Certified plush dolls as a youth prevention program

The FY2026 report lists a new program named LEAD at 2,568.00 funded and spent, recipient Elizabeth Police Department (pp5 and 6). It describes the program as substance misuse prevention education and decision-making skills for children through 8th grade. It files the program under Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, with the Schedule B strategy Prevent Misuse of Opioids, and reports 120 individuals served. The account shows one purchase behind the figure. JCM Associates LLC order 26-06844, encumbered 01/30/2026, bought 15 inch LEO plush dolls for 2,400.00 and shipping for 168.00. Check 222280 paid both lines on 06/04/2026. The two lines make the certified figure to the cent. The report's funding and launch date, 1/30/2026, is the date the doll order was encumbered. The doll order is the program's whole certified funding. The money the report certifies as a prevention education program bought plush dolls. Plush dolls are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no prevention instruction paid for by this program is documented.