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Committee. Mary Evans. Urban League of PBC. Vinceline Barberia. She's here. She's present online. I saw her log in. Valente Association of American
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Carlen Paul, Classroom Teacher Association, Gordon Long Hoffer. One, two. Um Miss Six, a couple people came in after we started. Okay. If you came in
um after we started roll call and you weren't called on, can you just announce that you're here? Suzanne Whitbeck, Els. Thank you. Anyone else? Um I thought I saw somebody
else. Vincent is online. Good morning. Good morning, Keith. Um I'm not sure if you called already but we did call I was having difficulties with my speaker. I couldn't hear I see mouth moving but I couldn't hear anything. So okay but um
yes um thank you that was Vincent. We got you Sabrina de Gogis. Did we did you mark her? Yes. You didn't get her already. Okay. I'm trying to see if somebody else Jessica Bean I think came
in. No, I did not hear Jessica. Jessica, can you hear us? I think I see you on there. Jessica, if you can hear us, we can't hear you. Um, it looks like we have uh uh plenty for a quorum. Madam Chair, vice
chair. Thank you so much. Good morning. May I have a motion to approve the minutes for April? to approve. That is by Mr. Rhodess and a second. Seconded Rex Barnes.
Thank you so much. Motion has been um second. All those in favor? Opposers? The motions have been entered into the minutes. We are moving on the agenda for public
comments. We No, I do want to introduce um if you want to go ahead, we we have a new member coming. If you want to go ahead and introduce yourself first that you'll go for board approval June 4th. Hi there. My name is Avian Gordine. I
will be the rep for PBCHRC uh pending approval. Um and well, we're glad to have you June 4th. Uh but we're glad you're here as well today. So many of you know Emmy Kenny um who's been around a long time with us uh
uh is being replaced. So we're glad to have you. Welcome. Avian Gordine. Avian welcome. Any other anyone online who is not um
recognized? Thank you. We have no one for public comments online or in person. We'll move the agenda. um report for the ad hoc subcommittee.
Hello, that is me. Thank you, Sue. Hi. Um we met this morning before the meeting. Uh it was a little bit of a short meeting because we had a few uh it difficulties getting it started. So um but the district has provided us uh the
subcommittee a lot of data that we had requested on students who uh made both the schools and the teachers who had students that made um started at a level one on the fast and then uh went up to a
level two or three. So um in between now and our next meeting, the subcommittee is going to be kind of reviewing that data, cross reference cross referencing it with the data on um from the school effectiveness survey to see how school
culture is affecting those gains and also school demographics. Um and then we will move forward from there. Thank you so much, Miss Davis. Any questions? Seeing none, do we take a um
approval for it? No. Thank you. We are moving on the agenda for new business. We have summer programs. Miss Kowan Howell, director. I'm And I just want to open this up first, Madam Chair. So, yeah, I have it
up. So, um I think it's important um for the different organizations to kind of know what's happening um for summer and summer availability. So, um so in addition to uh Dr.
How uh runs the extended learning department who's going to go through presentation, we also have a guest from Palm Beach County. Uh Lisa Kramer is director of youth services department but representing is Dr. Twi Taylor who
uh also works with the Pace Center not PACE Hyidge sorry Twi um who will also talk about some of the Palm Beach County youth services and what they're doing so for your constituents and your communities you're aware what
is available. So Dr. Howell, I am gonna go ahead uh and turn it over to you. Do you wanna me to click or do you want to step over here? I'll let you click. Okay. All right. So, good morning. Um I just want to thank Mr.
Oswald for giving me an honorary doctorate, but it's not Dr. Howell if you want, but I'll take it. Thank you so much, Mr. Oswald. Next slide, please. So, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to share with you as a district what we're providing to our
students, our families, and our community. Um, the Department of Extended Learning, our goal is to provide high quality afterchool programming and and camps. Um, when I mentioned camp, spring break camp, winter camp, and most importantly, summer camp. Our goal is to make sure that all of our students have a place to
go, that they are safe, and that we are helping them to grow into healthy, responsible, and well-rounded individuals. As you see on the screen, there are four key areas that we target. Academic enrichment and intervention, cultural arts experiences and
activities, and opportunities to build life learning skills, physical education, sports, and active recreation. I'm going to in this presentation, I'm going to break down the different areas within the department. We have three areas which is our K5, our 21st century
grant-f funed programs and also our middle school after school programs. As you can see, we have a robust afterchool program. We're we're one of the few districts in the nation that provides afterchool programs and summer camp programs. Most district contracts out. So, we have been innovative the past 20
plus years and offering summer camp and after school programming for our students. As you can see, we have 93 elementary sites. We will be opening up a new site at the new elementary school um Saddle View in August with over 20,000 students that's represented just
in the K5 program alone. Our goal is to provide comprehensive training and ongoing support for our staff to make sure that they're equipped with the skills to support our students. We support our students, our traditional students, our non-traditional students, students with disabilities. We make sure
that we provide wraparound services to be inclusive of all students that are registered during the school day. so that they can have a meaningful transition to after school. Our goal is to also ensure that we offer student and staff engagement through enriching activities and meaningful connections.
