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The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and WestEd have received a $983,482 Project Grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) to develop and test a Violence Intervention and Prevention Intercept Model (VIPIM) for evaluating ecosystem approaches to preventing violence in Boston. Over 4 years, the project will produce the VIPIM tool to identify entry points, outcomes, and coordination dynamics...

The National Institute of Justice awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University to extend an ongoing 28-year longitudinal study, the Northwestern Juvenile Project (NJP), to investigate violent behavior and victimization in under-resourced communities. The study will focus on patterns, trajectories, and predictors of violent behavior and victimization from adolescence through median age 42 among a sample of youth who were previously detained. The project aims to provide critical...

The City of Orlando has been awarded a $1,550,438 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.045 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative) to implement a comprehensive Community Violence Intervention and Prevention (CVIP) program. The program combines the evidence-based Cure Violence and Advance Peace strategies to reduce violent crime and promote public safety in targeted Orlando communities. Key activities include developing...

The Community Collective for Youth and Family Resilience and Violence Prevention (CCYFR) project will deliver evidence-based interventions and programs to help families impacted by violence in Boulder and Broomfield counties, Colorado. Funded by a $900,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Children Exposed to Violence program (CFDA 16.818), the University of Colorado will lead a...

This three-year, $1.44 million project grant from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045), will fund the CHANGE MATTERS Community Based Intervention & Prevention Initiative in Waco, Texas. Led by Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative, the Initiative aims to reduce violent crime rates through comprehensive community violence intervention strategies targeting individuals, families,...

This federal Project Grant award from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), under the OVW Research and Evaluation Program (CFDA 16.026), provides $500,000 to Justice Innovation Inc. to conduct an exploratory study on the extent to which Community Violence Intervention (CVI) programs address the intersection of community gun violence and intimate partner violence (IPV). The key products and services to be delivered under this 2.5-year grant, which runs from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027,...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $825,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Children Exposed to Violence (CEV) program to SBCS Corporation, a non-profit organization based in Chula Vista, California. The three-year project, starting October 1, 2024, will address childhood exposure to domestic violence by implementing a trauma-informed, evidence-based, two-generation model of care for families residing at the Casa Segura...

The Child & Family Service (CFS) will use a $250,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to deliver a youth violence prevention program in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. The program, called "Ike Loa," will provide training to community partners who work with youth to help identify at-risk behavior and increase protective factors. CFS will also offer age-appropriate violence prevention classes to...

Chris 180, Inc. was awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the STOP School Violence program. The award will support Project Violence Prevention, a comprehensive initiative to enhance the capacity of 20 Title I schools in Atlanta, Georgia to address and reduce youth violence and delinquency from October 2022 through September 2025. Key services include mental health support, classroom supports,...

The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program (CFDA 16.751) to Social And Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), Inc. This 3-year project, titled "The Upstream Solution to Domestic Violence: A Comprehensive Pretrial Intervention Project", aims to address domestic violence in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project proposes to expand a survivor-centered intervention program for...