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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJCPC Certification FY16-17 FINAL B093 NC Department of Public Safety Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification Fiscal Year : 2016 -2017 County : ORANGE I Date : May 20 , 2016 CERTIFICATION STANDARDS STANDARD #1 - Membership A . Have the members of the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council been appointed by county commissioners ? YES Be Is the membership list attached ? YES C . Are members appointed for two year terms and are those terms staggered ? YES D . Is membership reflective of social -economic and racial diversity of the community? YES E . Does the membership of the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council reflect the required positions as provided by N . C . G . S . § 14313 - 846 ? YES If not , which positions are vacant and why? We are currently working to fill 2 positions that will become vacant at the end of the current FY . We anticipate having new representation by the first meeting of the new FY . STANDARD #2 - Organization A. Does the JCPC have written Bylaws ? YES Be Bylaws are ® attached or ❑ on file ( Select one . ) Co Bylaws contain Conflict of Interest section per JCPC policy and procedure . YES D . Does the JCPC have written policies and procedures for funding and review? YES E . These policies and procedures ® attached or ❑ on file . ( Select one . ) F . Does the JCPC have officers and are they elected annually ? YES JCPC has : ® Chair; ® Vice - Chair ; ❑ Secretary ; ❑ Treasurer. STANDARD #3 - Meetings A. JCPC meetings are considered open and public notice of meetings is provided . YES Be Is a quorum defined as the majority of membership and required to be present in order to conduct business at JCPC meetings ? YES C . Does the JCPC meet bi - monthly at a minimum ? YES D . Are minutes taken at all official meetings ? YES E . Are minutes distributed prior to or during subsequent meetings ? YES STANDARD #4 - Planning A . Does the JCPC conduct an annual planning process which includes a needs assessment , monitoring of programs and funding allocation process ? YES Be Is this Annual Plan presented to the Board of County Commissioners and to DPS ? YES C . Is the Funding Plan approved by the full council and submitted to Commissioners for their approval ? YES Form JCPC/OP 002 (a) Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification / Form structure last revised July 2014 NC Department of Public Safety Page 1 of 4 Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification (cont' d) STANDARD #5 = Public Awareness A . Does the JCPC communicate the availability of funds to all public and private non - profit agencies which serve children or their families and to other interested community members ? ( ® RFP , distribution list , and article attached ) YES B . Does the JCPC complete an annual needs assessment and make that information available to agencies which serve children or their families , and to interested community members? YES STANDARD #6 — No Overdue Tax Debt A . As recipient of the county DPS JCPC allocation , does the County certify that it has no overdue tax debts , as defined by N . C . G . S . § 105-243 . 1 , at the Federal , State , or local level ? YES Briefly outline the plan for correcting any areas of standards non -compliance . Having complied with the Standards as documented herein , the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council may use up to $ 15 , 500 of its annual Juvenile Crime Prevention fund allocation to cover administrative and related costs of the council . Form JCPC/ OP 002 (b) JCPC Certification Budget Pages detailing the expenditure budget must be attached to this certification . The JCPC Certification must be received by June 30 , 2016 . JCPC Administrative Funds SOURCES OF REVENUE DPS JCPC Only list requested funds for JCPC Administrative Budget . $ 15 , 500 Local $49650 Other Total $ 205150 47 / 3 ( � JCPC Cha ' 09Fson Date Chairman , Board of County Commissioners Date DPS Designated Official Date Form JCPC/OP 002 (a) Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification Form structure last revised July 2014 NC Department of Public Safety Page 2 of 4 Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification (cont' d) ORANGE County FY 1647 Instructions : N. C . G . S . § 14313446 specifies suggested members be appointed by county commissioners to serve on local Juvenile Crime Prevention Councils . In certain categories , a designee may be appointed to serve . Please indicate the person appointed to serve in each category and his/her title . Indicate appointed members who are designees for named positions . Indicate race and gender for all appointments . Specified Members Name Title Designee Race Gender 1 ) School Superintendent or designee Jeff Reilly Coordinator of W M Safe Schools Sherita Cobb Director of El Student Support Services 2) Chief of Police Tracy Perry Juvenile ® W F Investigator 3 ) Local Sheriff or designee Tina Sykes Lieutenant ® W F 4) District Attorney or designee Jeff Nieman Asst . District ® W M Attorney 5) Chief Court Counselor or designee Peggy Hamlett Chief Court ❑ W F Counselor 6) Director, AMH/DD/SA , or designee ❑ 7) Director DSS or designee Bernard Miles CPS Treatment ® B M Supervisor 8) County Manager or designee Sharron Hinton Human Services ® B F Manager 9) Substance Abuse Professional Carol Director of W F McClelland Outpatient ❑ Service 10) Member of Faith Community Dr . Bob Pastor ❑ W M Brizendine 11 ) County Commissioner Renee Price County ❑ B F Commissioner 12) Two Persons under age 18 ❑ ( State Youth Council Representative, if available) ❑ 13 ) Juvenile Defense Attorney Dana Graves Assistant Public ❑ W F Defender 14) Chief District Judge or designee Jay Bryan District Court ® W M Judge 15 ) Member of Business Community Meg McGurk Director, Chapel W F Hill Downtown ❑ Partnership 16) Local Health Director or designee Donna King Director, Health W F Prom & Ed Services 17) Rep . United Way/other non-profit Ashley Taylor Community ❑ B F Jacobs Impact Director 18) Representative/Parks and Rec . Lee Barnes Recreation ❑ W F Manager Form JCPC/OP 002 (a) Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification Form structure last revised July 2014 NC Department of Public Safety Page 3 of 4 Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification cont ' d 1 Counselor 20) County Commissioner appointee ❑ 21 ) County Commissioner appointee ❑ 22) County Commissioner appointee 23 ) County Commissioner appointee El 24) County Commissioner appointee ❑ 25 ) County Commissioner appointee ❑ Form JCPC/OP 002 (a) Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification Form structure last revised July 2014 NC Department of Public Safety Page 4 of 4 SECTION VII Program : JCPC Administration Fiscal Year : FY 16 = 17 Number of Months : 12 Cash In Kind Total I . Personnel Services $ 0 120 Salaries & Wages $0 180 Fringe Benefits $0 190 Professional Services' $0 "Contracts MUST be attached II . Supplies & Materials $ 8 , 500 $ 8 ,500 210 Household & Cleaning $0 220 Food & Provisions $3 , 000 $3 , 000 230 Education & Medical $ 0 240 Construction & Repair $ 0 250 Vehicle Supplies & Materials $ 0 260 Office Supplies and Materials $2 , 500 $2 , 500 280 Heating & Utility Supplies $0 290 Other Supplies and Materials $3 , 000 $3 , 000 III . Current Obligations & Services $ 85650 $ 8 , 650 310 Travel & Transportation $2 , 000 $21000 320 Communications $0 330 Utilities $0 340 Printing & Binding $3 , 000 $3 , 000 350 Repairs & Maintenance $0 370 Advertising $0 380 Data Processing $0 390 Other Services $3, 650 $3 , 650 IV. Fixed Charges & Other Expenses $23000 $ 2 , 000 410 Rental or Real Property $0 430 Equipment Rental $2 , 000 $21000 440 Service and Maint . Contracts $0 450 Insurance & Bonding $0 490 Other Fixed Charges $0 V. Capital Outlay $ 13000 $ 13000 [This Section Requires Cash Match ] 510 Office Furniture & Equipment $ 1 , 000 $ 1 , 000 530 Educational Equipment $ 0 540 Motor Vehicle $ 0 550 Other Equipment $ 0 580 Buildings , Structure & Improv. $ 0 Total $ 20 , 150 $209150 Form JCPC/PA 004 JCPC Program Application Form structure last revised 12/31 /2012 Department of Public Safety SECTION VI : BUDGET NARRATIVE JCPC Administration Fiscal Year FY 16- 17 Item # Justification Expense In Kind Expense 220 Food for meetings and trainings $ 3 , 000 260 Office Supplies $2 , 500 290 Supplies and materials to support JCPC public awareness $3 , 000 objective 310 Travel and transportation to conference ( i . e . NPJS ) $2 , 000 340 Printing reports and informational materials $35000 390 Conference registrations , lodging , and susbsistence ( i . e . NPJS) $3 , 650 430 Copier rental $2 , 000 510 Office furniture $ 1 , 000 TOTAL $ 20 , 150 Annual Expense Annual In Kind Job Title Wages Wages TOTAL Form JCPC/PA 004 JCPC Program Application Form structure last revised 12/31 /2012 Department of Public Safety BY - LAWS ORANGE COUNTY JUVENILE CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL ARTICLE I : NAME AND PURPOSE Section 1 . Name The name of this body shall be the Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) Section 2. Purpose The purpose of the JCPC shall be to : 2. 