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-- "SECTION III (cont) I COMPONENT SUMMARY CONTINUED (attach for each component) Areas of Concern Discuss any areas of concern that could affect success. One concern is the variance in caseload from year to year due to the fact that 100% of our referrals come from juvenile court. Funding is a concern due to the limited resoutces provided to local programs. Salaries remain meager resulting in moderate turnover. Also, a ditect correlalion may be drawn between participant performance in community service activities and program success. Documentation List the data elements or records to be maintained: A) in confidential files to document comoliance and B) to document each measurable objective. Project Challenge maintains participant files, client- tracking forms, and community service and restitution records, as well as school and court reiated info~mation to assure compliance with stated objectives. Project Challenge also maintains recidivism records to track the progress of participants after completion of the program. . Treatment Element Describe what the component will do to redirect inappropriate youth behavior or how the component will impact inappropriate behavior. Project Challenge incorporates lifeskills into most of our community service activites. Asking Permission, Accepting Correction, Getting along with Peers, and Following Instructions ate the Iifeskills that we teach our participants. Each of the Iifeskills have steps that help our participants deal with inappropriate behavoir on many ievels. By providing a structu~ed supervised work enivorment we are able to show participants how to show respect for authority figures, responsibility, accountability, and how to better get along with their peers. "<~IV-A".>,['I COMPONENT NARRATIVE (attach for each component) Component Narrative (attach for each component) -. (1) Describe the physical facilities, including the address, in which the seNices will be delivered. If seNices are delivered at multiple locations, please include information for all locations. The facilities that are utilized vary with community service activities and include but are not limited to, food drives, fire departments, nursing homes, parks and tee, and others. Project Challenge will strive to set up regular and consistent CS sites such as those listed above. The wilderness trips take place in various areas within the state. The office is located in the Cabarrus County Courthouse, PO Box 70, Concord, NC, 28026. . (2) Identify paid or volunteer staff qualifications, (certifications, degrees, work experience) and their responsibilities relative to this comoonent. The staff of Cabarrus County consists of Mike Loftis, District Supervisor. His position carries a full caseload of 25 participants. His responsibilities are; (a)the intake process, (b)developing, planning, scheduling, supervising participant and volunteers. Verifying community service and restitution activities for youth involved in the program, (c)end-of-month paperwork which includes recidivism tracking of past participants and client tracking, (d)attending 'uvenile court, (e) participation as a secondary guide on the wilderness trips, (f)transporting the participants when necessary, (g)attending JCPC, interagency and other meetings that support the success of the childten served. In addition, District Supervisors are responsible for personnel issues within the district and supporting the Program Coordinator in the above tasks. - Page 4 of 10 ;:-+