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BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEM ENT
Item No. 9.
For Meeting of: October 15, 2019
ITEM TITLE: Resolution accepting the Youth Gang Suppression Implementation
Grant from the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
SUBMITTED BY: Sara Watkins, Senior Assistant City Attorney
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
As part of the GRIT Proviso grant, the City was tasked with creating a structure and program that
was viable and could compete for future grants. The GRIT program included the GRIT Village
structure of networking and education for community members, stakeholders and providers, the
Steering Committee, and the Yakima Youth Leadership Program in the Yakima School District
middle schools, also in partnership with ES D 105. We piloted the YYLP last year with Gary Garza
in two middle schools and compiled the data. Council previously received the researched report
from Julia Van Olphen. The City applied for one of a small number of OJ J DP Youth Gang
Suppression grants in June of 2019. The City was notified that it was awarded the Grant, which
totals $230,000.00 over three years. In accepting the Grant, the City would be acknowledging that it
agrees that the money would be used, and the program will be run, as outlined in the grant narrative
(attached)and that the City will adhere to the grant assurances requirements (also attached).
Attachments:
1. Summary of Program
2. Copy of Program Narrative provided to OJJ DP which outlines program
3. Copy of Budget Narrative provided to OJJDP with outlines budget
4. Gang Suppression program timeline submitted to OJJDP
5. Letter of Intent from ESD 105
6. Letter of Intent from YS D
ITEM BUDGETED: Yes
STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Public Safety
APPROVED FOR ��
SUBMITTAL: L---/t/C - ---_ -� - Interim City Manager
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STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt resolution.
BOARD/COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION:
GRIT had an independent Steering Committee which consisted of community members and Cour
Members Gutierrez, White and Hill. It was also discussed at full Council and in the Public Sat
Committee meetings.
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RESOLUTION NO. R-2019-
A RESOLUTION accepting the Youth Gang Suppression Implementation Grant from the
Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
WHEREAS, the City of Yakima was granted a $150,000.00 proviso from Washington
State Governor Inslee in 2018 to create a community-based framework and pilot program to
address youth gang involvement, interest and violence with a goal of using that framework to
obtain future grants; and
WHEREAS, a Steering Committee, the Village of stakeholders that meets every other
month and the Yakima Youth Leadership Program were created and piloted during the proviso
period, and an independent evaluation was done on the program; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to proviso, the City of Yakima applied for the Youth Gang
Suppression Implementation Grant, a $230,000.00 three year grant to suppress gang activities in
youth; and
WHEREAS, the application materials outlined the proposal for use of the money—to fund
three education advocates to be hired by ESD 105 and operate the Yakima Youth Leadership
Program in each of the four Yakima School District middle schools—the budget and the
responsibilities of partner agencies (Yakima School District and ESD 105); and
WHEREAS, the City of Yakima was awarded a Youth Gang Suppression grant on
September 26, 2019, subject to acceptance of the grant assurances; and
WHEREAS, the City Council must accept the grant assurances and requirements of the
grant before the award can be accepted by the City and the program can move forward upon
funding becoming available; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is in the best interests of the City of Yakima and
its residents to accept the Youth Gang Suppression Implementation Grant, the grant assurances
and conditions, and implement the program outlined in the grant application; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
The City Council of the City of Yakima hereby accepts Grant GMS Award 2019-PB-BX-
0017—Youth Gang Suppression and Implementation Grant—as awarded and authorizes
the City Manager, or their designee, to execute the necessary grant assurances and any
other necessary documents to accept the award and funds.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 5'h day of November, 2019.
ATTEST: Kathy Coffey, Mayor
Sonya Clear Tee, City Clerk
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor Coffey and City Councilmembers
FROM: Sara Watkins, Senior Assistant City Attorney
DATE: October 8, 2019
SUBJ: OJJDP Grant Awarded for GRIT Yakima Youth Leadership Program
Dear Mayor and Councilmembers,
As you are aware, the City applied for a federal OJJDP grant for Youth Gang
Suppression programs. A limited number of those grants were available nationwide.
Yakima was awarded one of those grants for its Youth Leadership Program for sixth
graders—the program the City piloted with ESD 105, Yakima School District and Gary
Garza in Lewis & Clark and Franklin Middle Schools in the spring. The grant is for a
total of$230,000 over the course of three years.
As part of the grant application, the City, working with Matt Fairbank, city staff, ESD 105
and the Yakima School District, formulated a plan wherein each entity is tasked with
certain requirements to ensure that the program can function effectively, as well as
ensure that the overall GRIT Village and Steering Committee work continues. Each of
the elements—the Village, Steering Committee, and Leadership Program—are
important to the other elements and create a community-based program that benefits
Yakima's youth.
This memo provides a summary of the proposed program that was approved by OJJDP.
If you choose to accept the grant money, the program must be followed as proposed in
the grant application. The grant narrative and budget, as well as the letters of intent
with ESD and YSD, are attached for your review. The grant money can only be spent
as outlined in those documents and the City would be required to follow all grant
assurances and requirements.
1 . Summary of the program
The three primary elements of the overall program are:
1 . Yakima Youth Leadership Program for up to 30 students at a time across all
four Yakima School District middle schools with the anticipation that
approximately 75 students will be served each year.
a. Entrance and exit criteria to allow for fluid program participants
b. Personalized coaching for youth and their families who participate in the
program
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c. Monitoring of behavioral issues, grades, attendance, contact with law
enforcement and other matters as appropriate
d. Connecting youth to services such as tutoring, after school activities,
sports, mental health, medical, and other community resources
e. Assistance for families in connecting with community resources
f. Connection to volunteer mentors through other existing mentorship
programs in Yakima
g. Parent coaching and help, as well as help with accessing community
services
2. 6th Grade Student and Parent Education
a. Connecting with all 6th graders about gang awareness, resilience, hope,
opportunities, conflict resolution or other pertinent topics to be determined
jointly with the Yakima Youth Leadership Program coordinator and the
Yakima School District. This could be through an assembly or series of
assemblies, or in-class time depending on what is deemed appropriate by
the YSD.
b. Connecting with all parents of 6th graders through an educational seminar
or seminars discussing similar topics, as well as adverse childhood
impacts, community services available, and parent rights. At such a
seminar there could also be a services fair where service providers can
provide handouts or sign up families and/or youth for services or after
school programming. Seminars would need to include a meal and child
care for higher attendance.
3. Community-wide collaboration through the GRIT Village
a. Continue Village meetings and collaboration with meetings still held every
other month
b. Monthly Steering Committee meetings to discuss long-term strategies and
capacity.
c. Provide support for the efforts listed in (1) and (2) above.
The proposed program is a partnership among the City, ESD and YSD, with each entity
required to take on certain tasks as follows:
a. The City
The City agrees to repurpose one position in the police department, temporarily during
the grant period of three years, to become the Program Coordinator. That person will
provide support services to the GRIT Steering Committee; convene the GRIT Village
meetings; foster partnerships and collaborations between stakeholders, ESD, YSD, and
the community; guide the Village to identify gaps in services and barriers; and work
collaboratively to address those gaps and barriers. The Program Coordinator will also
guide the evaluation efforts in conjunction with ESD and YSD and the program
evaluator.
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As such, the City is responsible for hiring a Program Coordinator, continuing facilitation
of the Village and Steering Committee meetings, and the evaluation of the Program.
b. The YSD
The YSD agrees to allow the coaches and Program Coordinator access to students
involved in the program during the school day. YSD also agrees to provide space for at
least one all-6th grade assembly at least once per year focusing on a pertinent topic
associated with good decision making and/or staying out of gangs or away from gang
violence. The Program Coordinator and YSD will confer on an appropriate topic for the
assembly. YSD is responsible for all costs associated with the assembly. YSD will also
provide space for a 6th grade parent/family/guardian education presentation, likely in the
evening or on a weekend, which includes providing child care and a meal. The topics
will be coordinated with the Program Coordinator and YSD will be responsible for the
costs. It is anticipated that there will also be a "services fair" or other opportunity for
stakeholders and service providers to have tables with information for attendees.
Finally, YSD agrees to help train, where appropriate, the program coaches at no cost,
and designate a specific person to be a liaison with the Program Coordinator at each of
the four middle schools.
c. ESD 105
ESD 105 will hire three (3) part time education advocates to serve as coaches to the
YYLP, and those coaches will be housed at ESD 105 (although the majority of their
work will be at the schools). Education advocates will be able to use space at the Open
Doors facility as available as well. ESD 105 will provide computers, cell phones and
tech support and provide training for the education advocates. Education advocates will
also be allowed to attend all relevant trainings offered by ESD. YSD will participate in
the hiring process of the education advocates.
ESD 105 will be paid out of the grant the costs of the education advocates and a
discounted indirect cost rate already agreed to as part of the grant budget.
2. Grant Assurances
The City must agree to the Grant Assurances requirements associated with this grant.
Those are as follows:
A. General Grant Assurances
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CERTIFIED STANDARD ASSURANCES
On behalf of the Applicant, and in support of this application for a grant or cooperative agreement, I certify
under penalty of perjury to the U.S. Department of Justice ("Department"), that all of the following are true
and correct:
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(1) I have the authority to make the following representations on behalf of myself and the Applicant. I
understand that these representations will be relied upon as material in any Department decision to make
an award to the Applicant based on its application.
(2) I certify that the Applicant has the legal authority to apply for the federal assistance sought by the
application, and that it has the institutional, managerial, and financial capability (including funds sufficient
to pay any required non-federal share of project costs) to plan, manage, and complete the project
described in the application properly.
(3) I assure that, throughout the period of performance for the award (if any) made by the Department
based on the application--
a. the Applicant will comply with all award requirements and all federal statutes and
regulations applicable to the award;
b. the Applicant will require all subrecipients to comply with all applicable award
requirements and all applicable federal statutes and regulations; and
c. the Applicant will maintain safeguards to address and prevent any organizational conflict
of interest, and also to prohibit employees from using their positions in any manner that
poses, or appears to pose, a personal or financial conflict of interest.
(4) The Applicant understands that the federal statutes and regulations applicable to the award (if any)
made by the Department based on the application specifically include statutes and regulations pertaining
to civil rights and nondiscrimination, and, in addition--
a. the Applicant understands that the applicable statutes pertaining to civil rights will include
section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §2000d); section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. §794); section 901 of the Education Amendments
of 1972 (20 U.S.C. § 1681); and section 303 of the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (42
U.S.C. §6102);
b. the Applicant understands that the applicable statutes pertaining to nondiscrimination
may include section 809(c) of Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968 (34 U.S.C. § 10228(c)); section 1407(e) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (34
U.S.C. §20110(e)); section 299A(b) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Act of 2002 (34 U.S.C. § 11182(b)); and that the grant condition set out at section
40002(b)(13) of the Violence Against Women Act (34 U.S.C. § 12291(b)(13)), which will
apply to all awards made by the Office on Violence Against Women, also may apply to an
award made otherwise;
c. the Applicant understands that it must require any subrecipient to comply with all such
applicable statutes (and associated regulations); and
d. on behalf of the Applicant, I make the specific assurances set out in 28 C.F.R. §§42.105
and 42.204.
