Youth (under 15)

During this reporting period, we worked with new site contacts to rethink/rework their goals given the length of time that has passed since they applied for the grant and essentially rewrite their implementation plan. We've also provided support with other PREA-related questions that have come up and answered questions about the grant process.
We continue to work on the grantees implementation plan.

The annual PRC Partners Convening was held virtually on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 from 1-5pm ET. The goal of the meeting is to touch base with PRC Partners, share brief updates on Partners? work, and provide updates on some significant activities, projects, and happenings at the PREA Resource Center. Also to gain input from partners about the anticipated 2023 20th Anniversary Conference. Those in attendance were:
Brenda Smith - American University's Washington College of Law.
B Brown Consulting ? Bernadette Brown
JDI ? Linda McFarlane, Tara Graham

Cases responded to and closed during the reporting period June - December 2022 were 420

In this webinar, staff from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the CSG Justice Center will provide a brief overview of the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) grant requirements. CSG Justice Center staff will explain the training and technical assistance opportunities and the other resources available to grantees. A presentation from FY19 JMHCP Van Buren County, Michigan, and FY19 County of Pitt, North Carolina, grant team members will be provided along with a question-and-answer portion at the end of the session.

Assisted the PREA Coordinator through phone coaching and answering PREA-related questions. Also assisted through reviewing PREA policies and providing feedback.

The LA Probation PREA team was fully engaged with the JDI coaches this grant period. The coaches were able to able to provide assistance by reviewing several trainings for LACPD. The coaches were also able to help facilitate meetings with medical and mental health partners and the PREA team at LACPD.
Additionally, JDI coaches provided sample documents and trainings to LACPD and provided edits to the trainings LACPD developed during this reporting period.

King County was fully engaged with the JDI coaches this reporting period and included both the main contact for the grant, Dawn Breen, and the facility Chief of Operations Lisa Hymes-Davis on calls. The coaches assisted with a review and edits of the staffing plan and of youth education. The coaches have been able to assist King County in the process of applying for a no cost extension as well as in reviewing their plans for staff and youth education.

The assigned coaches at TMG were changed during this review period. The new coach reported that it appears that the grantee maintained regular contact with TMG consultant, Wendy Leach during Q1 2021. Based on the new coaches' conversations with the grantee it seems that she stayed in contact with TMG consultant, Wendy Leach during the quarter. The new coach was not able to identify any PREA implementation assistance or outside TTA that was necessary.
The coach provided the agency with feedback on actions related to PREA standards 115.317 and 115.376 in June 2021.

The assigned coaches at TMG were changed during this review period. The previous coach, Mara Dodson provided a juvenile risk assessment tool review during Q1 2021. No outside TTA appears to have been utilized during the quarter. The newly assigned coach assisted the agency in vetting and selecting their subgrantee for the staffing plan evaluation strategy.
The coach assisted the agency with some questions related to staffing plan implementation and assisted in development of their standards for subgrantee selection related to their staffing plan grant strategy.

Cases responded to and closed during the reporting period January - June 2021 were 469