The grants to prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking against children and youth program supports comprehensive, community-based…

The grants to prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking against children and youth program supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking, including support for their non-abusing parents, caregivers, and legal guardians. With this grant funding, the lake county crisis center for the prevention and treatment of domestic violence, INC. Will continue to implement the safe youth - youth empowerment and healing (YEAH) program by serving school-based services for students ages 5-19 in waukegan county in the service area of chicago, illinois. MOU partners on this project include a safe place and waukegan district 60 school (K-12) school district in waukegan. The project will: 1) develop and implement school-based policies, practices, and programs to prevent and respond to dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or SEX trafficking of students; 2) deliver developmentally appropriate prevention programming for students, including those at high risk of victimization or perpetration; 3) deliver bystander intervention training for students; 4) provide victim services for students, including better access to on- or off-site victim advocates and counselors; 5) develop and deliver training for school resource officers, teachers, school faculty and employees, and coaches on creating trauma-informed classrooms, schools, and programming for students; and 6) support training to assist law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, and schools in investigations and/or prosecutions of incidents of dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and/or SEX trafficking when the student or the students caregiver chooses to report to law enforcement. The project addresses the OVW priority area to expand economic justice and financial advocacy. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.