Shawnee County approves community corrections MOUs and several state grants for youth programs
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The board approved memoranda of understanding and state grant awards administered through Shawnee County Community Corrections, including reinvestment and JCAP grants to local nonprofits and a contract for juvenile intake.
The Shawnee County Board of County Commissioners on June 23 approved memoranda of understanding and grant-funded contracts between Shawnee County Community Corrections and local partners to support juvenile and adult services. The board voted 2-0 to approve the package of MOUs and related funding allocations.
Steve Willis, representing Shawnee County Community Corrections, described multiple grant awards and MOUs for the coming fiscal year. He said reinvestment grants from the Kansas Department of Corrections were awarded to the Topeka Center for Peace and Justice ($121,453) and the 1 Heart Project (stated as $236,568). Willis said Kansas Children's Service League (KCSL), Boys & Girls Club of Topeka and 1 Heart also received awards under a state evidence-based JCAP (juvenile services) program: KCSL will operate its OASIS program ($370,000); the Boys & Girls Club will support its teen center program ($283,672); and 1 Heart will run a comprehensive youth development program ($84,000). Willis said the reinvestment and JCAP grants are two-year awards.
Willis also said the county awards a one-year prevention grant to the Topeka Center for Peace and Justice ($30,913) and to the Boys & Girls Club ($108,984). He noted the county contracts annually with the Kansas Children's Service League to run juvenile intake services and proposed a contract amount of $434,303 for the coming year.
On the adult supervision side, Willis described continuing MOUs with community partners to place a care clinician in the detention center and to host care coordination and recovery coaching. He said the county will partner with Mirror (which provided an in-jail care clinician during the prior year) for $65,000 and will continue a partnership with RADAC (Recovery Alliance/Domestic Abuse Coalition partnership) for $184,000 total; Willis said $114,000 of that RADAC amount will come from county funds and the remainder from grant sources.
Commissioners asked no substantive questions beyond general approval comments; Commissioner Mays moved to approve the MOUs and associated contracts, Commissioner Cook seconded, and the motion passed 2-0.
Willis said the reinvestment and JCAP awards come from state evidence-based funding administered through the Kansas Department of Corrections and that prevention and local contract dollars will be folded into the county's comprehensive annual plan for community corrections.