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St�ategic Initiative: Youth Strate�ic Goals • Conduct a minimum of eight Gang Prevention and Awareness Presentations, reaching all middle and high schools The Department's juvenile specialist has conducted gang awareness presentations to the Sequoia High School District (parents and students) Dcvclop and maintain and the Counseling Advocacy for Teens (counselors). The police programs that support department has planned other presentations in the near future for Hawes `�outh dcvclopmcnt, School, Woodside High School, Adolescent Counseling Services, cducation, hcalth, and Sequoia High School, Taft School, and the City's community academy cnrichmcnt program (PACT). These presentations help parents, teachers, and those who work with youth to understand both the risks of gangs and the indicators that youth are becoming involved in gangs. For youth, it helps to dispel the mystique and lure of gangs. • Grant funded resource officers at Hoover and Kennedy schools will Crcatc and nurturc make at least five home visits to chronically absent students, teach partncrships and four gang awareness classes, and attend two school staff ineetings collaboration that providc and five parent meetings for critical youth scrviccs and child carc The police department's school resource officers have made 13 home visits, taught three gang awareness classes at Hoover Middle School, attended two school staff ineetings, and attended five parent meetings. The police department's school resource officers are on track to complete the objective. Gang awareness classes are pending at Kennedy Middle School. Engagc youth respcctfully, • Locate and return 300 truant youth (contacts) to the school they as an intcgral part attend by June 30, 201 1 of thc Rcdwood City communit`� Patrol and school resource officers have made a combined 133 truancy contacts with juveniles who were then returned to school. Additionally, there have been 20 truancy citations issued, bringing the total number of truancy contacts to 153. The police department utilizes a part time truancy officer along with regular patrol officers to locate and return truant youths to their schools. They also team with the department's juvenile specialist to handle serious truancy matters. Based on the number of truancy contacts to date, it's expected that the objective will be met by the end of this school year.