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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting
<br /> Friday , December 7 , 2018 ( 12 : 00noon — 2 : 00pm)
<br /> Southern Human Service Center
<br /> Chapel Hill , NC
<br /> Proposed Minutes
<br /> Attendees : Bernard Miles , Tina Sykes , Maren Hardin , Peggy Hamlett, Stephanie Jones , Sharron
<br /> Hinton , Carol McClelland , Kysha Thompson , Gayane Chambless , Jay Cole , Amanda Farris ,
<br /> Amy Kirshner, Val Hanson, Lia Kaz , Linda Boldin, Tami Pfeifer, Susan Worley, Kelsey Mosley ,
<br /> Coby Kansen Austin, Angela Clapp , Raquelle Hawkins , Pamela Weiden, Denise Briggs , Rebekah
<br /> Rapoza ( * Members in Bold)
<br /> Absent: Charlos Banks , Megan Johnson, Jaime Lescinski , Dana Graves , Beverly Scarlett , Nick Allen,
<br /> Excused: Sherita Cobb , Matthew Hinton, Donna King , Lee Barnes , Meg McGurk
<br /> Welcome
<br /> The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Bernard Miles , and introductions .
<br /> Guest Speaker — Family Success Alliance ( Coby Kansen Austin & Angela Clapp)
<br /> About four years ago Orange County identified working on poverty as a priority and the Health
<br /> Department stepped up and said that education, housing , employment all affected the population level
<br /> downstream . The looked to the Harlem Children Zone model as a way to structure their approach .
<br /> The model follows children from cradle to college/career and is structured within " zones " . In order to
<br /> determine which zones to target, the Health Department looked at data on where Medicaid and
<br /> Housing Choice Voucher (for example) recipients lived and created an index of six zones where
<br /> families struggling to make ends meet would most likely live . An advisory council was appointed by
<br /> the county commissioners that worked with those six communities to identify a champion and then
<br /> selected two zones to work with . The two zones selected were : Zone 4 ( Gateway community to out
<br /> Hwy 70 east towards Durham County line) and Zone 6 (in-town Chapel Hill and Carrboro
<br /> encompassing some more affordable market rate apartments and public housing) . The first program
<br /> launched was a kindergarten readiness program that is 4 weeks and based at the elementary school for
<br /> rising kindergarteners with the first cohort starting four years ago . The next program launched was the
<br /> Navigator program which included hiring people from the community who had the lived experience of
<br /> struggling to make ends meet, had learned themselves how to navigate the systems , and already had
<br /> built trust and relationships within their respective community . The Navigators then started working
<br /> with the parents and families of the children in the readiness program . There are currently four cohorts
<br /> — kindergarten, first , second, and third graders . Even though the kids in the cohorts are elementary
<br /> school aged , the Navigators are working with the whole family which often includes older siblings .
<br /> Minutes Review and Approval
<br /> The Council reviewed the minutes from October 2018 . Carol McClelland motioned for minutes to be
<br /> approved and was seconded by Gayane Chambless . Motion carried unanimously .
<br /> Agency Roundtable
<br /> Wrenn House — Currently has one youth in care from Orange and has had a total of five . Just
<br /> completed federal monitoring and it went well with just some minor things that need to be addressed .
<br /> They are still working on the last of the needed renovations for the house and should be completed by
<br /> end of the fiscal year .
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