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 Texas Cops and Communities Mentoring Program was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program). This 3-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will support a comprehensive mentoring program for 150 justice-involved youth in Fort Bend County, Texas. The program utilizes a Positive Youth Justice framework, including individual, agency, and systems-level interventions, credible...
The $500,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program) to Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso, Inc. will fund the "Implementing a Mentoring Ecosystem for Borderland Youth in the Juvenile Justice System" project. This three-year initiative aims to deliver targeted mentoring services and enhance protective factors for youth involved in the juvenile justice system in El...
The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded Project Avary, Inc. a $500,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The Juvenile Mentoring Program aims to improve outcomes for at-risk and high-risk youth through mentoring services to reduce negative outcomes including juvenile delinquency, substance use, and gang participation. Under this award, Project...
The Youth Action Project, Incorporated was awarded a $476,641.95 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the period of October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726), which aims to improve outcomes for at-risk and high-risk youth through the provision of mentoring services. Under this award, Youth Action Project, Inc. will deliver mentoring...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $28,000,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) to implement the Mentoring at Boys & Girls Clubs (MBGC) program. The project will provide one-on-one, group, and peer mentoring services to 29,514 at-risk and high-risk youth ages 6-17 across all 50 states, including American Indian/Alaska Native youth, youth involved in the juvenile justice...
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 $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Be A Mentor, Inc. This grant will fund the "Mentors for California Rural Youth" program, an innovative collaboration between Be A Mentor, the California Police Activities League, and the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force. The program aims to expand mentoring services and reduce the impact...
The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to Citizens For Safe Yakima Valley Communities (doing business as Citizens For Safe Communities) to operate the Safe Yakima Youth Mentoring Program. This 3-year program will engage 300 youth aged 10-17 who are receiving substance use disorder treatment or have parents in treatment. The program provides 39 hours of one-on-one mentoring, 10 hours of drug prevention training using...
This $1,125,000 federal Project Grant award was made by the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726). The grant funds Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) to provide evidence-based, trauma-informed mentoring services for 3 years to at-risk and high-risk youth through a collaboration of 7 local Catholic Charities agencies across 7 states. The program aims to prevent juvenile delinquency, truancy, bullying,...