Explanation
This ordinance authorizes and directs the Director of Public Safety to enter into contract with ArtSafe's Inside Out program: Building Community Around Youth, which is a pilot program focusing on the successful transition from detention/institutionalization back to the community for youthful offenders. ArtSafe is partnering with the South Side Settlement House and the Central Community House, both located in Empowerment Zone neighborhoods with high poverty and crime rates.
ArtSafe will provide its proven arts-based programming inside the institutions and will identify Franklin County youth who will be released after March 2008. ArtSafe will then join these young people in their communities-the "out" portion of the InSide/Out program-by continuing to provide arts programming at neighborhood settlement houses. The settlement houses will also offer participants a range of youth and family programs and provide intensive case management services for the young people in the program.
FISCAL IMPACT City Council allocates $12,500 from the Public Safety Initiatives fund to support the organization.
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To authorize and direct the appropriation of $12,500 within the Public Safety Initiatives Fund and to authorize and direct the Public Safety Director to enter into contract with the ArtSafe to provide transition services from detention/institutionalization back to the community for youthful offenders and to authorize the expenditure of $12,500 from the Public Safety Initiatives Fund ($12,500.00).
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WHEREAS, City Council has amended the annual budget in the past to set aside funds in the Public Safety Initiatives Fund to address specific public safety challenges; and
WHEREAS, ArtSafe is partnering with the South Side Settlement House and the Central Community House, both located in Empowerment Zone neighborhoods with high poverty and crime rates; and
WHEREAS, In 2006, nearly 2,000 youth in Ohio were returned to their comm...
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