Public
Safety Committee Meeting
MINUTES
- November 20th, 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:
- DCYF Consists of 3 Units (Grants, Policy and Finance)
- The Mayor’s Interrupt, Predict & Organize (IPO) Initiative
- A bid is out for DCYF due Jan. 17, 2014.
- Does DCYF concentrate on technical or program when monitoring
- Housing complexes don’t have youth spaces and young people are being pushed into the streets.
- Ambassadors
- 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. 17th.
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.