This $4,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) aims to enhance and expand existing community violence intervention (CVI) strategies in New Jersey.
The award will fund the selection of two CVI subrecipients to serve as demonstration sites - one in a rural county and one in a mid-sized city. These subrecipients will conduct comprehensive, community-led needs assessments and propose service enhancements in two areas: (1) building a continuum of CVI prevention services, and (2) integrating CVI efforts with other social systems like housing, employment, and reentry support. The intended beneficiaries are populations at highest risk of exposure to community violence, particularly young African American men aged 15-29. The project intends to demonstrate how New Jersey can deepen its CVI investments through a social ecological prevention model.
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