(5) The Applicant also understands that (in addition to any applicable program-specific regulations and to
applicable federal regulations that pertain to civil rights and nondiscrimination) the federal regulations
applicable to the award (if any) made by the Department based on the application may include, but are
not limited to, 2 C.F.R. Part 2800 (the DOJ "Part 200 Uniform Requirements") and 28 C.F.R. Parts 22
(confidentiality- research and statistical information), 23 (criminal intelligence systems), 38 (regarding
faith-based or religious organizations participating in federal financial assistance programs), and 46
(human subjects protection).
(6) I assure that the Applicant will assist the Department as necessary (and will require subrecipients and
contractors to assist as necessary) with the Department's compliance with section 106 of the National
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Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 U.S.C. § 306108), the Archeological and Historical Preservation Act
of 1974 (54 U.S.C. §§312501-312508), and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. §§
4321-4335), and 28 C.F.R. Parts 61 (NEPA) and 63 (floodplains and wetlands).
(7) I assure that the Applicant will give the Department and the Government Accountability Office, through
any authorized representative, access to, and opportunity to examine, all paper or electronic records
related to the award (if any) made by the Department based on the application.
(8) I assure that, if the Applicant is a governmental entity, with respect to the award (if any) made by the
Department based on the application--
a. it will comply with the requirements of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real
Property Acquisitions Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. §§4601-4655), which govern the treatment
of persons displaced as a result of federal and federally-assisted programs; and
b. it will comply with requirements of 5 U.S.C. §§ 1501-1508 and 7324-7328, which limit
certain political activities of State or local government employees whose principal
employment is in connection with an activity financed in whole or in part by federal
assistance.
(9) If the Applicant applies for and receives an award from the Office of Community Oriented Policing
Services (COPS Office), I assure that as required by 34 U.S.C. § 10382(c)(11), it will, to the extent
practicable and consistent with applicable law--including, but not limited to, the Indian Self- Determination
and Education Assistance Act--seek, recruit, and hire qualified members of racial and ethnic minority
groups and qualified women in order to further effective law enforcement by increasing their ranks within
the sworn positions, as provided under 34 U.S.C. § 10382(c)(11).
(10) If the Applicant applies for and receives a DOJ award under the STOP School Violence Act program,
I assure as required by 34 U.S.C. § 10552(a)(3), that it will maintain and report such data, records, and
information (programmatic and financial) as DOJ may reasonably require.
I acknowledge that a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement (or concealment or omission of a
material fact) in this certification, or in the application that it supports, may be the subject of criminal
prosecution (including under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 and/or 1621, and/or 34 U.S.C. §§ 10271-10273), and
also may subject me and the Applicant to civil penalties and administrative remedies for false claims or
otherwise (including under 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3730 and 3801-3812). I also acknowledge that the
Department's awards, including certifications provided in connection with such awards, are subject to
review by the Department, including by its Office of the Inspector General.
B. General Certifications
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CERTIFICATIONS REGARDING LOBBYING; DEBARMENT, SUSPENSION AND OTHER
RESPONSIBILITY MATTERS; AND DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should refer to the regulations cited below to determine the certification to which they
are required to attest. Applicants should also review the instructions for certification included in
the regulations before completing this form. The certifications shall be treated as a material
representation of fad upon which reliance will be placed when the U.S. Department of Justice
("Department") determines to award the covered transaction, grant, or cooperative agreement.
1. LOBBYING
As required by 31 U.S.C. § 1352, as implemented by 28 C.F.R. Part 69, the Applicant certifies and
assures (to the extent applicable)the following:
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(a) No Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid, by or on behalf of the Applicant,
to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a
Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of
Congress in connection with the making of any Federal grant,the entering into of any cooperative
agreement, or the extension, continuation, renewal, amendment, or modification of any Federal
grant or cooperative agreement;
(b) If the Applicant's request for Federal funds is in excess of$100,000, and any funds other than
Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid to any person for influencing or
attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a member of Congress, an officer or
employee of Congress, or an employee of a member of Congress in connection with this Federal
grant or cooperative agreement,the Applicant shall complete and submit Standard Form - LLL,
"Disclosure of Lobbying Activities" in accordance with its (and any DOJ awarding agency's)
instructions; and
(c) The Applicant shall require that the language of this certification be included in the award
documents for all subgrants and procurement contracts (and their subcontracts)funded with
Federal award funds and shall ensure that any certifications or lobbying disclosures required of
recipients of such subgrants and procurement contracts (or their subcontractors) are made and
filed in accordance with 31 U.S.C. § 1352.
2. DEBARMENT, SUSPENSION, AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITY MATTERS
A. Pursuant to Department regulations on nonprocurement debarment and suspension
implemented at 2 C.F.R. Part 2867, and to other related requirements,the Applicant certifies,with
respect to prospective participants in a primary tier"covered transaction", as defined at 2 C.F.R. §
2867.20(a),that neither it nor any of its principals--
(a) is presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, sentenced to a
denial of Federal benefits by a State or Federal court, or voluntarily excluded from covered
transactions by any Federal department or agency;
(b) has within a three-year period preceding this application been convicted of a felony criminal
violation under any Federal law, or been convicted or had a civil judgment rendered against it for
commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or
performing a public(Federal, State,tribal, or local)transaction or private agreement or
transaction;
(c) is presently indicted for or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity
(Federal, State, tribal, or local)with commission of any of the offenses enumerated in paragraph
(b) of this certification; and/or
(d) has within a three-year period preceding this application had one or more public transactions
(Federal, State, tribal, or local)terminated for cause or default.
B.Where the Applicant is unable to certify to any of the statements in this certification, it shall
attach an explanation to this application. Where the Applicant or any of its principals was
convicted,within a three-year period preceding this application, of a felony criminal violation
under any Federal law,the Applicant also must disclose such felony criminal conviction in writing
to the Department(for OJP Applicants, to OJP at Ojpcompliancereporting@usdoj.gov; for OVW
Applicants,to OVW at OVW.GFMD@usdoj.gov; or for COPS Applicants, to COPS at
AskCOPSRC@usdoj.gov), unless such disclosure has already been made.
3. FEDERAL TAXES
A. If the Applicant is a corporation, it certifies either that(1)the corporation has no unpaid Federal
tax liability that has been assessed,for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been
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exhausted or have lapsed,that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with
the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability, or(2)the corporation has provided written
notice of such an unpaid tax liability(or liabilities)to the Department(for OJP Applicants, to OJP
at Ojpcompliancereporting@usdoj.gov; for OVW Applicants, to OVW at OVW.GFMD@usdoj.gov;
or for COPS Applicants, to COPS at AskCOPSRC@usdoj.gov).
B.Where the Applicant is unable to certify to any of the statements in this certification, it shall
attach an explanation to this application.
4. DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE(GRANTEES OTHER THAN INDIVIDUALS)
As required by the Drug-Free Workplace Ad of 1988, as implemented at 28 C.F.R. Part 83, Subpart
F,for grantees, as defined at 28 C.F.R. §§83.620 and 83.650:
A. The Applicant certifies and assures that it will, or will continue to, provide a drug-free
workplace by--
(a) Publishing a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution,
dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in its workplace and
specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violation of such prohibition;
(b) Establishing an on-going drug-free awareness program to inform employees about--
(1) The dangers of drug abuse in the workplace;
(2) The Applicant's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace;
(3)Any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs; and
(4) The penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug abuse violations occurring in the
workplace;
(c) Making it a requirement that each employee to be engaged in the performance of the award be
given a copy of the statement required by paragraph (a);
(d) Notifying the employee in the statement required by paragraph (a)that, as a condition of
employment under the award,the employee will--
(1)Abide by the terms of the statement; and
(2) Notify the employer in writing of the employee's conviction for a violation of a criminal drug
statute occurring in the workplace no later than five calendar days after such conviction;
(e) Notifying the Department, in writing, within 10 calendar days after receiving notice under
subparagraph (d)(2)from an employee or otherwise receiving actual notice of such conviction.
Employers of convicted employees must provide notice, including position title of any such
convicted employee to the Department, as follows:
For COPS award recipients -COPS Office, 145 N Street, NE,Washington, DC, 20530;
For OJP and OVW award recipients - U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs,
ATTN: Control Desk, 810 7th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20531.
Notice shall include the identification number(s) of each affected award;
(f)Taking one of the following actions,within 30 calendar days of receiving notice under
subparagraph (d)(2), with respect to any employee who is so convicted:
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(1) Taking appropriate personnel action against such an employee, up to and including
termination, consistent with the requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; or
(2) Requiring such employee to participate satisfactorily in a drug abuse assistance or
rehabilitation program approved for such purposes by a Federal, State, or local health, law
enforcement, or other appropriate agency; and
(g) Making a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace through
implementation of paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f).
5. COORDINATION REQUIRED UNDER PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMMUNITY POLICING PROGRAMS
As required by the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Ad of 1994, at 34 U.S.C. §
10382(c)(5), if this application is for a COPS award, the Applicant certifies that there has been
appropriate coordination with all agencies that may be affected by its award.Affected agencies
may include, among others, Offices of the United States Attorneys; State, local, or tribal
prosecutors; or correctional agencies.
I acknowledge that a materially false,fictitious, or fraudulent statement(or concealment or
omission of a material fad) in this certification, or in the application that it supports, may be the
subject of criminal prosecution (including under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 and/or 1621, and/or 34 U.S.C.
§§ 10271-10273), and also may subject me and the Applicant to civil penalties and administrative
remedies for false claims or otherwise(including under 31 U.S.C. §§3729-3730 and 3801-3812). I
also acknowledge that the Department's awards, including certifications provided in connection
with such awards, are subject to review by the Department, including by its Office of the Inspector
General.
C. Specific Certifications
The Grant Agreement required that those entities awarded grants also provide
certification that the awardee would comply with 8 U.S.C. section 1373:
(a) In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or
local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any
government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful
or unlawful, of any individual.
(b) Additional authority of government entities
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, no person or agency
may prohibit, or in any way restrict, a Federal, State, or local government entity from
doing any of the following with respect to information regarding the immigration status,
lawful or unlawful, of any individual:
(1) Sending such information to, or requesting or receiving such information from, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(2) Maintaining such information.
(3) Exchanging such information with any other Federal, State, or local government
entity.
