2017-430-E Health - Boomerang Youth, Inc. - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 5F353138-C664-4703-97A3-A28BCE0500B7 EXHIBIT A PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION meaningful careers, involvement in their communities, and healthy relationships with family and friends. But some young people in our community find the road to adulthood much harder to navigate and face more challenges than their peers. For these youth, the journey is filled with external and internal obstacles and stressors that can derail healthy development. In Orange County, 1 in 20 youth (Measure of America) are disconnected from the typical pathways of education, college and career. This number does not capture the number of youth at high risk for disconnection: • Students suspended from school are up to ten times more likely to drop out of school or repeat a grade • Youth in the juvenile justice system • Young people with limited means and access to opportunities Most young people we see at Boomerang are at the intersection of multiple types of social and economic disadvantage: poverty, racialization, undocumented status, and/or underserved families (education, employment). Many have experienced trauma that is beyond the range of typical human experience. These stressors can cause the disruptive, risky behaviors that interfere with a young person's daily functioning. They affect school performance, and can lead to dropping out of school, homelessness, substance use, other health-compromising behaviors, and/or involvement with the justice system. Boomerang seeks to empower these vulnerable youth to have crisis-free lives, and build strong connections to family, school and positive peers in a supportive environment during out of school time. Boomerang's programming thus aligns with the following community goals: • Chapel Hill Human Services Needs Assessment Education & Family Resources are identified as an important community need. Within this category, Youth Support and Activities are highlighted with many participants agreeing "Chapel Hill lacks sufficient low-cost/free activities that positively engage children and youth, especially those from at-risk and low-income households". Among the responses to this Assessment, participants specifically cited the need to support [for] at-risk children and teens. • Town of Chapel Hill Council Goals, 2016-18 Community Prosperity: Develop a strategy for creating vocational classes and career development for youth with the school system, Durham Tech and other non-profit organizations. This builds on the 2016 Council Goal (2014-2016 Council Goals Status Report), under Nurture Our Community: Create a strategy to impact out of school time, ESL, and vocational classes for youth with non-profit organizations (2016 Goal) • Chapel Hill 2020 - Theme 1: A Place for Everyone states "Chapel Hill is a place for youth, students, singles, families, retirees, and people at every life stage." • Orange County BOCC Goals and Priorities Applies to all goals: Pago 10 of 15