Topics Related to Governors Crime Commission

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1:00 p.m. Call to order, roll call, approval of minutes, ethics reminder
Deana Joy, chair

1:15 p.m. GCC Staff Updates 
GCC staff

1:30 p.m. Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Trishana Jones, director of Youth Exposure to DV and Special Projects; co-director of Adaptive Care and Youth Services Team, North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

2:00 p.m. DSS Update 
Kathy Stone, DHHS

Co-chairs Leslie Cooley Dismukes, secretary of the Department of Adult Correction, and Siarra Scott, director of the NC Office of Violence Prevention, will lead the first meeting of the 20-member Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force. 

9:00 a.m. Welcome and trends within GCC grants

9:15 a.m. GCC calendar and review process: "Deadlines and Expectations"

9:30 a.m. DOJ grant overview: "How Can Funds Be Used?"

10:00 a.m. Break

10:05 a.m. EBS grants management platform demo

11:05 a.m. Lunch

12:05 p.m. Crime Victim Services Team: Violence Against Women Act, Victims of Crime Act funding

1:10 p.m. Juvenile Justice Team: Children's Justice Act, Title II funding

1:50 p.m. Criminal Justice Improvement Team: Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant

New grant recipients should attend this virtual workshop, led by the grants management team at the Governor's Crime Commission. 

Login details and the agenda will be shared via email.

Topics will include performance reporting requirements for: 

1:00 p.m.
Call to order and roll call, ethics reminder, approval of committee minutes
Chief Dan House, chair

1:10 p.m.
Federal updates
Caroline Farmer, executive director, GCC

1:20 p.m.
Staff updates, RSAT priority, CVI update, SCIP program priorities
Sandy Dixon, MK Smith, staff, GCC

1:35 p.m.
Discussion and vote
Chief House

2:50 p.m.
Old and new business
Chief House

3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Chief House

1:00 p.m.
Call to order, roll call, ethics reminder, approval of minutes
Chief Patrice Andrews, chair

1:15 p.m.
GCC staff updates
GCC staff

1:25 p.m.
2026 grant funding priorities
GCC staff

2:50 p.m.
Old and new business
Chief Andrews

3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Chief Andrews

1:00 p.m. 
Call to order, roll call, ethics reminder, approval of 5/13/2025 minutes
Judge J. Corpening

1:15 p.m. 
Subcommittee report out 
Deana Joy, CJA Task Force chair
David Addison, R/ED Subcommittee chair

The Racial and Ethnic Disparities Subcommittee sits within the Governor's Crime Commission's Juvenile Justice Planning Committee. Its members are juvenile justice partners and educators who advise efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. Establishment of the R/ED Subcommittee supports efforts to maintain compliance with the R/ED core requirement found at 34 U.S.C. §11133(a)(15).

Meeting of the Criminal Justice Improvement Committee, which focuses on reducing and discouraging violent crime; enhancing all aspects of criminal justice processing; and advancing justice system operations. 

The committee administers federal grants including the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Program, the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, Project Safe Neighborhood and the State Crisis Intervention Program.