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have a better answer at the end of this year because DSC has recently implemented a full-scale evaluation process this year that includes teacher,parent, and student surveys being sent to everyone within OCS to get a sense of how they are feeling about the culture of their school. The results of these surveys will then be matched up with the quantitative data. This will be the first year for a comprehensive evaluation and then they will watch the trends over the next few years as more teachers implement the practice. Freedom House—FAN's census to-date for this fiscal year is 6 admitted. They are finishing up a Common Sense Parenting class and will be starting another one in March. The Child& Adolescent Outpatient Services program has not received any referrals yet. Haven House—In month of January they had 2 Orange County youth admitted and so far in February they have 1, for a total of 5 this fiscal year. Ligo Doio—Has served 9 youth to-date this fiscal year. Volunteers for Youth—The Community Service program has served 35 kids year-to-date and has seen a big pick-up during the month of January. Teen Court currently has about 15 kids. DJJData—December: 10 distinct juveniles, 19 complaints, 3 approved for court, 6 juveniles diverted, 2 juveniles in detention for 10 days, I juvenile in Wrenn House for 21 days, 3 juveniles on electronic monitoring for 73 days, and 0 juveniles committed to YDC. Types of charges included: simple assaults,undisciplined, several weapon on school grounds as the result of a group incident, and cyber bullying. Referrals were from SROs, community patrol, and parent referrals. The boost in numbers in December can be related to a group incident. JCPC Business Monitoring Committee Report—Amanda and Peggy monitored VFY and Ligo Dojo and things went well. Everything was on track with VFY and there are no concerns. Ligo Dojo also went well and the only concern was increasing amount of communication with court counselors for court involved youth. Peggy and Rebekah visited Boomerang and everything is going good and is on track. Lee and Sherita visited Dispute Settlement Center and Freedom House. Everything is good with DSC; the only minor concern is with Family Table not getting the number of needed referrals and the program not being able to operate until the spring. The only concern with Freedom House is with the Psych Services program,which will be addressed later on the agenda. Bernard and Sharron went to Wrenn House and everything went well. There are no concerns. Risk&Needs Committee Report—The subcommittee met last month and reviewed state and local data. Upon reviewing the data, there were no striking differences from past years. There were some concerns that the subcommittee discussed that as a JCPC we have been discussing over the past year or so—substance use, mental health,bullying, fighting—but are already being captured by the data. Concern was raised about the 86% increase in kids under age 12. Compared to the prior fiscal year, this number almost doubled—from 7 kids to 13. While the number is alarming,the overall percentage that this age group makes up within the total county population is in line with the average across the state. From a prevention perspective, it would be good to delve deeper to see why and what we can do to lower that number. A couple of the programs mentioned that they have been seeing an increase in the number of younger youth they are serving, especially those of early middle school age (11-12 years). Denise reports that she has heard from other consultants and counties that they are also seeing this trend.