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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.08.08 - 11198EM"a,:,,701.N..G. RESOLUTION RESOLUTION: 85231 BY: ;rALT, HUMAN RESOURCES COTYMITTEE, J.'0T2.Y CHAIRPEP.SO. IN a,00 SkiLuMAN GRIHY 198 ',-86 i76E Oi',KLAND COUNTY BOARD OF CCMISSIONFS Mr, C i rl .;:ann, Ladies and Gentlemen: WK2 16S, since 1967, the Skillman Foundation has provided :q.• to the 0 -11 ,1 County Probate Court to provide primary for family camps at Camp Oakland, Inc„ Orford, Hichiplih. for mothers and youngsters who would not otherwise be able to have such an experience 6nd for specialty staff within Probate Court; AS, the Oakland County Probate Court wishes to submit sin application in the o f $165,145 to renew said I. grant 'ft."-r the 1985 -0,8 pxant vepr, with a stipulation that the I grant be expended solely in support of the programs 9 purposes, and budget data in the Probate Court 's proposal; and WHEREAS, the Probate Court deems it essential to have these funds to continue the above -named programs, NOW, THEREFoRE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Oakland County- Board of (2,.is.siouers approves submission of the Oakland County Probate Court 's grant request to the Skillman Foundation, HEALTH AND HP I I INN SbiVCES COMMITTEE 1 1:2h REPORT TO THE HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: PROBATE COURT - 1985/86 SKILLMAN FOUNDATION GRANT APPLICATION The Finance Committee has reviewed the proposed grant and finds: 1) This is the nineteenth (19th) application for this program, 2) The grant covers the period of September 1, 1985 through August 31, 1986, 3) Funding is $165,145 and is 100% Skillman Foundation funded, 4) The grant application requests $92,600 for salaries, $32,512 for fringe benefits and $40,033 for operating expenses, consistent with the attached schedule, 5) All personnel changes will have to be reviewed by the Personnel Committee, 6) Application or acceptance of the grant does not obligate the County to any future commitment. Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the acceptance of the foregoing report, and referral of the information contained therein to the Health and Human Resources Committee, in accordance with Miscellaneous Resolution. #8145, Revised Federal and State Grant Application Procedures. FINANCE COMMITTEE Funding Source Skillman Foundation 144,300 165,145 20,845 1985/86 SKILLMAN FOUNDATION GRANT APPLICATION 1984/85 Award 1985/86 Application No. of No. of No of Increase/ Pos. Amount Pos. Amount Pos. (Decrease) Salaries Social Worker II 1 35,566 1 36,304 ...... 738 Child Welfare Worker Supv. a) 1 35,809 1 31,176 _.... (4,633) Child Welfare Worker II 1 22,163 1 25,120 -- 2,957 Sub-Total 93,538 92,600 (938) Fringe Benefits 32,762 32,512 (250) Operating Camp Oakland Youth Prog. Inc. 18,000 18,000 --- (Family Summer Camp) Professional Services (Home Detention Project) Sub-Total _ 18,000 40,033 TOTAL 144,300 165,145 22,033 22,033 22,033 20,845 A) 1984785 Award - this position was a Social Worker II PROGRAM PROPOSALS FOR 1985/1986 We are requesting funding for the 1985/1986 budget year for the Camp Oakland Summer Camp (Family Camp) and three staff persons in the Youth Assistance Program as follows: I. CAMP OAKLAND FAMILY CAMP ($18,000.) We plan to continue the Family Camp Program in the summer of 1986. It will operate in much the same way as in 1985. It will consist of a nine-day session, with the number of families involved depending on the size of the families. In this way we maximize the use of the facility and allow as many children to attend as possible. The Family Camp component of the Summer Camp Program has gained its primary support from the Skillman Foundation. The balance for Family Camp and support for the regular camp program comes from donations and campership money raised by local Youth Assistance Programs and Camp Oakland Youth Programs, Inc. IL YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS A. Community Organization ($48,752.) Our Social Worker in community organization will continue to devote time to direct service efforts in local Youth Assistance Programs. His work will continue in the manner as in previous years. He will spend time to assist the Oakland County Youth Assistance Advisory Council and local Youth Assistance Programs in finance, youth involvement, career exploration and strategic planning. B. Volunteer Programs ($33,952.) The PLUS Program is functioning in twenty Youth Assistance Programs. The Case Aide Program serves the entire county (a one-to-one volunteer program for official wards of the court). The worker assigned to this project will share work activities with two other existing staff members who have been assigned to recruit volunteers for official wards of the Court. This will allow us to achieve the same all-over goals on a more efficient basis and at the same time provide more intensive services to the local communities. Each worker will coordinate existing PLUS Programs and will assist the local Youth Assistance Programs in coordinating some Case Aide activities in a specific area of the county. The Skillman supported staff person will aid our Youth Assistance Program in a part of the county with their overall volunteer recruitment and training. This will greatly aid our overall volunteer recruitment effort throughout our program. C. Proposed Grant Modification ($42,408.) SUBSTITUTE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER SUPERVISOR - VOLUNTEERS, SPECIAL PROJECTS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION, IN PLACE OF TRAINING AND STAFF SUPERVISION (Item B in 1984-85 Grant). -2- Current Usage The Skillman Foundation has provided a special casework