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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting <br />Friday, December 1, 2017 (12:00noon – 2:00pm) <br />OrangeWorks Employment & Training Center <br />Hillsborough, NC <br /> <br />Proposed Minutes <br />Attendees: Meg McGurk, Tina Sykes, Ana Salas (proxy for Donna King), Amanda Farris, <br />Peggy Hamlett, Maren Hardin, Carol McClelland, Dana Graves, Kristi Lescinski, Aidan <br />Salmeron, Sherita Cobb, Penny Rich, Stephanie Jones, Sharron Hinton, Kysha Thompson, <br />Nancy Lappenbusch, Georgie Gamcsik, Amy Kirshner, Gayane Chambless, Pamela Weiden, <br />Raquelle Hawkins, Kate Giduz, Susan Worley, Val Hanson, Rebekah Rapoza, Theresa Collosso, <br />Denise Briggs (*Members in Bold) <br /> <br />Absent: Michelle Guarino, Jay Bryan, Nick Allen <br /> <br />Excused: Bernard Miles, Lee Barnes <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 October 2017. Peggy Rich motioned for minutes to be <br />approved with one correction and was seconded by Sherita Cobb. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> <br />Agency Roundtable <br />Dispute Settlement Center – Currently accepting referrals for Family Table for next session that <br />starts the last week in February and will be at Stanback Middle School. <br />Freedom House – Referrals continue to be low and there has also been a decline in the <br />attendance at Common Sense Parenting classes. Staff will be reviewing numbers, outreach <br />efforts, advertising, etc. and is also seeking feedback to see how they can boost numbers and <br />attendance again. <br />Ease of transportation, providing food, and offering childcare were suggested as possible draws. <br />Being added to community resource lists, within the schools, for example. New this year, <br />Freedom House will now be providing mental health services within some of the schools and this <br />may bring new opportunities to discuss the program services with parents. FAN has lost some <br />funding recently and has had to look at budget to see where cuts could be made with the least <br />impact on service delivery. It was mentioned that the difficulties FAN is facing with low <br />referrals and program participation is actually being experienced by most, if not all, of the JCPC <br />programs. <br />Ligo Dojo – Generally serve 16 to 17 youth per program year and currently have served 7 youth <br />to date, 5 of which have been court referred. One youth has been terminated successfully so far <br />this year. <br />Volunteers for Youth – Scott and Nicole attend the conference down at Carolina Beach and found <br />it very helpful. The programs were monitored by the State and that went well.