What that looks like is my department, we provide training, we go out, we assess, we provide um support not only to the staff that are working to the students but also to the principles because the principles are very busy during the day. They want to make sure that they have a leader there can operate that program to make sure that
not only are we adhering to district policy but also state guidelines and also with our partners such as prime time and the early learning coalition and CSC for our K5 programming. We are committed to academic support. Those are the three areas that we support which is STI in a box which is a new initiative
that came about due to co uh we are piloting that program in 35 schools with the opportunities to grow that program based on school requests to all 93 by the end of next year. We also have an explore literacy program. Our goal is to tackle to increase student achievement
based on the stu based on the school school improvement goals and also our district strategic plan. We have our spark program and ELO's which is a signature for our programs as we continue to grow and build our partnership with prime time Palm Beach County and I serve also as a
representative on that board to ensure that we continue the conversation to offer highquality programming for our students. Next slide please. 21st Century CCLC which is a grant which was authorized under title 4 is a big part
of my department. Um we offer this academic and enrichment opportunities for students who are in title one schools. Uh we have been very competitive. We have the largest amount of 21st century awards in the state. We have been visited several times from other and outside providers to find out
what is Palm Beach County doing to show the progress that they've made. I also want to toot our horns during co we offered um a hybrid model. We knew that there were families that were um scared to send their students to school. So, I challenged my team. Not only did we
offer in-person programming, we also provided virtual programming for those families that did not want to send their students to school. That involved ordering supplies and having a drive-thru where families picked up those supplies so that as teachers provided instruction, they can actually have the supplies at home while the
teacher provided instruction via Google Meets. Again, I want to tout that we have the largest number of programs awarded by the state. We have 17 grants that support 2600 students at 38 schools throughout our district. Next slide,
please. So, this continues to kind of share some of our outcomes from this year that I'm very proud of. We have a new um program this year where all of our students have new laptops for onetoone during our out of school time programming. We introduced robotics curriculum. We also offered new reading
and math curriculum through age of learning. And I'm very excited about the age of learning um platform. I want to share and and um share a plug um our site at UB Kenzie. We have a third grade class that started to use um age of
learning in February. During PM1 and PM2, those students remained at level one. We started implementing age of learning in February. All of those students are now a level three. So that is to the commitment of my team with us being intentional about the programming that we are placing before our students
to make sure again that we are accomplishing the district strategic plan outcomes and also the school improvement goals. We've also secured reading curriculum through Dreambox and Reading Park and we're also making sure we're addressing students health and
wellness with skills for life and learning through charity for change which has been provided to us free of cost. Next slide, please. Our middle school after school has been around since 1995. Um, as you can see through the legislation, it was initiated through a grant. Although that
grant has transitioned um what we no longer have that grant, I'm sorry. The district has made a commitment to offer middle school after school programming for our students to keep them engaged and involved after 4:00. So, we have over 4,000 students and 35 of our comprehensive schools and four K8
schools. As you can see on the screen, there are several areas that we target. Um, typically we have a robust middle school after school program. We've implemented some new initiatives and I'm excited about the manager that I'm working closely with to implement some of the things that you see. One is the
virtual reality gaming. Students have kind of transitioned from robotics. They're really interested in the virtual reality gaming and that is going to be a big push for us as we transition to the upcoming school year. Next slide, please. Summer camp programming. So,
right now, the only opportunities that we offer for summer camp and summer programming are for our K5 and 21st century. For K5 programming, we have 51 summer camps that are available. It is first come, first serve, and there's a $35 registration fee. Each site is
currently, most sites are currently accepting um students if they have availability, but for the most part, our programs are highly sought after because of the cost. We're one of the um cheaper options, but high quality options that are in the district, so our spaces fill
up really, really quickly. Next slide, please. Areas of collaboration. Um with 21st Century, we're required to have a program team. That team consists of individuals from my department as well as individuals from the community that helps us make informed decisions and
advocates for our support, I'm sorry, advocate for our families. And so we're looking for members of the community to be a part of this program team. So if you're interested of know of someone that's interested to be a part of this, they can reach out to me. Um Mrs. Simmons has my contact information. I
would love to have more additional members on that team to support us as we support students and their families. Most importantly, community and family engagement is always important because it builds stronger home and school connections. So, members can offer to provide training sessions for parents on
topics based on the parents choice. Um, we are required to have five family engagement activities per year. And so, we're looking for individuals to provide workshops and trainings on finances, home ownership, entrepreneurship, and also opportunities that will elevate
student voices and promote leadership from within. Our goal is to build our students because they will become our next round of leaders and they need to find their student voice and their lead and develop their leadership skills. Next slide, please. So, how can you
assist us in advancing this committee's goals? Um, we were notified through the National After School Alliance email that we are tentatively will lose our funding for the next school year, not this year, FY27, which means over 2,600
students in Palm Beach County will lose access to this program. So, if you were to go to the National After School Alliance website, there is a form where you can send information to your local congressman to advocate and help us advocate to continue with this funding because as you can see with what we've
done at UB Kenzie, this program works and it is an opportunity to keep our students safe. It gives them student voice. It builds their leadership, but most importantly, it helps us to increase their student academic achievement goals. And with that, that concludes my presentation. Mr. Oswald.
