The grants to engage men and boys as allies in the prevention of violence against women and girls program supports projects that develop and implement strategies that create educational programming…

The Carrie Meek Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $350,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Consolidated And Technical Assistance Grant Program to Address Children and Youth Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence and Engage Men and Boys as Allies (CFDA 16.888). The 36-month grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will fund the Calling All Men: Allies Seeking Safety in Miami-Dade County project. This initiative aims to engage African/Caribbean-American, Hispanic, Latino, and LGBTQ+ men and boys as allies in preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking against women and girls in the Miami-Dade community. Key activities include quarterly workshops, county-wide outreach programs, train-the-trainer sessions, and public awareness campaigns to promote healthy masculinity and the role of men and boys in violence prevention.

The grants to engage men and boys as allies in the prevention of violence against women and girls program supports projects that develop and implement strategies that create educational programming and community organizing to encourage men and boys to work as allies with women and girls to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and SEX trafficking. With this funding, the carrie meeks foundation, INC. Will implement the calling all men: allies seeking safety in miami-dade county project to address violence against women and girls in the miami-dade community. The partners on this project include survivors pathway, INC., the circle of brotherhood, INC., and the nationwide youth outreach & athletics organization. The carrie meeks foundation, INC., in collaboration with its partners, will projectconvene an all-sector, community team to develop and implement workshops, dialogues, and educational campaigns, and community organizing activities and preventions strategies that focus on engaging men and boys as allies. Specially, the project will: 1) hold quarterly workshops where african/caribbean-american, hispanic and latino men and boys, including members of the lgbtq+ will meet to train and be trained and learn to execute a community-wide engagement program. The workshops will also host dialogues at different locations across the community; 2) plan, develop, and deliver sustainable programming for county-wide outreach to encourage men and boys to engage other men and boys in understanding healthy masculinity, socialization, and its place in the prevention of violence against women; 3) hold train-the-trainer sessions; and 4) design and launch marking campaigns to create public platforms for messaging the goals of the project: the roles of men and boys in prevention of violence women and girls. The timing for performance of this award is 36 months.