1 Ensure that appropriate intermediate dispositional options are available and prioritize funding for dispositions of intermediate and community level sanctions for court adjudicated juveniles pursuant to minimum standards adopted by the Department of Public Safety , Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice (NC DJJ) . 2.2 Evaluate programs developed and supported by the JCPC for effectiveness and continued need . 2. 3 Assess the needs of delinquent and at-risk juveniles in Orange County and report those findings to County Commissioners . 2A Plan for the establishment of a permanent funding stream for delinquency prevention services . ARTICLE II : MEMBERSHIP Section 1 . Membership should include, if possible : 1 . The local school superintendent or designee ; 2. The chief of police in the county ; 3 . The local sheriff, or designee ; 4. The district attorney, or designee ; 5. The chief court counselor, or designee ; 6. The director of mental health , developmental disabilities , and substance abuse authority, or designee Adopted June 2015 7 . The director of DSS , or designee , 8 . The county manager, or designee ; 9 . The substance abuse professional , 10. A member of faith community ; 11 . A county commissioner; 12. A person under 18 ; 13 . A juvenile defense attorney; 14. The Chief District Court Judge or judge designated by the Chief District Court Judge ; 15 . A member of the business community; 16. The local health director, or designee ; 17. A representative of United Way or other non-profit; 18 . A representative of local parks and recreation ; and 19 . Up to seven members appointed by the board of county commissioners . Section 2 . Each member should serve a term of two years and may be reappointed. Section 3 . Membership shall be no more than 25 members . Section 4 . Any vacancy of office may be filled by nominations from the floor and election by the Board at any time throughout the year. Section 5. Three consecutive unexcused absences shall constitute grounds for replacement. Members are expected to notify the chairperson in advance of meeting if unable to attend. Section 6 . A quorum shall be a simple majority of appointed memberships . ARTICLE III : OFFICERS Section 1 . The offices shall consist of a chairperson and vice-chair person . R Section 2 . These officers should be elected on an annual basis and on or before the first meeting of the fiscal year and may succeed themselves . Chairperson — The chairperson shall call and preside at meetings of the I JCPC . The Chair and/or Vice-Chair shall appoint all special committees and designate the persons to serve as committee members unless otherwise specified by the by-laws . Vice=Chairperson — The Vice-Chair shall exercise the duties of the Chairperson in his/her absence and such other duties as the Chairperson shall assign . Adopted June 2015 s f Section 3 . Removal from office The Orange County Board of Commissioners , upon the f� recommendations of the Orange County Juvenile Crime C Prevention Council membership, may remove a member from office for any of the following reasons : 1 . Absence, without excuse, from three (3 ) scheduled meetings , within one year. 2 . Failure to participate in the work of the Orange County i JCPC . 3 . Conduct that demonstrates a lack of responsibility or is unbecoming of a member of the Orange County JCPC, or which causes embarrassment to the Council and/or Orange County. ARTICLE IV : MEETINGS Section 1 . Orange JCPC shall meet at least bi-monthly or more often if a meeting is called by the Chair-person. Section 2. All meetings should be open to the public . Section 3 . The membership shall be notified of all meetings, in writing, or by phone at least five days prior to the meeting . Section 4. Minutes shall be taken at every meeting and distributed prior to or at the subsequent meetings . Section 5 . Special Meetings 5. 1 The Chair-person may call special meetings as deemed necessary to carry out the duties of the JCPC . 5.2 Notice of special meetings shall be given to the JCPC members in writing, by phone, or by email at least two days in advance . Adopted June 2015 ARTICLE V : FUNDING PROCEDURES Section 1 . Screening of Programs . Section 1 . 1 All proposed grants submitted to the JCPC will be screened by the Funding and Review Committee . Section 1 . 2 Proposed grants will be scrutinized according to whether they meet the needs as provided in the annual needs assessment, as well as for program effectiveness, staffing issues , amount requested and expectations of the program. Section 2 . Voting to Fund. Section 2 . 1 The JCPC, except as hereinafter excluded, will vote on the f recommended funding plan provided by the Funding/Review Committee, and may amend recommendations before a final vote. Section 2. 2 No JCPC member who is paid with local grant funds , or who directly supervises someone paid with local grant funds , shall be eligible to vote in funding decisions . Section 2. 3 Voting by Proxy will be allowed by approved designee ; designee must be included on membership list. Section 3 . Approved or Disapproved. Section 3 . 1 Programs that are approved for grants shall be notified immediately and the funded amount shall be disclosed. Section 3 .2 Programs not approved for grants shall be notified in writing in a timely Manner and may: 1 . Request an explanation of the funding decision, in writing, to the JJ� Chair, within five (5 ) business days of the funding decision li notification. The Chair will respond, in writing, within 30 business days . 2 . Request the funding process protocol followed by the JCPC, in writing, to the JCPC Chair within five (5 ) business days of receiving the funding notification . The request must specify which aspects of the funding process are in question . This will be reviewed by the Funding and Program Review Committee and presented to The Council at the next scheduled JCPC meeting following receipt of the request. The JCPC Chair or the Funding and Program Review Committee Chair, will respond to the applicant, in writing, within ten ( 10) business days following the JCPC meeting . Adopted June 2015 Section 4 . Evaluation. Section 4 . 1 Funded grants shall be evaluated by the Monitoring Committee . Section 4.2 No JCPC member who is paid by or directly supervises someone paid by local grant funds , may serve on the Monitoring Committee. ARTICLE V1 : CONFLICT OF INTEREST Section 1 . The JCPC Chairperson shall have all JCPC members complete and sign the disclosure form (form DJJ 13 001c) and inform all members of the conflict policy and review annually. �. Section 1 . 1 All members must disclose in writing the existence, nature and extent of any potential or actual conflict of interest using (form DJJ 13 001c) . Section 1 .2 If a member directly or indirectly benefits from the disbursement of these state funds . They will not serve on the monitoring or funding committees , nor be able to vote re : funding decisions . Section 2 If a conflict is discovered after the fact, the JCPC Chairperson will inform the JCPC of the conflict of interest. C Section 3 All conflict of interest disclosure forms must be filled out by all members . ARTICLE V1I : EMAIL VOTING Section 1 . The Initiator Section 1 . 1 Any active member or JCPC Coordinator can initiate mail voting by sending voting proposal via email . .I Section 1 .2 The member who has initiated a vote can retract the voting proposal by sending an email to the membership list stating the intention to retract the proposal . Section 2. Email Voting Process Section 2. 1 Email voting proposal is initiated by sending an email to the entire membership mailing list containing the words "Voting Proposal" in the subject line and explicitly stating the subject of the voting. Adopted June 2015 f Section 2. 2 The body of the email shall include exact and complete information on what is to be voted upon ; only information which is directly related to the subject of the voting may be contained in the email voting proposal . Section 3 . Voting Period Section 3 . 