HomeMy WebLinkAboutJCPC Minutes 080318 Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting
Friday, August 3, 2018 (12:00noon—2:00pm)
Hillsborough Commons
Hillsborough,NC
Proposed Minutes
Attendees: Meg McGurk,Megan Johnson, Bernard Miles, Kysha Thompson,Donna King,
Amanda Farris, Stephanie Jones, Maren Hardin, Carol McClelland, Gayane Chambless, Mia
Burroughs, Sherita Cobb,Jay Cole,Linda Boldin, Susan Worley, Kelsey Mosley, Pam Weiden,
Rebekah Rapoza, Denise Briggs (*Members in Bold)
Absent: Jaime Lescinski, Dana Graves
Excused: Charlos Banks, Tina Sykes, Peggy Hamlett, Sharron Hinton,Matthew Hinton, Beverly
Scarlett,Nick Allen, Lee Barnes
Welcome
The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Meg McGurk and introductions.
Minutes Review and Approval
The Council reviewed the minutes from June 2018. Carol McClelland motioned for minutes to be
approved and was seconded by Stephanie Jones. Motion carried unanimously.
Agency Roundtable
Wrenn House—Wrenn House is a 24-hour crisis shelter for runaway and homeless youth. Through
Orange and Chatham they have one 30 day bed for a youth who is in crisis or transition. They have
been having a pretty slow summer, but calls have been picking up and they anticipate with school
starting back there will be an increase. They have just reapplied for their federal grant and are waiting
to hear on the outcome,probably around the end of September. They just finally finished renovating
the kitchen and it now matches with the rest of the renovated house.
Volunteers_ or Youth—VFY operates two JCPC funded programs: Community Service and Teen
Court. The Community Service program is for youth who are court-ordered to serve community
service and they help match up youth with work sites. The Teen Court program is an alternative to
regular court for kids who are first-time offenders and is staffed entirely by teen volunteers. They have
had 28 kids in Community Service and 13 in Teen Court so far in this fiscal year. Numbers were low
last year for Community Service but there was an uptick towards the end of the fiscal year and that is
continuing into this new fiscal year. VFY has lost the Hillsborough Farmer's Market for a community
site because they are changing how they staff it.
Freedom House—In FY17-18 FAN served 17 families one-on-one, held 13 Common Sense Parenting
classes that served 77 parents and impacted 121 children. They had 269 phone contacts with over 400
contact hours. In FYI 8-19 they have served 11 families and 19 phone contacts. October Common
Sense Parenting calendar will be coming out soon, but they need help identifying a location in
Northern Orange. FAN wasn't funded by Durham County this year,but they continue to have lots of
interest. They are currently recruiting for a bilingual advocate since Georgia and Anna are no longer
with FAN. It is a preferred requirement that the advocate have experience navigating various systems
for a child/grandchild with mental health diagnosis. Child and Adolescent program has received a
referral and are expecting another one to be coming along soon. They are also working with
Boomerang on making arrangements for the evening group.
With losing the FAN advocates, including the bilingual advocate, all Spanish-speaking referrals are on
hold until the position is filled. They are reviewing cases that are appropriate to close and utilizing
language resources to help translate/interpret for current Spanish-speaking cases.
DJJ Data—June: 11 distinct juveniles, 15 complaints, 3 approved for court, 8 juveniles diverted, 0
juveniles admitted to detention, 0 juvenile admitted to Wrenn House, 0 electronic monitoring
activations, 0 days on electronic monitoring, and 0 juveniles committed to YDC. June's complaints
received included disorderly conduct, communicating threats, and 3 felony charges for breaking into
federal vehicles; all charges were taken out by law enforcement officers.
When comparing FY16-17 and FY17-18 numbers, there were double the number of youth at intake
and 58 more complaints, almost twice as many youth were diverted this past FY, the number of
detentions dropped from 9 to 2 and the number of days also dropped from 61 to 10. There were about
as many youth that utilized Wrenn House, but they utilized 50% more days this past FY than in FYI 6-
17. And the number of youth on electronic monitoring remained about the same,but the total number
of days increased from 180 to 265.
July: I distinct juvenile, 3 complaints, 3 approved for court, 0 juveniles diverted, 0 juveniles admitted
to detention, 1 juvenile admitted to Wrenn House for 29 days, 0 electronic monitoring activations, 0
days on electronic monitoring, and 0 juveniles committed to YDC. July's complaints received
included simple assault, misdemeanor larceny, and injury to property that were all taken out by a
parent.
