Item B: Public Safety Task Force Update

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job skills training, employment I&R, language classes, anger management, OED and high school diploma certification programs, and housing assistance for jail inmates and P&P offenders. Cost: $180,000 Results: Provide links to businesses, government and education. Focus classes on offenders' needs and provide training in skills that enable people to live and work successfully in the community and reduce re-offending. Contributes to an overall reduction in the re-offending rate. Peer Courts in Six Communities. Restoration of six Peer Courts in the following communities: Oakridge, Cottage Grove, Bethel/West Eugene, Mapleton/Florence, Fern Ridge, and Springfield" About 325 youth will participate. Cost: $50,000 Results: About 325 youth will go through peer court and about 65 percent will not re-offend. It is estimated that this amount of Peer Court activity is about 40 percent of the need. Contributes to an overall reduction in the re-offending rate. .. Goal-Provide Prevention Programs. Allocate substantial resources to effective programs that serve children, families, and at-risk youth. We must place a high priority on prevention programs and community awareness in order to reduce future crime" Healthv Start. Provide home visiting, parenting education and support, developmental screening, and connections to community and health services for first-time families identified at moderate or high risk of child maltreatment throughout Lane County. Cost: $190,000 Results: Funding would allow for an additional 308 families being screened (roughly a 20 percent increase) and an additional 55 families would be able to receive Intensive Home Visiting services. Part of a balanced public safety system. Mentorine:. Provide funding for a program focused on mentoring (structured one-to-one relationship focusing on the needs of the youth) for youth with an incarcerated parent Cost: $80,000 Results: Positive attitude towards school; quality of parent/youth interactions. Address the cycle of incarceration and anti-social behavior. Funding would provide 30 additional youth served per year. Part of a balanced public safety system. Communitv Mobilization. Coalitions. and Advocacv. Community mobilization is a successful strategy for decreasing youth drugs use and criminal behavior and is based on models from the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Department of Justice. Staff will provide support to communities to implement strategies to prevent substance abuse (especially meth). Cost: $70,000 Results: Staff at least two community mobilization efforts, in addition to the four currently funded. Part of a balanced public safety system. Suuport and Connections for Families. Employ a family team model for directing and planning comprehensive wrap-around services for families not served by Child Protective Services but for whom child abuse and neglect are a serious concern. Cost: $130,000 Executive Summary - Lane County Public Safety Task Force Final Report 19