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36 <br /> Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Meeting <br /> Friday, February 4, 2022 (12:00noon—2:00pm) <br /> Virtual Zoom Meeting <br /> Proposed Minutes <br /> Attendees: Sharron Hinton,Tami Pfeifer,Amanda Farris,Amy Fowler, Crista Collazo,Tina Sykes, <br /> Carol McClelland, Gayane Chambless, Donna King, Hathaway Pendergrass, Joy Clark, Susan <br /> Worley, Eric Johnson, Jon Berkeley, LaDanna Strong, Rachel Gessouroun, Kelsey Mosley, Lateef <br /> Mitchell, Kelly Hoskins, Toshina Wiggins, Rebekah Rapoza(*Members in bold) <br /> Absent: Megan Johnson,Luke Dennis, Blair Nell, Charlos Banks <br /> Excused: Sherita Cobb, Bernard Miles <br /> Welcome <br /> The meeting opened with a welcome from Chair, Sharron Hinton and introductions. <br /> Minutes Review and Approval <br /> The Council reviewed the minutes from December 2021. Amy Fowler motioned for minutes to be <br /> approved and was seconded by Carol McClelland. Motion carried unanimously. <br /> JCPC Business <br /> Monitoring Committee Update <br /> Amy Fowler reviewed Volunteers for Youth Teen Court and Community Service/Restitution. Strengths <br /> and benefits of Teen Court: keeps teens out of court while providing the type of insight you might gain <br /> from a court experience. Current Teen Court weakness low numbers of participants and inability to meet <br /> in person due to Covid. One other concern regarding budget, current expenditures less than projected due <br /> to planed expense to provide health insurance that has not occurred yet. They plan to remedy this situation <br /> by actually contracting for health insurance or if that does not work out they will make a budget revision <br /> and return those funds. Court Counselor gave very favorable reviews; in terms of flexibility and <br /> innovation. Court Counselor also gave satisfactory ratings,the only negative comment was that they had <br /> not received a monthly report for one participant but thought it was perhaps they had not had an intake <br /> yet. <br /> Regarding Community Service/Restitution, strengths are that this program can provide skills that prepare <br /> participants for their futures. Currently due to Covid,the number of participants are down and also <br /> participants are unable to do in-person community service. The program was innovative in providing <br /> home-based assignments that did lead to insights in their actions and improved critical thinking skills. <br /> Hoping that Covid subsides so that they can return to in-person community service. Also same concerns <br /> in regards to budget related to the expenditure, budgeted for health insurance that has not yet occurred. <br /> They do already have plans on how to remedy that. Court Counselors all provided satisfactory ratings and <br /> praised for their innovation in developing various projects for participants to complete. <br /> Carol McClelland monitored Dispute Settlement Center and Wrenn House. Both agencies have been long <br /> standing members of JCPC'in Orange County. They have both done a great job over the years with <br /> monitoring and budget compliance. Wrenn House got great feedback from the Court Counselors. <br /> Strengths: definitely welcoming environment, as evidence from funding request, making it better every <br /> year at every opportunity; homey setting, supportive, great rapport with clients. Weaknesses: temporary <br /> crisis settings, client is there a very short time so they cannot do all the work they would like to but <br /> continue to be a very valued resource. <br />