Thank you. Very informative. Um I'll turn to any questions before we go to the next one. We have uh definitely um something to be supported for FY27. We need to be conscious of that. We have any questions
online? Yeah, Mr. Mr. Rhodess. U that sound very interesting especially the part about reaching your congressman now going to the website and all that kind of good stuff. Uh, is there any way that form could be maybe get it to us that that we can
distribute it if if we don't have that? Yes, Mr. Rose. I will share that link with Mrs. Simmons so that she can share it out with members of the committee. That'll work. Thank you so much, dear. You're welcome. That was a senior citiz question.
Thank you, Mr. Rhodess. Any other questions online? Marcus, uh, good morning everyone. Um, by chance, is there a demographic breakdown of the students that are that are served um, through this program? I'm curious,
and the reason why I'm asking is because it pretty interesting that the funding may go away for FY27. And I'm hoping that there's not a correlation with the demographics, but uh, it's always good to know. Um, I don't have the breakdown of the
demographics, but I can share with you. All of our 21st century programs are at title one schools. So, you can kind of um assess who the de what the demographics are, but I can provide that information to Mrs. Simmons and share that out. But again, all of our 21st
century programs are at title one schools because that is a guideline that is established by the state. Understood. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you so much. Anyone else? Suzanne. Suzanne Whitbeck.
Hey, good morning. Thank you for the presentation. Um, amazing what you're accomplishing and you might have just answered my question, but um is this you said is this available in in the Jupiter schools? Um I know we have title one
schools up there, but I sometimes these programs don't make it all the way up there. Yes. So typically what happens during the RFP process, the state provides guidelines regarding which schools we can look at. Um I don't know the correct terminology so I'll ask um Mr. Oswald to help me like T STNA or
it's like is certain schools based on the achievement levels the great the scores. Oh okay. And so TSI that's it TSI. So we look at those schools and what we do is we reach out to principles to ask if they're going to be committed to this 5-year plan. So, we have reached out
principles. 95% of the principles say yes. But I will share with you we do have community- based organizations that have memorandums of understanding with the district such as the Boys and Girls Club. Um, Mrs. um Reggie Duven who's on
the call who's at Barton. They also offer 21st century but is not affiliated with the district. Those are private providers that are providing that service through that private entity. So typically we look at the list of schools. We rank the schools based on
their scores. We reach out to principles. We ask if they're interested. If they say yes, we select them. If they say no, then we move on to the next school based on the list that we've developed. But I do know um in in Jupiter there is one school I think I
believe is Jupiter Elementary that is being pro serviced by the Boys and Girls Club. They have a 25 Boys and Girls. Yes. Okay. Okay. And then community based organizations could potentially partner to provide this also. They can
if they were to submit an RFP when it's released by the state. Okay. All right. Do you know which off top your head which ones have them in Palm Beach County? Um um 21st century boys and girls clubs. All the schools in the Glades, Barton Elementary, Jupiter Elementary. There are several high
schools also on our list. Pretty much all the boys and girls club have 21st century programs. We Yes, the lakes have them all on the board. Middle Bear Lakes Middle
Simino Trails is is our program. So we have district 21st century programs and the um community based organization they offer 21st century as well. Yes. When you go to our afterchool site, you have a list of all of the CBOS, but it doesn't indicate which programs offer
21st century. You would have to reach out to those individual programs and ask if they offer 21st century. And just to let you know also with our 21st century programs, we do have to open it up to the community. So during the summer, our programs are open to students who attend
charter schools or private schools if they choose to participate in our programs. So, if I'm a parent and I can't afford after school, but I need extended hours for work, what do I do? Who can help me? They will um reach out to their
individual school site and talk to the afterchool director. The after school director will share information with them regarding the community organizations that offer scholarships and subsidies for students to um receive funding to participate in our programs.
If they do not, then we recommend that they look at 21st century if there is availability. Most of our 21st century programs are at capacity. They fill very quickly. Um, and when a student transitions out, we then call the next student on our wait list to make sure
that we have 60 students in every program full. We we've I think uh the only school is Forest Park. They have a 100 students enrolled in their 21st century program. I do have a question. I do have a question for you.
You mentioned about the RFP that community organizations could request for. When typically during the calendar year would that notice come out so they could possibly become a provider. Well, with the state now, it depends. Depends. It usually comes out um January or February, but there's been a lot of
turnover and different individuals leaving in and out. So, it's hard to say between January, I would say in March of every year is typically when we receive notification that they're um requesting RSP RFPs. I'm sorry. Just to add to that,
the concern, however, those are federal funds, Title 4 that are passed through the the state. And if you've been seeing what's happening with doing the government, um probably the future's
uncertain. Thank you so much. Any other questions or comments? Honorary Dr. Howell, thank you so much. Thank you so very much for your presentation. It was very much worth the while to hear. And as we're working to support for the 27th
school year, we all can report back to our organization to make sure that we taught the good things that are happening in our communities and in our school. Moving on the agenda, Department of Supplemental Services. I believe you said there was someone else representing. Was that Dr. Twi or? Yeah,
Dr. Twilight Taylor for Palm Beach County. Okay. And then Miss Alisa Kramer. Miss Kramer's not here. So Twilight, I saw you on earlier. You there, Dr. Taylor? Yes. Yes, I'm here on um Elisa's
behalf. Thank you so much. You have the floor. Okay. Well, hi everyone and happy get your green on day. Um thank you so much for the opportunity to share information about the youth services department. Um, as
you may know, uh, the Youth Services Department was created in 2015 in response to the Sandy Hook shooting and as a way to bring youth serving organizations funded by the county under one umbrella. Our mission is growing
brighter futures by providing quality services, education, and access to resources and opportunities. And this year, YSD celebrated our 10-year anniversary, which just happens to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of
Get Your Green On. So, we're we're proud about that. Um, next slide, please. Just to give you a little bit of an organizational structure, youth services has um three divisions: finance, contracting, and administration.
