The quarterly report summarizes the progress of four organizations in King, Pierce, Kitsap, and Yakima counties that received grants to provide at-risk youth services. By the end of December 2014, the organizations had collectively served 192 youth through case management, life skills training, street outreach, prevention activities, and linking youth to pro-social opportunities. While expenditures varied among the organizations, overall the cost per participant was $198.02 based on total funds expended and youth served. The report provides details on the specific services and outcomes achieved by each organization over the first quarter of the grant period.

1. 1/9/2015
1st Quarterly Report
Youth Employment Support services(YESS) Grant
Ward, Maurice (DSHS/JJ&RA)

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1st Quarterly Report
Youth Employment Support services (YESS) Grant
John Clayton
Assistant Secretary-JJ&RA
DSHS-Juvenile Justice and Rehabilitation Administration
P. O. Box 45720-5720
Olympia, WA. 98504-5720
RE: YESS PROGRAM 1st
QUARTERLYPROGRESS REPORT
Dear John:
As we continue moving forward with implementing this RFP for At-Risk Youth Employment Support
Services (YESS), Del Hontanosas, and myself have prepared a Quarterly Progress Report of what
progress the organizations in the four (4) counties (Kitsap, King, Pierce,and Yakima) are having with
these resources.
This list that follows is for illustrative purposes only, and does not reflect the total amount of services
provided via this RFP in any of the counties mentioned. However,all of the agencies listed have had
success,but some of that success has not been included in this report.
OBJECTIVE
Provide at-risk youth intervention services that focus on preventing, intervening and suppressing
behavioral problems and violence by: a) linking at-risk youth to pro-social activities, b) engaging
community service networks, c) connecting and/or providing intervention services, and d) providing
vocational and/or employment opportunities for youth.

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Employment, Education and Transition Services are critical areas where our youth need assistance. For
successfulprevention and intervention youth need options to become healthy and productive members of
our society. Empowering our youth and moving them towards obtaining the necessary skills is key to
their future.
FUNDING
The $400,000 DSHS has budgeted for funding for successfulBidders and was be determined on the basis
of the number of contracts awarded and the cost of the proposals submitted.
The funding breakdown is as follows:
1) YMCA received $148,500 (they retained $70,236.00) to identify, target, and serve up to 30 youth,
ages 12 – 18, through the Street Outreach Services by the YMCA’s Alive and Free program, with
a total of 72 youth to be served between the three (3) agencies. YMCA also has a Match of
$16,500.00 to cover administrative cost as well.
They subsequently subcontracted $13,547.00 to Safe Futures for identifying, targeting, and
serving up to 12 youth ages 12 – 18 in the three (3) South & West King County cities of Burien,
SeaTac,and White Center.
YMCA also subcontracted another $64,766.00 to Southwest Youth and Family Services to
provide Street Outreach Services to up to 30 youth, ages 12 – 18, in the South & West King
County cities of Kent, Renton, Auburn, Tukwila, Burien, SeaTac,and White Center as well.
2) Yakima-Police Activity League (Y-PAL) received $81,000 (with a Match of $23,298) to identify
and engage up to 30 youth ages 10 – 17 in evidence-based prevention and intervention services
that will include outreach targeting chronically truant youth and their families, case management
that includes home visits, referraland family advocacy, curriculum-based life skills training,
academic support and instruction, school reintegration, and positive youth development
programming (e.g.,arts instruction, culinary arts instruction, wrestling and boxing).
They will also provide the following project activities at the Y-PAL Youth Development Center:
 Life Skills Class sessions, based upon the Violence Prevention Project life skills curriculum,
to up to 5 – 10 male and female middle and high school students ages 12 – 16 per session
three times per week;
 Academic Support (e.g., tutoring) for up to 30 youth engaged in the program on a daily basis;
 Positive Youth Development Program that includes an 11-week art and culinary arts
instructions and 22-week wrestling and boxing twice weekly for no more than 10 youth per
cohort; and

