Family Justice Center outlines services, grants and city-funded roles; council offers aid finding outside funding

Denise Jomire, executive director of the Nampa Family Justice Center, presented the center's work and funding needs and asked the council to help sustain key positions while the center pursues additional grants.

Jomire said the center served 2,315 individual clients in the last year and tracked roughly 864 monthly clients; the organization runs child-mentoring programs and reported 89 active volunteers in 2025. She emphasized the center's role in partnering with law enforcement and providing forensic interviews and child advocacy services that spare detectives and victim-witness coordinators travel and overtime.

Jennifer Perry, who presented the financial overview, said the city-supported administrative account projects about $460,000 for FY27 (98% of which funds three city-supported positions) and that the foundation provides roughly $505,000 in positions and client services that do not flow through the city's accounting. Perry said the center is awaiting decisions on four federal grants and that grant timing does not always align with the city's fiscal year, which complicates budgeting.

Council response and next steps: Councilmembers praised the center's work and several offered to advocate for county or state funding to reduce financial risk. A councilmember noted a past report saying Nampa accounted for two-thirds of the state's human trafficking cases; Jomire and councilmembers framed that stat as evidence of the center's engagement and the need for sustained local services rather than an indictment of city safety overall. Council asked the center to provide breakouts of clients from outside city limits so the council can pursue interjurisdictional funding discussions.