uh residential treatment and family counseling of which I am the director of and that's our direct care services um and our outreach and community programming sections which is over all of the programs and initiatives throughout Palm Beach County and and
they evaluate and allocate resources to support various evidence-based programs and promising practices serving youth ages 0 to 22 and their families and tracks outcomes. Um next slide
please. Also a part of um youth services is our birth to22 united for brighter futures. Um you know if you guys can remember the infant child youth and young adult symposium um that was held
in 2013 that led to the creation of YSD. It also led to the creation of the birth to22 united for brighter futures alliance. Um, so YSD is working in partnership with the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County to serve,
excuse me, as a backbone agency for the Birth to22 Alliance. And this means leadership um on the birth to22 steering committee, hosting the birth to22 future leaders youth council, the girls voice task force, and supporting um teams
formed to focus on the action areas cited in the original youth master plan as well as our most updated version of the youth master plan 2.0. Um, as you can see, the mission remains to support healthy growth and development and education of our
children and youth prenatal through young adulthood so that they can graduate from high school and succeed in life. um committed to a common agenda. We are an alliance of community partners that engages and aligns existing
coalitions, networks, system members, community members, um youth serving organizations as well as connecting with families and most importantly the young people directly. Next slide please.
Um the other really important uh aspect of our entire department is that we are certified in the sanctuary model of trauma-informed care. Uh that means that we understand adversity is universal and
that healing happens through fostering resiliency and developing healthy relationships. In 2016, we started the three-year um certification process uh for providing trauma-informed care. In 2019, Highidge Family Center was
certified. We then widened the scope for the entire department and uh the entire department was certified in 2022. And um n literally next week is our reertification for uh the
departmentwide. Um, and so we're looking forward to having some site visitors come uh for a few days and visit us. Next slide, please. Uh, residential treatment and family counseling division. That that's
my division and it is the division that um provides all of the direct services, the the direct mental health treatment. Um, our mission is to provide free, accessible, and professional trauma-informed mental health services
and educational programs to youth and families of Palm Beach County to support um, healthy development and promote overall well-being. We offer a range of services from education and training to outpatient services all the way to
residential treatment. All services, like I said before, are trauma informed and they can be inperson or virtual. and and can be provided in Spanish and Creole at certain locations. Um I'm going to be reviewing each of the programs within RTFC
um separately, but um before we dive into the individual programs, I wanted to review some of the common presenting concerns. Oh, and by the way, I I don't think I um Oh, yes, I did say free. This the services are free. No cost to the
families. Um, next slide, please. So, here on the list you see, you know, a a list of I'm sorry, excuse me. Here on the screen, you see a list of some of our most common presenting concerns. A lot of these concerns are
behavioral manifestations of trauma and adversity. And most concerns surface in the areas of home, school, um, or in the community with their peers. As you can see, this the list is long. of course not all inclusive um and issues and
problems are often on a continuum. So depending on the level of severity as I was saying earlier we can address the issues through education and prevention either once per week outpatient therapy or through a fiveday per week residential program. Um so let's uh
let's start at the beginning of the continuum of intensity with our education and training center. Um next slide please. Um okay so our ed center as we commonly call it offers evidence-based parenting
classes. Uh so a lot of times maybe that's the the first step is to you know do some education. Um we also offer various types of outpatient therapy for youth um through the age of 22. and that
includes family therapy um as well as individual therapy for uh ages 18 through 22. So they have the opportunity to consent for treatment um and and do not need their parent involved. Um on
the other end of the spectrum, we offer parent child interaction therapy and that's an evidence-based model that's very successful and the the um ages the age range for that therapy is ages 2 through seven. So you can really start
right at the beginning. Um we also offer a comprehensive psychological evaluations and more most recently um we have Now, we can now include the testing um to in order to be able
to provide an autism diagnosis. Again, like these services are free of charge, so we know how expensive some psychological evaluations can be. Um so, this is definitely a bonus for any of our clients.
