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Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2023 Juvenile Justice Youth Service Program (JJYSP) grant awarded to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC) through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to continue the A Step Up Program that helps address youth involved in adolescent domestic battery within their homes, including an emergency appropriation of $47,125 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 SAO.
• The JJC received state grant funds in SFY 2021 to implement a JJYSP, Step Up Program 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.
• The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has been awarded a 12-month JJYSP
Grant in the amount of $47,125 from the IJJC through the IDHS for the period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
• The SAO will use the grant funding to continue the 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 outreach materials.
• The source of funding for this JJYSP project is 100 percent grant funds; no County funding is required.
• If funding for these positions and services end, and new funding is not secured, the positions and services will be eliminated.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office has applied for and has been awarded a SFY23 JJYSP Grant from the Illinois JJC through the Illinois DHS, for the period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, in the amount of $47,125; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office will use this funding to continue the 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 $47,125 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; and
WHEREAS, if funding for this program ends, and new funding is not secured, 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 an emergency appropriation in the amount of $47,125 in state grant funding and offsetting revenue is hereby authorized for the JJYSP grant as detailed in the attached chart of accounts; 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; and
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 award.
DATED, at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, on September 13, 2022.