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3 Rep ort.And :Recommendations Of The Youth Committee Of The Chapel�HillTown Violent Crime And Drug Abuse`'Probram March =;, 199a Formed in 1992, the Youth Committee of the Chapel Hill Violent Crimc and Drug Abuse Program had as its charge the implementation of nineteen (19) specific recommendations from the original Task-Force on Reducing Violent Crime and Illegal Drug Use(See Attachment 1). The Committee making these recommendations includes, among others, the Directors of the Orange County Department of Social Services and Volunteers for Youth, the Chief Court Counselor for the County's Juvenile Court Counselor's Of6ce, a practicing psychologist, the Director of the UNC School of Medicine's Center for Early Adolescence, a Middle School Drop Out Prevention and In-School Suspension teacher and athletic director, the Chair of the Orange County Association of Community Agencies, a Federal mediator and member of the Board of the Dispute Settlement Center, the General Manager of the.ArtsCenter, the Director of the Franklin Street Scene Youth Center, a representative from the Orange-Durham Junior League, an educator in the Transition program, and a social worker. After an extensive investigation of what services for youth exist in our community, a review of the Final Report on "Improving the State of the Adolescent in Orange County" (from the Human Services Advisory Commission's 1989 Symposium on Services for Youth (See Attachment U)), and the establishment of priorities for the nineteen(19) youth-related recommendations, the Committee agrees that what is needed in our community is a broad ranLe of services for vouth with special emphasis on options for after-school activities and conflict resolution training for the school system, local `overnmert and 'human services providers. Our Committee's recommendations and requests to you are as follows: A. We recommend hiring a youth coordinator to assist those who work with youth to match youth in need of assistance with the appropriate agency or agencies and to advocate for the best use of personnel and financial resources for youth services. B. We recommend conflict resolution training for youth, for public officials, and for employees who work with young people. C. We recommend supporting teen gathering places outside of the schools, in particular, the orange county ice rink proposal. in addition, we support public transportation to and from those places. D. We recommend support for programs after school in the schools, particularly for elementary and middle school children. We support the need for transportation from those activities.