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Belknap County accepts two juvenile-diversion awards, including $500 charitable grant
Summary
Belknap County commissioners formally accepted a $500 charitable grant and a larger award from the New Hampshire Juvenile Diversion Network that includes new reporting requirements and REDCap software and hardware for data collection.
Belknap County commissioners voted to accept two awards for the county's juvenile diversion work: a $500 charitable grant to cover equipment costs for the county diversion program and a larger, one-time award from the New Hampshire Juvenile Diversion Network that arrived late in the state fiscal cycle.
The $500 award, from the New Hampshire Charitable Trust's Mary Alice and Camp Rohner Family Support Fund, was accepted to buy a printer and to offset a previously budgeted line item. Commissioners moved and approved formal acceptance during the meeting.
The county also reported receipt of the first half of a one-time distribution from the New Hampshire Juvenile Diversion Network, described in the meeting as half of $53,130 (a little over $26,000). The network's funding arrived late because a larger allocation flowed through the governor's council and was then apportioned to accredited diversion programs across the state.
The diversion network award carries new contract requirements. Staff said the network now requires monthly reporting (previously quarterly) and has provided laptops and standardized software, REDCap, so accredited programs can collect and share juvenile-screening data on the same platform. County staff said the change to monthly reporting and the requirement to use REDCap were the primary substantive differences from prior years' contracts; the county will not bear the hardware or software cost because the network provided those resources.
Staff also said the network's per-screener payment in prior years had typically been $250 per expert screener, and that the unusually large one-time award was not expected to be the ongoing rate; staff anticipated returning to prior per-screener levels in future contract years. Staff reported they had received the first installment for the period running June/July 1 through December and that the second half could be reduced depending on federal funding decisions.
Commissioners approved formal acceptance of the awards; meeting minutes record the motions carried.
Why it matters: the one-time funds and the provided REDCap equipment aim to expand the diversion program's data collection and outreach into schools, which county staff said could help recruit additional schools into the program.
