HomeMy WebLinkAboutJCPC minutes 120216Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting
Friday, December 2, 2016 (12:00noon – 2:00pm)
Southern Human Services Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Proposed Minutes
Attendees: Meg McGurk, Peggy Hamlett, Bernard Miles, Carol McClelland, Conrad
Weiden, Nick Allen, Sherita Cobb, Tina Sykes, Jeff Nieman, Jay Bryan, Renee Price,
Donna King, Val Hanson, Tami Pfeifer, Georgia Gamcsik, Susan Worley, Gayanne Chambless,
Amanda Farris, Corrie Piontak, Whitney Nash, Nathan Ligo, Tom McQuiston, Denise Briggs,
Carmen Johnson (*Members in Bold)
Welcome
The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Meg McGurk and introductions.
Minutes Review and Approval
The Council reviewed the minutes from October 2016. Carol McClelland motioned for minutes
to be approved and was seconded by Jeff Nieman. Motion carried unanimously.
Agency Roundtable/PEP Progress Report
There was a memo from Cindy Porterfield sent out indicating that programs should report on
PEP Progress in December. Programs were not aware of the need to update the PEP. Denise
will send out the required form(s) and instructions to the programs to make any updates. Since
Orange only meets every other month, we have a little more time and will table the report until
the February meeting.
Boomerang – Have served 40 youth to date in Alternative to Suspension program and served 158
in After-School program. Just had open house for Boomerang. A young lady who was involved
with Boomerang about 9 years ago went to college, earned her Master’s, and returned recently to
volunteer.
Volunteers for Youth – Community Service has served 34 youth and Teen Court has served 20.
Of those youth, Teen Court served 1 from MDP and Community Service served 16.
Freedom House – FAN is currently serving 13 families and to date has served 26. They are in
the process of posting a Common Sense Parenting class and are trying an accelerated version for
the first time because they realized that many parents don’t have custody of their children and
need to practice parenting techniques to help regain custody.
Dispute Settlement Center – Family Table is starting Tuesday evening and have 5 kids and their
parents coming. Would still love to have more, so please make referrals even though the first
class is only a few days away. They have worked with only 3 youth in Mediation program,
which is way down from last year. Doing a lot of work with Restorative Justice in Orange
County Schools and have been doing a lot of conferencing and mediation.
Young Warriors – Continuing to serve 4 youth admitted from prior FY and have served 3 court
referred youth this year, with 1 successful and 1 unsuccessful termination.
DJJ Data – October: 3 distinct juveniles, 3 complaints, 0 approved for court, 3 put on plan or
contract, 0 school related offenses, 0 juveniles in detention, and 0 juvenile on electronic
monitoring.
November: 1 distinct juveniles, 3 complaints, 1 approved for court, 0 put on a plan or contract, 1
school related offenses, 1 juveniles in detention for 1 day, 1 juvenile placed at Wrenn House for
3 days, and 1 juvenile on electronic monitoring for 29 days.
This FY has had 14 juveniles at intake compared to this time last year where they had 38.
Juvenile crime is down across the state, but there hasn’t been as much of a reduction in
Alamance and Chatham counties. Tina reported that within the school system, the number of
offenses is down and when they do receive a report they try to go to Teen Court and MDP as a
first option. Sherita reports that suspensions are down within Orange County Schools and they
are making a concerted effort to look at discipline within OCS and are using many programs,
Restorative Justice being one, to try to prevent detention.
JCPC Business
Program Monitoring – Committee members will stay for training immediately after this meeting.
Programs can expect to be monitored during January.
Risk & Needs Committee – Committee is scheduled to meet on Friday, January 20 @ 10:00 in
Hillsborough. The committee is open to anyone who wants to be a part of it but is driven by the
JCPC Board members. We look at the DJJ data and use it to set the RFP for the upcoming FY.
Conflict of Interest Form – For any board members who haven’t already completed and signed
one, please make sure to do that before the end of the meeting.
Consultant Update
Denise will get the information out about the Program Enhancement Plan to each provider. The
Sheriff’s Association is now endorsing raising the juvenile age which is huge and will help move
the effort forward.
Announcements
There is a Ribbon Cutting at 3:00 today at University Place for Hidden in Plain Sight. This is a
collaborative effort that is putting on an interactive display for people go through and try to find
any number of hidden in plain sight items that indicate substance abuse or at-risk behavior.
Volunteers for Youth is launching an exciting fundraising challenge in the month of December
and Susan will send a link out to everyone.
Freedom House is still recruiting for Child Therapist and Intensive In-Home Team Lead. Trying
to get together enough kids for substance abuse intensive outpatient program and are looking for
referrals to be able to get that started.
Dispute Settlement Center just received a grant to hold restorative justice conferencing circles
between law enforcement and minority youth in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. These circles will
have members of law enforcement, a civic leader (maybe a County Commissioner), and 8 to 10
minority youth. They will sit in a circle, have a meal together, have an activity together, and
talk. These will be a series and they are hoping to finish them by next summer.
Holly Hill is breaking ground on a third hospital in the winter. Will still have the 60 children and
adolescent inpatient beds and also have the young adult program for 18-26.
Open House for Orange Works will be next Thursday from 4pm-6pm and everyone is invited.
Next JCPC Meeting: Friday, February 3, 2016; Location: Hillsborough Commons,
113 Mayo St, Hillsborough NC