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 Open recreational activities that includes Friday Night Meal & Movie, Summer Golfing with
First Tee,YPAL Achievers Club that does community service, attends parades,works on the
neighborhood and YPAL building, etc. up to three times per week.
3) Mt. Zion received $85,000 to provide intensive at-risk youth intervention services through case
management and mentorship to 35 youth, ages 8 – 24 years old, in the Bremerton community of
Kitsap County under their Partnering for Youth Achievement (PYA) Program.
Additional elements of the PYA Program include:
 Street outreach,
 Access to substance abuse treatment,awareness and education programs,
 Truancy intervention,
 Anti-violence and conflict management,
 Family mentoring and intervention,
 Pro-social activities,
 Prevention-based education services,
 Partnerships with local agencies and law enforcement, and
 Community referrals.
They are also providing Street-Outreach through “Mentoring Circles” services in partnership with
the Partnering for Youth Achievement Organization and in cooperation with other faith-based
organizations.
4) Goodwill Industries received $83,985 to provide a continuum of intervention and transitional
services that includes life skills and prevention workshops, Aggression Replacement Therapy
(ART) intervention classes at the REACH Center,Remann Hall, or middle and high schools,
wrap-around case management,pro-social, recreational, and group and individual mentoring
services for up to 350 adjudicated and other at-risk of delinquency youth, ages 14 – 24 years old,
in Pierce County.
They have also subcontracted $41,000 to Guiden U 4 Life for identifying up to 75 youth (from
the total group of 350 youth in #4 above) by school staff or other appropriate referralsources,
including self-referral, who are at risk of violence, gang membership, delinquency, or bullying to
receive intensive personalized programming from GuidenU4Life that may include individual and
group mentoring (for up to 25 youth), and pro-social and recreational activities.
 Deliver Life Skills workshops to at least 300 high school and middle school youth in Pierce
County during the school year through one-hour workshop-style presentations.
 Deliver WSART skill building and/or Life Skills and Employment workshops to at least 50
youth (estimated 30 from Remann Hall and 20 from school and community referrals).

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EXPENDITURES AS OF 12/31/14
Contractors Goodwill Mt Zion Yakima YMCA
Maximum $83,985 $85,000 $81,000 $148,500
Expenditures 7,032 15,135 15,853 0
Current
Balance $76,953 $69,864 $65,147 $148,500
OUTCOMES
A. Goodwill has served 134 youth by the end of December 2014 with Life Skills classes,Violence
Prevention workshops, and Mentoring. In October they saw lots of activities related to program
refinement, staffing roles, workloads, etc. They have created and drafted brochures, business
cards,referralforms for online using REACH Center's google docs, and also provided direct
services to targeted youth.
In November they hired the new Intensive Services Case Manager,and worked closely together
to set up referral, intake, service referraland website forms, and to create the pathways and
processes for outreach, services,and referrals. Their community partners and individuals from the
community are excited about the new YE2
S project serving Pierce County. The team was called
to present to local Middle School which needed help with sexual assault/harassment issues, and
they also provided 2 full days of workshops to 8th graders on the topic, which was the 95 youth
aged 14 referred to in the educational component.
They have just received news of CY2015 funding for Violence Prevention continuation and
expansion in the unincorporated region of Pierce County, which will add .20 FTE staffing and
related resources to youth needing violence prevention workshops in county-specific middle and
high schools. They have already had in-house referrals for Case Management,but are not yet
ready to enroll people until all intakes, service plan and priority selection processes are completed
- target date is set for mid-December. This work is directly leveraged and coordinated by this new
YE2
S project.
B. Mount Zion has served 31 youth by the end of December 2014 with Life Skills training, Case
Management, Street Outreach,and linking them to Pro-social activities, which is a good
indication of the positive impact the intervention and services are having on youth in the
community. They have been working closely with the Bremerton Police Department and even
recruited one Mentor who is a policeman willing to work with the program. The Director of the
PYA program is volunteering 20 hours per month at no cost (normally $45.00 per hour) and the
Captain of the police force is also volunteering 15 hours (normally $45.00 per hour) per month
too.
They have established good communication with the Bremerton High School staff, as well as
with the New Life Teen Center to broaden their exposer and expand participation. At the end of
November the Outreach Worker/Mentor Coordinators began meeting with the Bremerton High
School counselor to discuss PYA mentors actively participating in the classes with the youth to
cultivate trust and familiarity. The Mentor Coordinators and the Outreach workers now visit the
schools once a week to ensure sustainability as well.

