Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: John T. Keene, Chief Probation Officer
Subject: Agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula and Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc., through Juvenile Probation Camp Funding to provide services to at risk youth
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the President of the Board of Supervisors to execute:
A) An agreement with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula to provide evidence-based family-centered strategies as well as Project LEARN youth-centered strategies and family nights for the term of July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2020, in an amount not to exceed $308,969 through the Juvenile Probation Camp Funding (JPCF); and
B) An agreement with Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc. to provide Law and Leadership Training Programs through courses that offer life skills education focusing on asset building and cognitive-behavioral change. This is to be followed by intensive case management services for youth's personal transformation to support efforts targeted at decreasing recidivism behavior in youth offenders for the term of July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2020, in an amount not to exceed $254,980 through the Juvenile Probation Camp Funding (JPCF).
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BACKGROUND:
The Juvenile Probation and Camps Funding (JPCF) was developed in 2005 to fund services and programs targeting at-risk youth, juvenile offenders, and their families. Services funded through JPCF include prevention/early intervention in the community as well as through detention in the juvenile hall and the camps.
In 2016, under the guidance of the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council a five year Local Action Plan (LAP) was developed and replaced the LAP created in 2011. The planning process of the LAP included key information interviews, focus groups and a survey completed by staff at community based organizations. The new LAP identified five areas of need fo...
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