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J �`t~I L A wq City of Tukwila P. Carter S. Kerslake
V. Griffin G. Labanara
Community Affairs and P. Linder K. Matej
gG) D. Robertson M. Miotke
Parks Committee Mayor Mullet C. O'Flaherty
R. Berry J. Pace
Pam Linder, Chair E. Boykan D. Speck
1908 J. Cantu R. Still
Pam Carter B. Fletcher CC File (cover)
Dennis Robertson K. Fuhrer
AGENDA
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Conference Room #3; 5 PM
ITEM I ACTION TO BE TAKEN Page
1. PRESENTATION(S)
2. BUSINESS AGENDA
Reinvesting in Youth; Information only. Pg. 1
Evelyn Boykan, Human Services Manager
3. ANNOUNCEMENTS
4. MISCELLANEOUS
Next Scheduled Meeting: Tuesday, .Iu /y 24, 2007
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DATE: 7/10/07
TO: TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL
CC: MAYOR'S OFFICE
FROM: EVIE BOYK.\AN SERVICES
SUBJECT: REINVESTING IN YOUTH REQUEST
ISSUE and BACKGROUND
ANALYSIS and RECOMMENDATION
M E M O R A N D U M
Recently, the Mayor received a request from Jim Street regarding a partnership with Reinvesting
In Youth. Over the past five years, Tukwila, as well as other suburban cities, has contributed to the
administrative cost of this project which was aimed on keeping youth out of the criminal justice
system. Funding provided technical assistance to community based agencies to help address youth at
risk. While some valuable training was delivered, the outcomes of the particular approaches to
working with at risk youth are unclear and inconclusive.
At this time Jim seeks continued administrative support funding for a new initiative aimed at
reducing dropouts in King County. Jim seeks $5,000 for the 2008 budget. This new initiative will be
addressed at state level policy changes and partnerships between Reinvesting In Youth(RIY) and
local school jurisdictions. Currently, local jurisdictions are not involved in this project, although
several district superintendents are reported to serve on RIY's steering committee. There is no
involvement from the Tukwila school district.
At this time, the Human Services Division is not recommending funding for RIY. The following
addresses a few concerns. These concerns are also shared by other South King County Human
Service planners and managers.
Prior support to RIY made by the City has not yielded much information to the City with the
exception of quarterly reports. These reports, while showing the leveraging ability of our dollars, has
not shown any clear cut outcomes regarding youth that have received RIY approved therapeutic, best
practice interventions.
ME1ifORANDUM
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The City of Tub;vila already provides extensive financial support to children and youth in the
Tukwila School district. This includes significant support for the TCSC program, and the integration
of human services (mental health, substance abuse intervention, esl/literacy) into the schools. \(le
believe that early intervention and identification can contribute to youth staying in school. City
funding strategies support this.
Jim is clearly aware that the cities have processes for distributing human service targeted dollars.
A RIY funding request should be consistent with city processes. FundLl1g proposals will take place in
2008 for the years 2009 and 2010. Jim is '.velcome to apply at that time, where the proposal can be
viewed by the full Human Services Advisory Board.
There are no drafted cooperative agreements with South King County school districts. Upon
raising this issue with Ken Heikkila, the former Student Services Director, there '.vas concern raised
about unfunded mandates coming from the State with regards to dropout prevention. This effort
needs to have involvement from local school districts to test out any proposed changes in
approaches to dropout prevention. Tukwila need not be subsidizing other districts for this purpose
given our on-going commitment to the Tukwila School District.
~t.\NVESTING IN YOUTIt
A Regional Partnership
June 12,2007
Mayor Steven Mullet
City of Tukwila
Dear Mayor Mullet,
Our children belong to all of us.
That is why over the past five years 13 suburban cities (including Tukwila) plus the City of
Seattle, King County and the Port of Seattle have contributed to the administrative costs of
Reinvesting in Youth, an incredibly successful regional juvenile justice reform project that
has focused on the needs of our highest risk youth and families.
