The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Face To Face Enrichment Center, a minority-owned, woman-owned, Black American-owned nonprofit organization. The grant supports the Community Organizations and Programs that Empower Youth (COPE) project, which provides mentoring, family engagement activities, and mental health services to 80 youth per year, ages 10-17,...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana, Inc. (VOASEL). This 3-year grant will enable VOASEL to operate the "Mentoring Children of Promise" program in the Greater New Orleans area. The program will provide mentoring services to children with incarcerated parents, a population disproportionately affected...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will provide $681,819 to Operation Restoration and Son of a Saint to deliver mentoring and support services to at-risk youth in New Orleans, Louisiana. The funding supports the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726), which aims to improve outcomes for at-risk youth and reduce negative outcomes like delinquency and substance abuse through mentoring....
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $567,627 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to the Campti Community Development Center (CCDC), a non-profit community development corporation in Louisiana. The 3-year grant will support CCDC's comprehensive mentoring initiative targeting at-risk and underserved youth under age 17 across 5 Louisiana parishes. The project aims to deliver structured mentoring activities,...
The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $3,000,000 Project Grant to Youthbuild USA, Inc. under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726). The grant will enable Youthbuild USA to scale its peer mentoring model to address the impacts of violence exposure among at-risk youth ages 9-15, while maintaining mentoring services for opportunity youth ages 16-17 in 38 U.S. states. Specifically, Youthbuild USA will: 1) Expand peer mentoring by...
The Youth Mentoring Connection (YMC) will provide mentoring and positive youth development activities for 300 underserved youth in Los Angeles, California through a $681,818 grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Specifically, YMC will implement its Mentoring Making Resiliency Real program from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The program will connect at-risk youth ages 13-17 with caring adult mentors...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $999,749 Project Grant (CFDA 16.726 - Juvenile Mentoring Program) to Los Angeles Team Mentoring, Inc. The 3-year grant will enable the organization to expand its mentoring programs to under-resourced areas of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Fresno County, California. The funding will support the recruitment and training of 322 mentors to provide enhanced mentoring services to 2,790 at-risk middle...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $400,000 three-year Project Grant to the Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (BAF-BBBS) for the "Strengthening Community: Collaborative Mentorship for Children & Families Impacted by Incarceration" project under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726). The project aims to provide transformative, evidence-based, one-to-one mentoring to 75 children aged 6-17 with incarcerated parents...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Justice Innovation Inc., doing business as the Center for Justice Innovation, to implement the Brownsville Mentorship (B[ME]) program in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The goal of the 3-year program is to improve outcomes for youth involved in the juvenile justice system by increasing access to evidence-based mentoring services, training a diverse pool of credible messengers...
The City of New Orleans Orleans Parish Juvenile Court (OPJC) will use a $750,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to implement the Orleans Parish Healing Centered Cultural Continuum and New Orleans' first Youth Mental Health Court. The program will provide 100 system-involved youth exhibiting mental health or substance use disorders with comprehensive case...