Nez Perce County Court Services has over fifty (50) Community Service work placement sites throughout the County and within the region, as well as eight (8) adopt–a–street sites (12 miles of City Roads) and five (5) adopt–a–highway sites (15 miles of State Roads).

Yes, this class is offered three/four times per year, and focuses on smoking attitudes, how advertisements effect youth, pressures to smoke and using chewing tobacco, harmful tobacco effects, addictions, chemicals in tobacco products, tobacco costs, life styles, ill effects, life choices, and why we use tobacco. 

Yes. This class is for students who need help with “Life Skills.” The class focuses on Goal Setting, resume writing, job search, credit, banking, paying bills, budgeting, keeping a job, living on your own, and life choices.

Yes, this class focuses on how youth handle anger.  Discovering emotional triggers, recognizing when they are angry, how they respond to situations and conditions, and what coping skills or techniques they will need to stay in control.  This class allows youth an opportunity to talk about problems, concerns, frustrations, and options that are available to them.

This program is facilitated by Nez Perce County Court Services, Lewiston Police Department, Boys & Girls Club of the Lewis – Clark Valley, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Football League (NFL) alumni association, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Nez Perce County Sheriff, Idaho Department of Corrections, Nez Perce Tribal Police, Art Beat, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. This is a six (6) day, five (5) night summer camp located at Camp Wittman, in the Nez Perce National Forest. The camp offers youth, ages thirteen (13) to eighteen (18), an opportunity to view and experience emergency service and public service organizations and what they do on a daily basis. This camp focuses on positive attitudes, goal setting, teamwork, cooperation and fun. This is the only camp of its kind in the nation.

"Spike Camps" are also called "Wilderness Camps" and are facilitated by Nez Perce County Court Services.  They offer youth ages thirteen (13) to eighteen (18) an opportunity to complete community service in an outdoor overnight setting.  Staff members participate with six (6) to ten (10) juvenile offenders in a remote camp setting.  Camps take place in Idaho at various locations.  Campers perform approximately eight (8) to sixteen (16) hours of community service work.  Campers are fed and housed (in tents) while on the camp and also have the opportunity to learn, view and participate in a leisure activity such as: fishing, hiking, outdoor games, etc.  These camps are just another opportunity to expose our youth to something new.

Yes, we co-facilitate a parenting program with the Department of Health and Welfare called Parenting with Love and Limits (PLL) and it is designed for basic dysfunction in the home, and for parents who have youth who may have Conduct Disorder or Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

This program is facilitated by Nez Perce County Court Services and involves community members, which form a Community Board.  These members meet with first time offenders (Juveniles and Misdemeanor Adults) and listen to the circumstances, parents, concerns, background, etc, of each case.  After a review of each case, board members then make recommendations and set sanctions for each offender on a case by case basis.  There are currently twenty (20) Community Accountability Board members, who volunteer approximately one (1) night every other month.

Yes, our office has three (3) incredible programs that "give back" to our community:  the Canned Food Drive, the Christmas Tree Drive, and our Beds for Youth Program.

The Canned Food Drive is a yearly event that takes place in late fall.  The entire Court Services Department along with approximately 8 community organizations team up to collect food for the Community Action Agency food bank.  Court Services and volunteer staff members along with probationers go door to door collecting non-perishable food items for the food bank.  This community service event allows youth and adults the opportunity to give back to their community and help others who are less fortunate.  Our average collection is roughly 12,000 pounds.

The Christmas Tree Drive is an effort between Court Services and local (North Idaho) tree farmers to provide approximately 100 trees for needy families in the Lewis-Clark Valley.  Probationers are taken to local tree farms during the spring, summer and fall to help with fertilization, pruning, and other tasks at the tree farms.  During November/December the Court Services Department returns to the tree farms to help harvest trees for needy families.  The Christmas Trees are then delivered to local families during the holiday season. 

Local elementary school children create, make, and collect ornaments, lights, tree stands and decorations for the trees.  Local businesses support the tree drive with collections of ornaments and tree stands and local non-profit agencies promote the tree drive to community members.

Finally, our Beds for Youth Program is a program that was established by Court Services, but now has expanded in the community to include Lewiston’s First Nazarene Church, Clearwater Counseling, Home Depot, Cannons Building Supply, KRLC Quilters, and various other local businesses and individuals who build wooden beds for local needy families (youth) during the Spring each year. 

The beds are constructed, with the help of maintenance staff from the Nez Perce County, and community service youth along with First Church of the Nazarene youth and staff and other local individuals build, sand, stain, and put together the beds.  After the beds are assembled, they are then given to needy families that are referred to the Court Services department by local schools, the Department of Health and Welfare, the Community Action Agency, Salvation Army, local Churches, and non-profit organizations.  As of 2005, over 250 beds have been built and distributed to local families.

We can assist through our Bicycle Project.  The Court Services Bicycle Project provides an alternative mode of transportation for youth and adults.  This program provides those who do not have transportation or minimal transportation, a bicycle to use while they are on probation.

Bicycles donated by the City of Lewiston are cleaned, repaired and returned to working order.  They are then “rented” out to those in need.  “Renting” a bicycle consists of different options.  Probation officers meet with the client who is in need of transportation, the program is explained to them and rental terms are set.  It should be noted that each officer has discretion to rent the bicycle on whatever term he/she believes is appropriate.  Some options include; Rental fees of $5 dollars per month; Bicycle to be tuned by a repair shop after use; or Community Service in exchange for bicycle use.