Suburban city contributions have been modest, ranging from $1,500 to $10,000 per city in
proportion roughly to population and tax base, but along with larger contributions from
Seattle and the county, they have directly leveraged over $2.5 million from Gates and Allen
and six other national and local foundations. I can assure you that the eyes of foundation
representatives light up when I tell them that 16 local governments have been contributing to
the success of Reinvesting in Youth. It is unprecedented.
These dollars have been used to fund expanded services for youth and families involved in
the juvenile justice system and to provide over $1 million in technical assistance to 21
community based agencies throughout King County to strengthen their capacity to serve
youth at risk of criminal behavior. Our joint efforts have also led directly to passage and
funding in 2006-07 ofthe "Reinvesting in Youth" bill in Olympia, which is bringing $3
million in new state funds to King County (and $15 million to the state as a whole) over the
next 5 years. These funds replace the foundation dollars and permit the continuation of
programs that recognize that it is more cost effective to invest dollars in evidence based
prevention than to keep on adding dollars for incarceration.
This would not have been possible if local government leaders in King County had failed to
realize that their involvement in youth services needs to occur at two levels. The first, more
traditional city role is to support specific youth activities and services in their local
communities. The second role is to join with other public and private partners in the region to
support systemic reforms that can only be addressed regionally or through changes in state
policy. This second role does not necessarily fit into cities' usual human service funding
mechanisms that tend to be earmarked for local community based agencies. Instead cities
have made a separate general fund appropriation or taken the dollars from their public safety
budgets.
In its first five years Reinvesting in Youth accomplished much of what it set out to do in the
area of juvenile justice, and its proven record has established credibility with foundations, the
legislature and local leaders. Over the past year its Steering Committee under the leadership
of Norm Maleng has been taking a hard look at where it might most effectively apply its
efforts upstream from juvenile justice. That analysis led Reinvesting in Youth to focus on the
chronic problem of school dropouts- what the Gates Foundation recently described as "the
Silent Epidemic."
70 percent of our nation's adult prisoners are school dropouts. Approximately 60% of the
youth in King County juvenile detention are dropouts or lack sufficient credits to graduate.
25 percent of King county youth drop out of our schools. 40-50% of our African - American
and Latino boys drop out. And the impact of dropping out goes way beyond crime in terms of
the ability of a person to support his family and contribute to his community. Because of the
changing nature of our economy the consequences of dropping out have worsened; a dropout
earns 30 percent less in today's dollars than he or she did in 1970.
These numbers represent a fundamental discrepancy between our American
dream and our reality.
In March Reinvesting in Youth consultants completed an in-depth study and a recommended
comprehensive strategy to reduce dropouts in King County. Schools are part of the solution,
but local governments and commul1ity organizations will also have a vital role. The
comprehensive strategy calls for specific state level policy changes and for partnerships
between Reinvesting in Youth and a number of school districts in King County as well as
community based agencies.
The administrative costs for Reinvesting in Youth for 2008 will be approximately $231,000.
Seattle has already committed a third of that; King County is contributing a third of this
year's costs and is expected to do the same next year. That means that we must raise $77,000
from suburban cities and other local government sources.
Would you consider providing the leadership to include a contribution to Reinvesting in
Youth of $5000 in your 2008 budget?
I would welcome the opportunity to answer your questions personally and will be contacting
your office in the next week with that in mind. City Councilmembers Terry Anderson
(SeaTac), Jeanne Burbidge (Federal Way), Alan Kiest (Lake Forest Park), Conrad Lee
(Bellevue), Tom Rasmussen (Seattle) and Ed Sterner (Lake Forest Park), all of whom are
member of the RIY Steering Committee, are also available to answer any questions you
have.
