Chair asks about barriers to NEON participation; Eusebio says DOP is addressing them
Brooks-Powers cites a 2025 report on barriers like school, jobs, caregiving, safety, and mental health support. Eusebio says NEON taps community resources and DOP is redoubling stakeholder engagement to connect clients to services, and Goodwin says the work is in process.
So if, for example, we come across someone who's got a specific skill set, right, let's say in the cyber area, yeah, that person might be pulled.
But generally speaking, we like individuals who've had experience in the field, whether it be adult.
Or juvenile operations so they can better support those operations.
Do any members of the intelligence unit have a caseload where they must supervise clients?
They don't directly supervise clients.
They should be working with the case PO in that regard.
Intel is more of a support than a caseload bearing division.
Pivoting to community-based programming and contracts.
A report commissioned by the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity from June 2025 noted that a large plurality, roughly 44%, of people who learned about the Neon Works program, bless you,
Learned about it from friends or family while only 18% of people learned about it from the Department of Probation.
Is that a trend with other NEON programs as well?
And does this indicate that most participants are not necessarily Department of Probation clients?
It was a past practice, but it won't be moving forward.
And that's why we hired our DCF strategic initiatives and engagement.