2016-613-E Finance - Volunteers for Youth - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 3CD68914-055B-4274-9AF2-A50FD766FB76 t A - continued Provider's Outside Agency Application MAIN APPLICATION Carolina Division of Juvenile Justice, there were a total of 197 delinquent complaints brought against Orange County youth in 2014 (the most recent year for which statistics are available). Volunteers for Youth provides services to youth who are involved in the court system as well as those at risk of such involvement. Providing these children and youth with constructive, enriching activities outside of school time while engaging them with caring adults is an important tool in delinquency prevention. d) Describe the population to be served or the area to benefit and indicate how you will identify beneficiaries. Volunteers for Youth will work with Orange County children and youth between the ages of 8 and 15 who are referred by court counselors, police officers, school counselors, social workers, Family Success Alliance navigators, and parents. The youth will be referred either because they are involved in the court system, are first-time offenders, or are children who may be at risk for legal involvement without intervention from a program such as Volunteers for Youth. e) Who specifically will carry out the activities and in what location will they be carried out? Volunteers for Youth will recruit and supervise volunteers who will serve as mentors, work site coordinators, and teen court volunteers. For the one-on-one mentoring program, volunteer mentors will take children out once a week to engage in interactive pastimes in places as varied as playgrounds, greenways, museums, UNC's campus, and the volunteer's home. Group mentoring will take place in local schools. Community service projects will be carried out throughout Orange County in locations such as Anathoth Garden in Cedar Grove, the Hillsborough Farmers Market, and Boomerang in Chapel Hill. Teen court sessions will take place in the historic courthouse in Hillsborough. f) Describe specifically the period over which the activities will be carried out, the frequency with which the activities will be carried out, and the frequency with which services will be delivered. Include an implementation timeline. All of the services Volunteers for Youth provides are ongoing and will take place throughout the year with children and youth coming and going. Children in the one-on-one mentoring program will spend time with their mentors once a week for the period of at least one year (for those in the community mentoring program) and eight months (for those in the SMART mentoring program). Children in the group mentoring programs will see their mentors once a week throughout the school year. Youth in the community service program will perform community service hours once a week until their hours are completed. Depending on the number of hours assigned and other factors, this generally takes between two and four months but can take as long as a year. Youth will participate in the teen court program for up to three months from the time of their sentencing. (See attached timeline.) g) Provide a bulleted list of other agencies, if any, with which your agency coordinates/collaborates to accomplish or enhance the Projected Results in the Program(s) to be funded. For each, give specific examples of the coordinated/collaborative efforts. • Orange County Office of Juvenile Justice—VFY staff works closely with court counselors to monitor progress of youth in our program, sending monthly progress reports on individual Main Application 5/25/2016 10:34:40 AM P of 25