1 A proposal can only be retracted within the voting period. Section 3 .2 The voting period starts when the email is sent out to the membership, unless specified otherwise in the voting proposal, and lasts for a period of two weeks . Section 3.3 During the voting period the members cast their votes . Only votes cast within the voting period are considered for the results of the voting . Adopted June 2015 I' I Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting { Friday, August 7, 2015 (12eWnoon — 2 * 00pm) Southern Human Services Center Chapel Hill, NC Proposed Minutes Attendees : Meg McGurk, Donna King, Tom Velivil, Kellie Mannette, Jeff Reilly, Jay Bryan, Sharron Hinton, Peggy Hamlett, Mia Burroughs, Lee Barnes , Jeff Nieman, Kristi t Price, Carmen Johnson, Tom McQuiston, Abby Hylton, Marci White, Melissa Radcliff, Ashley I, Orlovich, Adrienne Rombach, Susan Worley, Tami Pfeifer, Nathan Ligo , Val Hanson, Marie Lamoureax, Rebekah Rapoza, Denise Briggs (*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 . Kelly Mannette motioned for minutes to be approved as written and was seconded by Jeff Nieman. Motion carried unanimously. Agency Roundtable Chair asked for programs to give an update . j Boomerang — Doesn' t have measureable objectives report from FY 14/ 15 to report on. 1. Estimated to serve to 165 last year and served 146 (location last year wasn ' t easily accessible) . Has new location ! ! Moving into the old rape crisis building next to the YMCA. Larger space, f still have access to Y facility. Will need renovations to convert from daycare but not sure of cost or what exactly is needed, will make community service hours available to youth. Volunteers for Youth — Kate is out of state at substance abuse training. Community Service �+ served 91 out of projected 130 in FY 14/ 15 ; numbers were low at beginning of year due to low referrals ; easily met all measureable objectives . Have new worksites including a thrift shop in Mebane and Hillsborough Farmer' s Market. Hired new staff member for Community Service, Alex Lowery, and will start Aug 17 . She is also fluent in Spanish. Dispute Settlement Center — FY 15/ 16 goal for Victim/Offender Mediation is well on the way to meeting their goal (7) ; Family Table starting on Sept 22, still accepting referrals . FY 14/ 15 Victim/Offender Mediation served 14 (goal 12) and Family Table served 10 (goal 14) youth (number doesn' t include parents) ; all measureable objectives for last year were met or exceeded. MHAT — FAN served 57 out of estimated 76; low referrals in the beginning of year; Common Sense Parenting ran 13 out of planned 15 groups ; met or exceeded all measureable objectives . Psych Services served 23 out of planned 25 in FY 14/ 15 ; currently has 2 open referrals . School Liaison — Estimated to serve 50 in FY 14/ 15 and served 32 due to low referrals in 'I beginning of year. Held 68 YPCs across 12 different schools . Haven/Wrenn House — Doing backAo-school drive/give-away for community with lots of community partners on Aug 15 from 11 a-2p . Young Warriors — Estimated to serve less than 20 this year and currently have 3 active, court referred youth; 3 outstanding referrals from DJJ. Doesn' t have measureable objective report for FY 14/ 15 to report on. k DJJData — Reported on data for month of July 2015 : received 11 complaints on 8 different juveniles, 1 approved for court, 5 placed on plan, 1 closed. Complaints received were during month of July but some may carry-over to August because DJJ has 30 days . Peggy is thinking of removing gang-related category from report for Orange because our county doesn' t see much gang-related activity. Two juveniles were placed in detention, 2 in Wrenn House, and 6 on electronic monitoring . Orange County is utilizing alternatives to detention as much as possible. Is it possible to report on number of youth who are involved in a gang, but whose offense may not have been gang-related? JCPC board member and program providers expressed concern and interest in tracking number of youth who have gang involvement. This type of information is captured in Risk & Needs Assessment administered by DJJ and this data will be rolled out soon for FY 14/ 15 to help drive funding priorities for upcoming UP . Tool is validated but it is self- report and therefore we know that there are certain areas that will be underreported. Therefore, it f is very important when the Risk & Needs committee meets for program providers to be present to share their first-hand knowledge on underreported areas and voice opinion for what areas are I� lacking resources and need funding. Is there a way to collect and report on info for 16 & 17 year olds who are sometimes served by the programs ? While not collected with DJJ system is there another way within the state to get this information? Risk and need info collected in DJJ system isn 't collected in adult system, not fi even for 16 & 17 year olds . District Attorney ' s office is working on 16/ 17 year old diversion plan to start working with offender ' s in that age category differently . JCPC Business Conflict of Interest Form — Must be completed by voting JCPC members . Please fill out and turn in to Rebekah today. FY I5/16 Action Plan — Included in your packets for your review. This is the document that guides us throughout the year. As the year progresses we will fill in the evaluation/results column with outcomes . Subcommittee Sign- Ups — Most pressing subcommittee is Membership . Judge Bryan, Susan, Peggy, and Lee all volunteered in June to serve on this committee . If anyone else is interested please let us know. There are a few positions that are open and need to be filled. Membership committee will take the names of people who have been suggested to fill open spots and contact them to share information about JCPC and determine their interest in serving on the board. The Chair would like the subcommittee to make recommendations to the board at October' s meeting. Rebekah will email committee to get everything started. Conference Opportunities — There are two fliers for upcoming in back of packet of upcoming conference opportunities : NC Juvenile Services Association Fall Conference at Carolina Beach and National Symposium on Juvenile Services in Pittsburgh PA. In the past JCPC has provided funds to programs and board members to attend these conferences so that everyone is afforded n an opportunity to stay current with what is happening in the state and nation around programming and juvenile services . Would the board like to provide funds to members and programs to attend conferences ? 4 A board member and program provider expressed their desire for the board to approve providing these funds because it affords an opportunity to network, learn, and stay current on what is happening and agencies and individuals do not always have the funds in their budgets to be able to do this . Kelly Marinette motioned to approve the JCPC Board use administrative funds to provide funding for these two conferences and was seconded by Sharron Hinton. Motion carried unanimously. If interested in attending please contact Rebekah. d Announcements United Way Funding — At the last JCPC meeting we learned that United Way was changing their funding priorities and this change affected some of our programs funding quite dramatically. The board voted on and approved to support contacting the Orange County Commissioners to express our concern with this change . OC Commissioner Mia Burroughs reported that it was discussed during budget process in June and that the Commissioners decided that they need to know what the cuts were and whether the agencies would receive any funds from what went to the Family Success Alliance. What theI Commissioners did hear was that 2 of the 3 agencies did receive some funds from Family Success Alliance but that it didn' t plug the hole . The Commissioners tasked the County Manager to get information on all programs who received a cut from the United Way and to report back to them with that information in September. There is an interest among the Commissioners to look at how much money we are giving community agencies directly from county money and see if changes are needed . Family Success Alliance — Health Dept, is serving as backbone agency. Family Success Alliance is following Harlem Children' s Zone model as a cradleAo -career model . There are 10+ agencies that applied for $ 650 , 000 and were awarded $ 150 , 000 . The advisory group is currently looking how to best use the limited funds and the additional funds the Commissioners have made i available. This concept of collective impact is the direction most funders are moving towards. The Alliance has a project coordinator and 4 navigators (2 at EmPowerment and 2 at MHAT). Just celebrated their 1 year anniversary and are conducting strategic planning. At the October meeting the JCPC Chair would like to hear back from Mia if the Commissioners have any updated information about the United Way funding cuts, as well as hearing more from Donna on the Family Success Alliance . Mia Burroughs — Reach out to your County Commissioners and invite them to come see your agency. Build that personal relationship with them now so that they remember the people behind the numbers during budget season. Melissa Radcliff— Have a guest coming in from United Kingdom to visit 5 states . She runs an agency that focuses on children with incarcerated parents . She is meeting with her on Tuesday morning in Durham and if you are interested in attending the meeting please contact Melissa. Donna King — Immunization rules have recently changed for children. Please pass information along to parents to check on this to make sure their children are prepared for back-to-school . i' I' 'I Rebekah Rapoza — Final Accounting Forms due to me by Aug 19 so that I can coordinate getting the County Finance Officer ' s signature and sending on to the State by the end of the month. EI Youth Enhancement Fund money was renewed July 1 so please refer any youth who are interested in sport/recreational activities . Funding is available for all low-income Orange County youth. u F Marketing/Promotional Items — Please check out the JCPC promotional items on your way out. Take some and share . Consultant Update • Final Accounting is due to by the end of the month. • Currently conducting program monitorings . Have already completed some and others are scheduled. If you haven' t been monitored in a few years, you may be contacted about this . • Programs should have received the new monthly report to start using . Please provide feedback. • In December would like to meet with monitoring committee to provide training so they are prepared to monitor in January and can make a good recommendation back to the full council Guest Presentation — Tom McQuiston, Youth Community Project (up to age 18) Youth Community Project is a new initiative still getting off the ground in Carrboro and working to build community partnerships . Have a vision of all youth coming together in a i holistic way and not isolating any sub-groups of youth community and building connections across groups . Program is almost entirely volunteer run and so there is no cost to the youth for services/programming. Project has a number of different programs and he is here today to speak about the Reintegration Support Network (RSN) . RSN has been receiving referrals from DJJ for youth post-treatment (mental health & substance abuse) to engage them in building community networks of support. Have been working closely with Peggy for some time and would to I network with other programs to provide youth with transition supports . Youth Community Project is serving as a hub for a number of various youth programs including biking, LGBT, youth circus, immigrant youth forum, and many more . ➢ Next JCPC Meeting : Friday, October 2 , 2015 ; Location : Hillsborough Commons , 113 Mayo St, Hillsborough NC Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting Friday, October 2, 2015 (12900noon — 2 * 00pm) Hillsborough Commons Hillsborough, NC Proposed Minutes Attendees : Meg McGurk, Jeff Reilly, Jeff Nieman, Ashley Taylor, Tom Velivil, Lee Barnes, Jay Bryan, Kristi Price, Peggy Hamlett, Tina Sykes, Bernard Miles , Sharron Hinton, Val Hanson, Jennifer Feinstein, Susan Worley, Abby Hylton, Tom McQuiston, Paul Atherton, Tami Pfeifer, Marci White, Danielle Butler, Denise Briggs, Carmen Johnson, Rebekah Rapoza (*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 . Corrections to minutes : Dispute Settlement Center has not met FY 15/ 16 goal but "is well on our way"; correction to spelling of Jeff Nieman ' s last name. Kristi Price motioned for minutes to be approved with corrections and was seconded by Jeff Neiman . Motion carried unanimously. Agency Roundtable Chair asked for programs to give an update. Boomerang — Has a new space and has now moved in (old Rape Crisis building on Estes Dr. in Chapel Hill) . Kids helped with a lot of the moving and renovations . Most of the space is functional and has been having alternative suspension and after-school programming. Alternative suspension program just opened on Sept 8 or 9 and hasn' t had a lot of numbers, but afterschool had 44 instances of community service in August, with over 157 hours, and September had almost 50 hours of community service (fewer hours now that kids are back in school) . We will be partnering with the Y Outreach Program to offer opportunities for community service hours . Boomerang will help train the youth to provide homework help to K-5 students and will probably offer the use of their new space for this . Also, we are looking to partner with the daycare and help train the kids to work there and will also help them gain job skills . School Liaison — Started off with a total of 40 referrals between Orange and Chatham counties and have already done intakes on about one-third have been admitted and one-third scheduled. Orange County has about 6 admitted and is expecting that number to quadruple . r Volunteers for Youth — Has new Community Service Coordinator, Alex Lowery, who speaks fluent Spanish. We are having a program on Oct. 26 that UNC Law Students will be presenting on "Know Your Rights" and will be kids for attend at the Chapel Hill Public Library. The Third Sector Alliance is coordinating 3 listening session at Chapel Hill Public Library for students to meet with non-profits to hear about what their needs are and will be doing a capstone project. These will be happening 3 Mondays in October ( 12th, 19th, and 26th from 3 - 5pm) and Susan will send out more information. MHAT — FAN has not had many new admissions this fiscal year but has helped a lot through referrals . We have completed 3 Common Sense Parenting courses . Has sponsored and hosted a i workshop on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and tomorrow will be hosting a workshop for parents about navigating the service system for mental health. Julie Bailey is retiring and will be leaving later this month. Dispute Settlement Center — Have had a lot happening with restorative justice program through juvenile court and the school systems . Orange County Schools has a really good pilot program. Has also, been doing restorative justice work through juvenile court with students at Partnership Academy. Still doing victim-offender conferences which have been going really well and have quite a few referrals . Family Table was supposed to start last week but had to push it back and ,1 will be starting next week. There is room available for this next session so please refer any families you may be working with who would be appropriate . Question about ability to serve Spanish-speaking families in Family Table . Val states that they can accommodate those families and have used interpreters or their own staff. Haven/Wrenn House — Right now are planning and prepping for a hurricane . Year-to -date they have served 4 youth for a total of 45 days . Just received word that they received federal funding again. DJJ Data — For month of August had 4 distinct juveniles at intake, 6 complaints received, 2 were approved for court and 4 were placed on a plan or contract. No school or gang related offenses . Two juveniles in detention for a total of 48 days, 1 juvenile placed at Wrenn House for 14 days and none were committed to YDC . Four juveniles were placed on electronic monitoring for 102 days . For month of September had 10 juveniles at intake, 16 complaints received, 1 juvenile approved for court, and 3 juveniles put on plan or contract. Six offenses were school related and none were gang related. One juvenile was placed in detention for 8 days, 2 juveniles were placed at Wrenn House for a total of 7 days, and none were committed to YDC . Three juveniles were placed on electronic monitoring for a total of 69 days . f JCPC Business Introduction of new board member candidate — Lt. Tina Sykes introduced her son Austin. He is a senior at Orange High School and plays varsity football and baseball and wants to go to NC State for college . Discussion of New Monthly Reporting — All the consultants statewide use some type of form for program providers to report out to JCPCs . This report is NOT a required state report. Gave all her counties a few months to use and report out on how well the format is working. Would like to hear thoughts from the program providers on the use of the form and from JCPCs on whether `ri I the form is beneficial to hear reports from the providers (is the information on the form helpful) . Some counties have tweaked the form to suit their needs, one county voted not to use the form at all, and another decided that the form was only to be seen by the funding committee . • The most time consuming part is listing problem behaviors/risks and reasons why youth were admitted. Not time consuming but feel like I am reporting again on information that is already entered in NCALLIES and feel like it is duplicated effort. Denise stated that NCALLIES will be able to report out on a lot more but right now it is just the measureable objectives report. • Suggested by a board member that JCPC come up with a list of 5 , or so , items to be r reported out on instead of requiring the use of form. �s i f • The report format doesn't always match up with the options given in NCALLIES and sometimes it is hard to know or choose the right options . • Some counties have liked the monthly financial reporting as an indication of how on track they are with spending . Program provider mentioned how cumbersome