Uh, additionally through our ed center, uh, we offer CE presentations on clinical topics and provide, uh, community outreach. And, uh, the the thing that I love also about our ed center is it's the hub of our clinical training program. So, we're nationally
accredited by the American Psychological Association to provide supervised training to master's, doctoral, and post-doal psychology training. And that really further supports the import the importance of growing our own um behavioral health workforce here in Palm
Beach County. Very very important because we know the workforce pipeline issue is a real thing. Next slide please. So moving on to our youth and family counseling. Um this is a three to
four month community-based program and we have four offices located throughout the county. one in West Palm, one in Delray Beach, one in Palm Beach Gardens, and uh recently in Belglade, we moved into a brand new office space inside the
Brumac Center in the health department building. It is absolutely beautiful um and was long awaited. Um our primary focus is providing family therapy certainly because we believe that you know the home, school and social
environments all impact the way a family functions. Um we offer limited individual therapy to those youth ages 18 to 22 again who are maybe still at home or trying to launch. Um another unique offering of our youth and family
counseling program is that we have uh therapists who provide individual and group therapy services at 12 different schools within the district. So um you might be most familiar with those services. So, um, we typically have 14
schools, but we do have a vacancy right now. Um, so as soon as that vacancy gets filled, we'll be back at, you know, 14 schools throughout the county. Um, okay. And I I would say
lastly um we also collaborate with the 15th judicial judicial circuit uh to offer our family violence intervention program for youth with firsttime domestic violence charges. Um successful completion of this program results in no
charges being pressed and an opportunity for expunction of their record. So, um we know how, uh quickly things can escalate when you're trying to take away a cell phone or um have them not be on a gaming system. So, this is an
opportunity if things do become physical that uh hopefully um they can advocate um and the state attorney will um um consider referring them to youth services for a diversion
program. All right. Next slide, please. Thank you. Um, so Higheridge Family Center is our residential program. It's a three to four month through Friday traumainformed voluntary residential
program for youth ages 11 through 16. They can turn 17 in the program, but they need to be admitted while while they are still 16. um they live at the program located on Australian Avenue and 45th Street and
West Palm. And um you know, we we talked about our collaborative agreement with the school district for outpatient services with our colllocated therapists. Um, we also have another collaborative agreement with the school district to provide academic instruction
to the youth in our program who attend a small school on site just for those kids who are in the program. Um, the nice thing about this collaborative arrangement is that, you know, their grades are able to be transferred when they're admitted and then transferred
out when they complete the program. Um, of particular note since we're focusing on summer issues is that H Highidge is a year- round program and you know, thank you Mr. Oswald uh for advocating and and
we do offer summer summer school this uh this summer and um we're happy to have that. And if they the kids can also be admitted even if they don't need summer school there's also an opportunity for them to have enrichment to you know
prevent that summer slide. Uh after school they have a structured schedule that includes groups on coping skills, emotion regulation um and and conflict resolution, communication skills. Um in addition they also are having individual and
family therapies on a weekly basis. Um, family therapy is a mandatory part of the program. Um, you know, and and because we really believe on the the importance of developing healthier interaction styles within the family and
healthy communication styles within the family for lasting change. And and the other thing is is that they go home every weekend. So everything that the kids are learning in the program, the parents are learning it through their family sessions, they're practicing it
at home every weekend and we're reviewing their process as as they um progress through the three to four months that they're with us. Um as you can see, we accept youth on medications and we have a nursing staff to administer those medications, but they
do need to be um closely monitored by a community-based provider. We unfortunately do not have a psychiatrist on staff. Um so we work collaboratively with whoever is providing um the the
medication for the youth uh in our nursing department. Um the other thing is that you know our focus even though we're residential it really is on prevention of crises and strengthening coping skills you know and
we really want to reach these kids before well when the issues first arise you know rather than as a last resort. Um so please feel free to refer year round for this free residential program. um some of the exclusionary criteria
because I know that's always important um to folks is you know we're we're having kids living together with other kids. So having felony or weapons charges um you know is an exclusionary criteria. We have to focus on safety
first. Um they also cannot be on probation or an ankle monitor um or in another big thing is if they need secure psychiatric um you know intervention then we're you know we're certainly not
a psychiatric hospital do not have a medical doctor on staff. So if they're acutely suicidal or a danger to others then they would not be appropriate uh for our level of care. we don't have the staffing to manage that. Um and the
other thing is if primarily they need substance use treatment, we we are not that. Um okay, moving on. Next slide, please. Just wanted to show you some data points about some of
our services. Um during the past fiscal year we provided s uh almost 120,000 hours of mental health services and reached over 7,000 individuals. Um we're very proud to report a 97% satisfaction
rate and 96% reported um increased resiliency and 94 fel% felt like they could express their feelings better. and uh and and even our one of our lower numbers is 88%
believe that their family gets along better as a result of engaging in any of the services provided by youth services. So just wanted to share a little bit about that. Next slide please. Thank you. So I wanted to also talk a little
bit about our outreach and community programming division of youth services. Um, this, like I said, is the department that coordinates, plans, and monitors programs and services and initiatives throughout Palm Beach County. Um there was recently a no, a notice of funding
opportunity and we received 44 responsive proposals um for the most recent NOFO and 33 programs are being recommended to the BCC for proposed funding for three years beginning
October 1 uh 2025. Um, the other thing that I thought might be of specific interest today is that our OCP division manages our summer camp scholarship program. Um, so the for this summer
there are 98 summer camps available throughout the county and so far 4,118 scholarships have been awarded for uh youth to be able to attend summer programming throughout the summer free
of charge. Um, registration for the general public has closed. Um but it uh re registration does remain open for our special populations including unsheltered and we've been you know really successful and working with the
Mckin Vento program through the school district to increase the number of unsheltered youth who are have been able to attend um summer camps last summer and we're looking forward to that same thing um this summer. So those
registrations remain open as well as some of our other special populations which include anyone in the foster care or dependency um system, anyone in DJJ or or or even their siblings. Um and
also anybody involved with the Bridges summer reading program. And if anybody is interested in registering someone that they feel is still eligible for these summer programs, um you can
contact Tama Williams at 561-242-5702 and I will after the presentation also I can drop that in the chat. Um, and then the other thing that's really fun during the summer is the super summer spelling bee that's
hosted by YSD and it's open to all the youth enrolled in our summer camp uh scholarship programs. Um, this year the event will take place on July 10th um at Park Vista Community High School. So we
we we always look forward to that. Okay, next slide, please. And then this slide I love because it's a great summary of everything that I've been talking about in terms of mental
health services with um phone numbers, office locations, and even a QR code that takes you directly to the youth services web page and you can um have have who the parent sign up for an
appointment and somebody will give them a call back um and give them all the information about all of our programs and schedule um an intake appointment with them. Um parents or providers can fill out the request, but we definitely,
you know, prefer parents, but we will we will reach out as long as the parent is agreeable to you completing the request on their behalf, we will reach out and try to schedule them. And next slide, please. That's it. Any questions?
