MINUTES, 11-20-12 - Public Safety Committee (w DCYF)

Public Safety Committee Meeting 

MINUTES - November 20^th, 2012  

(Meeting with DCYF) 

Hosted by the Fillmore Neighborhood Association 

City Official Present: 

 

• Maximilian Rocha, LCSW, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, Department of Children, Youth & Their Families

Action Items:

a. Schedule a meeting with the Mayor’s Director of Violence Prevention and CRN to learn more about and to discuss the creation of a Safety Plan for Community Violence in Fillmore.  

b. Participate and possibly coordinate the creation of a community survey to be distributed at events in the Western Addition during the holidays including Fostering and the AAACC Toy Give Away.

c. Reach out to CBOs providing services in the Western Addition and applying for the DCYF grant to insert an outreach/chaperone piece into their submittal. 

General Meeting Discussion:

1. DCYF Consists of 3 Units (Grants, Policy and Finance)
2. The Mayor’s Interrupt, Predict & Organize (IPO) Initiative
3. A bid is out for DCYF due Jan. 17, 2014.
4. Does DCYF concentrate on technical or program when monitoring
5. Housing complexes don’t have youth spaces and young people are being pushed into the streets.
6. Ambassadors
7. Community Schools

General Meeting Discussion

1) DCYF Consists of 3 Units 

• Grants Units (contracts, monitoring..)
• Policy Planning (3 year cycle, funding road map…)
• Finance (fiscal, IT) 

Collaborate with Juvenile Justice, DPH and First Five. 

DCYF is lead convener for Juvenile Justice, DPH and other Joint ventures.  

Youth Violence Prevention Initiative: Local Action Plan (Planning Tool, what departments are doing…) 

Plan was endorsed by Juvenile Justice Coordination Council     

Circle of Care – Prevention to Intervention.  

Juvenile Probation – Detention 

DPH – Placement 

2) The Mayor’s Interrupt, Predict & Organize (IPO) Initiative

Diana Oliva-Aroche, Director of Violence Prevention Services to organize the community and City agencies in the Mayor’s Interrupt, Predict & Organize (IPO) initiative; (Diana and Jasmine) 

IPO (Paul Henderson – Interrupt, Predict (IP)

• (IP)
• Interrupt – Law enforcement to interrupt.  
• Predict – Probation Department knows of people getting released, potentially do violent crime.  Probation keep an eye on the street. 

Diana (O part)

• Organizing social services.   

Diana (Street Violence Reduction Initiative Meeting) SVRT 

• What can potentially be happening?
• Do we need to do more intervention, talk to friends so they don’t  retaliate.
• We need some community organizers

Can we get notes from SVRT meeting (Get in touch with Diana)

Is the CBO Taskforce still in effect / Controls Office?  Still on the Controllers website but not active. 

The Controllers Off has a set of findings.   

3) A bid is out for DCYF due Jan. 17^th.   

Is there a contract incentive if it is locally based?

Not the best grant writers so they don’t go to top.

Helping small non-profit that are existing. 

Think broad and mindful to existing groups provide mentoring for small organizations.

Funding limitations.  

TARC 

DCYF sends money to DPH and leverage money from the state. 

West Side provided parental support if relevant to the kids.  

Bayview Association for Youth, was there no other W.A. agency that bid for contract.   

Bayview Association for Youth is located at Wallenberg.  

4) Does DCYF concentrate on technical or program when monitoring? 

Does DCYF monitor the paper work or come out to see what is going on?  

2 main ways.  Program side or organizations and infrastructure (financing, organizational structure) 

% of students showing up.  

How many clients meeting dosage amount.  (Appointments.) 

DCYF 300 sites (8 people to visit 300 sites)

City does the monitoring.   

CBO funded by multiple agencies, a group of agencies make a visit together.

Red flag agency.   

CBO Taskforce

Example Ella Hil Hutch 

It sounds like DCYF rely heavily on paper work.   Anyone can put on a show in one day.   

Set rankings, based on observation are you meeting safety requirements.   

Youth-to-adult relationships.  

Violence prevention  

Case management standards.   

An organization may not be doing case management but mentoring.   

Annual report performance. 

Need services to help some of the sponsors to build the capacity.

Treat non-profits like a small businesses.   

You get knocked out of the box because you are small 

Where is the technical assistance.   

Compass Point is good, but they charge. 

CBOs work together for a shared accountant.   

5) Complexes don’t have youth spaces and young people are being pushed into the streets   

The complexes don’t have youth spaces; young people are pushed out into the streets and then become a police matter.   

Residence realize it is a cost thing.  We have spent $500,000 into security services. 

Revitalizing the center instead of paying for security services.   

HUD and housing.   

$500,000 on security  

$200,000 - $400,000 on security. 

They get more bang for security cameras then security guards.  

False sense of security.   

Housing sites are transitioning.   

People hanging out on the corner are not always in a position to be positive adult mentors.   

Service providers that work with the young people.   

Generations of violence, trauma takes 3-4 generations to erase. 

Are we going to bear fruit down the line 

DCYF funds are limited up to 18, up to 24. 

6) Ambassador  

New grant that is out.  Talk to all the after school programs.   

A portion dedicated to street outreach.  The need and why it is important.  Allow for those agencies to get funded to allow that agency to get funded.  

That is not the CRN or not just one agency out on the street. 

Outreach and Ambassadors – Days to do outreach.  Days to be in the street. 

 

There is a bunch of people. 

7) Community Schools

Housing services at school and strengthening family at school. 

Huge set back in community schools.