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Consider approving a Limited Support Agreement with Marie Detty Youth and Family Services, subject to approval by Marie Detty Youth and Family Services, and allocating an amount up to $100,000.00 from the 2019 PROPEL CIP under section A.4.B (2019 CIP Summer Youth Program Funding) to fund the Marie Detty Gang Intervention Program for FY 2025.
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INITIATOR: Mayor Stan Booker
STAFF INFORMATION SOURCE: Christine James, Planning Director
BACKGROUND: Marie Detty Youth and Family Services is a private non-profit agency with a mission to provide a continuum of care for the children, youth, and families of Southwest Oklahoma. This support agreement would specifically be used for Marie Detty's Gang Intervention Program. The Gang Intervention Program is designed to help develop life and career enhancing skills to avoid involvement in the criminal justice system through the following avenues:
Mentorship:
- Street outreach worker develops and maintains a relationship with the youth as well as the family through individual meetings, group meetings, social outings.
Career Development:
-Street outreach worker connect with each youth to seek employment in the community through face to-face applications as well as submitting applications online.
- Street outreach worker teaches youth interview skills, how to dress for interviews and the job, how to carry themselves with confidence and esteem.
Education Support:
- Street outreach worker helps youth set career and educational goals, supports and addresses needs to stay in school and graduate, offers benefits of college and/or trade school, helps with educational applications Life Skills Development:
- Street outreach worker teaches basic life skills, budgeting, encourage positive leisure activities, and helps youth study for driver's license.
Of the 23 youth in the program in FY 2022, 8 reoffended for a recidivism rate of 34.78%. 176 direct service hours were spent in direct service to these you...
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