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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJCPC Minutes 020218 Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting Friday, February 2, 2018 (12:00noon—2:00pm) Hillsborough Commons Hillsborough, NC Proposed Minutes Attendees: Meg McGurk, Bernard Miles, Nick Allen,Lee Barnes, Stephanie Jones, Carol McClelland,Aidan Salmeron, Kristi Lescinski, Penny Rich, Tina Sykes,Donna King, Peggy Hamlett,Amanda Farris, Karon Johnson, Theresa Collosso, Patricia Cardoso, Kate Giduz, Desmond Frierson, Georgia Gamcsik, Susan Worley, Amy Kirshner, Tami Pfeifer, Val Hanson, Gayane Chambless, Pam Weiden, Denise Briggs, Rebekah Rapoza(*Members in Bold) Absent: N/A Excused: Sherita Cobb, Maren Hardin, Kysha Thompson, Sharron Hinton, Dana Graves, Jay Bryan Welcome The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Meg McGurk and introductions. Minutes Review and Approval The Council reviewed the minutes from December 2017. Peggy Hamlett motioned for minutes to be approved with two corrections and was seconded by Donna King. Motion carried unanimously. Agency Roundtable Boomerang— So far this fiscal year Boomerang has served 81 referrals which is about on track with this time last year(88 served). In December they served 19 kids, 15 from CHCCS and 4 from OCS, but year-to-date they numbers are about equal. The top two reasons for suspension this year has consistently been substance use and fighting. Number of court-involved kids has been low, with only 2 so far this year. They have started(or will be)tutoring and college & career readiness workshops for the after-school program. A question about type of substances was asked. Tami didn't have the exact breakdown, but reported that marijuana and pills are most common, and e-cigs and juuls are starting to become more popular. Dispute Settlement Center—Currently have 5 youth in restorative justice program, including one new referral from MDP. Family Table will be starting on March 14 and will be held for 8 weeks. They have had trouble the last couple years getting enough referrals and getting people on board. DSC has trained almost 200 teachers in the past year in restorative practices that can be used in their classrooms (New Hope Elementary has every teacher trained). They are hoping to have the rest of the teachers trained within the next one to two years. CHCCS system uses a different program/resource for training their teachers and staff. Data shows that OCS is doing better than CHCCS with regards to short-term suspensions and the question was asked as to whether this has anything to do with the restorative practices that DSC is teaching at OCS v CHCCS and they training they receive from another provider. Val will have a better answer at the end of this year because DSC has recently implemented a full-scale evaluation process this year that includes teacher,parent, and student surveys being sent to everyone within OCS to get a sense of how they are feeling about the culture of their school. The results of these surveys will then be matched up with the quantitative data. This will be the first year for a comprehensive evaluation and then they will watch the trends over the next few years as more teachers implement the practice. Freedom House—FAN's census to-date for this fiscal year is 6 admitted. They are finishing up a Common Sense Parenting class and will be starting another one in March. The Child& Adolescent Outpatient Services program has not received any referrals yet. Haven House—In month of January they had 2 Orange County youth admitted and so far in February they have 1, for a total of 5 this fiscal year. Ligo Doio—Has served 9 youth to-date this fiscal year. Volunteers for Youth—The Community Service program has served 35 kids year-to-date and has seen a big pick-up during the month of January. Teen Court currently has about 15 kids. DJJData—December: 10 distinct juveniles, 19 complaints, 3 approved for court, 6 juveniles diverted, 2 juveniles in detention for 10 days, I juvenile in Wrenn House for 21 days, 3 juveniles on electronic monitoring for 73 days, and 0 juveniles committed to YDC. Types of charges included: simple assaults,undisciplined, several weapon on school grounds as the result of a group incident, and cyber bullying. Referrals were from SROs, community patrol, and parent referrals. The boost in numbers in December can be related to a group incident. JCPC Business Monitoring Committee Report—Amanda and Peggy monitored VFY and Ligo Dojo and things went well. Everything was on track with VFY and there are no concerns. Ligo Dojo also went well and the only concern was increasing amount of communication with court counselors for court involved youth. Peggy and Rebekah visited Boomerang and everything is going good and is on track. Lee and Sherita visited Dispute Settlement Center and Freedom House. Everything is good with DSC; the only minor concern is with Family Table not getting the number of needed referrals and the program not being able to operate until the spring. The only concern with Freedom House is with the Psych Services program,which will be addressed later on the agenda. Bernard and Sharron went to Wrenn House and everything went well. There are no concerns. Risk&Needs Committee Report—The subcommittee met last month and reviewed state and local data. Upon reviewing the data, there were no striking differences from past years. There were some concerns that the subcommittee discussed that as a JCPC we have been discussing over the past year or so—substance use, mental health,bullying, fighting—but are already being captured by the data. Concern was raised about the 86% increase in kids under age 12. Compared to the prior fiscal year, this number almost doubled—from 7 