Guam DOC and DYA met with their assigned coach in May and June. While they did not meet in April there was email contact.
Both sites continue to make progress on their grants. Overall their goals are to become PREA compliant. This is a long-term goal, but they are chipping away.
There are a few challenges that are out of the sites' hands, but impact their efforts. First, procurement. The procurement process in Guam is debilitating. There are significant demands on departments to get bids for goods. However, there seems to be miscommunication about how many bids are necessary (they recently got 6 because three were for Guam and three were for the federal government). The coach asked why they cannot count three bids for both and it seemed to leave people wondering if they had been getting too many.) Then it takes a VERY long time for approvals to come from procurement which means that bids expire and departments have to start all over again. This leads to stagnation on progress as well as Guam returning grant funds because they cannot expend funds. As an example, the planning department waited over a year to be able to purchase software to install on new laptops. As a result, the laptops just sat in boxes during that waiting period.
Second is budgeting for PREA Coordinator salaries. The grant was primarily used to pay the salaries of the two PREA Coordinators. The goal was for each agency to include the PCs in their budgets after the grant funds expire late this summer. The coach understood there to be a 2 month period where special funding would need to be secured and then their salaries would be part of the new budgets once the fiscal year begins. However, at the last check in call it came to light that they have not been incorporated into the agency budgets and no one seems to be pushing to have them included. As things stand at the time of this report, the PCs will be laid off in the near future. The impact on them personally and on the agencies are just too many to count. Both PCs continue to be very positive which the coach commends knowing it must not be easy.
The Guam Department of Youth Affairs are making good progress on staff education and youth education through their TIPS project.
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