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Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022 Juvenile Justice Youth Service Program (JJYSP) grant awarded to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC) through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to implement A Step Up Program that helps address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes, including an emergency appropriation of $50,485 in grant funds.
Staff Summary
• The Lake County Juvenile Justice Council (JJC) is a collaborative effort of many government and private agencies addressing juvenile justice procedures and programs and is run by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office.
• The JJC proposed to IJJC to implement a JJYSP, Step Up, in Lake County to help address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes. Step Up is an acronym for Stop-Think-Evaluate-Plan-Use-Patience. Through the Step Up Program, youth and their parent(s) work with social workers for more than 21 weeks in group therapy sessions. The sessions utilize a restorative justice and Circumplex Family Systems Model to focus on accountability, empathy, communication, but also restoring relationships and establishing appropriate authority within the home.
• Anticipated outcomes for providing the Step Up program as a developmentally appropriate, individualized support and services option for these youth relate to skill attainment, the use of effective conflict reduction and communication strategies, improved mental health, and need for police intervention. All of which will improve the juvenile recidivism rate for these youth.
• The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has been awarded a 12-month JJYSP Grant in the amount of $55,740 from the IJJC through the IDHS.
• The grant term is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.
• The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use the grant funding to implement a Step Up Program in Lake County by subcontracting with OMNI Youth Services, which is the Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) agency in Lake County. OMNI Youth will provide two social workers to administer the program with the youth and their families. Funding will also be used for grant administration, program supplies, brochures and training to implement the program.
• The source of funding for this JJYSP project is 100 percent grant funds; no match funding is required.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has applied for and has been awarded a SFY22 JJYSP Grant from the Illinois JJC through the Illinois DHS, for the time period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, in the amount of $50,485; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use this funding to implement a Step Up program in Lake County that helps address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their home; and
WHEREAS, the JJYSP Grant is in the amount of $50,485 and it is necessary to appropriate this amount; and
WHEREAS, the State’s Attorney’s Office recommends that the Chairman of the County Board, the State’s Attorney and the Treasurer be authorized to execute the necessary documents to accept and execute the grant.
WHEREAS, If program funding is reduced or eliminated, commensurate expense reductions or new revenue increases shall be made, or if necessary the program will be eliminated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the JJYSP Grant awarded to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office by the IJJC through the IDHS is hereby accepted; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that $50,485 is hereby authorized for the SFY22 JJSP grant program in expenditure and revenue accounts to be determined by the Controller; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the State’s Attorney shall serve as the project director for the program, and accurate records of all necessary grant compliance requirements shall be kept by the State’s Attorney’s Office.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Board, the Lake County State's Attorney, and the Lake County Treasurer are hereby authorized to execute the necessary documentation in order to accept the grant renewal.
DATED, at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, on July 13, 2021.