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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.
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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 ...
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