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In conjunction with the local School Districts, mentors and youth mentees have hosted a Parent
Dinner on November 20, 2014 at Bremerton High School to recruit and get buy-in from parents
to help sustain the program. They have established a grade average for each mentee via their
Report Card and have noticed improved attendance as well. As of the end of December,14
schools have been identified as potential sites for recruitment and sustainability of the PYA
program.
Mt Zion also held a Mentoring Circle event on 12/16/14 that included both the Captain and Chief
from the Bremerton Police Department. The YESS Grant Administrator was also invited to attend
this event and conduct a first site visit for the program. They continue to assess each youth via the
Service plan and have 16 youth working directly in partnership with the Bremerton Police
Department on learning behaviors that promote good citizenship and the rules of law.
It was absolutely awesome to see young and old African Americans working together with law
enforcement to foster a better environment for the community of Kitsap County. The PYA staff
via the Mt. Zion Baptist Church food bank had also recently fed 97 people through their Street
Outreach services.
One of the barriers they face is that they have identified two (2) new gangs (F.O.E. - “Family
Over Everything” and “Body Catchers”). Additional barriers they face are the poor and negative
attitudes the youth in the community have towards authority figures and their preconceived
judgments on sexual promiscuity. Based on what transpired at the Mentoring Circle and the
outcomes they have reported the PYA program is having a positive effect on the community
youth at large.
C. Yakima - Police Activity League (Y-PAL) have served has served 20 youth (two in Boxing
program) by the end of December 2014 with Case Management,Tutoring services,and linking
them to Pro-social activities, which is also a great indication of the positive impact the
intervention and services are having on youth in the community. They are working closely with
the Yakima Police Department and the City of Yakima.
One of the barriers they have faced is parents seeking parenting classes,as Y-PAL is able to make
successfulreferrals. However,transportation for these parents often is a barrier. And they have
requested a community foundation grant to support an additional 10 youth in the program.
D. YMCA ofGreater Seattle and its subcontractors (Safe Futures Youth Services & Southwest
Youth & family Services) have served 10 youth by the end of December 2014. The timing of the
original contract was very difficult for them given the other work they were doing and some staff
transitions, and their ramp up went slowly because they only wanted to hire outreach workers
they felt confident had street credibility and the skills to do the job well.
We very much believe in the YMCA’s outcomes at helping kids involved in gangs and the
juvenile justice system, and we believe in the difference the YMCA and their local subcontractors
can make with the support of partners such as DSHS-JJ&RA. They are deeply grateful for all the
time and effort we put into helping them get this far and we look forward to sharing the impact of
their team’s investment soon.
Some recent highlights to reflect the program services ramping up are as follows:

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o YMCA has been approached by Tyee High School in SeaTac requesting help with 2-3
dozen (24-36 unduplicated) youth who appear to be involved in or connected to
gangs/street life. They’ve had some initial meetings with them and this will be a good
feeder system for this grant in terms of quick ramp-up.
o They also met with Police Chiefs and Mayors from the Valley Cities to discuss the ramp
up of YESS services and everyone is excited to work together.
o Most or all of the staff from all three (3) agencies are now on board and working and
YMCA is not sure if they will have anything to bill by the end of December 2014 given
how the pay periods work, but they are definitely trying.
Summary Total of Youth Served by Services for all Contractors
(October – December 2014)
SERVICES
CaseManagement
Employment
Educational
StreetOutreachPrevention
StreetOutreachIntervention
LinkagestoPro-social
Activities
LifeSkillsTraining
Other(describe)
Total
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Total # of Youth Served 39 3 42 31 7 31 123 19 192
COST PER PARTICIPANT (CPP) 12/31/14
Contractors Goodwill Mt Zion Yakima YMCA Total
Youth Served 135 37 20 0 192
Expenditures $7,032 $15,135 $15,853 $0 $38,020
Cost per Participant $52.08 $409.05 $792.65 $0 $198.02