social worker to work with neighborhood problems, special casework, staff training and some casework supervision. In the initial stages of providing special casework services to "Neighborhood Problem Referrals", the focus was short-term intervention, relief from time consuming cases for the local staff person, and to provide a potential training and learning situation for new staff. Also, the special referral arrangement would provide an avenue of referral for the Juvenile Court Intake Department. In the beginning a large number of neighborhood problem referrals were received, requiring an assessment of staff services and eventually a limitation on neighborhood referrals from certain areas for the casework specialist depending primarily on casework experience and job demand. As time went on many of these referrals were handled locally and once the restitution program started in the Juvenile Court, the neighborhood referrals declined rapidly. Most recently, a limited number of these referrals have come directly from the Judges, Referees and Prosecutors. In the future, neighborhood problems will be referred directly to the local Youth Assistance caseworker. Proposed. Modifications The Skillman Foundation was also instrumental in providing funds for Youth Assistance to start our PLUS (People, Listening, Understanding, Sharing) Program. We currently have one line staff person in our Volunteer Program unit receiving full-time funds from the Skillman Foundation. The PLUS Program has been successfully providing on the average of 300 one-to-one volunteers per year for children who have this need. Recently, we have combined our PLUS Program and Case Aide Program into one unit, Volunteer Programs. We currently have three full-time staff in this unit, one of which is the above-mentioned Skillman-funded position. We propose to have these three staff persons, with the above proposed supervisor, combine their efforts in recruiting and training one-to-one volunteers for PLUS and Case Aide programs as well as the overall volunteer recruitment for the total Youth Assistance Program. We have created this Volunteer Programs unit because of an increased need to recruit in PLUS, Case Aide, Youth Assistance Committees, and the Youth Advisory Council. We have noticed a reduction in the number of volunteers we have been able to recruit under the current structure. -3-- The proposed position is needed, because we need an emphasis on volunteer recruitment and the implementing of special projects, Le., volunteer recognition programs, seminars, meetings, and a direct working relationship with the media. With this increased emphasis in volunteer recruitment and special projects needs, we would like to have the position, Social Worker-Training and Staff Supervisor, changed to have two major roles in supervision of Volunteer Programs and Special Projects -Public Information Coordinator. We propose to change this position upon the retirement of the incumbent, Marianne Margolin, which is planned for early fall, 1985. Job Roles I. Volunteer Programs Supervisor This person would provide leadership and supervision of the Volunteer Programs; supervise three Child Welfare Workers, plan and implement recruiting efforts under the supervision of the Chief of Youth Assistance. This role would require 40% of the person's time. IL Special Projects/Public Information Coordinator This person would be involved in coordinating and developing such things as the police/court and school/court seminars, volunteer and youth community service recognitions, annual report graphics and layout, press releases, and informational articles. In addition, this person would develop county-wide public information plans for Youth Assistance for sharing with the Advisory Council and local chairpersons regarding (I) increasing the visibility of Youth Assistance through radio, television, and newsprint; (2) increasing recruitment of volunteers; (3) general Youth Assistance and Advisory Council publicity; (4) Youth Assistance and Advisory Council fund raising; (5) FYI Newsletter staffing. This role would require the person to have a working knowledge of journalism and have some background in public relations or business administration. The person would maintain contacts with media throughout the metropolitan area and use community organization skills in planning the above. The person would be involved in developing newsletters, flier and brochure development, preparing public service announcements, development and presentation of displays, exhibits, slide and video tape presentations. -4- Proposed Budget for Position 1985/1986 CHILD WELFARE WORKER SUPERVISOR - VOLUNTEERS, SPECIAL PROJECTS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION SALARY FRINGE BENEFITS TOTAL $ 31,176 $ 11,232. $ 42,408. *This salary is based upon the Child Welfare Worker Supervisor (1 year step) rate and includes a 5% salary increase in 1986. PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1985/1986 Camp Oakland Family Carriple•9 .0 •*600••n••• 60••••••••••••••• 0 0.0 $ 18,000 Community Organization 0000 0•0 4•011•••••••••••••••••• ••••• ••• 48,752 Volunteer Programs • • • • • • • • • • • — • • . • 0.9-17•000•0000**001,•••• 33,952 Child Welfare Worker Supervisor - Volunteers, Special Projects & Public Information • . • — • • • • . • . . • • 42,408 Budget as Submitted to the Skillman Foundation $143,112 for 1985/1986 - Awaiting Approval *This amount will probably be reduced as a result of a settlement to be reached in current labor negotiations. S HOME DETENTION ($22,033) - NEW CiRANT REUEST The Oakland County Juvenile Court has an acute need for an alternative to sad.