2017-589-E Finance - Orange County Rape Crisis Center - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: E85EF868-A4BB-49ED-96E1-165F3DADBAE4 XHIBIT A PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION Coalition Against Sexual Violence (NCCASA), our staff visited agencies across the state to offer this training. We also created protocols and procedures to serve incarcerated survivors according to federal standards set by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA); our protocols and corresponding training helped to inform those created by NCCASA, which in turn will be shared with victim service providers across the state, Launched 35 years ago, our Community Education program is one of the oldest in the country, and we have enjoyed a close relationship with local school districts, delivering safety education to tens of thousands of students. Our annual curriculum is truly comprehensive, with each lesson building on skills learned in past years, Safe Touch prevents sexual abuse by helping students understand safe and healthy relationships. By learning that your body belongs to you° at a young age, children easily grasp the concept of consent when it is introduced as 'flirting vs, bullying in middle school. Start Strong has a peer-to-peer focus, teaching tweens that sexual behaviors such as holding hands and hugging are only okay if the other person wants to do it. Having already learned to respect boundaries at a young age, teens have a deeper understanding of healthy relationships when they learn about communication, consent, and sexual assault in high school. uilding key concepts and skills over several years allows students to learn boundaries, communication, and consent in a more effective, lasting way. Furthermore, our programs are based on the best available research, follow national best practice standards, and are provided by highly trained educators. Staff and volunteers are also trained to look for 'red flags' during programs that may suggest a child is at risk of sexual abuse. Our staff follows up with every red flag and disclosure, coordinating with schools and with Child Protective Services, to ensure appropriate intervention and services are received. e) Other Pertinent Agency Information Client Services: With increased client numbers and contacts in addition to significant challenges in accessing services across the system of care, our client services staff have unsustainably heavy workloads. We hope to secure funding for a part-time support group coordinator, which would allow more time for the high-demand Support Group program as well as more time for the Client Services Director to focus on high-need clients and systems-level advocacy. Additionally, we are excited to have potential opportunities for funding a new in-house Bilingual Therapist. This has been a priority need for our clients for years, and we hope this funding will come through for FY17-18 Community Education: More than 80 percent of our programs are provided in public schools within Orange County, but they are not paid for by the two district school systems. We rely on town and county funding to ensure this crucial safety education can be delivered to local students. Also, we have received multiple requests for programs that we have unfortunately had to decline due to limits on staff capacity. We hope to secure funding to expand our education program, Overall: Alyson Culin is now serving as our Executive Director. She has been with the Center since 2010 as the Development & Communications Director. Under her leadership, we will continue our capital campaign, which has plans for program expansion and moving to a larger facility, f) Schedule of Positions (For Entire Agency) # of FTE - Full-Time Paid Positions: 9 # of FTE - Paid Part-Time Positions: 1 # of Volunteers: pprox. 100 # of FTE - Volunteers: 11 FTE g) Living Wage Does this agency pay permanent employees a inimum livina_wpcie? (Yes/No) Yes If yes, is this agency an Oral qeCountyLivin , Wagejl:ejlifie Elnpfoler? Yes Agency Information 1/30/2017 5:14:05 PM P t, 22