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CONSIDERATION OF A GRANT APPLICATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,261,528 FOR THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - JUVENILE SERVICES (KDOC-JS) SFY15 FUNDING.
Presented by: Mark Masterson, Director, Sedgwick County Department of Corrections.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the application for the grant, and if awarded authorize acceptance of the grant and establishment of budget authority as provided in the financial considerations section of this request.
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Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: Sedgwick County began receiving Kansas Department of Corrections - Juvenile Services funding for local juvenile justice programming in 1998. In order to continue to receive grant funds, Sedgwick County must submit a SFY 2015 funding application for Prevention and Graduated Sanctions programs. The total award equals $3,261,528 ($2,970,201 graduated sanctions + $291,327 prevention). No grant match is required. The Sedgwick County Juvenile Corrections Advisory Board (Team Justice) approved this funding application on March 7, 2014. The grant application is due on or before May 1, 2014.
This grant funds the following programs:
Graduated Sanctions:
Juvenile Case Management - $1,518,273
Juvenile Intensive Supervision Program - $671,618
Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center - $780,310
Prevention:
D.A.'s Juvenile Intervention Program - $124,000
Detention Advocacy Service - $167,327
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: July 1, 2014
Grant period ends: June 30, 2015
Source of funding
Grant: $3,261,528
Required Match:
Required Cash Match:
Required In-Kind Match:
Other funding:
TOTAL SOURCES: $3,261,528
Uses of funding (Note: Include any Required Matches in your totals)
Operational costs: $3,261,528
Personnel: $2,694,935
Contractual services: $532,526
Operational supplies: $34,067
Equipment:$
Indirect administrative costs:$
Capital projects cost:$
TOTAL USES $3,261,528
Source of matching funds: N/A
Source of other funding: N/A
Budget Authority Adjustment: 33060-253, 33012-253, 33003-253
Personnel considerations: None
Expected measurable outcomes: The grant requires outcome information for prevention programs only.
Detention Advocacy Service:
Process Outcome: To increase by 1% (from 242 to 244) in SFY15, the number of minority and low-income youth in secure detention who receive case management services (146 youth) and short-
term intervention services (98 youth), as measured by program participation records maintained by Kansas Legal Services.
Process Outcome: In SFY15, Kansas Legal Services will provide continued legal representation to the conclusion of the legal process to 100% of youth who are accepted for case management or short term intervention services who do not already have appointed counsel (excluding those who refuse or require separate counsel), as measured by program records maintained by Kansas
Legal Services.
Behavioral Outcome: To increase by 1% (from 89% to 90%) in SFY15, the percentage of program participants who do not return to the Juvenile Detention Facility (JDF) during case management, as measured by JDF admission records.
Behavioral Outcome: To increase by 1% (from 95% to 96%) in SFY15, the percentage of program participants who do not return to the Juvenile Detention Facility (JDF) during continued legal representation, as measured by JDF admission records.
D.A.'s Juvenile Intervention Program:
Process Outcome: To serve 240 juvenile offenders in SFY15, as measured by program participation records maintained by the District Attorney's Office.
Behavioral Outcome: To maintain 95%, the percentage of program participants not charged with a new crime within 12 months after successfully completing the program, as measured by juvenile court records compiled by the Sedgwick County Department of Corrections.
Alternatives: If we do not submit a funding application for approval, we will not be able to receive these KDOC-JS funds.
Policy considerations: None
Legal considerations: The authority for this action is K.S.A. 19-101. A simple majority vote is required.