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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting <br /> Friday , August 3 , 2018 ( 12 : 00noon — 2 : 00pm) <br /> Hillsborough Commons <br /> Hillsborough , NC <br /> Proposed Minutes <br /> Attendees : Meg McGurk, Megan Johnson , Bernard Miles , Kysha Thompson , Donna King, <br /> Amanda Farris , Stephanie Jones , Maren Hardin , Carol McClelland , Gayane Chambless , Mia <br /> Burroughs , Sherita Cobb , Jay Cole , Linda Boldin, Susan Worley, Kelsey Mosley, Pam Weiden, <br /> Rebekah Rapoza, Denise Briggs ( * Members in Bold) <br /> Absent: Jaime Lescinski , Dana Graves <br /> Excused: Charlos Banks , Tina Sykes , Peggy Hamlett, Sharron Hinton, Matthew Hinton, Beverly <br /> Scarlett , Nick Allen, Lee Barnes <br /> Welcome <br /> The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Meg McGurk and introductions . <br /> Minutes Review and Approval <br /> The Council reviewed the minutes from June 2018 . Carol McClelland motioned for minutes to be <br /> approved and was seconded by Stephanie Jones . Motion carried unanimously . <br /> Agency Roundtable <br /> Wrenn House — Wrenn House is a 24 -hour crisis shelter for runaway and homeless youth . Through <br /> Orange and Chatham they have one 30 day bed for a youth who is in crisis or transition . They have <br /> been having a pretty slow summer, but calls have been picking up and they anticipate with school <br /> starting back there will be an increase . They have just reapplied for their federal grant and are waiting <br /> to hear on the outcome , probably around the end of September . They just finally finished renovating <br /> the kitchen and it now matches with the rest of the renovated house . <br /> Volunteers -for Youth — VFY operates two JCPC funded programs . Community Service and Teen <br /> Court . The Community Service program is for youth who are court- ordered to serve community <br /> service and they help match up youth with work sites . The Teen Court program is an alternative to <br /> regular court for kids who are first-time offenders and is staffed entirely by teen volunteers . They have <br /> had 28 kids in Community Service and 13 in Teen Court so far in this fiscal year . Numbers were low <br /> last year for Community Service but there was an uptick towards the end of the fiscal year and that is <br /> continuing into this new fiscal year . VFY has lost the Hillsborough Farmer ' s Market for a community <br /> site because they are changing how they staff it . <br /> Freedom House — In FYI 7 - 18 FAN served 17 families one - on- one , held 13 Common Sense Parenting <br /> classes that served 77 parents and impacted 121 children . They had 269 phone contacts with over 400 <br /> contact hours . In FYI 8 . 19 they have served 11 families and 19 phone contacts . October Common <br /> Sense Parenting calendar will be coming out soon, but they need help identifying a location in <br /> Northern Orange . FAN wasn ' t funded by Durham County this year, but they continue to have lots of <br /> interest . They are currently recruiting for a bilingual advocate since Georgia and Anna are no longer <br /> with FAN . It is a preferred requirement that the advocate have experience navigating various systems <br /> for a child/grandchild with mental health diagnosis . Child and Adolescent program has received a <br /> referral and are expecting another one to be coming along soon . They are also working with <br /> Boomerang on making arrangements for the evening group . <br />