it was with regards to financial reporting because the report had to pass through their fiscal agent to provide that information. • Seems like we are doing the same report in another format. The financial piece is difficult and isn't always reflective of current situation. Time consuming. • Report was not popular at their office because of a lot of the same reasons that have already been voiced. • Denise suggested to maybe wait on programs submitting hard copy report until the reports are fully operational in NCALLIES . Maybe continue verbally reporting out but wait until NCALLIES has the report. • Rebekah mentioned that she isn't able to see the data entered by the programs or run reports . It was suggested to look into giving her rights to access this information to be able to see more data and run reports to help with the administrative efforts of the JCPC . Having access to this information would also be critical for Risk & Needs Committee to review, especially when determining what programs are needed. In summary, the monthly report in the provided format is not very valuable to the programs and board members . However, it is valuable to hear from the programs at each meeting about the information that is reflective in the report, as well as any other information (i . e . problems, ' successes) . Later down the road when NCALLIES has the reporting tool more formalized we can look at pulling those reports to share with the JCPC . Lastly, Rebekah needs access to client tracking information in NCALLIES so that she can run reports and summarize for the JCPC . Conflict of Interest Form — There are still a few members who need to complete . Please do that and leave with Rebekah today. i� Membership Update — Peggy, Jay, Susan, and Lee have served on the committee . Orange County School Superintendent designee, Michael Gilbert, is no longer in a position with OCS to be a representative on the JCPC . Peggy has spoken with Dr. Wirt, new OCS Superintendent, about finding a replacement and he indicated that he would be happy to attend the meetings as the representative. No vote is needed to change designee . Before we can move on filling the Member of Faith Community and "Commissioner Appointed" spots the JCPC needs to vote to remove the incumbent members . Both members have more than three consecutive unexcused absences, which according to the bylaws are grounds for removal . Peggy Hamlett motioned to remove Mike Cureton and Ryan Brooks from JCPC membership and was seconded by Lee Barnes . Motion carried unanimously. Jay Bryan has suggested Rev. Nixon and Bob Brizendine to fill the now vacant Member of Faith Community and will follow-up . Lee Barnes had suggested a family with a few youth of appropriate age to fill one of the Youth seats . Susan Worley has made contact with the family and is following-up . Jeff Nieman motioned to accept Austin Sykes as a Youth representative and was seconded by Peggy Hamlett . Motion carried unanimously. Subcommittee Sign- Ups Denise is interested in doing holding training in December for the Monitoring Subcommittee on how to monitor and what the process is prior to going out to monitor in January . Bernard Miles, Lee Barnes, Sharron Hinton, Ashley Taylor have identified as willing to serve on this committee. Rebekah has attended a couple fairs recently to represent JCPC but doesn' t have any written materials to handout. She has offered to create the materials but is looking to have JCPC members write the content. Meg McGurk and Sharron Hinton have volunteered to write the content and may be contacting the programs for pictures and success stories . Announcements Orange County Parks & Rec — Basketball program is taking registrations now through the end of November for ages up to 14 . Halloween Carnival will be held on Saturday, October 24 and is mostly geared toward ages 340 but has need for volunteers to help staff games . The carnival is a great opportunity for youth to get community service hours . Meg McGurk is getting ready to hire a new position for Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership . The title is still being negotiated but it will be something along the line of Campus and Community Director for Substance Abuse Prevention. It will be a Master ' s level position and will be mainly project management between UNC students and the downtown business to reduce high-risk drinking (binge drinking, underage drinking) . The position will be funded by University, Town of Chapel Hill, Orange County Health Department, and local ABC Board and will be funded for three years . I Youth Mental Health First Aid training will be held in November for about 25 Haven House p staff. If any other agencies would like this training free of cost, please contact Peggy Hamlett. JCPC Administrative funds will be supporting one board member and three program staff to attend the NCJSA conference at Carolina Beach. Registrations have been submitted and hotel reservations will be made soon. Building Futures Program is WIOA employment and training program for low-income youth ages 16-24 with specific identified barriers (offenders, pregnant/parenting, homeless/runaway/foster care, basic skills deficient, and high school dropouts) . The program will help youth finish school, gain employment skills, and eventually obtain employment. The it program is currently taking referrals, but the participants must be motivated. Peggy Hamlett would love to have a Building Futures rep at the monthly staffing meetings to discuss the various cases . E E The County is moving forward with a new employment and training center next door at the old Door Tree location. Social Services will staff and operate this center and will house case workers from some of the programs as well as a new cafe where our WIOA youth participants can obtain job skills . Please come over and support our cafe . We will be offering beverages and food items supplied by Weaver Street. i. i' 4 Consultant Update Final Accounting is being reviewed now and any notices of refunds will be sent out shortly. Based upon the results of the Final Accounting there may be discretionary funds . There will not be any increase in funding levels for next fiscal year; however, there won ' t be any decrease either. Cindy Porterfield has recently been requested to write a report to the Legislature on age change . Another report recently stated that there wouldn' t any cost to increase the age; however, after further review and calculation it was determined that the increase in age would cost $ 10 million. ` This is why it is important that 18 and 19 year olds are not entered into client tracking. Programs can still serve them if they have other funding sources, but do not record their data because it shows the Legislature that programs don' t need additional funds to serve this population. Denise has received the Risk and Needs data for each county and is currently working on putting all the data into charts for the committee meeting in January . i There will be a State sponsored SPEP training rolling out to program providers . It will discuss scoring, assigning scoring, and discuss how the programs can improve their score . SPEP is not a tool to defend or eliminate programs , rather, it is a tool used to help solely improve program design. Information on the training will be forthcoming. This training may be for both program providers and JCPC members . ➢ Next JCPC Meeting : Friday, December 4, 2015 ; Location : Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill NC i Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting Friday, December 4, 2015 (12 : OOnoon — 2 : OOpm) Southern Human Services Center Chapel Hill, NC p Proposed Minutes Attendees : Meg McGurk, Donna King, Tom Velivil, Lee Barnes , Bernard Miles, Kristi Price, Jeff Reilly, Tina Sykes, Austin Sykes , Ashley Taylor, Mia Burroughs , Jay Bryan, Peggy Hamlett, Carol McClelland, Gayane Chambless, Danielle Butler, Nathan Ligo , Susan Worley, Marci White, Val Hanson, Paul Atherton, Tom McQuiston, Denise Briggs (*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 . Kristi Price motioned for minutes to be approved and was seconded by Lee Barnes . Motion carried unanimously. Agency Roundtable Chair asked for programs to give an update . School Liaison — This term the program has held 32 youth planning conferences for 16 different students at 7 different schools . Marie Lamoureaux will be retiring. Volunteers for Youth — Nothing big to report, moving along as usual . Sponsored a session on policy on how to have youth respond to questions about criminal history. Had a lot of turn out for that session. MHAT — FAN program has served 35 kids so far and goal is 75 . Currently have 19 active cases . Also, provided 130 family consultations . Completed 3 of Common Sense Parenting classes . We have 2 additional classes already scheduled for Toddler/Pre- School and are beginning a support group . Orange Psych has 10 referrals, has