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

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27 Our department received a$2.5 million grant to do campaigning around gun safety. There have been several meetings that Billy Lassiter has held and they have created a gun safety committee where they will be looking at different campaigns for media, social media, and billboards. What they found during the pandemic was that it was the highest period for gun purchases at any point in history and people were not educated about proper gun safety and storage. Many were being left unsecured in vehicles leading to vehicle break-ins and the guns would then end up on the streets. There is another committee within out department called RED—Racial and Ethnic Disparities. This came about from a national campaign to reduce disparities among minority youth within the juvenile justice system. It is actually part of our juvenile justice strategic plan and we are encouraging local JCPCs to look at local data as it relates to your county and consider forming a JCPC subcommittee and devising some local strategies. Crystal Lewis is our RED specialist and has all the RED data. If interested, she can come to a meeting and present information and data related to RED. (Members expressed interest in her coming to present, David will work on getting her on the schedule.) There is a program that began in Fayetteville about 6-7 years ago by the Fayetteville Police Department called EKG (Educating Kids on Gun violence) that has gained a lot of traction. The department is embracing the program and trying to get funding for it to be implemented statewide. There may be funding available coming to the JCPCs to replicate the program. The department would like to provide some baseline training to providers on YASL YASI is the new assessment form that juvenile court counselors are completing on youth. A YASI score is provided on referrals and providers are required to enter that in NCALLIES. The training would help providers under the YASI and how the score is determined, but providers would not be required to complete the YASI on their youth. In the coming months, you may want to review the JCPC Bylaws to see if any updates are needed. Announcements Orange Partnership, through Freedom House Recovery Center, was one of seven in the county at a community level to receive a SAMHSA grant. It is a five year grant that will bring about $1.8 million into our community to focus on things around mental health, nicotine misuse, and cannabis-related issues we are seeing with youth. WIOA NextGen program is accepting referrals to work with youth and young adults aged 16-24 who are interested in education, training, and employment. All youth must have an identified barrier, one of which being justice involvement. If you have any youth that are interested in these services,please refer them. Dispute Settlement Center is hosting monthly community listening circles that are still happening virtually for now.