(c) Obligation to respond to inquiries
The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall respond to an inquiry by a Federal,
State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or
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immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency for any purpose
authorized by law, by providing the requested verification or status information.
The grant application requirements also referenced that awardees certify that they will
comply with 8 U.S.C. section 1644:
Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, no State or local
government entity may be prohibited, or in any way restricted, from sending to or
receiving from the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the
immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of an alien in the United States.
The grant states that if an applicant did not provide such certification at the time of the
grant application that any award of funds would be contingent on the awardee providing
the certification, and no funds would be provided until said certification is provided. The
City did not provide the certification at the time of grant application. Any certification
provided by the City would include the restrictions provided for in the Washington State
Keep Washington Working Act which provides some restrictions in this area. That Act
requires school districts adopt certain model rules, formulated by the attorney general,
in the future. However, the KWWA requires that municipalities comply with 8 USC 1373
in Section 8, which states that nothing in the act is intended to limit or prohibit any local
agency from complying with 8 USC 1373 or any other state or federal law.
If the grant is approved by the Council, the City will provide the certification required
when requested by OJJDP to receive the funding.
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City of Yakima OJJ DP Gang Suppression Project Narrative
A. Statement of the Problem
The Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce is based in Yakima, WA. The City of Yakima,
located in South Central Washington, is the 11th largest city in the state with 93,000 residents.'
Its economy is based on it being the largest city in South Central Washington and Yakima
County which has significant agricultural productivity and is a service industry hub for the
surrounding area. The agricultural industry has depended on having a low wage worker pool to
tend and harvest crops. Apples and other tree fruit, Dairy, hops, and vegetables are the primary
agricultural products of the County. The population in the county is 49.4% Latino, 43%non-
Latino Caucasian, 5.5% African American, Native American and Asian and Pacific Islander and
2.1% of two or more races.
The city is ranked 15th in per household income of the top 15 cities in WA state.3 Yakima
School District has 72% of its students who qualify for free and reduced meals. The Yakima
School District is 78% Latino, 17.3% White, 2.5% Two or more races, American Indian .9%,
African American, .8% and Asian and Pacific Islander .5%.4
In a recent group audit commissioned by Project Safe Neighborhoods for the Eastern District
of Washington, the Eastern District of Washington was ranked third in the U.S. Probation's Risk
Index of all US Attorney Office regions in the United States. Within that District,the Project
Safe Neighborhoods has chosen to focus its efforts solely on Yakima and Yakima County due to
the high rate of gangs and gang violence here.
'Washington Cities by Population https:jjwww.washington-demographics.comjcities by population
2 Yakima County Trends. Non-white Population as a Share of Total Population,
http:fJyakimavalleytrends.orgJgraph.cfm?cat 1d=08:sub cat id=38kind id=4
Wikipedia,Washington Places Ranked by Ranked by Per Capita Income.
https:jjen.wikipedia.orgjwiki/List of Washington locations by per capita income
°Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, WA State Report Card,Yakima School District
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Yakima County has the third highest level of gang activity, even though it is only the eighth most
populous county in the state. This level is the highest of all counties in the Eastern District of
Washington.5 In the Project Safe Neighborhoods group assessment,it was noted that there are 26
street gangs in Yakima, with an estimated 1,300 members and associates. That is a rate of 1.4
percent of the city's population. Of the 27 gangs present in Yakima County, 93% are rated as
either extremely or somewhat violent and 89% are rated as highly or somewhat organized6
In the first four months of 2019, three teenagers were shot to death in gang violence in
Yakima and the nearby town of Wapato. All three were 16 years old or younger. An adult aunt of
one of the victims was seriously injured but is recovering. The shooters in two of the murders
who have been apprehended are both teenagers. Six of the nine homicides committed in the first
4 months of 2019 in Yakima County had a gang connection..
The City of Yakima has been working to address gang violence at multiple times since
gang presence and gang violence came to the fore during the 1990s with the growth of the crack
epidemic. Yakima was a major distribution point for crack cocaine for the Northwestern United
States and Western Canada. In 2011 and 2012 the City of Yakima and Yakima County
conducted community assessments as per the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model.
The Yakima County Gang Assessment was initiated by the Yakima County Gang
Commission and followed the protocol outlined by the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)'s Comprehensive Gang Model. Additional data was included
from Yakima County Local Indicators for Excellence (YC-LIFE) Yakima County Annual Report
s Project Safe Neighborhoods Yakima Police Department Group Audit, draft form as of June 1, 2019.
6 Project Safe Neighborhoods Yakima Police Department Group Audit, draft form as of June 1, 2019.
'Yakima Herald Republic April 29, 2019 article. https:ffwww.yakimaherald.comfnewsfcrime and courtsjgang-
activity-increases-every-spring-in-the-Yakima-valley-policejarticle 6ae2ba54-bdcb-58b0-aeaf-4289406e6041.html
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2012 released in March 2012. This assessment included a review of community demographic
and perception data, law enforcement data, and student/educational data for the presence of
various risk factors as identified by the OJJDP Gang Model. There are 49 risk factors in all;the
OJJDP Model Guide states the greater the number of risk factors experienced by the youth, the
greater the likelihood of gang involvement.
Key Findings
Key findings were developed from a review of the data for risk factors for gang
involvement with comparisons made with Washington State as a whole when possible.
1. Yakima County has an environment that contains multiple risk factors for gang
involvement including a culture of poverty which is magnified by single parenting,
low adult educational attainment, and high seasonal unemployment rates. The
presence of these factors varies widely amongst communities within the County.
2. Yakima County has a high rate of at-risk youth with multiple risk factors for gang
involvement including higher rates of school failure, a high teen birth rate, suicide
and suicide attempts, depression, illegal drug use, alcohol use, and low neighborhood
attachment. Students also report feeling less safe in school.
3. Yakima County contains a multitude of micro cultures among segments of the
population as illustrated by the wide disparities in race and ethnicity, income, crime,
and educational attainment. This is further evidenced by undercurrents of conflict
related to those differences as demonstrated in the survey responses.
4. A lack of common definitions and criteria for Gang Membership and Gang
Activity made the analysis of Gang Crime difficult. Additionally, the old system for
tracking law enforcement activity called for individual assessments of incident
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reports, this and the absence of a dedicated Crime Analyst has also been a challenge
in assessing past crime activity. Moving forward, law enforcement agencies have
taken a new step in cooperation to keep track of law enforcement data which will
help track gang activity in the future by implementing a single system for records
management. The City of Yakima also recently hired a Crime and Intelligence
Analyst to assist in the investigations of crimes, including gang violence and crime.
City of Yakima Gang Free Initiative
In response to concerns about the chronic presence of gangs and gang crime in our
community, in November 2009, the Yakima City Council, directed City Staff to develop a
framework for the implementation of a City of Yakima Gang Free Initiative. The vision of the
City of Yakima Gang Free Initiative was to create a safe, peaceful, gang-free community
resulting in a high quality of life for families. Their mission was to engage the community to
develop suppression, prevention and intervention strategies that support and promote positive
youth development. In 2011 they released the 2011 City of Yakima Community Profile for the
benefit of key community stakeholders, policymakers and service providers. This profile
presents data and analysis to support the development of a city-wide anti-gang approach to
reducing juvenile crime and violence in the city of Yakima. The 2011 City of Yakima
Community Profile was in line with the efforts of the Yakima County Gang Commission
Assessment. Even though both assessments were similar in many ways and both used guidance
from the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Assessment model,they differed regarding their intended
audience and outcome.
The Present: 2014--2019.
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In 2014, the City conducted a livability survey which asked specific questions about
safety and crime. In the first nine months of 2017 there were eleven homicides in Yakima.8
Three of those homicides were determined to be gang related. An additional three of them may
have been gang related but officers lacked sufficient evidence to make that determination. One
other homicide occurred in a neighborhood known for gang violence, but the victim was not
gang related. In one of the gang related shootings, a fourteen year old male was killed as part of
a drive-by shooting. This gang violence spurred the City Council to start a series of
neighborhood forums about gang and gun violence in Yakima. Between 2017 and 2018, a total
of ten public forums took place throughout the City including two in Spanish. These efforts
concluded with the Vision 2025 Community Wellness Plan, which addressed community health
from three perspectives: Youth development; Domestic violence; and Neighborhood safety.
In addition, in May 2018 Opportunities Industrialization Center of WA(OIC) and
NAACP hosted a regional dialogue for youth to discuss violence. The City will leverage any and
all current discussions where we can understand diverse perspectives and incorporate messages
in our program design.' Based on feedback provided by community residents to listening
sessions conducted by the Yakima City Council in 2017, youth and gang violence ranked as one
of their top concerns10. The outcry over the violence prompted Washington Governor Jay Inslee
to visit Yakima to meet with community residents and leaders in October 2017.11 Over 100
people attended the meeting. A statewide summit on gangs and youth violence was held in
November 2017. Out of these efforts came a grant from the Governor's office to the City of
e https://www.vakimaherald.com/newsJ9ang-violence-solutions-hobbled-by-scant-
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9 Now is the Time II, City of Yakima Community Health and Safety Plan Vision 2025, pages 4-6
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Yakima to develop a sustainable approach to addressing gang violence and youth involvement in
gangs. This grant for a total of$150,000 was given for the state fiscal year from July 1, 2018 to
June 30, 2019.12
With the receipt of the grant, the City of Yakima began using the structure outlined in the
Comprehensive Gang Model. This has included:
• Convening a steering committee of key decision makers which meets monthly.
• Bringing together service providers and concerned community residents to share
resources, make connections and look at service gaps and how to fill them. This group
called the Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce (GRIT) Village has met every two
months.
• Developing a small pilot program, dubbed the Yakima Youth Leadership Program, as
our service delivery component. It provides coaching/mentoring to select 61h grade
students in the Yakima School District and their parents/guardians. The youth are
identified by the school as either being in a gang or at clear risk of joining one. The
design of this program, including the student age group to be reached, was determined
by the GRIT Village.
• Conducting a community education campaign with hour long interviews on KDNA, the
local Spanish Language public radio station, and short interviews and advertisements on
three English Language radio stations in Yakima.
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• Evaluating the effectiveness and impact of the grant program's components. The
evaluation is not yet ready at this time, but will be submitted to the State of Washington
by July 15, 2019. It will be available for sharing with OJJDP at that time.
Through the work we have done thus far under our current state grant, we clearly see the
value of continuing to implement the comprehensive gang model complete with continued Gang
Reduction Intervention Taskforce Steering Committee and Village meetings and to expand the
Yakima Youth Leadership Program to all four Yakima School District Middle Schools and all
the youth who could benefit from the program.
B. Program Design and Implementation: Goals, Objectives and Performance Measures
Our goals under the City of Yakima's Gang Suppression Grant are:
A. Identify and address service gaps and barriers, and create a blueprint for a comprehensive
network of services for youth at risk of becoming gang involved or continuing in the
gang lifestyle.
