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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 . <br />