fmished 5 and has 5 more in process . Continuing to have coffee and conversation event, with the next session on Dec 10 at their office . Dispute Settlement Center — Finishing up current session of Family Table next week and have served 10 youth and an average of 5 to 10 adults this session. The next session of Family Table will start March 1 and is looking for referrals . Restorative Justice Program has served all but 1 of the goal for this year. Haven/Wrenn House — Have served 5 Orange County kids for total of 77 days . Today is House Manger Russell ' s last day and Danielle ' s last day is Wednesday. We did promote someone from within to replace Russell so there will be some consistency there . Danielle will email Rebekah and Peggy with the names and contact info of the replacements . Lipo Doio — We are targeted to serve 16 youth this year and we have served 6 . The overall state of the program is stronger than it has ever been in terms of the role models for the kids . We are open to referrals from any program. DJJData — For the month of October there were 7 juveniles at intake, 13 complaints received, 3 juveniles approved for court, 6 juveniles put on plan or contract, 7 school related offenses, 1 Juvenile placed in detention for 5 days, 1 juvenile at Wrenn House for 19 days, and 3 different youth on electronic monitoring for 30 days . For the month of November there were 7 juveniles at intake, 9 complaints received, 3 juveniles approved for court, 6 juveniles placed on plan or contract, 3 school related offenses, and 1 juvenile at Wrenn House for 12 days who carried over from last month. JCPC Business Membership Update — Substance Abuse Professional name put forward is Maggie Simpson and Member of Faith Community is Dr. Bob Brizendine . Dr. Brizendine is the Pastor at Presbyterian Church in Hillsborough and is willing to serve. Peggy Hamlett motioned for Dr. Bob Brizendine to be appointed as the Member of the Faith Community representative and was seconded by Bernard Miles . Motion carried unanimously. No update on Maggie Simpson. She was recommended by Britta Starke (former Substance Abuse Professional representative) but no one present at the meeting knows her. It was decided that it would be better to have a representative on the board that members and programs know. Carol McClelland from Freedom House introduced herself. She is the Director of Outpatient Services for Orange County. Carol is hoping to be able to attend all meetings in the future and would be interested in serving in the Substance Abuse Professional position on the board. Peggy Hamlett motioned for Carol McClelland to be appointed as the Substance Abuse Professional representative and was seconded by Bernard Miles . Motion carried unanimously. Program Monitoring — Rebekah will be contacting the programs in the next couple weeks to schedule the monitoring for January. Denise wants to do a brief (about 1 hour) training with the members who will be conducting the monitoring . Donna King would like to be added to the Monitoring Committee . Denise would like to add the training to the end of the February meeting. F Risk and Needs Committee — We need members to be on the committee that will meet on January 22 in Hillsborough to discuss the data and determine funding priorities for the RFP release in March. Mia Burroughs, Kristi Price, Donna King, Peggy Hamlett, Bernard Miles , Lee Barnes , Meg McGurk, Ashely Taylor, and Carol McClelland volunteered to be on the committee . Rebekah will send out a reminder as we get closer. December 2015 Program Payments — The last check date from the county is December 18 . In order for payment to be made on that date the request must be submitted by December 9 . Historically, the county hasn ' t received notification or the funds until December 15 . We wanted to give programs a heads up that the funds for December will be delayed until after January 1 , but no later than January 8 . Concern was raised by a program about the payment timeline and why the situation couldn' t be explained to the Finance Office . If we know this is going to be problem then why can't we solve it. It is being asked that the board address this issue with the new Finance Director to address the short-term the issue for December but also to address the ongoing issue for the couple times a year it happens . This funding delay hurts the non-profits financially in their ability to pay operational costs . i Announcements Kristi would like to thank the board for covering the costs for her and program providers to attend the NCJSA conference . Parks & Recreation will start taking summer camp registration beginning February 1 . The first two weeks of February they allow parents to register with only a 25 % deposit and make payments up through May. After the first two weeks payments must be made in full at the time of registration. Orange Partnership has community drop boxes for prescription medication around the county and they are now trying to address the issue of prescription medication security at home . They are looking to partner to organizations, agencies, JCPC, etc. who work with at-risk youth and families to secure their prescription medications at home with lock boxes . They have purchased 200 lock boxes and will be doing a survey and a follow-up survey after 3 - 6 months . If you are interested in working with Orange Partnership let Gayane know. It will be free of charge . Consultant Update Denise met with Val recently and monitored Dispute Settlement Center and everything was r within compliance . The Department has concluded and finished the SPEP training for program providers . The next step with SPEP will have Denise working closely with program providers to create an enhancement plan to increase their scores . The plans will then be presented to the JCPC . Denise would like to take some time at the next meeting to do a presentation to the JCPC and then give time to the programs to present their plans . The plans will be presented to the JCPC on a quarterly basis and will become part of the county plan for the next fiscal year. This is not for funding decisions or to eliminate programs but to be used to increase service delivery by the programs . Denise will be getting information out to all the programs that will help guide them through completing the plan. Denise would like the program enhancement plans sent to her by the end of January so she can review and provide guidance and feedback to the programs . For the programs who are structures and not SPEPable, they are still asking all programs to do the Quality of Services checklist. ➢ Next JCPC Meeting: Friday, February 5 , 2016 ; Location : Hillsborough Commons , 113 Mayo St, Hillsborough NC r Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting Friday, February 5, 2016 (12 * 00noon — 2 * 00pm) Hillsborough Commons Hillsborough, NC N Proposed Minutes Attendees : Meg McGurk, Jeff Reilly, Tina Sykes, Peggy Hamlett, Sharron Hinton, Carol McClelland, Austin Sykes , Donna King, Ashley Taylor, Lee Barnes, Kristi Price, Taim Pfeifer, Michelle Zechmann, Tom McQuiston, Nathan Ligo , Marci White, Paul Atherton, Kate Giduz, Susan Worley, Scott Dreyer, Val Hanson, Carmen Johnson, Rebekah Rapoza, Denise Briggs (*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 . Peggy Hamlett motioned for minutes to be approved and was seconded by Sharron Hinton. Motion carried unanimously. Agency Roundtable Chair asked for programs to give an update . Boomerang — Served 80 referrals (21 OCS , 59 CHCCS) through end of January. Rise in afterschool numbers now that location is on bus line, 125 drop-ins for support, 14 for tutoring help , 300 community service hours from 23 students . They have started "What' s Next Series" on Wednesday every week that focuses on independent living skills and college exposures . I' Will be turning a budget revision because when original budget was set, they did not have any i facility expenses and are now responsible for rent, utilities, etc. and have also hired a FT person J in an administrative role that was required by their board. School Liaison — Served 19 students from 8 different schools, have 5 referrals, and have held approximately 50 youth planning conferences . Program has received two referrals from pre-trial services which is a new referral source. Volunteers for Youth — Agency has a mentoring program (not JCPC funded) and are looking to find mentors for the youth in the Gateway community. Bad weather set Teen Court schedule back a little and had to reschedule some sessions . Getting ready to do an attorney training in March. Community Service is a little below target numbers but currently has 24 active and has served 50 year-to -date. MHAT — Just started a new Common Sense Parenting course last night at their Durham location and have already completed 3 with 1 more already scheduled . Have served 37 kids through FAN and have provided 172 family consultations (not JCPC funded