B. Reduce the impact of violence on youth by improving identification, screening, access,
delivery and quality of services available to youth exposed to gang-related violence in an
attempt to prevent them from joining a gang or becoming victimized by a gang.
C. Reduce and sustain reductions in community youth violence, particularly gun and gang
violence and victimization.
Objectives for accomplishing these goals include:
1. To reduce significantly the number of Yakima School District sixth graders during the
2019-20 and 2020-21 school years who join gangs during the Yakima Youth Leadership
Program's existence with a longer-term objective of reducing significantly the number of
youth in this age cohort who become involved in gangs throughout their lives.
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2. To increase instruction time of students in the Yakima Youth Leadership Program and
reduce their disciplinary issues.
3. To help students participating in the Yakima Youth Leadership Program increase their
level of school engagement, attendance and desire to learn.
4. To help students who participate in the program to become more resilient and thus less
likely to join gangs by teaching them leadership skills, and teaching and fostering hope in
them which propels them to positive, productive futures.
5. To provide opportunities for youth who have completed and begun to practice their
newfound leadership skills to move into a leadership role in the Yakima Youth
Leadership Program by referring other students to it, helping Education Advocates when
they hold YYLP group events and moving into leadership roles in school.
6. To match youth who participate in the program with mentors through existing and newly
created mentoring programs with long term mentor/mentee matches.
7. To refer and help connect parents/guardians of participating youth to needed/requested
community resources to help the families meet basic needs and promote resilience.
8. To reduce youth gang violence by starving the gangs of new, young recruits.
9. To continue convening service providers and concerned individuals as the Gang
Reduction Intervention Taskforce (GRIT) Village to identify service gaps and barriers
and work to fill those gaps with new services and reduce barriers to service access.
10. To grow the partnerships and collaborative efforts between service providers in the GRIT
Village.
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11. To create partnerships with service clubs and other groups to increase significantly the
number of mentors who are available to work with Yakima Youth Leadership Program
youth.
12. To expand the membership of the Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Steering
Committee to enlist the participation of leaders in key community sectors that are part of
this body. It is tasked with providing direction, changing policies within its member
agencies, governmental entities which will positively affect the availability of services,
reduction in service barriers and create a community culture that generate and supports
hopeful and resilient youth.
Performance Measures for these goals and objectives.
Objective 1: Reduce the number of YSD 6th graders joining gangs.
• Count the number of Yakima School District Middle School students wearing gang
colors, sporting hair styles associated with gang life, displaying gang signs at school at 3
points during each of the school years covered in this program.
• Measure the attitudes towards gangs of program participants at the beginning of their
participation in Yakima Youth Leadership Program and at the end of it via
surveys/interviews.
Objective 2: Increase instructional time and reduce disciplinary issues of YYLP students.
• Reduce the number of missed school days and tardiness levels of students participating in
the Yakima Youth Leadership program.
• Reduce the number of discipline incidents for students in the program.
Objective 3: Increase YYLP students' school engagement and desire to learn.
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• Increase the completion rate for homework and other school projects for youth in the
Yakima Youth Leadership Program.
• Increase the number of youth who report being happy at school and liking school via pre
and post program participation surveys/interviews.
Objective 4: Help YYLP students become more resilient.
• Measure the participating youths' awareness and utilization of leadership skills including
verbal and non-verbal communications skills, awareness of the risk of social media
causing upset, disrespect and isolation, bullying and its impact on others/self, risks of
drug and alcohol use, knowledge of what gang life is really like and the risks associated
with it, conflict resolution and self-regulations skills. This will be done via interviews
and the end of program participation.
• Measure the participating youths' hopefulness for their future by interviewing them about
their vision for their future in the areas of home and family, education and career, hobbies
and recreation and community/service utilizing the model of Kids at Hope time travel. 13
Objective 5: Provide YYLP students with leadership opportunities.
• Record and count number of YYLP student referrals of other students to the program,
YYLP students' participation in leadership role at YYLP group events, YYLP students'
stepping up to leadership roles in broader school environment.
Objective 6: Match YYLP students with mentors.
• Measure the number of Yakima Youth Leadership Program youth who have mentor
matches at the beginning and end of their program participation.
Objective 7: Refer and help parents/guardians connect to needed community resources.
13 Kids at Hope website. http://kidsathope.org/
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• Measure the number of referrals made and successful connections facilitated.
Objective 8: Reduce youth gang violence.
• Work with the Yakima Police Department Crime Statisticians to measure the incidence of
gang related crime and violent crime over the course of the 36 month period of the grant.
Objective 9: Convene GRIT Village.
• Report on the frequency of GRIT Village meetings, identification of service gaps and
barriers and what steps have been taken to fill those gaps and reduce barriers.
Objective 10: Grow GRIT Village partnerships and collaborations.
• Using surveys at three points during the grant period (first month, ninth month and
eighteenth month)to measure the current and planned partnerships and collaborations
between GRIT Village participants.
Objective 11: Increase available mentors to serve YYLP youth and others.
• Measure the number of participating youth who have been matched with mentors.
Measure the number of mentors participating in youth mentoring programs in Yakima at
two points during the grant period.
Objective 12: Expand Members of GRIT Steering Committee.
• Report on the membership of the Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce steering
committee including number of members and their sector affiliations.
A descriptive plan for the Components of the City of Yakima Gang Reduction Intervention
Taskforce is provided below.
The City of Yakima's Gang Suppression proposal includes the following components.
1. Continue the work of, and expand the membership of,the Gang Reduction Intervention
Taskforce Steering Committee.
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2. Continue convening the Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Village, the group of
service providers, faith-based organizations, concerned community leaders and members
to enhance connections and collaboration with each other, make referrals, identify service
gaps and find or create resources to fill those gaps.
3. Continue and expand the Yakima Youth Leadership program to all four Yakima School
District Middle Schools with a goal of working with 150 6th graders over the course of
the grant's 36 months to prevent them from entering gangs or to move out of gangs they
have already entered. We will also hold assemblies for sixth graders in all four Yakima
School District middle schools to talk about gangs, the negative impact of gang life,
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience and community and school resources to
strengthen resilience. Lastly, we will have annual parent forums on these same topics
with resource fairs of school and community resources to help families address these
challenges.
Each of these elements is explained in more detail below.
1. The Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Steering Committee was convened in July
2018 with the beginning of the Washington State grant to the City of Yakima at which time the
city adopted a Comprehensive Gang Model approach to addressing gang violence and youth
involvement in gangs. The committee meets monthly to provide grant oversight and direction for
the overall efforts to address gang violence and youth involvement in gangs as well as evaluation
of the efforts. This work will continue as envisioned in the Comprehensive Gang Model.
The committee's initial members included:
• Three of the seven members of the Yakima City Council: Dulce Gutierrez, Brad Hill
and Jason White.
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• Yakima County Prosecutor: Joseph Brusic.
• Yakima County Juvenile Court Administrator: Candi Shute
• Yakima School District Superintendent: Jack Irion
• Yakima Valley Farmworker's Clinic Director: Carlos Olivares. Mr. Olivares soon
designated the Clinics' Senior Director of Planning and Development to take his place
on the committee due to his busy schedule. Rodona Marquez.
In April of 2019, the committee voted to expand its membership to include a law
enforcement representative and a formerly gang involved individual.
• The Chief of Police for the City of Yakima, Matt Murray joined the committee at its May
meeting.
• The committee has identified two former gang members who are working to help youth
end their gang ties whom they have invited to join the committee. One has declined due
to his busy schedule. The other has not given her response yet but is still in dialogue with
the Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce consultant about the invitation.
The committee is considering adding representatives from additional sectors of the
community including family support and case management, mental health, independent living
skills, employment training and retention and faith and youth development. We will pursue this
expansion of the steering committee as we move into the OJJDP Gang Suppression grant.
2. The Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Village has grown considerably since the first
meeting of community leaders to address the gang violence and youth involvement in gangs
which took place in January 2018. The data base of participants includes 181 individuals from
77 organizations and governmental agencies as well as unaffiliated volunteers and community
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members. There have been 113 different people participate in the four meetings held since
November 2018 (during the time the city has had the grant from the state of Washington).
Going forward, we will continue to convene the GRIT Village to share information about
resources and approaches that help us address gang violence and youth involvement in gangs and
to foster collaboration and connection between the various entities with a goal towards matching
those with resources to those with needs including space, expertise, volunteers, knowledge and
connections.
3. The Yakima Youth Leadership Program component of our efforts will include the
following:
A. Youth Mentoring/Coaching and family supports one hundred and fifty 6th graders (over
the three years of the grant, 50 per year) identified by school staff as being in or on the
cusp of entering gang lifestyle (approximately thirty youth will participate in the
program at one time). The mentoring/coaching program will consist of
• Education Advocates case managing and accompanying for the youth and families that
would include the following items.
o Two times weekly one-on-one conversations between youth and education
advocate on the program's leadership skills curriculum and check in on progress
towards goals.
o Attendance, Grade & Behavior Challenges with rewards for completion.
o Monitoring of grades and attendance on a weekly basis.
o Connection to tutoring resources available at school when desired/requested by
students/family/school.
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o Assistance connecting to community resources (referrals, accompaniment, check
in, follow up).
o Connection to volunteer mentors through existing, sanctioned mentoring
programs in the community.
o Development of partnership with youths' parents/guardians so that they all can be
working on the same page with programmatic elements.
o Parent coaching, weekly, on how to parent successfully a middle schooler who is
on the cusp of gang involvement.
o Helping parents access needed community resources for themselves and their
families.
• As a student's behavior, attendance and attitudes shift more positively they would receive
a"warm"handoff to school counselors, coaches, School Resource Officers, an engaged
parent or other natural support to continue their progress and another student would be
given the slot in the program. Some students will likely need a longer intervention than
others. Normal length of time actively in the program will likely be 12 to 16 weeks. The
students who have "graduated" out of the program will continue to be monitored for
progress towards their goals and in terms of school performance and behavior and
supported by the education advocates who worked with them while in the program,just
at a less intensive level. They will also be invited to move into a leadership role in the
Yakima Youth Leadership Program.
B. Yakima School District-wide Resources for Youth and Parents/Guardians
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• Annual assemblies on gang awareness for each of 4 middle school 6th grade cohorts with
presentations from:
o Former gang members on negative impacts on self, family, and loved ones of
gang lifestyle.
o Opportunities and motivational speakers that foster hope, goal setting and positive
future outlook.
o Education Advocates or other ESD 105 staff about Adverse Childhood
Experience and Resilience and how to connect to school and community
resources to build resilience for themselves and their children.
o School counselors and other staff about resources available at school to address
ACEs and foster resilience.
