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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting <br />Friday, August 2, 2019 (12:00noon – 2:00pm) <br />Hillsborough Commons – 113 Mayo Street <br />Hillsborough, NC <br /> <br />Proposed Minutes <br />Attendees: Amanda Farris, Maren Hardin, Kysha Thompson, Stephanie Jones, Gayane Chambless, <br />Jay Cole, Beverly Scarlett, Sharorn Hinton, Carol McClelland, Tami Pfeifer, Susan Worley, Val <br />Hanson, Lia Kaz, Rebekah Rapoza (*Members in bold) <br /> <br />Absent: Megan Johnson, Tina Sykes, Penny Rich, Nick Allen, Lee Barnes <br /> <br />Excused: Sherita Cobb, Peggy Hamlett, Bernard Miles, Matthew Hinton, Donna King, Meg McGurk <br /> <br />Welcome <br />The meeting opened with a welcome from Vice Chair, Amanda Farris, and introductions. <br /> <br />Minutes Review and Approval <br />The Council reviewed the minutes from June 2019. Quorum was not present; June minutes approval will <br />be put on October’s agenda. <br /> <br />Agency Roundtable <br />Dispute Settlement Center – They have 6 new youth and 3 open referrals. They are in conversation with <br />some schools to start offering services and get direct referrals from them. They are no longer doing peer <br />circles but instead are focusing on an accountability process. Question was asked about whether <br />transportation was a barrier for some students. In the past, when they did Family Table and Peer Circles it <br />was hard to get everyone to one location, but now that the focus has shifted away from the group format, <br />they are able to meet the youth wherever is convenient for them (school, JJ, library, etc.). <br />Volunteers for Youth – Nicole has left but they have already hired her replacement, Steven Rodriguez. He <br />just moved here from Oregon after graduating from college and has some similar lived experiences as <br />many of the youth they work with. So far this year they have served 32 in Community Service and 22 in <br />Teen Couth. With it being the summer, there have been many projects available to the youth, one of <br />which being a landscape beautification project at the Juvenile Court Counselors office. <br />Boomerang – They are working with a few agencies and programs during the summer when school’s out <br />to help youth with career exploration and development of soft skills. They are excited to be opening a <br />satellite location at the Department of Social Services Orange Works building in an effort to better serve <br />students from orange County Schools who are suspended. They have just hired one new staff and are <br />interviewing for a second. <br /> <br />JJ Data Report/Update <br />No update again this month as their data system is still being updated and they are unable to run reports at <br />this time. Amanda will update the Council with all missed months of data as soon as it’s available again. <br />However, she was able to pull some info from their log of complaints received. June: 8 juveniles, 16 <br />complaints; July: 8 juveniles, 22 complaints. Most of the complaints came from law enforcement. <br /> <br />JCPC Business <br />Conflict of Interest form – This needs to be completed by all board members on an annual basis. Forms <br />are being passed around; please complete and give to Rebekah before you leave. <br />JCPC Workplan/Calendar – This document lays out all the work of the JCPC by month. It provides a <br />summary of what items are due when and what tasks the JCPC should be focusing on each month.