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in each approved evidence-based program or disposition alternative: 1 (i) Thirty-seven and one-half percent for the at-risk population of 2 youth ten to seventeen years old; (ii) fifteen percent for the 3 assessment of low, moderate, and high-risk youth; (iii) twenty-five 4 percent for evidence-based program participation; (iv) seventeen and 5 one-half percent for minority populations; (v) three percent for the 6 chemical dependency and mental health disposition alternative; and 7 (vi) two percent for the suspended dispositional alternatives. 8 Funding for the special sex offender disposition alternative shall 9 not be included in the block grant, but allocated on the average 10 daily population in juvenile courts. Funding for the evidence-based 11 expansion grants shall be excluded from the block grant formula. 12 Funds may be used for promising practices when approved by the 13 department of children, youth, and families and juvenile courts, 14 through the community juvenile accountability act committee, based on 15 the criteria established in consultation with Washington state 16 institute for public policy and the juvenile courts. 17 (c) The department of children, youth, and families and the 18 juvenile courts shall establish a block grant funding formula 19 oversight committee with equal representation from the department of 20 children, youth, and families and the juvenile courts. The purpose of 21 this committee is to assess the ongoing implementation of the block 22 grant funding formula, utilizing data-driven decision making and the 23 most current available information. The committee will be co-chaired 24 by the department of children, youth, and families and the juvenile 25 courts, who will also have the ability to change members of the 26 committee as needed to achieve its purpose. The committee may make 27 changes to the formula categories in (b) of this subsection if it 28 determines the changes will increase statewide service delivery or 29 effectiveness of evidence-based program or disposition alternative 30 resulting in increased cost/benefit savings to the state, including 31 long-term cost/benefit savings. The committee must also consider 32 these outcomes in determining when evidence-based expansion or 33 special sex offender disposition alternative funds should be included 34 in the block grant or left separate. 35 (d) The juvenile courts and administrative office of the courts 36 must collect and distribute information and provide access to the 37 data systems to the department of children, youth, and families and 38 the Washington state institute for public policy related to program 39 and outcome data. The department of children, youth, and families and 40 p. 377 ESSB 5187.SL