Newark community solutions proposes the newark community solutions-youth violence prevention (NCS-YVP) project to develop and enhance coordinated responses to violence within the newark, new jersey,…

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $926,299 cooperative agreement to the Fund For The City Of New York Inc. under the Children Exposed to Violence program. The Fund will implement the Newark Community Solutions-Youth Violence Prevention project from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. Key services include convening a multidisciplinary planning team to inform youth-based violence prevention strategies, increasing capacity to respond to youth offending and victimization, developing community-based prevention and intervention approaches, and providing trauma-informed counseling, case management, and mentoring to at least 150 youth ages 13-17 impacted by violence or the juvenile justice system and their families. The project aims to develop coordinated responses to youth violence in Newark, New Jersey and create a sustainable program to reduce incidences of youth violence through evidence-based and restorative direct services.

Newark community solutions proposes the newark community solutions-youth violence prevention (NCS-YVP) project to develop and enhance coordinated responses to violence within the newark, new jersey, community as IT relates to youth and their families; develop and implement a comprehensive and restorative direct service program to address trauma associated with youth victimization, exposure to violence, and youthful offending; and create a sustainable and replicable program that can continue to reduce incidences of youth violence and meaningfully respond to violence and trauma amongst young people. The proposed project will benefit at least 150 youth, ages 13 through 17, who have either been impacted by violence or involved in the juvenile justice system, and their families and community. To accomplish these goals, newark community solutions will convene a multidisciplinary planning team (MPT) to inform and advise youth-based services and community-based violence prevention strategies; increase the capacity of the MPT and other criminal justice stakeholders to respond to youthful offending, violence, and victimization; develop community-based approaches and crime-reduction strategies that focus on prevention and intervention of violent crime among youth; raise program awareness through strategic and rigorous outreach to young people, juvenile justice stakeholders, educational stakeholders, and youth-serving community programs; develop individualized service plans based on evidence-based, clinical needs assessment; increase protective factors through delivery of trauma-informed counseling, case management, and mentoring services to youth impacted by trauma, crime, and youthful offending; provide aftercare support services to ensure participants have connections to necessary services after program completion; utilize the action research model to drive data-informed program development and enhancements; measure and report program impact on incidence of youth violence, delinquency, and victimization; and integrate the program model and system-based multidisciplinary coordination into the larger juvenile justice framework.