Over the past ten years, probation departments across the state of California have seen a number of important changes in the way they do business. Beginning with Title IV-A-EA in 1993, departments began a system-wide "sea change," from a focus on suppression, enforcement, and monitoring of youthful offenders to a focus on families and on rehabilitative and therapeutic approaches. With the Comprehensive Youth Services Act/Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (CYSA/TANF) essentially replacing the Title IV-A-EA program in 1995, training conducted by departments on the 23 CYSA/TANF-eligible services and objectives helped to reinforce this message to line staff working directly with youths. In the course of a decade, the state undertook a number of major initiatives aimed at juvenile offenders and at-risk youths. This document contains a qualitative description of initiatives, along with available data on outcome measures that may have been impacted by such initiatives. These included juvenile arrest rates, numbers of youths incarcerated at the state and local level, and other measures of family and youth needs. This study may be of interest to California and other states' juvenile justice policymakers who must determine whether investment in community services for juvenile offenders is a wise use of taxpayer dollars. (Contains 1 table & 19 figures.)