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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting <br />Friday, October 6, 2017 (12:00noon – 2:00pm) <br />Hillsborough Commons <br />Hillsborough, NC <br /> <br />Proposed Minutes <br />Attendees: Meg McGurk, Sherita Cobb, Maren Hardin, Peggy Hamlett, Stephanie Jones, <br />Bernard Miles, Sharron Hinton, Kysha Thompson, Penny Rich, Jay Bryan, Lee Barnes, <br />Amanda Farris, Susan Worley, Pam Weiden, Kate Giduz, Tami Pfeifer, Val Hanson, Gayane <br />Chambless, Georgia Gamcsik, Rebekah Rapoza (*Members in Bold) <br /> <br />Absent: Michelle Guarino, Tina Sykes, Dana Graves <br /> <br />Excused: Carol McClelland, Donna King, Nick Allen <br /> <br />Welcome <br />The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Meg McGurk and introductions. <br /> <br />Minutes Review and Approval <br />The Council reviewed the minutes from August 2017. Penny Rich motioned for minutes to be <br />approved with one correction and was seconded by Peggy Hamlett. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> <br />Agency Roundtable <br />Volunteers for Youth – Nicole Hunter is back at VFY working with the Community Service <br />program again. Teen Court has served 8 and has a couple referrals pending. There will be an <br />attorney training coming up October 14 and could use some volunteers (ages 13-18). <br />Boomerang – Alternative to Suspension program has been slow up until this week. Year to date <br />they have served 19 youth and have 9 there today. Continue to do the boys group at AL <br />Stanback Middle School and have also been offering more afterschool activities. <br />Dispute Settlement Center – They have been having a lot of problems getting referrals for the <br />Family Table program and haven’t been able to run the program since last winter. Currently <br />only have one open referral from JCPC for the Restorative Justice program. <br />Freedom House – FAN is currently working with 7 parents and has served 11 year to date. <br />Approximately one-third of their clients are court involved. The program is finally starting to <br />see the low numbers that the other programs have been reporting for a while now. They had a <br />workshop in collaboration with NAMI – Parents and Teachers as Allies, how to work with <br />schools when your child is suffering from a mental health condition. On October 21 they will be <br />doing a workshop with Dispute Settlement Center – From Bystander to Up-Stander. Common <br />Sense Parenting class has scheduled 6 classes but was only able to hold about half because they <br />haven’t been receiving the number of referrals that are needed to hold it. This month they are <br />starting up a new Peer Parent Support Group that will be held the second Wednesday of the <br />month at lunch time. <br />DJJ Data – August: 0 distinct juveniles, 0 complaints, 0 approved for court, 0 juveniles diverted, <br />0 juveniles in detention, 1 juvenile in Wrenn House for 4 days, 1 juvenile on electronic <br />monitoring for 21 days, and 0 juveniles committed to YDC.