• Annual parent information nights (or full day Saturdays)for parents/guardians of 6h
graders with:
o Food for full family and child care/fun and educational activities
o Training for parents on:
• Recognizing gang behaviors, dress, signs,
• Drug use as a gateway to gang involvement,
• ACEs and Resilience for self and children
• Parent/students' rights and responsibilities regrading school discipline
o Services fair with booths for all service provider/GRIT Village members
The reasons we have chosen to focus our efforts on working with sixth graders is that
most educators,juvenile justice representatives and community service providers have noted that
at this point in the youths' lives, those children contemplating becoming part of a gang are not so
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far into the gang/street lifestyle that we can't successfully divert them from making that choice.
With changes in the broader culture, youth unattachment to families and schools by late middle
school age, the criminally active gang members are as young as 13 and 14. Many people are
commenting that this age youth is even more prone to engaging in very violent acts that may or
may not be directed by older gang leaders. The youth may just be reacting to slights, such as
social media posts they perceive are disrespectful, without thinking about the consequences
when they begin a fight or pick up a gun to threaten or shoot another youth.
By focusing on 6th graders, we are hoping to direct them away from choosing a gang lifestyle
before they are too deep into it and don't see a way out, and preventing them from committing
criminal acts or becoming the victims of youth crime as a result of their gang involvement. The
selection process for the youth will include having the Education Advocates work with school
administrators, counselors, sixth grade teachers and school resource officers to identify students
who have experienced:
1. Decline in school attendance and grades
2. Association with older students
3. Discipline involving drug use
4. Lack of interest in sports or after school/extracurricular activities
5. Documented gang behavior
6. Observed indicators of gang behavior (clothing, hair style, body language)
7. Generational gang influence (Parents/older siblings involved in gang life)
The school staff will contact the parents of the identified youth to see if they would approve of
their child participating in the program. If they respond affirmatively,the youths would each be
invited to participate in the program by the Education Advocates.
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The service area for this grant covers the Yakima School District Catchment Area, an area that
used to match the city's boundaries. In the last 30 years the city's limits have expanded
westward into formerly unincorporated areas of Yakima County. Those areas, even though in the
city, are part of the West Valley School District. The Union Gap school district just to the south
of the Yakima District only serves Kindergarten through 8th grade. Students in that district
attend Yakima School District High Schools. The Yakima/Union Gap area has three designated
Qualified Opportunity Zones. The map below shows the school district boundaries with the
Qualified Opportunity Zones overlay.
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portion of an opportunity zones. Encouraging youth to attend class, get good grades, and
become community leaders through the Yakima Youth Leadership Program will benefit the
opportunity zones by providing good citizens, professional employers and employees, and the
desire to invest in their community. Further, youth who are engaged in their schools and
community create a safer neighborhood for residents of the Opportunity Zones. The goal of the
YYLP is to have fewer children join gangs. If we decrease the pipeline into gang membership,
gang size should age and ultimately shrink, causing less violence, crime and negativity in
Opportunity Zones which, as is evidenced on the map, consists of a significant part of the east
side of the City of Yakima. Overlaying this data with data regarding the gang activity within the
City (see attachment of the gang audit conducted in May of 2019), you can see that the
opportunity zones are also places with high gang activity. As a result, curbing gang entry by 6th
graders will have beneficial effects on those opportunity zone neighborhoods, increasing public
safety, decreasing crime, and creating more youth who are good neighbors and stewards of their
communities.
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Risk and Protective Factors that inform our Logic Model (statistics from the 2016 WA State Healthy Youth Survey.
http://www.askhys.net/):
Community Domain Family Domain
Risk Factors: Protective Factors: Risk Factors: Protective Factors:
• Low level of attachment to • Active volunteers serving • Poor family management • Many parents are engaged in
their neighborhood. youth in after school programs. (power dynamics due to their children's education and
• High level of community • Churches adopting schools and immigration; limited parenting work hard to make extra
disorganization members volunteering there. skills; parental absence; curricular resources available
(unwillingness to cooperate • Active service club community addiction). to them.
with police). focusing on youth (Kiwanis • Family conflict. • Many of the more traditional
• Frequent transitions in clubs, Rotary clubs, Junior • In some families, parents Latino families in the area have
residency in neighborhood. League). have favorable attitudes toward strong family linkages so if the
• Legal marijuana use for over • Yakima Youth Awards anti-social behavior. children aren't rebelling they
age of 21. annually honoring youth who • In some families, parents likely feel cared about and
• Perceived ease of make a difference/are leaders. have favorable attitudes watched over(78% of the
availability of firearms. • WA state laws on firearms are towards use of alcohol, tobacco Yakima School District's
• Community norms favorable fairly restrictive. and drugs. student population are from
to firearms. What is needed: • Some families have a history Latino backgrounds).
• Limited opportunities for • High level of attachment in of anti-social behavior • Parents genuinely care for and
pro-social involvement. neighborhood, as evidenced by including gang involvement. support their children.
Red font items are not in neighbors knowing and • Low family attachment due to What is needed:
Hawkins and Catalano List of spending time with neighbors, differing generational • Educational resources for
community domain risk block watches, active expectations of immigrant parents guardians on effective
factors. neighborhood groups. families, poor parenting skills, parenting, their rights to
• High rate of racism and • Stronger neighborhood limited time with children. discipline control their children
racist statements in the cohesion. • Limited opportunities for despite immigration status.
community. • Changing community norms families to have pro-social • Increased opportunities for
• High rate of poverty in related to firearms, drug use, involvement in the community. pro-social involvement in the
neighborhoods. alcohol. use. • Parents, especially immigrant community.
• Low expectation of chance • Development of pro-social parents, don't know what their
for improved life. involvement opportunities. rights are regarding
• High level of incivility in disciplining controlling their
public sphere. children.
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School Domain Peer and Individual Domain
Risk Factors: Protective Factors: Risk Factors: Protective Factors:
• Children who have limited • Active efforts by the Yakima • Due to laws legalizing • Youth in engaged Latino
academic success in school School District to encourage marijuana use for people over families who are not rebelling
are more likely to drop out or attendance (rewards for perfect 21, youth likely perceive there likely feel pride in their
experience behavioral blocks attendance and progress). to be little risk smoking heritage and therefore are more
to ongoing school attendance. • Education Advocates available marijuana. Yakima County relislietn to the racism and the
• While schools try to reward for high school age youth who youth are almost twice as low expectations of them
attendance and punish have had contact with the likely to be arrested for drug commonly present in the wider
truancy,these efforts haven't criminal justice system through law violations as the state community.
been adequately successful at an OSPI grant to ESD 105. average (4 arrests per 1,000 vs. What is needed:
insuring annual academic What is needed: 2.3 per 1,000 youth age 10-17, Shift in social norms against
progress and academic Education advocacy for middle 2015 statistic). rebellious and delinquent
competence for all students. school age youth • Local youth are more likely behaviors.
• Children between 1st and 8th Alternative school resource for to engage in rebellious or Pro-social peer groups for the
grade in Yakima County are youth of middle school age who delinquent behaviors than is most at-risk youth.
almost 2.5 times as likely to are long term suspended or the norm in WA state (in Clear consequences for
have unexcused absences expelled. measures like alcohol and drug delinquent behaviors.
from school as their WA state Trauma informed resiliency offenses, property crime and
counterparts. informed approach to discipline. vandalism, Yakima County
• When schools do not have a youth are about 1.5 to 1.75
trauma informed approach to times more likely to be arrested
school discipline children for these crimes than the WA
with high ACEs scores are state average).
more likely to have behavioral • the Yakima County teenage
incidents that lead to pregnancy rate is almost 3
suspension and expulsion. times the state average at 90
• These risk factors lead to births per 1,000 teenage
low school attachment and girls/women.
commitment as well as more
dramatic challenges such as
long terri suspension or
expulsion..
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Logic Model
Please see logic model attached as Attachment 1.
Timeline
Please see timeline attached as Attachment 2.
C. Capabilities and Competencies
The City of Yakima began implementing the Comprehensive Gang Model approach to address
youth violence and youth involvement in gangs with its receipt of a grant from the Washington
State government in July 2018. This effort has involved the City Manager's office providing
oversight of the project and quarterly reports to the State of WA, the city/county purchasing
office generating contracts and overseeing them, and the finance department paying
reimbursement invoices and billing the state of Washington. This all has gone very smoothly.
The purchasing and finance departments currently oversee federal contracts for transportation
funds and the Yakima Air Terminal. The same entities will be involved in similar fashion for the
OJJDP Gang Suppression grant. Educational Service District 105,the employer of the Education
Advocates under this grant proposal as a sub-grantee, manages and handles the financial side of
numerous state and federal contracts that serve the 25 school districts in its service area.
Program Management
The program's management structure will be as follows:
Direction of the program's efforts will be in the hands of the Gang Reduction Intervention
Taskforce Steering Committee.
Supervision of the efforts will be provided by Yakima Assistant City Manager.
Overall program coordination will be provided by the program coordinator. This position will be
based at the Yakima Police Department and paid for out of that Department's budget. The
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City of Yakima OJJDP Gang Suppression Project Narrative
individual in that role will provide support services to the Gang Reduction Intervention
Taskforce (GRIT) Steering Committee; convene the GRIT Village, fostering partnerships and
collaborations between members, and guiding the Village to identify service gaps and barriers
and work to address both; and serving as a liaison to community stakeholders, the Yakima
School District and ESD 105 with regards to the Yakima Youth Leadership Program, the 6th
grade assemblies and the parent/guardian forum(s)for 6th graders' families. They will also guide
the evaluation efforts in conjunction with the education advocates and program evaluator.
There will be three education advocates working with the 6th graders at the four middle schools.
The education advocates will be employed by Educational Service District 105 where they will
receive initial and ongoing training and ongoing collaboration with the Education Advocates
working in the high schools. The middle school education advocates will each be working
approximately 12 hours per week and will work throughout the year. It should be noted that
since gang membership, affiliation and violence affect all genders of 6th graders, care will be
taken to ensure that there are Education Advocates of both genders available to the participants
of the Yakima Youth Leadership Program. Please see the attached Organization Chart for
further information.
Plan for Data Collection
Under our current state of Washington grant, we have developed data collection protocols that
enlist the efforts of our staff person working with the youth, our GRIT consultant and our
program evaluator. We anticipate continuing this approach for data points specific to youth in the
program. We have collaborative working relationships with the Yakima County Juvenile Court
and Yakima Police Department and will work with them to gather crime data more generally and
related to specific youth in the program as we move into the OJJDP funded project
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City of Yakima Gang Suppression Budget Narrative
Year 1
Staffing: The Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Coordinator and Supervisor will both be
employees of the City of Yakima. The Coordinator will dedicate 50% of a full time equivalent
position to the project at$18.39 per hour. The Supervisor will dedicate 10% of his/her time to
the project at $65.75 per hour. The three Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Education
Advocates will work for Educational Service District 105. They will work 10 hours per week on
average for 47 weeks out of the year. They will also have 11 hours for evening work meeting
with parents over the course of the year. These hours will total 481 per year. Their rate of pay
will be $27.75 per hour.