-Ta detention that has become more apparent with the ever increasi n g nu ,-Ib er of yoLincsters residing at Chilth-en's Village in J-I and J-11 (secure &-t---ltion). nh-- first half of 1985, J Suilding has been seriously over ,-row.e=-P. :his is not a new problem. Because we are seeing more younosters cominitting serio-is oFfanses, tHs problem may well be with us fora considerable period of time, or until an alternative has been developed. Intake statistics for the first five months of 1985, show an increase in the number of complaints filed by 78 cases over 1384. We saw an increase in complaints in 1584 over 1583. We know that our present cost per day of each youngster in secure detention is S102.77. An 1n-Home Detention Program can prove to be an extremely valuable tool as an alternative to secure detention in the following areas: (1) Will minimize cost to families and counties. The additional cost of an In-Home Detention Program is estimated at $6.04 per day (see buCcet at- tached), compared to the $102,77 cost per day in secure detention. This would save the county approximately $57.00 per day, per child. (2) Use of in-home detention would assist in .eliminating the overcrowded conditions In J-I and j-II (secure detention). This personal contact by these home detention officers would insure the child keeps curfew, attends school, obeys parents, follows the home detention rules end corlmits no offenses while waitinj trial. A review of both out-state and In-state 7Home Detention Programs shows they are successful, both as a cost saver and alleviating overcrowded conditions. in addition, it is stated that they are equally successful in terms of success- Flnss versus failures of the youngsters placed in the 'programs. We are asking the Skillman Foundation to finanjle the cost of three home detention officers, and related expenses, as a pilot project. We believe this pilot program can be very successfuland, after a one-year oper- ation, the cost savings to the county will convince the county to fund the in-home detention officers. Thus, the grant request is for one year only. if- theaverage stay in detention prior to disposition is six weeks, the cost • to the county for detention of 10 children in secure detention for six weeks each, at $100 per day, would be $42,000. However, the cost for the in-home detention officers to service the same 10 children for six weeks would be only S2,537. KOMF DETENTION NEW GRANT REQUEST PAGE TWO Thn drodr ,-,m would Fun c tion as follows: Tn ,-- existing casework staff in the court's Status Offender Project would screen Children's Viilade delinquent admittances regarding the liklihood of home deten- tion success. This screening would be completed by the probable cause hearing. if home detention is ordered, staff would complete the Rules of Temporary Re- lease, make assignment to home detention staff and, at that time, the case would be transferred to the regular court caseworker. The court's current Status Offender Project supervisor would oversee the home detention screenings and provide initial orientation of monitoring staff. The Skillman Foundation grant would provide funding to contract with Oakland University for three home detention monitoring staff, to be involved in the home detention effort, and related expenses. Although pre-disposition home detention would be the primary focus, some post-disposition work would also be handled by them, as time permits. These monitoring staff would monitor compliance with conditions of temporary release and report to regular casework staff. After authorization of the petition, the regular area caseworker would do the back- ground study, provide direction to monitoring staff regarding home detention expectations until disposition or, if home detention were continued after dis- position, wouid decide, with their supervisor, when hone detention would no longer appear to be necessary. Each of tne monitoring staff would be assigned to one of the regular area super- visors for ongoing supervision, so as to provide case continuity. HOME DETENTiCi7DET 3 .-ronitoring interns for pre7dispositional, and some posL—disposon, 170me detention (20 hours/week S75/hour for 52 weeks) $14,820 6,000 MHeage .Postage 13 Stationery Stock 200 Telephone Communications 1,000 $22,033 $22,033 ± 365 days = $60.36/day average 10 youth monitored per day = $6.04/day/youth 07/12/85 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1985/1986 Camp Oakland Family Camp $ 18,000 Community Organization 48,752 Volunteer Programs 33,952 Child Welfare Worker Supervisor - Volunteers, Special Projects & Public Information ....... — . . . . 42,408 Home Detention 22_033 Budget as Submitted to the Skillman Foundation S165,145 for 1985/1986 - Awaiting Approval Also, we request approval to carry over any 1985 unspent funds into 1586. This amount will probably be reduced as a result of a settlement to be reached in current labor negotiations. #85231 August 8, 1985 8th day of Au.ust 19 85 WrA 1.411KINL ALLEN County Clerk/Register of Deeds Moved by Sue Kuhn supported by Perinoff the resolution be adopted, AYES: Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hass- berger, Hobart, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, Mc Donald, McPherson, Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Perinoff, Pernick, Price. (21) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted. STATE OF MICHIGAN) ) COUNTY OF OAKLAND) I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the attached Miscellaneous Resolution #85231 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at their meeting held on August 8, 1985 with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole thereof. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan th i s