Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: John T. Keene, Chief Probation Officer
Subject: Agreement with Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc., StarVista, and Urban Services YMCA of San Francisco 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 the following agreements through the Juvenile Probation Camp Funding (JPCF):
A) An agreement with Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Inc. to provide continuous Law Program curriculum and 10-months individualized leadership programs for the term of July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $267,824; and
B) An agreement with StarVista to provide a comprehensive school-based program called Strengthen Our Youth in which clinicians work with at-risk youth, school staff, and provide parental engagement for the term of July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $770,700; and
C) An agreement with Urban Services YMCA of San Francisco to provide both an on-campus violence prevention program called the School Safety Advocates Program for middle schools, which provides early intervention services to at-risk youth at the middle school level for the term of July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $712,027.
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BACKGROUND:
The Juvenile Probation and Camp Funding (JPCF) was developed in 2005 to provide a stable funding source for services and programs targeting at-risk youth and their families. Services funded through JPCF include a complementary set of interventions along a continuum from prevention and early intervention, to more intensive intervention within the community.
The San Mateo County Probation Department has funded multiple services such as academic support, school safety advocates, group and individual counselling, case management, substance abuse preve...
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