Fringe Benefits: The Yakima City Staff will receive medical, dental and vision coverage, 1%
deferred compensation. The fringe benefits for them include all applicable taxes, workers'
compensation payments and life insurance expense. The rate for these items is calculated as a
total for all the benefits divided by the percentage of full time that they will work on the Gang
Suppression grant.
The Educational Service District Education Advocates will receive the employer contribution to
their retirement fund of 13% of their salary. They will receive no health insurance benefits.
Their employers' share of payroll taxes is calculated at 12%.
Travel: The Education Advocates will receive mileage reimbursement for their local travel at the
current IRS rate. That rate is currently $.58 per mile. The average trip is calculated at 6 miles
(Yakima School District has a fairly compact catchment area so this average distance between
schools or to parent/youth households seems realistic). One person from the program will travel
to the TTA Center's Cross Site Grantee meeting. The costs of which are calculated at currently
available air fare, hotel expenses, per diem meal rate and local travel to and from the airport.
Equipment: Education Service District 105 will provide the Education Advocates with cell
phones for their work with the students and families as well as laptops. The laptops will be set up
with all necessary programs, wi-fi access and ongoing tech support. All tech support for the
devices is included in the cost, including record retention costs. The cell phone cost is $850 and
the computer and support cost is $2,300 per year.
Subawards: The GRIT Evaluator will guide the evaluation elements of the program, working
with the GRIT coordinator to make any changes to the youth and parent survey and exit
interview guides for parents and school leaders. Juliana Van Olphen has been the program
evaluator for the past year while City of Yakima has had the gang grant from the state of
Washington. She will provide initial feedback to the Education Advocates about their data
collection efforts for each student. The evaluator position is paid at $60 per hour. She is
expected to work 166.66 hours per year, approximately 3.2 hours per week. This amounts to
$10,000 per year.
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Indirect Costs: The City of Yakima will not charge an administrative rate. Instead it will be
absorbing the indirect costs to cover services provided by the City's Purchasing, Finance, Human
Resources and City Manager departments.
Educational Service District 105 will charge a 7.5% Indirect cost administrative rate on all
employee wage/salary times. They will not charge the indirect cost administrative rate on the
technology fees or employee local travel. This rate is below the normal grant management
indirect rate of 10% and is below the de minimis OJP limit of 10%. City of Yakima Gang
Suppression Budget Narrative
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Year 2
Staffing: The Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Coordinator and Supervisor will both be
employees of the City of Yakima. The Coordinator will dedicate 50% of a full time equivalent
position to the project at$18.84 per hour. The Supervisor will dedicate 10% of his/her time to
the project at $67.39 per hour. The three Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Education
Advocates will work for Educational Service District 105. They will work 10 hours per week on
average for 47 weeks out of the year. They will also have 11 hours for evening work meeting
with parents over the course of the year. These hours will total 481 per year. Their rate of pay
will be $28.30 per hour.
Fringe Benefits: The Yakima City Staff will receive medical, dental and vision coverage, 1%
deferred compensation. The fringe benefits for them include all applicable taxes, workers'
compensation payments and life insurance expense. The rate for these items is calculated as a
total for all the benefits divided by the percentage of full time that they will work on the Gang
Suppression grant.
The Educational Service District Education Advocates will receive the employer contribution to
their retirement fund of 13% of their salary. They will receive no health insurance benefits.
Their employers' share of payroll taxes is calculated at 12%.
Travel: The Education Advocates will receive mileage reimbursement for their local travel at the
current IRS rate. That rate is currently $.58 per mile. The average trip is calculated at 6 miles
(Yakima School District has a fairly compact catchment area so this average distance between
schools or to parent/youth households seems realistic). One person from the program will travel
to the TTA Center's Cross Site Grantee meeting. The costs of which are calculated at currently
available air fare, hotel expenses, per diem meal rate and local travel to and from the airport.
Equipment: Education Service District 105 will provide the Education Advocates with cell
phones for their work with the students and families as well as laptops. The laptops will be set up
with all necessary programs, wi-fi access and ongoing tech support. All tech support for the
devices is included in the cost, including record retention costs. The cell phone cost is $850 and
the computer and support cost is $2,300 per year.
Subawards: The GRIT Evaluator will guide the evaluation elements of the program, working
with the GRIT coordinator to make any changes to the youth and parent survey and exit
interview guides for parents and school leaders. Juliana Van Olphen has been the program
evaluator for the past year while City of Yakima has had the gang grant from the state of
Washington. She will provide initial feedback to the Education Advocates about their data
collection efforts for each student. The evaluator position is paid at $60 per hour. She is
expected to work 166.66 hours per year, approximately 3.2 hours per week. This amounts to
$10,000 per year.
Indirect Costs: The City of Yakima will not charge an administrative rate. Instead it will be
absorbing the indirect costs to cover services provided by the City's Purchasing, Finance, Human
Resources and City Manager departments.
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Educational Service District 105 will charge a 7.5% Indirect cost administrative rate on all
employee wage/salary times. They will not charge the indirect cost administrative rate on the
technology fees or employee local travel. This rate is below the normal grant management
indirect rate of 10% and is below the de minimis OJP limit of 10%.
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Year 3
Staffing: The Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Coordinator and Supervisor will both be
employees of the City of Yakima. The Coordinator will dedicate 50% of a full time equivalent
position to the project at$19.31 per hour. The Supervisor will dedicate 10% of his/her time to
the project at $69.07 per hour. The three Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce Education
Advocates will work for Educational Service District 105. They will work 10 hours per week on
average for 47 weeks out of the year. They will also have 11 hours for evening work meeting
with parents over the course of the year. These hours will total 481 per year. Their rate of pay
will be $28.87 per hour.
Fringe Benefits: The Yakima City Staff will receive medical, dental and vision coverage, 1%
deferred compensation. The fringe benefits for them include all applicable taxes, workers'
compensation payments and life insurance expense. The rate for these items is calculated as a
total for all the benefits divided by the percentage of full time that they will work on the Gang
Suppression grant.
The Educational Service District Education Advocates will receive the employer contribution to
their retirement fund of 13% of their salary. They will receive no health insurance benefits.
Their employers' share of payroll taxes is calculated at 12%.
Travel: The Education Advocates will receive mileage reimbursement for their local travel at the
current IRS rate. That rate is currently $.58 per mile. The average trip is calculated at 6 miles
(Yakima School District has a fairly compact catchment area so this average distance between
schools or to parent/youth households seems realistic). One person from the program will travel
to the TTA Center's Cross Site Grantee meeting. The costs of which are calculated at currently
available air fare, hotel expenses, per diem meal rate and local travel to and from the airport.
Equipment: Education Service District 105 will provide the Education Advocates with cell
phones for their work with the students and families as well as laptops. The laptops will be set up
with all necessary programs, wi-fi access and ongoing tech support. All tech support for the
devices is included in the cost, including record retention costs. The cell phone cost is $850 and
the computer and support cost is $2,300 per year.
Subawards: The GRIT Evaluator will guide the evaluation elements of the program, working
with the GRIT coordinator to make any changes to the youth and parent survey and exit
interview guides for parents and school leaders. Juliana Van Olphen has been the program
evaluator for the past year while City of Yakima has had the gang grant from the state of
Washington. She will provide initial feedback to the Education Advocates about their data
collection efforts for each student. The evaluator position is paid at $60 per hour. She is
expected to work 166.66 hours per year, approximately 3.2 hours per week. This amounts to
$10,000 per year.
Indirect Costs: The City of Yakima will not charge an administrative rate. Instead it will be
absorbing the indirect costs to cover services provided by the City's Purchasing, Finance, Human
Resources and City Manager departments.
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Educational Service District 105 will charge a 7.5% Indirect cost administrative rate on all
employee wage/salary times. They will not charge the indirect cost administrative rate on the
technology fees or employee local travel. This rate is below the normal grant management
indirect rate of 10% and is below the de minimis OJP limit of 10%.
Yakima, WA Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce OJJDP Gang Suppression Timeline 2019
Month Project Goal Related Objectives Activities Expected Person
Completion Date Responsible
Identify and Convene service providers and Hold bi-monthly meetings of Month 6. GRIT
address service concerned individuals as the the GRIT Village where we Coordinator &
1 gaps and barriers. Gang Reduction Intervention continue to identify service Village
Taskforce (GRIT) Village to gaps, shortages in capacity and
identify service gaps and barriers to youth and families
barriers. accessing available services.
Create a blueprint Gang Reduction Intervention Hold bi-monthly meetings of Ongoing GRIT Village &
6 for a Taskforce (GRIT) Village the GRIT Village to design Coordinator
comprehensive works to fill service gaps with needed services, secure funding with help from
network of new services and reduce and implement. Work with GRIT Steering
services for gang barriers to service access. additional community service Committee.
at risk and providers to reduce/remove
involved youth. barriers.
All three goals All Objectives Recruit and hire Gang Month -1 Chief of Police,
-1 Reduction Intervention Assistant City
Taskforce Coordinator Manager
All three goals All Objectives Recruit and hire GRIT Month 1 City Manager
1 Evaluator
Prevent youth To reduce significantly the Recruit and hire three End of Month 1 Education
from joining a number of youth who are Education Advocates to work Service District
1 gang or becoming Yakima School District(YSD) with Yakima SD sixth graders (ESD) 105
victimized by a sixth graders during the 2019- in Yakima Youth Leadership Teaching &
gang 20 and 2020-21 school years Program Learning
who join gangs during the Support
Yakima Youth Leadership Director and
Program's (YYLP) existence. GRIT
Coordinator
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Yakima, WA Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce OJJDP Gang Suppression Timeline 2019
Month Project Goal Related Objectives Activities Expeeted Person Responsible
Completion
Date
Prevent youth from To reduce significantly the Train Education Advocates on Month 2 ESD 105 Teaching
joining a gang or number of youth who are Case Management, Home and Learning
1 becoming victimized YSD sixth graders during visiting, program goals and Support Asst.
by a gang the 2019-20 and 2020-21 objectives, how to administer Director and Senior
school years who join gangs parent and student surveys, how Ed. Advocate
during the YYLP's to track data collection points
existence. and send them to evaluator.
Prevent youth from To reduce significantly the Secure laptop computers and Month 1 City, YSD or ESD,
1 joining a gang or number of youth who are phones for Education depending on who
becoming victimized YSD sixth graders during Advocates working in the is providing these
by a gang the 2019-20, 2020-21 and program. items.