activity) . Served 13 in Psych Services program. Pro -bono counseling network has served 54 individuals through December with 117 therapists who have agreed to offer services . Working with Family Success Alliance and have 2 Navigators housed at their office (other 2 housed at EmPowerment) and provide bi- monthly clinical supervision as a group . Program needs to submit a budget revision. Dispute Settlement Center — Just came from first Restorative Justice training with Orange High. We have had tons of referrals and are getting ready to start our second session of Family Table on March 1 . Only have a couple families right now but it works best with about 4 , so if anyone has any referrals please send them over. The program meets once per week for 12 weeks . Wrenn House — Still have not hired a replacement for Danielle because trying to find the right person. Grant is for 10 youth and have served 6 with a total of 95 days . Currently have 1 youth right now. Leo Dojo — Targeted to serve 20 kids this year and as of the holidays had only served 5 , 3 of whom were court referred. Have received 9 referrals in January from El Centro Hispano and Carolina Outreach and 6 have already started . Have received a referral from School Liaison program for a Chatham County court-involved youth and is serving that youth. Area Consultant clarified that because the program receives Orange County money, the funds can only serve Orange County youth. The program can still serve the youth, but will need to do so with non- JCPC funds and should not enter this youth in NCALLIES or include in reporting . P Have been going through a 4 year financial crunch and every year grant money has been going down. Moved to Chapel Hill in order replace the loss of grant money by generating revenue " paying students to where our sustainability picture looks a lot more positive, where everything is `I getting paid now where last year it wasn' t. We will be able to continue to serve referred youth for years to come. DJJ Data — December : 5 distinct juveniles, 11 complaints, 3 approved for court, 3 put on plan or contract, 4 school related offenses, 1 juvenile in detention for 5 days, and 1 juvenile on electronic monitoring for 14 days . January : 4 distinct juveniles, 4 complaints, 2 approved for court, 1 put on a plan or contract, and 1 school related offense. When JCPC programs have been reporting it being slow, it has been slow for DJJ too . JCPC Business NCJSA Spring Conference — Conference is March 9- 11 that is a really well attended conference that many board members and program have attended in the past. The board has funds to assist with paying to attend. If interested, please get up with Rebekah. Monitoring Committee Update — All the monitoring were completed and there are no problems or concerns to report. Rebekah will be emailing all the programs with a final copy of their report. Risk & Needs Committee Update — Subcommittee discussed the current programs that we fund and had some dialog about other services and resources that are needed . The identified needs have not changed. No major data trend changes . Data and other information from service providers is used to determine what the risks and needs are of the youth in our community and that is then used to set the funding priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Continuum of Services Update — This is included as part of the Annual Plan every year and hasn't been updated in a while. This is to be able to see what services are available in the county and to be able to show that JCPC funded programs are filling gaps within the community . Discussion followed about edits to be made and to email Rebekah if any additional changes are needed. i RFP — Goal is to advertise starting on Monday if approved at today ' s meeting . The funding priorities, based on risk and needs data, is reflected on the RFP . 30% local match requirement is provided by the county so the programs are not required to find that match on their own with other sources . Very few, if any, counties provide the cash match like Orange does . Deadline for application is March 9 and applications are submitted online . Peggy Hamlett motioned for RFP to be approved and was seconded by Donna King . Motion carried unanimously . Once the RFP is released, please help distribute and cc Rebekah on the email because it is something the JCPC needs to report on within the Annual Plan . Funding Committee — Will meet March 21 all day at Southern Human Services in Chapel Hill . This is the day that all programs who apply for funding will come to present their applications to the board. Programs and board members please mark it on your calendar. a Announcements MHAT and some other agencies are sponsoring a legislative breakfast on Saturday, March 19 8 : 0041 : 300 and will be at Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The topic this year is specially about breaking the mental health pipeline to prison. Orange County Parks & Recreation has copies of summer camp guide to take if interested. Community Egg Hunt is March 19 at River Park. It is a one day event and they can use volunteers for community service . The event is for ages 240 and volunteers can be as young as 12 . DEAPR is partnering with Family Success Alliance for 4 weeks (starting July 11 ) in the I summer at New Hope Elementary School to help 5 -6 year olds retain information over summer j break. FSA has asked that they bring their summer camp activities "on the road" and they are seeking assistance to help make this possible for as cost-effectively as possible . �I February 13 , St. Thomas More is hosting a Faith ID day. IDs will be $ 10 and cash only. Be aware of Zika virus and take precautions to protect yourself and children from mosquitos . i Consultant Update 3rd Quarter Accounting email should be coming out by end of February at the latest. Look at budgets and. make sure everything is where you want it. If you do budget or program agreement revision, please email Denise so she can move them along. DPS will be releasing 2 RFPs : 1 ) Level 2 (as defined by Juvenile Court) youth who are on the cusp of going to youth development center if services aren 't put in place to help them stay in the community, and 2) alternatives to commitment programs working with Level 2 and Level 3 youth. Any programs who are wishing to apply for funds under these RFPs must notify and get support from the local JCPC . SPEP Overview & Process Presentation — refer to handout Program Enhancement Plans Wrenn House — Program is structure only because of the amount of time they have kids . Maximum score they can get is 20 and they currently have 18 . Two areas they are focusing on are retention data and reviewing agency policies and procedures . Dispute Settlement Center — Mediation: the 8 hours requirement is incredibly high and this isn' t something that they will ever be able to improve on. Program is able and willing to serve higher risk youth if they are ever referred. Family Table: issue has been getting program up to 12 week program as required by SPEP and getting families on board to attend for all the weeks . Both programs have 15 out of 20 on Quality of Service checklists . Community Service & Restitution — Main area of improvement is to enhance protocol manual and monitoring evaluations throughout the year. Teen Court — Program is structure only. Program is currently has a manual but is always working on keeping it updated. Re-approach law enforcement about accessing recidivism data and reminding referrals sources of 30 -day time frame between referral and admission. FAN — Area most focusing on is around data collection and reporting. Boomerang — Program is structure only. Areas of improvement are with documentation on staff training and documenting evidence of evaluations and corrective action plans . We are already looking at these things so minutely right now as we separate from the Y. Lig,o Dojo — Most immediate way to make improvement is with program type . Program was mislabeled as Interpersonal Skill Building and should be Challenge Program so that will change with FYI 647 program agreement. Will be working on a protocol manual . School Liaison — Will definitely serve higher risk youth if referred . Will be enhancing protocol manual by adding more detail . The program will not be able to increase their score in the area of amount of service because of the program ' s format. Next step for PEPs is to vote to approve, but no longer have a quorum and will need to do an email vote . Programs please make sure to sign PEP and SPEP and give to Meg. ➢ Next JCPC Meeting: Friday, April 1 , 20169 Location : Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill NC i Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting Friday, April 1 , 2016 (12e00noon — 2 * 00pm) Southern Human Services Center Chapel Hill, NC Proposed Minutes Attendees : Meg McGurk, Peggy Hamlett, Bernard Miles, Renee Price, Jay Bryan, Donna