kids to 13. While the number is alarming,the overall percentage that this age group makes up within the total county population is in line with the average across the state. From a prevention perspective, it would be good to delve deeper to see why and what we can do to lower that number. A couple of the programs mentioned that they have been seeing an increase in the number of younger youth they are serving, especially those of early middle school age (11-12 years). Denise reports that she has heard from other consultants and counties that they are also seeing this trend. Someone mentioned that they were concerned to see that 50% of youth come from a home where parents have marginal or inadequate supervision skills. The question was asked about whether the courts ever mandate that parents complete any programs to help build these skills. Truancy court and DSS at times can require parents to attend certain programs to enhance their parenting skills. A comment was made that it seems like a high percentage to have especially when we have such great resources (FAN, Family Table, etc.)that can help parents with these skills but the number of referrals to programs have been declining. It was also mentioned that a lot of the youth we serve have multiple needs and that they are having to prioritize what's most important because they can't do everything. So while a parent may need skill building, a child's mental health needs often takes priority. Continuum of Services Update—Each year as part of the Annual Plan, we update the Continuum of Services. Please review and advise of any corrections or edits. The following corrections were made: MH Services and SUD Services where changed from"available but difficult to access"to "available in the community"; Alternative School for Non-Suspended Students was removed because the schools are already listed; Communities in Schools was removed because they are no longer providing services in Orange county; Whitaker School is not available to Level III youth so the arrow was corrected; Wright School has such a long wait time and stringent criteria for admission that it was decided to change to "Available but difficult to access"; and Peer-to-Peer Mediation is a model that is no longer be used so it was decided to be removed. RFP—A question was asked about Nancy's new role with Orange County to determine what services she is/will be providing and where there are gaps so that programs who are looking to apply for funding within the assessment/treatment category know how to write their applications. The Council reviewed the RFP for requested program types and dates. Peggy Hamlett motioned for the RFP to be published as written and to include a program type description document and was seconded by Stephanie Jones. Motion carried unanimously. Funding Committee—Funding Committee will be meeting on Friday, March 23 and will be an all-day session. Agencies come in the morning to present their applications to the committee and they then hold a discussion in the afternoon to come to a consensus on funding recommendations to bring before the full board at the April meeting. This is a voluntary committee and all board members (without conflict of interest) are welcome to attend. Rebekah will send an email out asking for volunteers. Hot Topic Discussion • Where/how are Boomerang's numbers reported by the school systems for detentions? Tami will check-in with the school systems to see if she can get an answer. • Child&Adolescent Outpatient Services program has yet to receive any referrals. Carol shared the eligibility criteria: uninsured or underinsured(high deductible),undocumented. The funds can serve 5 kids, but as 3rd Quarter Accounting approaches, budget amendment may be made so that funds do not have to be paid back. Referrals can come from any JCPC program and do not have to be court involved youth. • Concern about the increase in the number of younger kids (under age 12)that are being seeing in juvenile court, especially in recent years. With Orange County being a smaller county, numbers are more easily skewed, but Denise also reported that this is becoming a statewide trend. Is there a way to get more information? The Orange County Community Collaborative is taking a look at some of this and Freedom House is going to look at mobile crisis numbers, DSS CPS is going to bring information on reasons for kids entering foster care, Cardinal is pulling information on service utilization, and Denise will pull data on charges and referral source for those under 12. Anyone who is in JCPC and wants to be part of Community Collaborative is welcome to come or join the mailing list. Consultant Update Psych Services program with Freedom House is going to be dissolved because those services are now being provided by the new County position. The program originally was awarded approximately $8,000; however, some of those funds have been spent on administrative overhead so there is actually less than that available. Denise is proposing that the currently funded programs be given an opportunity to submit a request for the additional funds for any unexpected needs that may not have been budgeted. Denise will send an email to all the program providers with instructions and the form they will be required to complete with the need and amount. They will also be required to provide a match and must confirm that they have it available if awarded the funds. The match can be in-kind unless a program is asking for technology, then a cash match is required. Denise will then bring the requests to the Funding Committee for review and to provide a recommendation to the board to be voted on in April. ➢ Next JCPC Meeting: Friday,April 6, 2018; Location: Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill NC