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AGENDA REQUEST & STAFF REPORT
For Board Business Meeting of February 10, 2010
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DATE: February 3, 2010
FROM: Sarah Johnson Commission on Children & Families 322-7461
TITLE OF AGENDA ITEM:
Consideration of Board approval of the Deschutes County Commission on Children & Families to
apply for a grant from the U. S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women,
Community -Defined Solutions to Violence Against Women, and authorization of Board Chair's
signature of Document No. 2010-067, grant application, it becomes when available.
PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS DATE? No
BACKGROUND AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
Deschutes County law enforcement agencies report an upward trend in domestic violence arrests that
indicate injury or lethality. The 2009 numbers of assault, strangulation, attempted homicide, and
homicide arrests are 48% higher than 2004 numbers. To address the increasing potential for lethality in
domestic violence cases, the Deschutes County Domestic Violence Council (advisory Council for the
Safe Havens Grant) recommended the County apply for the Community -Defined Solutions to Violence
Against Women grant. The Deschutes County Commission on Children & Families (CCF) is serving as
the applicant on behalf of the Board of County Commissioners. CCF will enter into an
Intergovernmental Agreement with Deschutes County Parole & Probation and subcontract with Saving
Grace -Imagine Life Without Violence to provide services.
The primary goals for this project are to enhance victim safety and hold batterers accountable by
implementing collaborative use of the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) and by increasing
supervision of high-risk offenders, with use of the LAP to inform level of supervision. LAP is a
research -based domestic violence risk assessment that will be utilized by law enforcement officers to
connect high-risk domestic violence victims with domestic violence program services.
The grant funding will: 1)Provide training on lethality and danger assessment for collaborative partners;
2) Promote coordinated community responses that account for victim safety by implementation of the
LAP and Danger Assessment; 3) Provide immediate access to services for victims at high risk of
lethality; 4) Provide culturally appropriate services to Latino victims; 6) Ensure high-risk offenders are
held accountable; 7) Provide a continuum of domestic violence services that address the needs of
victims, and 8) Support ongoing initiatives that promote a collaborative response to high-risk victim,.
Saving Grace will: 1) Coordinate LAP training for law enforcement agencies and Saving Grace staff 2)
Coordinate Danger Assessment training for community partners; 3) Implement LAP and LAP hotline
and 4) Provide victim services to high-risk victims referred by LAP. Deschutes County Parole &
Probation will provide intensive supervision for high-risk offenders.
Because strangulation is currently not a felony in Oregon, strangulation offenders do not receive
supervision and monitoring by Parole & Probation in Deschutes County. Strangulation is strongly
correlated with other forms of physical violence and lethality. To address the lack of supervision of
strangulation and other high-risk offenders, Deschutes County Parole & Probation proposes to add an
Intensive Supervision Program Parole & Probation Officer to supervise these offenders.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The estimated funding is $300,098. The grant period is October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2012.
RECOMMENDATION & ACTION REQUESTED:
Approve application and authorize Dennis R. Luke to sign application documents.
ATTENDANCE: Sarah Johnson, Commission on Children & Families Community Project
Coordinator, Ken Hales, Director, Deschutes County Juvenille Communtiy Justice, Janet Huerta,
Executive Director, Saving Grace - Imagine Life Without Violence.
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