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CONTRACT K-1819-51: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN AND CROSSROADS YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER, INC., FOR THE OPERATION OF THE EMERGENCY YOUTH SHELTER AND BUDGET APPROPRIATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $40,000 FROM THE SEIZURES AND RESTITUTION FUND BALANCE.
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BACKGROUND: The City of Norman juvenile program in conjunction with the Crossroads Youth and Family Center, Inc., ("Crossroads") was awarded a federal and state grant from the Office of Juvenile Affairs ("OJA") to implement a Community Intervention Center ("CIC") in early 1997. Originally, this was a pilot project and the City of Norman was one of five cities to open a CIC. This program began in October of 1997. Until 2016 the CIC was housed in a building owned by the City and located at 1900 West Robinson in Westwood Park.
The CIC was a multi-city collaborated project. The federal money for the program was originally "seed" money to start the program. By design of the grant, the federal funding ceased three years after the inception of the program. Funding for the program was from the state through OJA. The CIC program was the first program to have a partnership between a local government, the state government, youth service agencies and law enforcement agencies.
The purpose of the CIC was to provide a community based location for law enforcement officers to take juveniles, who had been apprehended for committing an offense that is not detention-eligible, for the purpose of holding, supervising and releasing the juveniles to a parent or guardian as appropriate. The goal of the program was two-fold: to maximize police officer productivity by returning them back to patrol duties as timely as possible; and to have a consistent entry for juveniles into the juvenile justice system where they can be offered social services and evaluated for needs.
The juveniles are held at the CIC for up to twenty-four (24) hours until a parent, guardian or responsible adult can be located. While at the CI...
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