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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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 <br />