2021-22 school years who
join gangs during the
YYLP's existence.
Prevent youth from To reduce significantly the Count the number of YSD Months 2, 7, Ed. Advocates and
joining a gang or number of youth who are Middle School students wearing 13, 19, 25, school staff
2 becoming victimized YSD sixth graders during gang colors, sporting hair styles 32 and 36
by a gang the grant period school years associated with gang life,
who join gangs. displaying gang signs at school.
Prevent youth from To reduce significantly the Identify youth to participate in Month 2, Middle School
2 joining a gang or number of youth who are YYLP Month 11 Admin team, School
becoming victimized YSD sixth graders during and Month Resource officers,
by a gang the 2019-20, 2020-21 and 23 Teachers and Ed.
2021-22 school years who Advocates
join gangs during the
YYLP's existence.
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Yakima, WA Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce OJJDP Gang Suppression Timeline 2019
Month Project Goal Related Objectives Activities Expected Person Responsible
Completion
Date
Prevent youth from To reduce significantly the Enroll youth in YYLP aiming Month 3, Education
2 joining a gang or number of youth who are for an initial cohort of 30 sixth then ongoing Advocates with
becoming victimized YSD sixth graders during grade students via invitation, as space in support from school
by a gang the 2019-20, 2020-21 and youths' acceptance & program counselors and
2021-22 school years who permission authorization from becomes school resource
join gangs during the all youths' parents or guardians available officers
YYLP's existence.
Prevent youth from Objectives 2, 3, 5 Administer youth and Ongoing Education
joining a gang or parent/guardian surveys at entry Advocates
2 becoming victimized into program.
by a gang.
Prevent youth from To help students who Administer YYLP training Ongoing Education
2 joining a gang or participate in the program to curriculum with each student in Advocates
becoming victimized become more resilient and one-on-one meetings.
by a gang. thus less likely to join gangs
by teaching them leadership
skills, and teaching and
fostering hope.
1 Prevent youth from To increase instruction time Procure Incentives for YYLP Ongoing GRIT Coordinator
joining a gang or of students in the YYLP and student challenges.
becoming victimized reduce their disciplinary
by a gang. issues.
3 Prevent youth from To increase instruction time Collect and record attendance & Ongoing Ed. Advocates
joining a gang or of students in the YYLP and tardiness data, homework
becoming victimized reduce their disciplinary completion, disciplinary records
by a gang. issues. and record on student data
sheets.
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Yakima, WA Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce OJJDP Gang Suppression Timeline 2019
Month Project Goal Related Objectives Activities Expected Person Responsible
Completion
Date
Prevent youth from To increase instruction time Make YYLP attendance and Ongoing Education
joining a gang or of students in the YYLP and behavior challenges. Reward Advocates
3 becoming victimized reduce their disciplinary students for completing the
by a gang. issues. challenges.
To help students
participating in the YYLP
increase their level of school
engagement and desire to
learn.
Prevent youth from To refer and help connect Refer and help connect youth Ongoing Ed. Advocates and
joining a gang or parents/guardians of and families with desired GRIT Coordinator
3 becoming victimized participating youth to community resources including
by a gang. needed/requested after school programs, mental
community resources to help health & health care resources,
families meet basic needs food banks, rent and utilities
and promote resilience. assistance, etc.
Prevent youth from To help students who Help youth who have Ongoing. Education
3 joining a gang or participate in the program to completed the YYLP Advocates, school
becoming victimized become more resilient and curriculum to exit from the personnel who
by a gang. thus less likely to join gangs program, linking them to volunteer to be
by teaching them leadership supportive adults in the school YYLP youth
skills, and teaching and for follow up monitoring. supporters.
fostering hope.
Prevent youth from To help students who Administer exit surveys Ongoing as Education
joining a gang or participate in the program to interviews with youth who have youth Advocates, GRIT
becoming victimized become more resilient and completed the program and complete Coordinator and
5 by a gang. by teaching them leadership successfully are using their active evaluator
skills, and teaching and newfound skills to be leaders in elements of
fostering hope. their schools. YYLP
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Yakima, WA Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce OJJDP Gang Suppression Timeline 2019
Month Project Goal Related Objectives Activities Expected Person Responsible
Completion
Date
Prevent youth from To provide opportunities for Invite graduating youth to serve Ongoing Education
5 joining a gang or youth who have completed as informal mentors to their Advocates
becoming victimized YYLP curriculum to move peers, recruiters for the program
by a gang. into leadership roles. and enlist their help when
conducting YYLP group events.
Help them connect with broader
school leadership positions.
Prevent youth from Match youth who participate Refer interested youth to Ongoing Education
joining a gang or in the program with mentors mentor programs available in Advocates
3 becoming victimized through existing and newly Yakima. Advocate for their
by a gang. created mentoring programs being at the top of any waiting
with long term lists for a mentor at each
mentor/mentee matches. program.
Reduce and sustain Reduce youth gang violence Count youth and gang-related Months 1, 7, GRIT Coordinator,
1 reductions in youth by starving the gangs of crimes including gun and 13, 19, 25 Yakima Police
violence, particularly new, young recruits. violent crime in Yakima for and 36. Department
gun and gang prior six months. Statisticians,
violence and Yakima Juvenile
victimization. Court staff.
Create a blueprint for Grow the partnerships and Conduct surveys of GRIT Months 1, 9, GRIT Coordinator
a comprehensive collaborative efforts between Village member agencies to 18, 27 and 36
1 network of services service providers in the measure current and planned
for youth at risk of GRIT Village. partnerships and collaborations
becoming, or are, to serve youth at risk of
involved in gangs. becoming gang involved, or are
in a gang lifestyle.
Prevent youth from Create partnerships with Presentations to area service Ongoing GRIT Coordinator
3 joining a gang or community groups to clubs and other community
becoming victimized increase the number of groups, explaining the program
by a gang. mentors who are available to efforts and enlisting members'
work with YYLP youth. support.
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Yakima, WA Gang Reduction Intervention Taskforce OJJDP Gang Suppression Timeline 2019
Month Project Goal Related ob. et es Activities Expeeted Pcrson Respatvsible
Completion
Date
Identify and address Expand the membership of Propose revision to charter of Month 5 GRIT Supervisor
4 service gaps and the Gang Reduction the Gang Reduction
barriers, for serving Intervention Taskforce Intervention Taskforce Steering
youth at risk of Steering Committee. Committee.
becoming gang
involved or
continuing in the
gang lifestyle.
Same as above Expand the membership of Vote on charter revision Month 5 GRIT Steering
5 the Gang Reduction Committee
Intervention Taskforce
Steering Committee.
Same as above Expand the membership of Recruit new Steering Comm. Month 9 GRIT Steering
6 the Gang Reduction members from key community Committee, GRIT
Intervention Taskforce sectors including family support Coordinator, GRIT
Steering Committee. and case management, mental Supervisor
health, independent living
skills, employment training and
retention and faith and youth
development
Same as above Expand the membership of Elect new Steering Committee Month 9 GRIT Steering
9 the Gang Reduction members from people Committee
Intervention Taskforce nominated
Steering Committee.
All 3 goals All 12 Objectives Compile interim and final Month 12, 24 GRIT Evaluator,
18 reports outlining the successes and 36, GRIT Coordinator,
and challenges of the Gang (other times GIRT Steering
Reduction Intervention if so directed Committee, GRIT
Taskforce effort. under grant Supervisor, Ed
guidelines.) Advocates
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Mr. Kevin Chase
Superintendent, ESD 105
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Yakima, WA 98901
Re: OJJDP Grant Application
Letter of Understanding Regarding Partnership
Updated
Dear Kevin,
Thank you for meeting with Matt Fairbank and me last Friday to discuss some ideas surrounding
the continuation and expansion of the Yakima Youth Leadership Program, which is currently
operating on a pilot program basis pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding between the
City, ESD 105 and the Yakima School District. We believe, and the evidence shows, that this
program is having a positive effect on the 6111 grade students who are involved, with a decrease in
absences and tardiness in school and increases in grades. We will continue the program through
June 30, 2019 (when our current grant funding runs out), and will have additional data on the
program available after July 15, 2019.
One of the things we have heard from YSD personnel is that they would like to expand the
program to all of the middle schools, and have an increased number of students be involved in
the Program. We also heard that it is important to have sonic sort of education piece available to
all 6th grade students, and all of their parents/guardians. We have worked this feedback into the
grant proposal.
The Department of Justice has available a small number of 01113P grants for gang suppression
activities. We believe that the Yakima Youth Leadership Program, working in conjunction with
the Village meetings of providers and stakeholders and the oversight of the Steering Committee,
is an excellent candidate for one of the $230,000.00 grants available. That money is available
for a 36 month period for suppression activities, which totals a little over $76,000.00 per year.
The three primary elements of the overall program we propose for the grant are:
I. Yakima Youth Leadership Program for up to 30 students at a time across all four
Yakima School District middle schools with the anticipation that approximately 75
students will be served each year.
a. Entrance and exit criteria to allow for fluid program participants
b. Personalized coaching for youth and their families who participate in the program
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c. Monitoring of behavioral issues, grades,attendance, contact with law enforcement
and other matters as appropriate
d. Connecting youth to services such as tutoring, after school activities,sports,
mental health,medical, and other community resources
a Assistance for families in connecting with community resources
f. Connection to volunteer mentors through other existing mentorship programs in
Yakima
g. Parent coaching and help, as well as help with accessing community services
2. 6'1' Grade Student and Parent Education
a. Connecting with all 6" graders about gang awareness, resilience, hope,
opportunities, conflict resolution or other pertinent topics to be determined jointly
with the Yakima Youth Leadership Program coordinator and the Yakima School
District. This could be through an assembly or series of assemblies, or in-class
time depending on what is deemed appropriate by the YSD.
b. Connecting with all parents of 6" graders through an educational seminar or
seminars discussing similar topics, as well as adverse childhood impacts,
community services available, and parent rights. At such a seminar there could
also be a services fair where service providers can provide handouts or sign up
families and/or youth for services or after school programming. Seminars would
need to include a meal and child care for higher attendance.
3. Community-wide collaboration through the GRIT Village
a. Continue Village meetings and collaboration with meetings still held every other
month
b. Monthly Steering Committee meetings to discuss long-term strategies and
capacity.
c. Provide support for the efforts listed in(1)and (2) above.
The OJJDP grant will not cover the costs of all of these aspects. Therefore, the City is seeking
support from its current partners—Yakima School District and ESD 105. The City will also be
providing personnel support, which may include creating a position within the City to coordinate
the program, run the Village meetings and support the Steering Committee. We are asking that
each entity listed herein (the City, YSD and ESD 105) contribute to the program, with the
expectation that the Village participants will also be willing to provide specific contributions to
portions of the program (in part as indicated below), Many Village members are supplying
Letters of Support outlining their participation in the Village and wanting to be part of the
community-wide effort to limit gang violence and activity in Yakima.