Thank you so much, Dr. Tyler, for um your presentation and stepping in to make this happen for us. One small question, how is there any other contact information for the this for the youth services from the county? Will you be including that? because I know you gave
information about Miss Williams, but I didn't hear for contact information. Yes. Yeah. Yes, I can drop that into the chat. Thank you so very much. Seeing no other questions, we're You have a a hand raised. Rex Barnes. Mr.
Burns online. Barnes, pardon. Mr. Barnes online. Questions? Hi. Yes, you can say my name however you want. It's fine. Um, hi Dr. Twi Rex from Compass here. Um, I had a quick question and this might be something we can talk more offline about H Highidge. Um, but I
was curious about what your protocols or policies are if you have, you know, LGBT or and specifically trans clients with the inpatient residential. But if you want to talk offline, we can have that conversation at a later date. Um, I
apologize. the uh landscaping is uh coming around my office if you hear some background noise but I can uh answer that. Um we provide gender affirming care. Love that answer. Perfect. I figured but I just wanted to
verify. So I just wanted to you know find out the information. Thank you so much for everything you guys are doing. Thank you. Thank you so much. Any other questions? Any online lines? Chief, I
don't see anybody, but clearly a lot of information in this presentation for your constituents. Taylor, I apologize. I do have a quick question about the psychological evaluations. Um, is there a specific number that families
could contact for that? Um yeah, it would be the education and training center which is on that handy um slide that's up right now. Okay. Um yes and um the the issue is uh
because because we have a small small department and we do the psychological evaluations um through our clinical training program for psychologists that the turnaround time is you know a little bit slower because they're very closely
supervised. Um and the other thing is if we open it up to the public at large then you know we would have a wait list um of thousands probably. So it is the psychological evaluations aren't a
standalone service. They are um a service that when you're receiving any other youth um services programming, you can have um somebody put in a request for a psychological evaluation. Um the
other thing that we've done is we work with um through our OCP division, we have um a number of community-based agencies that the county provides funding for. So if the child is involved
in any of the community-based uh agencies that are funded through youth services, they are also eligible um to receive that psychological evaluation through any of the services through youth services. You were saying
any of the programs if they're enrolled in any of the programs that Yeah. Awesome. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yes. You're welcome. Thank you so much. The presentation will also be sent out to everyone on the
email list also, so we'll be able to receive your presentation. Thank you again. Any other questions? Just in case I missed. Any last ones out there? A lot of information there for your constituents.
Want to make sure you get that out. Thank you so much. Seeing and hearing none, we're going to move the agenda towards Mr. Oswald for our new legislation information. Yes. And thank you Dr.
Taylor for being here again today. She did mention um get your green on day. So for those of you who have green on um it is mental health awareness and I believe Miss Kramer is at the Palm Beach County Commission meeting where they're doing a
proclamation about get your green on and the importance and the awareness around mental health and getting support when needed. And is that correct? She they're doing that today, right? Actually, I you know, I think
she's at a department director meeting. You know, these days are winding down with um Virginia Baker's last few days before her retirement. Um, and I think that the the the big proclamation and
the bus unveiling was on May 6th, but then we will be um May 20th providing um the board of county commissioners a everything mental health um overview, a workshop presentation for the board on
May 20th um with a special focus on youth mental health. Okay. Well, again, thank you. We appreciate it. Um, I will tell you that uh next week, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 20th, the board of
county commissioners will receive a presentation um from different partners around mental health. Um, back um when the change with JFK North, one of the things that came out from their discussion is they like to
know what is happening um in Palm Beach County around mental health. So, if you're interested in that, you can watch it online or go to the commission meeting. Believe it starts at 9 or 10. 9:30. 9 Oh, in the middle. Okay. So, it
starts at 9:30. Um, I will be there as well just to share with the school district as well as Dr. Mary Clemy Synynic around what we do to support youth as well as a number of other agencies in the presentation. So encourage if you are interested in
that you can watch that. Um on to the legislation. Thank you again madame vice chair. So for what was told that it would probably be a slow
session has been nothing but um I just want to fix the screen in here for us presenting so we can see who's Okay. So, a number of bills I do want to talk to you about just about what has come
through. Um, hold on one second. Trying to change the layout here. Jonathan, can you help me on the layout here to match what I have on this screen? Not sure why I have a pinned. I want it to match this.
