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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting <br />Friday, December 2, 2016 (12:00noon – 2:00pm) <br />Southern Human Services Center <br />Chapel Hill, NC <br /> <br />Proposed Minutes <br />Attendees: Meg McGurk, Peggy Hamlett, Bernard Miles, Carol McClelland, Conrad <br />Weiden, Nick Allen, Sherita Cobb, Tina Sykes, Jeff Nieman, Jay Bryan, Renee Price, <br />Donna King, Val Hanson, Tami Pfeifer, Georgia Gamcsik, Susan Worley, Gayanne Chambless, <br />Amanda Farris, Corrie Piontak, Whitney Nash, Nathan Ligo, Tom McQuiston, Denise Briggs, <br />Carmen Johnson (*Members in Bold) <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 2016. Carol McClelland motioned for minutes <br />to be approved and was seconded by Jeff Nieman. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> <br />Agency Roundtable/PEP Progress Report <br />There was a memo from Cindy Porterfield sent out indicating that programs should report on <br />PEP Progress in December. Programs were not aware of the need to update the PEP. Denise <br />will send out the required form(s) and instructions to the programs to make any updates. Since <br />Orange only meets every other month, we have a little more time and will table the report until <br />the February meeting. <br /> <br />Boomerang – Have served 40 youth to date in Alternative to Suspension program and served 158 <br />in After-School program. Just had open house for Boomerang. A young lady who was involved <br />with Boomerang about 9 years ago went to college, earned her Master’s, and returned recently to <br />volunteer. <br />Volunteers for Youth – Community Service has served 34 youth and Teen Court has served 20. <br />Of those youth, Teen Court served 1 from MDP and Community Service served 16. <br />Freedom House – FAN is currently serving 13 families and to date has served 26. They are in <br />the process of posting a Common Sense Parenting class and are trying an accelerated version for <br />the first time because they realized that many parents don’t have custody of their children and <br />need to practice parenting techniques to help regain custody. <br />Dispute Settlement Center – Family Table is starting Tuesday evening and have 5 kids and their <br />parents coming. Would still love to have more, so please make referrals even though the first <br />class is only a few days away. They have worked with only 3 youth in Mediation program, <br />which is way down from last year. Doing a lot of work with Restorative Justice in Orange <br />County Schools and have been doing a lot of conferencing and mediation. <br />Young Warriors – Continuing to serve 4 youth admitted from prior FY and have served 3 court <br />referred youth this year, with 1 successful and 1 unsuccessful termination. <br />DJJ Data – October: 3 distinct juveniles, 3 complaints, 0 approved for court, 3 put on plan or <br />contract, 0 school related offenses, 0 juveniles in detention, and 0 juvenile on electronic <br />monitoring.