JCPC Business
Conflict of Interest form—All council members need to sign a new COI form for the new fiscal year.
If you have any questions about whether something may be a conflict of interest,please ask Rebekah
or Denise at the end of the meeting.
Membership Review—The Member of the Business Community seat is open and we are looking for
recommendations. If anyone knows of someone, please let Rebekah know so we can reach out and
gauge their interest. Some suggestions may be someone associated with a community service
worksite, or a volunteer within your organization but is employed within the business community, or a
parent of a former child served by one of our programs.
Election of Officers—Donna King, Chair of the Nominating Committee, through communication with
the council members,presents the following slate of officers:
Chair—Bernard Miles (no challenge)
Vice Chair— Sherita Cobb (no challenge).
JCPC Chair called for a vote and the presented slate of officers was unanimously approved.
Training Opportunity—JCPC funds are available to help pay for registration to attend the National
Symposium on Juvenile Services that will be held in October in Greensboro at the Koury Center.
Community Programs is also offering an opportunity for scholarships for cost of registration and
rooms. There is a form that needs to be completed and submitted to the state.
Sherita attended the Restorative Practices training in Seattle about 3 weeks ago and had an amazing
time. In the schools they are trying to use the practice to help students learn to support each other and
hold each other accountable—"our classroom" and"our learning environment" and help them take
ownership of their environment. Sherita brought back lots of information on how to incorporate circles
with students (and appropriate adults) involved with juvenile justice who offended within the school
system(i.e. fighting) and how they can work things out and be able to get along within the school
setting moving forward. Sherita would like to start incorporate these circles within the schools and
eventually become a trainer.
Hot Topic Discussion
The County has started a Reentry Council that is working with formerly incarcerated and there is a lot
of energy and community involvement. It is being put out on our radar because at some point in the
future it may intersect with the juvenile justice system and the JCPC.
Orange County Schools has contracted with Renaissance Center as the school-based mental health
provider and this year they will have 6 full licensed therapists that will be housed in the schools
Monday-Friday and will be divided between 2-3 schools that are in close proximity so that if an
emergency happened they can get to a school within 10 minutes. The students do still have to have
Medicaid or private insurance, but for every 10, they will give 1 or 2 pro-bono for the McKinney
Vento students or those with financial hardships.
The Partnership for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth is looking at their logic model and has addressed
three different types of substances—underage drinking, prescription drug misuse, and marijuana. If
anyone is interested in joining any of the workgroups please let Gayane know.
Susan wanted to give a shout out to Denise for helping to expedite the July payments from the state to
Orange County so that the programs could receive their July funds in July and not August, like has
happened in the past.
Consultant Update
All program agreements have been approved and fully executed in DocuSign and all programs have
received their July disbursements.
Final accounting is now available and the deadline to be submitted in NCALLIES is August 15. Please
do not wait until the last minute to complete. Failure to complete final accounting in a timely manner
could hold up future disbursements. New this year, all signatures will be done electronically through
DocuSign; no more hard copies to pass around.
Denise will have the programs present their SPEP scores at the December meeting. This is an
evaluation tool that the state uses to make sure that the funded programs are evidence-based, follow a
curriculum, and have protocols in place for staff retention. Denise will be working with the programs
to identify if there are any areas for improvement and the programs will report to the JCPC on this.
Denise is going to start working on the Risk and Needs data in preparation for the January
subcommittee meeting.
All programs in Orange County have had a consultant monitoring, which is done every three years.
Please add committee signups to the October agenda. Denise will provide a brief description of each
one and a suggested number of members. Please use this opportunity to volunteer for something you
are interested in; otherwise the Chair may appoint you to one.
Announcements
Health, Safety, and Wellness Resource Fair sponsored by Orange County Schools will be September
22 in the Walmart parking lot.
Sozo is hosting an event next Sunday from loam to 1pm at Fairview Community Park. There will be
food, school supplies, games, and representation from community agencies. Please invite your
families, and if you are interested in setting up a table, please let Kysha know. She will send a flyer to
Rebekah to be emailed out.
➢ Next JCPC Meeting: Friday, October 5, 2018; Location: Hillsborough Commons, 113 Mayo
Street,Hillsborough NC 27278