Also, the information that Dr. Taylor put into the chat, uh, Taisha, can you capture that so we could put it into the information being sent out later to everybody? Um, okay. Thank you, Jonathan. So,
number of bills that did come through. I'm not going to be able to hit everything. Um one thing as you may or may not know um the session has been extended through June. Um there is a lot of disagreement
right now. We still do not have a budget. One of the things we talked about um in the last meeting was a concern around the cuts to the FTE funding for advanced uh coursework uh to cut that in half which is
uh over $25 million I believe impact for us here in Palm Beach County in particular to our high schools. Um obviously that's an extreme significant amount of money right now. um the House
and the Senate are uh way apart and getting even close to some type of agreements. I'm not sure what's going to happen. And then layer in the governor as well. You can Google it and you can see the commentary that's going on between the House, the Senate,
and um the governor's office. never have seen something like this, but obviously there's concern if a budget is not passed by the end of June that there could be a government shutdown if we haven't seen that. So, um it's been
crazy. With that being extended, um there could be changes, more changes in legislation. So, if a bill that didn't go through, bless you, a bill that didn't go through um could possibly still be brought forward.
So, um I can tell you some things that we do know. Some have been signed, some haven't been signed by the governor, but the school start times I know is one that um we watch closely that is being uh repealed and districts can decide on
that. As many of you know, there was a lot of concern um around that, the impact of that for us here locally. Um so, we're glad to to have hear about that. two bills that became train bills. For those of you who don't know what a train
bill is, is where they contain a whole lot of different content and subject areas that just get swooped into a very large bill. Um, two big ones are uh 11:05 and 1255. Uh, believe they're both
House bills. Um, that have gone through. um some good things in there, some not so good. Some of the good things that we've have seen um this is huge um and been will be wellreceived is the AP
capstone. So advanced placement coursework is through college board as most you know. So we've talked a lot about ACE and the increase in our ACE which is through Cambridge University. Well, the AP Capstone is finally getting recognized um for a bright future
scholarships. So, when we talked about um increasing the number of ACE diplomas, big piece of that, especially for some of our subgroups, um was because of that bright future scholarship. Well, now the AP Capstone
will also meet that requirement. So it does require six um AP courses with a level three or higher. Two of those courses uh have to be AP seminar and AP
research. Um so with that um and obviously there's some other GPA pieces uh what are the other ones? Uh community service hours, those other pieces as well. But if you get those those pieces
um you will get the bright future. So that's pretty uh huge. Can also tell you that the AP exams are much less expensive than the ACE exams. Um and you can work instead of having community service or working Yeah. for the
community service hours. Um, also what's good if a student is currently in um rolled in high school right now, it's only going to it will allow you to get the AP capstone with four C four AP courses. So, we have a good window to
help a lot of students in our schools that we will have to work to uh to support and address that. Um, I did mention that black excellence has been focused that group has been focused on this. We will have to get this information out um because this is this
is going to uh be pretty exciting for a lot of families and those students looking to cover the cost for post-secary education. Um, in addition, they're not so good. There's a lot of information regarding charter
schools and private schools and their ability. I don't have all the details, so I won't go I'll just give it a high level, but their ability to uh have access to the use of surplus district facilities um at no
cost. So, I don't have the details on that, but that's pretty significant. Um also um within those another significant change I think it was 11:05 or 1255 I don't remember which one
but anyway cell phones so cell phones um uh is always a conversation cell phones um in this particular bill what they did was take the house and the senate version and merged the two and kind of gave a little on each side Uh K. So what
it requires is that K through K through 8 um cell phones are to not be in use throughout the school day. So um they can be on a student in their backpack
um something like that. Uh but they cannot um be in use K through eight. So some of our schools probably a majority of elementary already do this. Uh but this is making putting it in law. What
it requires for high school right now is for a study of two large, two medium, two small districts to look at the effects of it and report back on. It doesn't preclude the school board or the district to do
we've seen, you know, districts in Palm Beach County or through and throughout Florida, I mean, that have completely uh banned them throughout the day. uh K12. Uh right now um we move forward with the K8 obviously
in our policy on May 28th. We'll be taking a policy to discuss this with the board. Um the board did have a discussion item at the last meeting. Um they were kind of split on where they stood about high school. Um uh I think
the majority was leaning towards banning them. However, we did we are actually today I'm going to be meeting with uh Mr. Tyranny to meet with the um high school principles to get their input on that on on what they so desire.
So currently the law does require them to be put away during instructional time unless a teacher is allowing it. So that will be a significant uh impact for next year.
