Reports, audits, policies, and resources", "status": "official_source_identified", "comparability": "definition_reconciliation_required", "strengths": "Includes annual education reporting and Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center school audit material.", "limitations": "Facility education measures describe enrolled students in DJS settings, not all court-involved youth or all Baltimore City students.", "next_action": "Identify one continuity measure with a stable definition and facility-specific denominator." } ] } ], "reconciliation_matrix": [ { "dimension": "school_connection", "target_definition": "Chronically absent students divided by students eligible for the measure, with school year and grade scope stated.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-cde-absenteeism"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-msde-report-card"], "status": "candidate_for_reconciliation", "blocking_difference": "State eligibility rules, district structures, and downloadable record layouts must be mapped." }, { "dimension": "safety_and_wellbeing", "target_definition": "A youth safety or wellbeing outcome with matched age band, geography, event definition, period, and denominator.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-ovp-open-data"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-mdh-yrbs", "baltimore-mdh-firearm-dashboard"], "status": "definition_reconciliation_required", "blocking_difference": "Health-record and school-survey universes differ, and currently published age bands do not align." }, { "dimension": "paid_opportunity", "target_definition": "Young people receiving a paid placement divided by an explicitly defined eligible or applicant population.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-youth-at-work"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-youthworks"], "status": "candidate_for_reconciliation", "blocking_difference": "LA serves ages 14–24 and Baltimore ages 14–21; application, placement, and completion counts must be separated." }, { "dimension": "diversion_access", "target_definition": "Youth enrolled in diversion divided by eligible referrals, with referral authority and completion rules disclosed.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-dyd-data-reports", "la-dyd-youth-diversion"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-djs-dashboards"], "status": "definition_reconciliation_required", "blocking_difference": "County program stages and Maryland intake dispositions are not yet mapped to a shared eligible-referral universe." }, { "dimension": "detention_reliance", "target_definition": "A disclosed detention-admission or average-daily-population measure with unique-youth and event-count distinctions preserved.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-poc-dashboard", "la-poc-reports"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-djs-dashboards", "baltimore-djs-bcjjc-guide"], "status": "definition_reconciliation_required", "blocking_difference": "Admissions, facility populations, source jurisdictions, and unique youth are reported differently." }, { "dimension": "adult_transfer", "target_definition": "Youth cases entering adult-court jurisdiction divided by a legally relevant youth-case universe.", "los_angeles_source_ids": [], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-djs-dashboards", "baltimore-djs-bcjjc-guide"], "status": "gap_remains", "blocking_difference": "A sufficiently specific Los Angeles County official record has not yet been documented." }, { "dimension": "care_and_education_continuity", "target_definition": "A stable measure of education or care continuity during confinement and transition, tied to the eligible student or care population.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-poc-reports"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-djs-jsep"], "status": "definition_reconciliation_required", "blocking_difference": "Oversight and education-program reports use facility-specific populations and different outcome definitions." }, { "dimension": "family_connection", "target_definition": "A public measure of accessible family contact or participation with eligibility, denials, and facility scope disclosed.", "los_angeles_source_ids": [], "baltimore_source_ids": [], "status": "gap_remains", "blocking_difference": "No sufficiently specific official quantitative record has been verified in either pilot inventory." }, { "dimension": "reentry_continuity", "target_definition": "A disclosed post-release support or outcome cohort that does not equate rearrest alone with successful or failed reentry.", "los_angeles_source_ids": ["la-dyd-data-reports", "la-poc-reports"], "baltimore_source_ids": ["baltimore-djs-dashboards"], "status": "definition_reconciliation_required", "blocking_difference": "LA program outcomes and Maryland supervision or placement cohorts use different entry points and follow-up definitions." } ] }