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Jim Street
Director, Reinvesting in Youth
206-218-4740; streeti im@comcast.net
CC. Rhonda Berry; Evy Boykan
Attachments:
1.2 Page Summary of Reinvesting In Youth Dropout Project
2. RlY Steering Committee Membership
3. List of Local Government Contributions to RlY in 2006
tH-..lVESTING IN YOUr;
~ A Regional Partnership It
Reinvestina in Youth Mission
Reinvesting in Youth (RIY) seeks to increase the graduation rates of Native-American,
Hispanic, African American and Limited English students in King County from 60% to 85%
by 2014 and to increase for all students enrollment in post secondary education or jobs
that pay a living wage.
The Dropout Challenae in Kina County
Almost 3,200 high school students dropped out of King County high schools in 2004-05.
Approximately 25% of all youth and 45% of African-American, Native American and Latino
boys fail to finish high school. Approximately 60% of the youth in King County juvenile
detention are dropouts or lack sufficient credits to graduate. 70% of adult prisoners in the
United States are high school dropouts. And dropouts who stay out of trouble and find
work still only earn 70% of what a dropout did 35 years ago. These numbers measure
enormous losses in the lives of dropouts, their families, their communities and our nation.
Reinvestina in Youth's Comprehensive Strateay
RIY has produced an in-depth study that reviews national research and best practice,
assesses the dropout problem in King County and Washington State and provides
comprehensive recommendations for a dropout strategy at state and local levels. Its
principal components are:
1. School Districts and Classrooms
> Strategy: Conduct internal audit of policies, systems, structures and programs to
determine and make changes needed for alignment with best practices and state
policies.
> Strategy: Provide support to a cross section of 4-6 school districts in King County to
develop and implement comprehensive plans to reduce. dropouts; provide district-
wide system capacity building technical assistance, school based professional
development, improved linkages to community and family support and early warning
system development to identify and intervene with students showing signs of
dropping out.
> Strategy: Implement or enhance school improvement practices based on research
or best practices to reduce the achievement gap, reduce dropouts and improve
overall achievement.
> Strategy: Support expansion of research based and recommended programs for
dropout prevention, intervention and retrieval.
2. Community Proarams and Practices
> Strategy: Provide research-based or recommended community and family focused
programs for dropout prevention, intervention and retrieval.
> Strategy: Strengthen coordination and collaboration between schools and
community-based programs.
> Strategy: Participate in the Building Bridges Program (formerly called PathNet) to
develop a coordinated dropout retrieval program in King County.
3. State Policy Reform
> Strategy: Set accountability standards for each population group for current official
state goals for graduation rates; provide incentives to districts with greatest need to
inspire commitment and change; require annual public reporting by state and
districts; increase resources to meet accountability requirements.
> Strategy: Increase the knowledge/skill at state level about effective approaches to
reducing the achievement gap, reducing the dropout rate, reconnecting students who
leave school, increasing the graduation rate, and increasing the rate of students
involved in post-secondary education.
> Strategy: Create and link student and teacher data through a comprehensive data
system in support of student success; modify the current state student data system
so that it can support integrated early warning systems at the district level.
> Strategy: Maximize use of existing resources through realignment; create
mechanisms to allow state basic and special education dollars to follow the students.
Realign resources through pooled or blended funding.
> Strategy: Demonstrate opportunity for cost-savings at various levels of systems
(education, juvenile justice, criminal justice, etc.) and advocate for implementation of
savings reinvestment mechanism.
4. Evaluation and Dissemination of Lessons Learned
> Strategy: Provide formative data to guide adjustments and improve implementation
of comprehensive strategy;
> Strategy: Implement outcome I lessons learned evaluation after 3 to 5 years; share
evaluation results to increase the field knowledge and increase capacity at all levels
of the system.
5. Reinvesting in Youth as Multidisciplinary Catalvst
> Strategy: Leverage the leadership of the Reinvesting in Youth Steering Committee;
formulate the 'case' and engage leaders across systems (e.g. juvenile justice, human
services, city, county) and at the state, regional and local levels; convene high-level
leaders and seek aligned actions or coordination on issues of common interest.
