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- Page Two - 090 In response to the growing demand to work with first offender and identified pre-delinquent juveniles, the DSC proposes to expand its existing services to focus on young people, age 16 and under. The Youth Program will serve to: ( 1) develop and provide conflict-resolution and social-skills training for juveniles identified both in and out of court; and (2) provide the opportunity for face-to-face meetings, in the presence of trained mediators, between individuals who have been victimized and perpetrators of those alleged crimes. With your assist- ance, the DSC can provide juveniles with skills to be aware of and accountable for their actions, help victims participate in recovering their losses, and have a positive impact on the criminal justice system. Money appropriated from CBA expansion funds would be used to hire another part-time staff person so that these issues can be adequately and consistently addressed. -2 Project Attend Project Attend is a program of the Orange County School system that is designed to improve the relationship between the school and students who are emotionally or physically handicapped and not attending school. The program serves students, grades 1 through 9. In 1986, over 100 students were identified needing the services of Project Attend. In response to the state's 11 months mandated summer-school program, Project Attend requested CBA Expansion Funds pay for local travel of the home/school worker and for required super- vision and consultation for the home/school worker by a pro- fessional staff member. Consultation is required, due to the intensity of need for attitude change with both parents and students; and travel to their homes is necessary for the success of the Program. -3 Phillips/Culbreth Project Originally, the Phillips Project was created to reduce the involvement in legal or psychiatric institutions for youth who attend Guy B. Phillips Junior High School by delivering a comprehensive and integrated community-based program of treatment and prevention services to targeted at-risk youth. The Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health Center wishes to pro- pose continuing the Phillips Project with a special emphasis on the identification and treatment of adolescents with drug- and alcohol-related problems at both Phillips and Culbreth Junior High Schools. All components of the program including referral sources, goals of the program, measurable objectives, methods of measurement and budget would remain the same. The ten ( 10) hours of service per week would be divided evenly between both schools.