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Posted: July 26, 2024
Rapid City
Agenda Item Summary

Agenda Item Ref. #: LF073124-13

Agenda Item Title:

Authorize Mayor and City Finance Officer to Sign a 2-Year High-Risk Intervention Agreement with the Children’s Home Society (CHS) in the Amount of $59,349.11 Annually, which will Provide Collaborative Support to Youth and Families in Crisis and in Need of Specialized Case Management Services in Rapid City

Origination Group:
Legal & Finance Committee
Origination Meeting Date:
07/31/2024
City Council Hearing Date:
08/05/2024
Petitioner:
Police Department
Staff Contact:
Jennifer Utter & Jamie Kirsch (RCPD)
Location:
Council Chambers
Agenda Item Summary:
This agreement will be supported with funding through the previously Council-approved Community Violence and Intervention and Prevention (CVIPI) Grant secured in October 2022. These funds are being reallocated to support High Risk Intervention activities as identified in the original grant agreement.

This contract confirms the availability of the Children’s Home Society (CHS) to provide a dedicated case manager, who specializes in intensive case management services, to serve law enforcement referred youth via the RCPD Community Engagement Division. This case manager will not be a benefited City employee, but will work directly for CHS and will be co-located at the RCPD Uptown Mall Substation for at least 30 hours per week at a rate of $28.53 per hour or no more than $4,946.00 per month.

CHS has been a long-term partner to RCPD, providing support for forensic interviews, family crisis management and training resources. Specifically, CHS’s Family Engagement Services (FES) program—which provides intense, in-home case management services for youth and families at risk of system involvement, community navigation, parent skill development, 24/7 crisis management support and tailored case plans—has been a huge asset to the RCPD Community Engagement Division.

A co-located CHS case manager dedicated to serving families referred by law enforcement officers would help us to prevent further escalation of youth into the criminal justice system and support our violence intervention impact goals of expanding and enhancing community violence intervention programming with youth, developing a data-driven collaborative community violence intervention and trauma prevention plan and increase the number of community partners operating in violence-affected neighborhoods with the goal of reducing violent crime.

Funding Source & Fiscal Impact (if applicable):

Funding Cost Center
Is Funding Budgeted?:
Budgeted

Recommendations:

Origination Recommendation Action:
Approve

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