For purposes of the OJJDP grant, we would like to formalize our understanding of ESD 105's
role in the Yakima Youth Leadership Program and the 6' Grade Student/Parent education piece.
If the grant is received, ESD 105 would agree to the following:
1. ESD 105 will hire three (3) Education Advocates to work part time (approximately
600 hours per year). The Education Advocates would be housed at ESD 105,
although they will not have designated office or meeting space since the majority of
their work will be at middle schools. ESD 105 will allow the Education Advocates to
utilize space at the Open Doors facility as available.
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ESD 105 will allow YSD to participate in the hiring of the Education Advocate
positions.
3. ESD 105 will provide computers and cellular telephones, as well as all tech support to
those Education Advocates at the same rate as other ESD 105 employees.
4. ESD 105 will accept 7.5% as its indirect cost rate for the OJJDP grant.
ESD 105 will provide training to the Education Advocates hired for these positions
and will allow the Education Advocates to attend trainings offered by the Yakima
School District if those trainings are deemed relevant and appropriate.
Under the current plan, the YSD will be providing the space and facilities for the Yakima Youth
Leadership Program and 6th grade class assemblies and parent education night, The parent
education night is anticipated to have a"service fair" component where ESD 105 could set up a
table to talk about its Open Doors facility and other programs available to youth and their
families.
I hope that you find the above outline of the program acceptable. If you agree to it, the City is
asking you to sign below. If the City receives the OJJDP grant funding, it is understood that a
formal Memorandum of Understanding, or similar legal contract, will be entered into, which
outlines the terms above, as well as other components of the partnership between the City and
ESD 105 on this project I will need to have you return this Letter, signed on or before June 20,
2019. The government suggests that the grant applications and accompanying documents (of
which this would be one that is required) be uploaded on June 21, 2019 with the deadline for the
grant applications on June 24, 2019. The formal contract or memorandum of understanding will
need to be signed after the grant has been awarded.
Thank you for working with the City on the pilot program operating in Franklin Middle School
and Lewis and Clark Middle School. We have seen positive impacts with the students who have
been served. Your cooperation in the effort in the future, and your willingness to work with the
City to obtain this grant funding to continue and expand the program would be appreciated.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and contact me as soon as possible if additional
meetings or discussions need to occur so that we can finalize our tentative agreement within the
deadlines stated above.
Sincerely,
Sara Watkins
City of Yakima,GRIT
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ESD 105 agrees to the terms of this letter of intent and will enter into a memorandum of
understanding with the City to partner on the Yakima Youth Leadership Program and related
activities if the OJJDP t is awarded to the City.
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By: Kevin Chase
ESD 105 Superintendent
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June 14,2019
Dr. Jack Irion
Superintendent, Yakima School District
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WA 98902
Re: OJJDP Grant Application
Letter of Understanding Regarding Partnership
Updated
Dear Jack,
Matt Fairbank and Sara Watkins met with Amanda Jewell and Omar Santoy to discuss some
ideas surrounding the continuation and expansion of the Yakima Youth Leadership Program,
which is currently operating on a pilot program basis pursuant to the Memorandum of
Understanding between the City and the Yakima School District. We believe, and the evidence
shows, that this program is having a positive effect on the 6th grade students who are involved,
with a decrease in absences and tardiness in school and increases in grades. We will continue the
program through June 30,2019, and will have additional data on the program available after July
15,2019.
One of the things we have heard from YSD personnel is that they would like to expand the
program to all of the middle schools,and have an increased number of students be involved in
the Program. We also heard that it is important to have some sort of education piece available to
all 6th grade students, and all of their parents/guardians. We have worked this feedback into the
grant proposal.
The Department of Justice has available a small number of OJJDP grants for gang suppression
activities. We believe that the Yakima Youth Leadership Program,working in conjunction with
the Village meetings of providers and stakeholders and the oversight of the Steering Committee,
is an excellent candidate for one of the$230,000.00 grants available. That money is available
for a 36 month period for suppression activities,which totals a little over$76,000.00 per year.
The three primary elements of the overall program we propose for the grant are:
1. Yakima Youth Leadership Program for up to 30 students at a time across all four
Yakima School District middle schools with the anticipation that approximately 75
students will be served each year.
a. Entrance and exit criteria to allow for fluid program participants
b. Personalized coaching for youth and their families who participate in the program
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c. Monitoring of behavioral issues,grades, attendance, contact with law enforcement
and other matters as appropriate
d. Connecting youth to services such as tutoring, after school activities, sports,
mental health,medical, and other community resources
e. Assistance for families in connecting with community resources
1 Connection to volunteer mentors through other existing mentorship programs in
Yakima
g. Parent coaching and help,as well as help with accessing community services
2. 6th 3 de Student : Parent Education
a. Connecting with all 6th graders about gang awareness,resilience,hope,
opportunities, conflict resolution or other pertinent topics to be determined jointly
with the Yakima Youth Leadership Program coordinator and the Yakima School
District. This could be through an assembly or series of assemblies, or in-class
time depending on what is deemed appropriate by the YSD.
b. Connecting with all parents of 6th graders through an educational seminar or
seminars discussing similar topics,as well as adverse childhood impacts,
community services available, and parent rights. At such a seminar there could
also be a services fair where service providers can provide handouts or sign up
families and/or youth for services or after school programming. Seminars would
need to include a meal and child care for higher attendance.
3. Community-wide collaboration through the GRIT Village
a. Continue Village meetings and collaboration with meetings still held every other
month
b. Monthly Steering Committee meetings to discuss long-term strategies and
capacity.
c. Provide support for the efforts listed in(1)and(2) above.
The OJJDP grant will not cover the costs of all of these aspects. Therefore,the City is seeking
support from its current partners—Yakima School District and ESD 105. The City will also be
providing personnel support, which may include creating a position within the City to coordinate
the program,run the Village meetings and support the Steering Committee. We are asking that
each entity listed herein(the City, YSD and ESD 105) contribute to the program,with the
expectation that the Village participants will also be willing to provide specific contributions to
portions of the program(in part as indicated below). Many Village members are supplying
Letters of Support outlining their participation in the Village and wanting to be part of the
community-wide effort to limit gang violence and activity in Yakima.
For purposes of the OLTDP grant,we would like to fo • ize our understan,* g of YSD's role in
the Yakirna Youth Leadership Progr: and the 6th Grade Studen ' nt education piece. If the
grant is received, YSD would agree to the following:
1. YSD will allow the Yakima Youth Leadership Program coaches and coordinator to
have access to students involved in the program during the school day as the teacher,
principal and staff allow. It is anticipated that each coach will be in the schools for
approximately 12 hours per week. Coaches will coordinate with school staff for
meeting room space, and the times when student contact is allowed. Coaches will also
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have access to relevant data(and will be required to complete any training or
paperwork associated with gaining access to relevant data—anticipated to include
attendance, grades, and disciplinary data).
2. YSD will provide the space at each of the four middle schools for an all 6th grade
class assembly at least one time per year. This assembly may be combined with other
ass- bly progr ii * g al - g y envisioned or be a separate assembly. I e assembly
will focus on a topic that is pe •ent to 6th graders and will help them i i e good
decisions and stay out of gangs and violence. The topics will be jointly agreed upon
in advance between the YSD and the program coordinator. YSD will be responsible
for any costs associated with the assemblies. It is anticipated that local stakeholders,
service providers and community members would volunteer their time to speak and
present at this assembly,however, in the event there are costs associated with the
speaker(s), YSD will pay those costs.
3. YSD will provide space at a school, or coordinate to provide space outside of a
school, for the education presentation to 6th e p: - ts/f: : di: s. Since
this likely will be in the evening or on a weekend, YSD understands that coordination
includes providing a meal and some sort of child care(could be done through
volunteer organizations). The topics will be jointly agreed upon in advance between
the YSD and the program coordinator. YSD will be responsible for any costs
associated with the presentation. It is anticipated that local stakeholders, service
providers and community members would volunteer their time to speak and present at
this assembly,however, in the event there are costs associated with the speaker(s),
YSD will pay those costs. The coordinator will organize a services fair where
families can sign up for services, after school activities, and get information about
opportunities in Yakima. YSD will provide space for this services fair at the location.
4. YSD agrees to help train, where appropriate,the Yakima Youth Leadership Program
coaches at no cost. Training could include, but is not limited to,training in case
management,home visitation,ACEs, and school district policies. Any training will
be at the discretion of the YSD. Training also could include allowing the Yakima
Youth Leadership Program coaches to attend YSD training opportunities provided to
other district staff.
5. YSD will designate a liaison at each school to work with the Yakima Youth
Leadership Program coaches and coordinator. How often these parties meet is up to
the discretion of the liaison and the coaches.
Under the current plan,the coaches would not be employed by the City or YSD. They would be
employed through the ESD, which would also provide space for meetings, when necessary, as
well as the equipment and office supplies necessary for the coaches(tablets/laptops and phones,
etc.). As part of the partnership, ESD 105 has agreed to be the hiring agency for the three limited
time Education Advocates which will be assigned to the middle schools. ESD will also provide
space at the Open Doors facility when necessary for meetings or workspace for the Education
Advocates. ESD has also agreed to an overhead percentage of approximately 7.5% for the
federal grant.
I hope that you find the above outline of the program acceptable. If you agree to it, the City is
asking you to sign below. If the City receives the OJJDP grant funding,it is understood that a
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formal Memorandum of Understanding,or similar legal contract,will be entered into,which
outlines the terms above, as well as other components of the partnership between the City and
the Yakima School District on this project. I will need to have you return this Letter, signed on
or before June 20,2019. The government suggests that the grant applications and accompanying
documents(of which this would be one that is required)be uploaded on June 21,2019 with the
deadline for the grant applications on June 24, 2019. The formal contract or memorandum of
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e School and Lewis and
Clark Middle School. We have seen positive impacts with the students who have been served.
Your cooperation in the effort in the future, and your willingness to work with the City to obtain
this grant funding to continue and expand the program would be appreciated.
Please let me know if you have any questions,and contact me as soon as possible if additional
meetings or discussions need to occur so that we can finalize our tentative agreement within the
deadlines stated above.
Sincerely,
Sara Watkins
City of Yakima, GRIT
The Yakima School District agrees to the terms of this letter of intent and will enter into a
memorandum of understanding with the City to partner on the Yakima Youth Leadership
Program and related activities if the OJJDP grant is awarded to the City.
YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT
By: Di. Jack Irian Trevor Greene, Incoming Superintendent
Yakima School District Superintendent
Cc: Kevin Chase
Cliff Moore
Matt Fairbank