The city of hartford has designed and led multiple programs to connect and support justice-involved youth including the youth violence prevention and intervention (yvip) work group

The City of Hartford, Connecticut will receive $1.4 million under a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The grant will fund the introduction of an innovative program to connect and support justice-involved youth through March 2025.

The program aims to customize interventions for participants based on their readiness for change. It incorporates cross-agency coordination and culturally competent multi-disciplinary providers using youth- and healing-centered practices. The City of Hartford will evaluate the program's success in enrolling and retaining at-risk youth, reducing high-risk behaviors, and reconnecting participants to education. The award was made under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753), which supports improving criminal justice systems and preventing juvenile delinquency through varied projects.

The objective of this project is to facilitate the introduction of a new innovative program that customizes interventions based on partipants' readiness for change. IT includes cross-agency coordination, and culturally competent multi-disciplinary providers and is based on youth- and healing-centered practices. The program will be evaluated to determine its success in enrollment and retention of youth, reduction of high-risk behaviors, reconnection of youth to educational venues, and rate of recidivism.