some other pieces. Uh the bill is also again 1205 and level five 11:05 are merging in my head. So but uh for the DOE to do some revisions to standards. So they're going to be looking at the standards and so we could possibly have new standards in the
future. That would not be for next year. Some requirements around intensive reading and those who are teaching intensive reading and some of the what teachers need to have. There's also um some information around students who are which this was really interesting. Um
students who are chronically chronic misbehavior problems uh or disruptive behaviors. There's a couple other pieces to it. So, it's now going to be in law that those students must be be referred to the school-based team or child study team to be looked at for interventions
and parent notification to be part of that process to make sure interventions are happening and as well as to look at if alternative education is an option for those parents. So, I thought that was very interesting. In addition, it it allows for
a threat management team for students who've been expelled to extend the one-year expulsion period if there's a cons concern raised by a threat management team at school. [Music]
Um, so that was interesting as well. [Music] Um, see if I uh so a lot of little different tidbits like uh this will end up going to super progression but PE the PE requirement if
a student's in band the uh if they're in two years of band that can take place of their PE requirement uh things like that. So that can help some students. What's that? that will become a law where if they're
in ban, the ban can take place of uh PE. Thank you, Miss Whipbeck. Um she need so uh that's a um there'll probably be more comment but
there were some significant things. Oh, one that's not so good. sharing of revenue the sertax revenue I don't know exactly the details on that but sharing those revenues with charter schools um is required I'm not sure what how that's
different from what we do already but more of that in the future so those are some of the updates to legislation [Music] um I any question on the legislation pieces I do want to do a quick Few other
updates before I end. I don't see any hands raised. No questions on legislation. So, in addition, I mention meant to mention this earlier to the summer programs that you heard from both
uh uh Miss Howell as well as Dr. Taylor. The district's also doing some summer academic programs. So, we'll have our typical um for our third graders who did not pass the um FSAT or the the fast,
they will have this uh SRRA program, the summer reading academy. Um there's also a summer bridge program which I believe is to support second graders in some of our schools. Our students who are uh retained
uh twice in their middle school are jump start to skip a grade. So that's a longer program which has had good success. Our ESE and ESAU programs and migra programs will also be continuing for the summer. And those students who have not met graduation requirements,
our seniors and juniors, high schools will be working on our campuses to continue to work on their credits that they need andor if they need the SAT, ACT or CLT for the requirement for algebra as well as
for English language arts 10th grade. that will also be happening on our high school campuses. And um then also just wanted to announce that you know we are well into uh
graduations. It is graduation season so be careful Southern Boulevard um throughout the next couple weeks. Um uh congratulations to Vice Chair Cassandra Oliver whose daughter
graduated yesterday um I had the joy of being there um yesterday from Royal Palm Beach High School um so and if anybody else has any family members graduating congratulations to you all as well.
Um, and then I do want to announce uh Deputy Superintendent Ed Tierney, in case you have not heard, um, he will be leaving the school district um, to become the superintendent of Monroe County Schools. Um, otherwise known as
the Keys, um, not a bad gig, right? So, us so we wish him well on his new adventure and I'm sure there's more, but uh a lot
going on. Um a lot that we'll continue we'll continue to unpack with the legislation. Um I do want to plan on bringing in in June. Um so some of the updates on the discipline data
um the and attendance data and how that turned out with number of the interventions that have been put in place from some of the grants that we did receive uh that you all supported as well because we do meet in June and then
we take uh July off. That's all I have unless there are any questions. Y'all are quiet today. I don't have a question, but I would like to wish Chief a happy birthday on today. Today is Chief's birthday. Just so you guys didn't know, let's sing happy birthday. Happy
birthday to you. Woo! Happy birthday to you. Woo! Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. Yeah, I'm not celebrating anymore, but I'm trying to go backwards. And again, uh please do tune in tune in to if you need some
inspiration, tune in to uh the graduations and listen to some of these student speeches. They will definitely uh inspire you. Yes, this morning at Boon Beach High School had some really amazing speeches as well as yesterday. All right, I'll turn it back over to
Vice Chair Oliver. Thank you so much, Chief, um, for these updates. A lot to be considered and a lot to pay attention to as we're moving into wrapping up the year and paying attention to make sure that our communities know what is
happening in and within um, our school board. Congratulations to Mr. Tierney on his movement and very much proud mom here for her graduating senior. Um, Chief made it extra special for my daughter and the picture that she
came out with. She has posted on every media that she has her her attention to and tagged everybody she knows to say, "Look what I did and look what I got." So, thank you so very much. She loved the picture and all of our family have reshared the picture. So, we are very
proud of her accomplishments and how you really made it special for her yesterday. I embarrassed her when she was walking across the stage and told her to stop so I could take a picture so she'd have the background of all the graduates. Absolutely awesome in in social media world. So she is bragging and boasting
and we are very excited that you did that for her. Thank you so much. Um moving on the agenda, please pardon me. Uh I made a note but back to the minutes. I was here last week, last month. Pardon? Thank you for correcting
that. Um, I made a note and failed to say it out loud. And then today's meeting, I saw Mr. Ferguson also check in. I don't think we made it during attendance earlier. Is there anyone else online that we may have not captured for attendance?
So, uh, just to correct the minutes from last month, can we revisit that to have someone do a motion so we can properly reflect that? Thank you so much. May I have a motion for someone to correct the minutes to include my attendance for
last month? Correct the to update the attendance. I move that to be corrected with the necessary corrections. Thank you, Miss Batty. And thank you uh Mr. Rhodess for those motions. It has been moved and second. All those in favor? I
opposers. The motion has carried and the corrections will be made to reflect in the minutes. Thank you so much, Miss Hicks. And any other unfinished business? Any comments, queries, or concerns online? Seeing none in the room,
congratulations to all graduates for the class of 2025. The district is proud and certainly this committee and the communities that are reflected from this committee are proud of all the achievements in all of our students. Southern Boulevard is definitely something to pay attention to throughout
the day. Um other than that, we've returned the balance of your day to you. The meeting is adjourned at 11:17. Thank you everyone in the committee. Thank you all and guests. I am.