RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the County Probation Officer, or designee, to execute a contract with the Construction Trades Workforce Initiative, in an amount not to exceed $230,000 to provide pathways to career success of the Briones Youth Academy students in the union construction trades and to establish a comprehensive Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3) Pre-Apprenticeship Program for the period of November 15, 2021 through November 14, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant.
BACKGROUND:
Under the orders of Governor Gavin Newsom, California will phase out the California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) beginning in 2021. Starting in July, the state will cease all transfers of youth to the state’s three remaining youth detention facilities. This will halt the County’s ability to transfer of youth to DJJ and will require youth to remain under the supervision of individual counties. Probation has created a new program called the Briones Youth Academy to serve these youth. While enrolled in the Briones Youth Academy they will have time to complete the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum Pre-Apprenticeship Program while detained and have a basic understanding of union construction trades upon their release and reentry.
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