To: Board of Supervisors
From: Esa Ehmen-Krause, County Probation Officer
Report Title: Interagency Agreement with Antioch Unified School District
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the County Probation Officer, or designee, to execute an Interagency Agreement with Antioch Unified School District (AUSD) in an amount not to exceed $1,149,425 to provide a school based restorative justice program for January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This contract will be 100% funded by Measure X Restorative Justice funding.
BACKGROUND:
The Probation Department received a one-time allocation of $2 Million from Measure X funds to implement a community-based restorative justice project. Probation has used a portion of the allocation to conduct a needs assessment and community engagement process to learn and understand the community's attitudes and needs related to embedding restorative practices throughout the county to reduce community violence and address underlying causes of harm. Findings from the needs assessment highlighted the community's urgency to center restorative justice programming and practices toward youth at risk of system involvement by providing youth violence prevention efforts in and around local schools. Since the release of the needs assessment findings, Probation released a Request for Proposals on September 16th, 2024 to solicit responses from qualified agencies to implement a Restorative Justice Youth Violence Prevention pilot project. A total of eight responses were received; four moved forward to be evaluated by an independent review panel with the Antioch Unified School District (AUSD) receiving the highest score.
Under this contract award, AUSD will expand its Alternatives to Suspension program to elementary and middle school levels while incorporating restorative justice programming for the district's highest need and at-risk students. The r...
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