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Q 089 M E M O R A N D U M TO: Albert Kitrell, Orange County Commissioner's Office FROM: J. M. Deloatch, Jr. , Chair, Youth Services Needs Task Force DATE: November 18; 1986 RE: Recommendation for CBA Expansion Funds As per my memo of November 6th to the Orange County Commissioners, the Task Force recommended that the $15,008.00 in CBA funds be disbursed as follows: -1 Dispute Settlement Center $ 6,397. 10 -2 Project Attend 1 ,999.00 -3 Phillips/Culbreth Project 4,290.90 -4 Orange County 4-H 1 , 100.00 -5 Adolescent Day Treatment Program 1 ,221 .00 $ 15,008.00 These recommendations took into consideration that the requests for ex- pansion dollars from Dispute Settlement and the Phillips Project were for a nine- month period. In fact, the expansion funds would only be available for the remain- ing six months of the CBA fiscal year. Therefore, we elected to prorate the funds accordingly--that is. 2/3 of the actual request plus a little extra to Dispute Settlement, in that it is a new program initiative. The following description of each program demonstrates the Task Force's thinking on some of the unmet or little addressed needs of Orange County youth: -1 The Dispute Settlement Center (DSC) Although slightly over half of DSC cases are referred directly from court, the DSC provides the community with a viable alterna- tive to the public confrontation of dispute resolution in court. DSC's purpose is to help parties in a dispute create their own solutions in a confidential and objective manner and prevent the conflict from escalating in the future. Mediation is an educational and humane process, allowing for both sides to come out ahead. Schools, court, housing projects and social service agencies have requested that the DSC provide social skills and conflict resolution training to identified pre-delinquent and delinquent juveniles. Additionally, juvenile courts have ex- pressed an interest in involving DSC mediation in victim offen- der reconciliation and restitution. Similar Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs (VORP) have emerged across the country in response to the identified need.