King, Ashley Taylor Jacobs , Kristi Price, Frances Henderson, Val Hanson, Marci White, Tami Pfeifer, Gayanne Chambless, Kate Giduz, Susan Worley, Tom McQuiston, Pam White, Paul Atherton, Rebekah Rapoza, Denise Briggs (*Members in Bold) Welcome i The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Meg McGurk and introductions . �+ Minutes Review and Approval The Council reviewed the minutes . There were not enough voting members present for a quorum so minutes will be approved email vote . Agency Roundtable Chair asked for programs to give an update . Boomerang — Alternative to Suspension program has served 126 kids so far and the afterschool program has seen an increase this year due to the accessibility of the new location. The partnership with Val (DSC) has allowed for a restorative justice circle to happen at Boomerang. Through Family Success Alliance partnership, they are combining efforts with EmPowerment to provide skill building workshops for the youth who will be participating in EmPowerment' s ' summer employment program, and will also have a youth working with them at their program. Have recently partnered with UNC PAWS and the puppy development program. r School Liaison — This school year the program has received 30 referrals and served 22 youth I. with a couple pending. Held 56 YPCs in 10 different schools . { Volunteersefor Youth — Teen Court has served about 32 youth and is working on the schedule for the summer. The program hasn' t worked much with the private schools, but they recently received a referral from law enforcement on behalf of Emerson Waldorf School . Community Service continues to move along and things are busy. This week is busy since it' s school break and the youth can get a lot of hours done. This is the first year that Project Connect has happened during spring break and a lot of the kids were able to get hours . MMT — Have served a total of 42 kids to date with 6 new admissions in March. Currently running a Common Sense Parenting class for Spanish-speaking parents and are starting another class the week after next in Chapel Hill . This session will actually have childcare provided, which isn ' t usually an option. Legislative breakfast went really well and there were well over 300 people in attendance. Dispute Settlement Center — Not a whole lot to update; served 18 youth so far in conflict resolution program and estimated to serve 15 , so they estimate being well above their projected number served. Family Table will probably run the next session in September and will be accepting referrals soon. DJJData — February : 12 distinct juveniles, 14 complaints, 3 approved for court, 2 put on plan or contract, 11 school related offenses (including undisciplined) , 1 juvenile in detention for 5 days, I and 1 juvenile on electronic monitoring for 6 days . The number of school related offenses is relatively high and about 5 were truancy related. There was also a good number of school related offense complaints being made by parents and not SROs . If an SRO decides not to make a complaint, the parent(s) is informed that they are able to make the complaint directly to DJJ if they would like . March : 3 distinct juveniles, 4 complaints, 3 approved for court, 8 put on a plan or contract, and 1 school related offense. Electronic monitoring is often used in place of commitment to a YDC or when a youth is transitioning out of YDC and back home . JCPC Business Funding Committee Recommendations — School Liaison chose not to seek funding for FY 16- 17 and did not submit an application. Their program model is case management and does not fit within the JCPC program model guidelines . Going forward they will use other funding sources to make up what JCPC was funding . it Reintegration Support Network did request funding; however, the Funding Committee is not recommending their program for funding because the mentoring model the agency was presenting does not fit within the JCPC mentoring model guidelines . The JCPC would strongly {i encourage the agency to apply for funding next year and are willing to work with them throughout the year to see if there is a way to design their program to fit the JCPC model without losing the integrity of the program. The committee then looked at what each program was asking for in increased amounts and chose to fund approximately 40% of the increased amount. Because there is not a quorum, we cannot vote on the recommendations but the floor is open for any questions and comments . We will look to do an email vote within the next week. Conference/Training Requests — A call was sent out to the programs and board members to submit requests for financial assistance to attend conferences and trainings . Usually the trainings and conferences come down from the State and are related to the JCPC and the work we are doing within our state. This time we have the funds available to be able to offer programs and board members the opportunity to attend something that is particular to their area of interest and expertise . We received a number of requests and are able to fund all opportunities for the requests amounts . Rebekah will coordinate with each program/person the payment or reimbursement of the approved expenses . Additionally, there is an expectation that the programs will present at the next meeting what they learned and how it will be applied to serving our youth. Membership Update — We have three board members who have not come to meetings and according to our bylaws they are no longer in good standing. Meg will reach out to those individuals , or the person who initially was the point of contact getting them on the board, to see if they are still interested in serving. The positions Meg will contact are the Orange County School Superintendent, Chapel Hill Police, and Juvenile Defense Attorney. The Member of the Faith Community representative isn' t out of compliance yet; however, he has yet to attend a meeting. Jay Bryan will follow-up with him to determine his continued interest in serving. Continuum of Services Update — Rebekah emailed the Continuum of Services out to everyone and got some feedback and updates back. There are now just a few areas left that we can k 9 hopefully resolve at the meeting and then the document will be done and ready for the upcoming Annual Plan. Does not appear that Chapel Hill TOPS program is still operational and will be removed from the document. The closest program that Rebekah could find to fit the Masonry Workshop listing is the Tools for Hope program within Josh' s Hope . The Tools for Hope program is going extremely well and expanding their services to include some home construction. Rebekah will replace "Masonry Workshop" with Josh' s Hope/Tools for Hope . Behavioral Skills program is offered through the school system not a JCPC funded program so the coloring will need to be updated. Junior Police Academy is still being offered by Orange County DEAPR in partnership with Hillsborough Police for a one-week summer camp and the Chapel Hill Police also offer a program but is limited in frequency. The Citizens Police Academy is also still offered by Hillsborough Police . Transitional School will be removed since no one could identify any other schools than the ones already listed on the document. Under Clinical Treatment category, will add "Intensive Wrap Around" and "High Fidelity Wraparound" programs that are both being offered by Youth Villages , Action Plan Review/Update — No longer required as part of the Annual Plan and will not need to complete . Announcements After much planning, Orange County has created a Misdemeanor Diversion Court that will go into effect on June 1 for 16 and 17 year olds . The court will start accepting referrals April 15 and the first practice court session is May 4 . It is modeled after the one in Durham. Wake County is also working on creating one modeled after Durham' s . The 2nd Annual Youth Art Exhibition at the Carrboro Arts Center that is starting April 3 and goes through most of April, with the main reception on April 8 . Consultant Update M CAY is holding regional meetings and the one for the Central Area is April 13 from 10-2 . Even though the State budget has yet to pass, they are no expecting any decrease in funds . There is talk about expansion funding for Teen Court. If approved, the funds would come to the JCPC and added to the county allocation for decisions to be made at the local level . Sentencing Commission has recently put out a report that JCPC programs were serving the majority of lower risk youth. The Department knows that that isn' t true and came to the conclusion that the Risk Assessment Tool needed to be re-normed. The questions in the form itself will remain the same, but the numerical scale for determining risk level will be different. The time frame for administering the tool will also be changed. ➢ Next JCPC Meeting: Friday, June 3 , 2016 , Location : Hillsborough Commons, 113 Mayo Street, Hillsborough NC I