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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Cook County Justice Advisory Council
Vendor:
1) BBF Family Services, Chicago, Illinois
2) Claretian and Associates, Chicago, Illinois
3) NEBC Employment Resource Services, Chicago, Illinois
4) St. Joseph Services, Chicago, Illinois
5) Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality (ONE: Northside), Chicago, Illinois
6) Apna Ghar, Inc., Chicago Illinois
7) H.O.P.E. Organization, Chicago, Illinois
8) New Covenant Community Development, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Violence Prevention, Intervention, & Reduction Services
Contract Value: $10,000.00 per vendor
Contract period: 11/1/2016 - 10/31/2017
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2016 $80,000.00 FY 2017 $0
Accounts: 499-298
Contract Number(s):
1) BBF Family Services, 1653-15478N
2) Claretian and Associates, 1653-15478O
3) NEBC Employment Resource Services, 1653-15478P
4) St. Joseph Services, 1653-15478Q
5) Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality (ONE: Northside), 1653-15478R
6) Apna Ghar, Inc., 1653-15478S
7) H.O.P.E. Organization, 1653-15478T
8) New Covenant Community Development, 1653-15478U
Concurrences:
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs
Summary: Justice Advisory Council seeks to award eight (8) Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Reduction Demonstration Grants to provide various services and/or programs as listed below. These represent the second FY 2016-2017 Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Reduction Grant Awards.
BBF Family Services: This grant will fund a program that would expand the recruiting services for the re-entry employment program and would serve 36 ex-offenders in the North Lawndale area.
Claretian and Associates: This grant will fund the Healing South Chicago program that would include a series of workshops based on adverse childhood experiences and impact on the safety of residents on South Chicago. There would be six workshops with facilitated discussion breakouts and report backs, with a focus on addressing trauma.
NEBC Employment Resource Services: This grant will fund a program that would focus on workforce development in the hospitality and food service industries and add a class for adults out of high school, fund the Executive Director to get training in financial management, board development, strategic planning and communication, print brochures, and provide supplies for the computer lab.
St. Joseph Services: This grant will fund a program that would focus on afterschool programming with mentoring services and summer and winter/spring break camps for youth in Austin and Humboldt Park.
Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality (ONE: Northside): This grant will fund a program that would focus on a Youth Leadership Development Program, which is a civic engagement project to introduce at-risk kids into social change activism.
Apna Ghar, Inc.,: This grant will fund a program that would focus on supervised visitation and safe exchange services to north and northwest suburban Cook County, and also develop an evidence based model for enhanced supervised visitation and safe exchange services.
H.O.P.E. Organization: This grant will fund a program that would build on their after school program for youth between the ages of six to eighteen. The program would include thirty-five youth exposed weekly to behaviors that promote anti-violence and positive relationships and would include violence prevention programming, homework support,
field trips and nutrition.
New Covenant Community Development: This grant will fund a program that would support an Entrepreneur Training and Development program, and expand the youth business program to build partnerships with schools and organizations along with parental engagement.
These contracts are awarded through the Request for Proposal (RFP) process in accordance with the Cook County Procurement Code. These service providers were selected based on established evaluation criteria.
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