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

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Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council 64 Request for Proposals $60,181 30% February 23, 2023 Anticipated Annual Allocation Required Local Match Rate Date Advertised The Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) has studied the risk factors and needs of Juvenile Court involved youth in this county and hereby publishes this Request for Proposals. The JCPC anticipates funds from the NC Dept. of Public Safety Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the amount stated above to fund the program types specified below. Such programs will serve delinquent and at-risk youth for the state fiscal year 2023-2024 beginning on, or after, July 1, 2023. The use of these funds in this county require a local match in the amount specified above. The county can approve programs for 1 or 2 year funding awards, dependent on county approval and programs meeting all requirements. Based on identified needed programs and possible gaps in the service continuum, the following checked program types will be considered for funding: ® Mentoring Services ❑ Restitution/Community Service ❑ Services Addressing Problem Sexual Behavior ❑ Parent/Family Skill Building ❑ Teen Court—including ❑ Group Home Sentencing and Responsive Circles ® Interpersonal Skill Building ❑ Psychological Assessments ❑ Temporary Shelter Care ❑ Vocational Skills ❑ Family Counseling ❑ Runaway Shelter Care ❑ Experiential Skills ❑ Home Based Family Counseling ❑ Specialized Foster Care ❑ Tutoring/Academic Enhancement ❑ Individual/Group/Mixed ❑ Temporary Foster Care Counseling ❑ Mediation/Conflict Resolution — ❑ Substance Abuse Counseling ❑ Juvenile Structured Day including Truancy Mediation, Victim-Youth and Family Group Conferencin , Responsive Circles Proposed program services should target the following risk factors for delinquency or repeat delinquency: Indicators suggest youth coming to the attention of Juvenile Services are at moderate to high risk for re-offending. Youth are generally age 12-18. Indicators suggest youth are using/abusing substances, exhibit anger management issues, run away from home/placement, have moderate to serious school behavior problems, associate with peers who lack pro-social behaviors and are delinquent. Due to the diversity of Orange County, the JCPC is particularly interested in funding programs that offer culturally appropriate services with accommodations for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) youth and their families. Proposed services should address the following concerns as reported in the Youth Assessment Screening Instrument(YASI): Peer Domain: Youth are in need of development of prosocial peer relationships. Indicators suggest youth have some association with and/or regularly associate with delinquent peers. Individual Domain: Indicators suggest youth are victims of abuse/neglect. There is a strong need for individualized mental health and substance use/abuse evaluations and treatment. Family Domain: Indicators show that youth have been kicked out of their home and/or run away from home. Parents have marginal or inadequate supervision skills, and substance abuse/mental health are areas that need to be addressed. School Domain: Indicators suggest youth having moderate to serious behavioral problems at school resulting in receiving out of school suspensions at a high rate presenting ethnic disparities with low academic functioning. Applicants are being sought that are able to address items below: 1. Program services compatible with research that are shown to be effective with juvenile offenders. 2. Program services are outcome-based. 3. The program has an evaluation component. 4. Program services detect gang participation and divert individuals from gang participation. 5. Awareness of and sensitivity to Racial Ethnic Disparity that exists in the County. 6. Programs are encouraged to provide effective programming that includes restorative justice practices. Only local public agencies, 501c3 non-profit corporations and local housing authorities will be considered for funding.