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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 8, 1994 SUBJECT: Crisis Intervention Team -------------------------------- ------------------------------- DEPARTMENT Sheriff's Department PUBLIC HEARING YES NO _x- -------------------------------- ------------------------------- ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT Major Don Truelove, Sheriff' s Department TELEPHONE NUMBER Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: To accept funds from the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety for the Crisis Intervention Team and to establish 1 . 5 positions for this program and . 5 full time equivalent positions for the Violence Prevention - School Resources project . BACKGROUND: Crisis Intervention Team The Sheriff' s Department has received notification that the department has been awarded a two year grant, totaling $119, 681 to develop a Crisis Intervention Team. The grant will partially fund one and one half social worker positions to provide crisis counseling with youth potentially involved with the legal system, training for law enforcement officers regarding human services issues, and education for schools and community groups. The total first year budget for this program is $80, 671. Of this amount, $59, 756 will be provided from this grant . The County' s match is 35% of the grant amount, or $20, 915 . This match was budgeted in the approved 1994-95 County budget and includes $9, 990 in Community Based Alternative (CBA) funds, $8, 000 in County funds and the balance, $2, 925 from in-kind rental space for this program. The second year grant award is $59, 925 .