Reinvesting in Youth: A Successful Partnership
The Reinvesting in Youth Steering Committee includes representatives from suburban
cities, the City of Seattle, King County, United Way, the Casey Family Program, the Office
of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, school districts, the State legislature and
community based organizations. It has been chaired by King County Prosecutor Norm
Maleng.
RIY has worked successfully over the last five years to bring about juvenile justice system
reform and to strengthen programs serving juvenile justice involved kids and families
throughout King County. It has:
> Obtained over $2.5 million in funding from 8 different foundations (including Gates,
Allen and> Annie E. Casey) to support juvenile justice -prevention programs;
> Provided technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of 21 community-based
non-profits throughout King County to serve at risk youth;
> Obtained the passage of state "Reinvesting in Youth" funding reform legislation that
will bring $2.6 million in new state funding to King County youth programs over the
next four years;
> Strengthened regional collaboration and fostered systems integration Uuvenile
justice, foster care, mental health and other youth services). [These juvenile justice
activities will continue.]
Conclusion
Reinvesting in Youth is fundamentally different than the usual non-profit agency human
services program. RIY's track record is evidence that support for this regional partnership
will leverage much greater amounts of foundation and state dollars and will make possible
essential system reforms at the state, regional and local level. It will contribute to dropout
reduction in every city and school district in King County and across the state.
For more information contact RIY Executive Director Jim Street, streetiim@comcast.net;
(206) 218-4740.
Reinvesting in Youth
Steering Committee Membership
5/30/07
Terry Anderson - Councilmember! City of SeaTac
Jeanne Burbidge - Mayor! City of Federal Way
Alan Kiest - Lake Forest Park City Councilmember
Conrad Lee - Bellevue City Council member
Tom Rasmussen --Chair! Seattle City Council Housing! Health and Human Services Cmte.
Ed Sterner - Representative! King County Community Networks Coalition
Kathy Lambert -Member! King County Council Law, Safety and Human Services Cmte
Janice Avery - Executive Director! Treehouse for Kids
Robert Boruchowitz - Citizen
Edith Elion - Representative! Minority Executive Directors' Coalition
Mary Lou Dickerson - Chair! State House Juvenile Justice Committee
Don Felder - Citizen
Darlene Flynn - Member! Seattle School Board
Bonnie Glenn - Deputy Chief of Staff! King County Prosecutor's Office
Kathleen Harvey - Region Director! State Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration Program
Ron Hertel - Supervisor! Readiness to Learn! Student Support and Operations! O.s.P.I.
Mary Alice Heuschel - Superintendent! Renton School District
Fred Jarrett - Member! State House of Representatives
GiI Kerlikowske - Seattle Police Chief
Bruce Knutson - Administrator! King County Juvenile Court
Jeanne Kohl-Welles - Member, State Senate Human Services and Corrections Cmte
Anne Lee - Executive Director! Team Child
Lyman Legters - Casey Family Program
Raj Manhas - Superintendent! Seattle School District
Mick Moore - Asst. to the Super.! Interagency Relations! puget Sound Educ. Service Dist.
Tom Murphy - Superintendent! Federal Way School District
Greg Nickels - Mayor! City of Seattle
David Okimoto - United Way of King County
Kris Stadelman - Executive Director! Work Force Development Council
Michael Silver - Dir. of Educ. Admin. Programs! School of Education! Seattle University
Ron Sims - King County Executive
Peter Tsai - Associate Director, Center for Career Alternatives
Bryan Wilson - Assoc. DiL, Policy & Research! Workforce and Education Coordinating Bd.
King County I City Support
f R' .. Y h' 2006 b d
or emvestmg m out s u Iget
Auburn 3,110
Bellevue 10,000
Burien 5,125
Federal Way 5,000
Issaquah 3,000
Kent 5,000
King County 61,000
Lake Forest Park 1,500
Mercer Island 4,000
Port of Seattle 10,000
SeaTac 5,000
Seattle $122,000
Shoreline 2,000
Tukwila 5,000
Total $241,735
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