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CRIME PREVENTION AND CONTROL COMMISSION
To create and execute an evidence-based, accountable, and efficient public safety strategy to reduce crime and
delinquency in Denver.
YOUTH COMMITTEE MAY 8, 2009
AGENDA Discussion / Summary Action Items
HANDOUTS Assessment Overview and Schedule
ATTENDANCE Sarah Boylan, Paul Callanan, Shawn Cohn, Michelle Cook, Danielle Dyvig,
Cornelius Foxworth, Vanessa Fenley, Pat Hendrick, Alfredo Hernandez, Johnnie
Williams
Staff: Regina Huerter, Kristin Hyser
MINUTES April minutes approved.
UPDATES Gang Reduction Initiative to Denver (GRID)
Update on GRID Transition to Safe City
Working to institutionalize the GRID within the City. Progress being made at Send thank you to
moving GRID to reside at Safe City. Striving to have transition completed and Councilman Linkhart for
staff (new hire) on board by July 1. Also working on shoring up Outreach efforts his role in advocating for
by providing funds for Outreach staff. CPCC remain in an advisory role. the GRID formalization.
Update on Policy Steering Committee
Invitations have been sent out to Policy Steering Committee. Initial meeting to be
held on June 10. Safe City, CPCC,
Outreach and Shawn
Outreach and Impact Teams meet to determine
Convening Intervention Team (systems people working on suppression) who meeting agenda for
works with the Impact Team (community representatives). Intervention Team Steering Committee.
convened in Westwood to be followed by seating of Intervention Team in NE
Park Hill. Montbello continues to organize themselves with the assistance of
Outreach. They have convened their own Impact Team. Send out Impact and
Intervention Team
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GRID Assessment overview.
Using the Comprehensive Gang Model, moving forward to create assessment
process and tools.
Community Demographics will be collected by CPCC staff.
Law Enforcement to be collected by CPCC staff, Dept. of Safety/Gang
Unit Analyst, CBI, GRASP, schools. Send out Assessment
School (students and staff) data to be collected by school staff, Healthy overview to committee.
Kids survey, GRASP. Outreach had designed an assessment process
including policy review relating to gangs, graffiti assessment, assessment
of gang-involved youth, work with administration and staff including
SRO. Need to continue to collect and compile with other assessment data
sets.
Community perceptions (community leaders, residents, parents, agency
staff, gang-involved youth) to be collected by Community mapping –
UCD, GRASP Impact Teams, Probation, Safe City, DA Diversion, Omni
(focus groups).
Community resources to be assessed by CPCC staff, GRASP, Impact
Teams.
How does group want to proceed? Need to determine the goal (i.e. reduce
gang membership/recruitment, working with gang members coming out
of the system) and narrow target population. What is the ultimate goal?
GRID would be successful if…
OVERARCHING GOALS: reduce youth violence, Increase networking and
alternatives
1. Youth Violence 2. Alternative 3. Identifiers/Prevention
PREVENTION:
Reduce recruitment/first involvement
Create network of early identifiers and concrete alternatives.
Build network and capacity of gang services and resources.
Prevent youth from going further into the system
INTERVENTION:
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Reduce youth violence through higher level of expectation, accountability
and consciousness.
> Stop violence (particularly around handguns) on the street.
> Reduce crime, violence and victimization in communities.
> Reduce level of violent crime by gang members in target
neighborhoods (need to identify how to measure).
Assist with transition of gang-involved youth from the system back into
the community (provide skills, alternatives).
Create alternatives (i.e. jobs)
Assessment population: Population is going to vary by target area. Assessment Send assessment
needs to be refined by area. Focus on siblings and generational. information collected to
Issues and population need to be community defined. Use Impact Teams to date to the committee.
identify and prioritize goals and objectives.
Explore prioritizing gangs to be targeted in a community.
Discussion around issue of guns. Pursue conversation with division directors and
US Attorney’s Office. Possible to create small team to follow up on burglaries
when guns are stolen by looking at clients from the area. Work with
families/siblings of kids in the system from target areas.
Pat, Cisco, Johnnie, Paul,
GRID will convene an Assessment Team. Gang Analyst, Omni to
serve as the Assessment
Sustainability Team.
JAG Recovery grant submitted to expand GRID Outreach and Green Job
Training and Placement. Partnership between GRID, Mile High Youth Corps,
Juvenile Probation, OED and Metro Denver Partners.
MCHD Trauma grant will be submitted next week to facilitate trauma training.
Juvenile Probation also submitting JAG grants related to gang activity.
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Youth Committee
Juvenile Assessment Center meeting to be held on May 26-27 at Roslyn Center.
Meeting will focus on process of current system of juvenile, 191J and state.
Minority Overrepresentation (MOR) and Disproportionate Minority Contact
(DMC) meeting will be convened in June. Summit focusing on MOR and DMC
through Judicial. The judicial meeting will be more focused on child welfare.
CCJJ: SB286 calling for CCJJ to focus on sentencing. Juvenile focus will be put
on hold until mid-2010.
Truancy: Mayor’s Office of Education and Children housing Creative Options
which is looking at truancy. Creative Options has created a pilot program around
restorative justice. Creative Options seeking grant from CPCC (approx. $8,000 -
$15,000) to support implementation of restorative justice sessions. Workshop
includes: legal aspects of school attendance, facilitated discussions around
improving attendance, overview of local resources, write and sign contracts.
Committee wants to look at creating a policy body looking at all juvenile related
initiatives (CPCC, SB94, DCP, Creative Options, etc.) – could take the form of
commission to reduce duplication.
McArthur Intercept Model: CPCC Mental Health Committee using Intercept
model to examine all entry points into system. Need to develop intercept model
for juveniles. In late summer, early fall, bringing in GAINS Center to facilitate
the discussion of how the model could be applied to youth. Need to complete
some preliminary data collection to begin to identify resources and gaps.
Training: Dr. Nicoletti to provide training on boundary probing behaviors to Send out data
begin to develop a common culture/language among groups working with youth. collection/inventory
Audience to include staff from Gilliam, 191J, SB94, Parks and Rec, DHA, Boys sheets to various
and Girls Club, Probation, DPS, etc. Begin with large training and move into agencies.
agency specific training if needed. Committee wants us to pursue the organizing
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of this training. Training needs to include Judges and Magistrates. Training
would be structured as a train the trainer.
CPCC Funding Review:
CPCC currently paying for portion of GRID, PACE, Mental Health Coordination
Services at 191J, Omni Juvenile System survey. What does the Committee want
to continue to support or are there new initiatives?
Some requests coming to CPCC include:
Truancy: Work with Heather MacGillvary to submit funding application to CPCC
focusing on evaluation piece of Creative Options truancy model.
PACE: CPCC has supported for the past three years. PACE has made request for
JAG funds, looking for additional funds through grants and collaborative
partnerships. Currently DPS pays for one site and CPCC pays for one site (each
site costs approx. $109,000). PACE does not have a commitment from DPS.
CPCC is supportive of the program but concerned about long term sustainability.
191J Mental Health Case Coordination: CPCC has supported for the past three
years. Discussion looked at how to make sure funds are best used. Possibility for
it to be moved under Safe City (needs further discussion). If so, look at
opportunity to fund mental health assessment under the Assessment Center.
All programs have benefit. CPCC is very outcome driven and focused on
sustainability of programs.
NEXT MEETING June 12, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. (GRID), 10:30 a.m. – noon (Youth)
Omni Research, 899 Logan, 6th Floor
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