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PROPOSED CONTRACT
Department(s): Cook County Justice Advisory Council
Vendor:
1) Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Chicago, Illinois
2) Community Assistance Programs, Chicago, Illinois
3) Build, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
4) Enlace Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
5) Youth Advocate Programs, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
6) Grand Prairie Services, Tinley Park, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute
Good(s) or Service(s): Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Reduction Services
Contract Value:
1) Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, $200,000.00
2) Community Assistance Programs, $200,000.00
3) Build, Inc., $200,000.00
4) Enlace Chicago, $200,000.00
5) Youth Advocate Programs, Inc., $200,000.00
6) Grand Prairie Services, $199,993.00
Contract period: 12/01/2017 - 11/30/2018
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2018 $1,199,993.00
Accounts: 499-298
Contract Number(s):
1) Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, 1753-16250A
2) Community Assistance Programs, 1753-16250B
3) Build, Inc., 1753-16250C
4) Enlace Chicago, 1753-16250D
5) Youth Advocate Programs, Inc., 1753-16250E
6) Grand Prairie Services, 1753-16250F
Concurrences:
The contract-specific goal set on these contracts was zero.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: The Justice Advisory Council seeks to award six (6) Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Reduction Demonstration grants to provide various services and/or programs. These represent the first single-year FY 2018 Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Reduction Grant awards.
1. Brighton Park Neighborhood Council. BPNC's proposes to sustain the Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Violence Prevention program. The LOT program will target 80 youth between the ages 13-19 that are students at Thomas Kelly High School, Nathan S. Davis Elementary School, and James Shields Middle School.
2. Community Assistance Programs. This demonstration project will engage 100 court involved youth and youth at-risk, ages 18-24 that reside in Southside communities of Chicago through a series of workforce development activities to achieve the outcome of employment with training activities to achieve long-term employment goals.
3. Build, Inc This providers will implement its Safe Space-Safe Plan to specifically engage and track individual outcomes for 60 Austin youth, ages 12-17 who exhibit poor academic performance, truancy or behavioral problems, live in an unstable/unsafe family situation; are gang affiliated/justice-involved; or have family members who are gang-affiliated or justice involved. The program consists a combination of community and youth engagement, the creation of safe spaces, enhanced and expanded arts and athletic programming, and Austin Youth Leadership Council, and intensive mentoring and trauma-informed wrap around services for a cohort of at-risk youth.
4. Enlace Chicago. The program is designed to promote long-term positive outcomes for the most at-risk 5th to 9th grade youth and their families; this developmental phase is identified as a time of heightened risk and need for strategic intervention. Enlace convenes and administers the LVYSN, and identifies and provides funding and technical assistance for partners.
5. Youth Advocate Programs. This program currently provides and will continue to offer services for males and females, ages 13 and older that are identified as high risk of becoming county homicide victims or offenders and require intensive intervention. Youth Advocated Programs offers its wraparound advocacy program to reduce incidents of violence (shootings) by youth who have been found guilty of gun charges and are now at an elevated risk of injury or injuring others.
6. Grand Prairie Services. This program will address violent crime throughout the Cook County's Southland area by focusing on youth 17 years and under who are at risk of or have been involved in the justice system. Grand Prairie Services’ PIVOT program will utilize a multi-system approach in an integrated health care setting, to reduce risk factors for violence relating to substance abuse, psychological conditions, aggression, poverty and family functioning.
Request for Proposals (RFP) procedures were followed in accordance with the Cook County Procurement Code. The aforementioned vendors were selected based on the established evaluation criteria.
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