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Public Safety Non - Departmentals <br />Office of Juvenile Justice Pass - Through Funds: <br />Boomerang (YMCA) $19,000 <br />The innovative program is based on resiliency research, a best - practice model for addressing <br />the needs of disconnected adolescents most at risk of dropping out of school. Boomerang helps <br />youths and the community that surrounds them identifies resources and supports that lead to <br />long -term, successful outcomes. Through a rich and robust community collaborative, <br />Boomerang provides each student it serves with a strengths- focused environment that includes <br />intensive attention to academics, psychosocial development and substance -abuse counseling. <br />Boomerang Gang Grant $0 <br />Boomerang, a program of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro YMCA was awarded Community Based <br />Youth Gang Violence Prevention funding to support our alternative to suspension and <br />afterschool components. Our alternative to suspensions serves approximately 150 youth per <br />year and our afterschool programming serves approximately 40 youth per year who complete <br />community service. Boomerang serves youth with a variety of risk factors for gang involvement <br />including negative peer associations, disconnection from school (as evidenced through <br />suspension), family discord, and involvement in the juvenile and adult justice system. Funds <br />support program staff salaries, the creation of a yearly book of Boomerang student writings, <br />computer equipment and necessary supplies to support programming. <br />Dispute Settlement Center: Victim (Resolve /Mediation) $25,538 <br />This program provides assistance to the juvenile justice system by helping offenders to <br />understand the impact of their actions thereby reducing recidivism. The program has the <br />following three components: intervention, prevention and collaboration. A primary component is <br />to schedule face -to -face meetings between the juvenile offenders and their victims. These <br />meetings are facilitated by trained DSC mediators, and organized by DSC staff. The meetings <br />are designed to build empathy and understanding of the human consequences of the youth's <br />criminal actions. The RESOLVE program will help the juvenile courts and juvenile court <br />counselors to hold offenders accountable for their actions. <br />Drug Treatment Court $0 <br />County supported funds to offset FY2011 -12 cuts in the State's Drug Treatment Court program. <br />Funds have been budgeted in the Department of Social Services for administration of the <br />contract, which totals $67,000. <br />Governor's Crime Commission Grant $6,831 <br />Recipient - District Court Judges Office, Judicial District 15B - NC Administrative Office of the <br />Courts. This grant funds a position that serves as a coordinator between the courts and the <br />school systems focusing on school suspensions and truancies in hopes of reducing the number <br />of youth suspended from school. <br />41 •1 <br />