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September: 3 distinct juveniles, 4 complaints, 2 approved for court, 1 juveniles diverted, 0 <br />juveniles in detention, 0 juvenile in Wrenn House, 1 juveniles on electronic monitoring for 11 <br />days, and 0 juveniles committed to YDC. <br /> <br />JCPC Business <br />Membership Vacancies – Peggy reached out to Janet Cherry about serving on JCPC but hasn’t <br />heard back yet. Meg will reach out to the Superintendent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools <br />to see about getting someone (Janet) appointed to as designee to represent CHCCS. <br />Kate knows plenty of teens who may be able to serve as the Youth Under 18 representatives and <br />will reach out to them. She does have kids who are interested but wants to run it by the parents <br />first because it will involve some missed school to attend the meetings. <br /> <br />Conflict of Interest Forms – All board members must sign a COI for the new fiscal year. Please <br />complete if you haven’t already for this fiscal year and leave with Rebekah or Meg. <br /> <br />Subcommittee Sign-Ups – Monitoring Committee happens during the month of January during <br />varies days and times. You don’t have to be available to monitor all programs, but any would be <br />a help. The Risk and Needs Committee also meets during January for a couple hours one day. <br />This is when we sit down to review the data from the State and identify the risks and needs for <br />our county that will then drive the RFP for FY 18-19 funding. <br />Monitoring Committee: Sherita Cobb, Lee Barnes, Maren Hardin, Peggy Hamlett, <br />Amanda Farris, Bernard Miles <br />Risk & Needs Committee: Meg McGurk, Gayane Chambliss, Tami Pfeifer, Kate Giduz, <br />Peggy Hamlett, Amanda Farris, Stephanie Jones, Jay Bryan (schedule permitting), <br />Bernard Miles <br /> <br />Announcements <br />Orange County Schools SRO Symposium was held with summer and was a great success. <br />Speakers/topics included school attorneys, working with children of incarcerated parents, mental <br />health 101 for youth, working with Exceptional Children, working with McKinney-Vento <br />children. JCPC helped by providing funds for lunch. <br /> <br />OCS is also gearing up for their Red Ribbon Week (October 23-31). This is a week where they <br />work with elementary kids around drug and alcohol abuse and promoting making good decisions <br />(health and not bullying). <br /> <br />Hidden in Plain Sight is gearing up to be held in December (during Toy Chest event) in <br />partnership with Orange Partnership for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth and Social Services. This <br />is a program where a “teen room” is staged and parents go through to see how many items they <br />can identify that would indicate possible alcohol and drug use, as well as other risky behaviors. <br />The program is in need of furniture, paraphernalia, posters, etc. to help stage the room. All items <br />will be borrowed and returned. <br /> <br />Question was asked about status of raising the age in NC for juvenile court and what the <br />potential impact could be. Peggy attended Raise the Age conference a couple weeks ago with <br />State personnel and that there is going to be a lot of planning, meetings, and discussions to