Agenda - 06-20-2023; 8-g - JCPC Certification and County Plan for FY 2023-2024

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22 Q: Did the truancy referrals come in before school let out? Do any of the families have a language barrier? What are the next steps if non-JJ referrals are not able to be contacted? Are there any means to communicate with the schools when their referrals cannot be reached? A: Lateef mentioned that he is able to help make contact with any of the truancy referrals. He can also help bring the group together to discuss what next steps may be and help problem solve. Reintegration Support Network—We had some difficulties with our program agreement opportunity and just got it signed ten days ago. We did not receive any referrals during the month of July when the program agreement first became official. Megan and Amanda met a couple weeks ago to discuss the referral process and what it would look like. At this time they are open for business and have been receiving referrals from counselors for a number of years. The conversation they are having internally is how best to engage a participant that is referred and they are still trying to get acquainted with community partners. Most of the difficulties with engagement has not been from youth, but with parents seeing the need and benefit for services. They would love lots of help and guidance and direction, cooperation and collaboration. They have also had a staffing change and are in the midst of hiring for a new participant program manager. An announcement will be going out at the end of next week to community partners. Volunteers for Youth—They have gotten off to a fairly good start so far with 12 kids being served in Community Service and three in Teen Court. We are a little concerned about referrals to Teen Court but there will be a gathering of SROs in Orange County that they have been invited to and that will hopefully get Teen Court back on their radar. Volunteers for Youth will be sponsoring an equity training on September 21 from 10a-2:30p at United Church in Chapel Hill. Susan will send out an invitation with all the details, including how to register; it will be free to JCPC members. Q: Who is sponsoring the training? A: Educational Equity Institute from Charlotte. Wrenn House—For the month of July they had one youth. Their target is to serve 10 youth from Orange County. Haven House is doing some reorganization and Kelsey will be stepping down from the Director of Wrenn House; she had been overseeing Wrenn House, street outreach program, and transitional living program, which are three of their larger programs. They have hired a full-time, dedicated staff to oversee just Wrenn House. Kelsey will attend the next meeting and will introduce the new staff. Q: What was DJJ the referral source for the referral received in July? A: Yes. JJ Data Update May— 14 juveniles at intake (9 were RTA); 45 delinquent complaints; 2 undisciplined complaints; 4 school based complaints; 37 complaints approved for court; 8 complaints diverted; 2 complaints closed; 7 juvenile placed in detention for 104 days; 14 days used at Wrenn House; and 1 YDC admissions. June— 12 juveniles at intake (2 were RTA); 24 delinquent complaints; 1 undisciplined complaints; 5 school based complaints; 21 complaints approved for court; 2 complaints diverted; 2 complaints closed; 5 juvenile placed in detention for 55 days; 24 days used at Wrenn House; and 0 YDC admissions. To provide some more information on the detention information, the youth that was admitted to the YDC was in detention for a period of time prior to court and then while awaiting a YDC bed, a bond over youth that had some serious offenses for both of those months, and another youth with some serious offenses that ended up being admitted to a YDC in another county. They also served seven youth on electronic monitoring this year.