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a. Approve Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Monterey County Probation Department and the City of Seaside for services at the Youth Seaside Resource Center funded by a CalGRIP grant for the period July 1, 2015 through December 1, 2017; and
b. Approve and authorize the Chief Probation Officer to execute the MOU and Amendments to the MOU as required by the grant in case of extension.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Monterey County Probation Department and the City of Seaside for services at the Youth Seaside Resource Center funded by a CalGRIP grant for the period July 1, 2015 through December 1, 2017; and
b. Approve and authorize the Chief Probation Officer to execute the MOU and Amendments to the MOU as required by the grant in case of extension.
SUMMARY:
The City of Seaside is the recipient of a CalGRIP grant to implement a “one-stop” Seaside Youth Resource Center (SYRC), modeled after the successful Silver Star Resource Center (SSRC) operating in Salinas. The SYRC will be collaboration of agencies that will provide prevention and intervention services for at-risk, on probation, and gang-involved youth and their families in the City of Seaside.
DISCUSSION:
The program’s goal is to provide a wide range of services to at-risk, on probation, and gang-involved youth and their families to reduce risk factors for violence and increase protective factors to reduce delinquent/criminal and gang involvement among the youth served by the diversion project.
The over-arching strategy guiding Seaside’s anti-gang efforts is the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)’s Comprehensive Gang Model, with emphasis on community mobilization, opportunities provision, social intervention, and organizational change and development, which have been limited in the past.
SYRC is targeting youth aged 10 to 18, attending middle and high schools, and who are at-risk, on probation, gang-involved, truant, not doing well academically, and/or coming to the attention of police, and their parents. The Seaside Youth Resource Center will house a number of evidence-based programs and strategies for youth diversion, family support and parenting, mentoring, tutoring and job preparation, and alcohol and drug prevention.
Probation will participate in the project by providing a weekly presence, thus enabling closer contact with youth on probation, their families, and school teachers and counselors.
Formal approval of this MOU was delayed pending approval by the City of Seaside. That approval was received on November 23, 2015.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
The MOU has been approved by County Counsel as to legal form.
FINANCING:
The City of Salinas has been awarded $440,000 per year, for a total of $1,320,000 for the 3-year cycle of January 01, 2015 through December 31, 2017.
Probation will provide an in-kind match valued at $24,405 annually, equal to 0.20% of salary and benefits for the Probation Officer assigned to the project.
There is no additional cost to the County General Fund with the recommended action.
Prepared by: Marisa Fiori, Management Analyst III, ext. 1100
Approved by: Marcia Parsons, Chief Probation Officer, ext. 3913
Attachments: MOU CalGRIP Seaside Resource Center