Project Grant 2015CZBX0018

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 awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to BCFS Health and Human Services (BCFS HHS) to provide a mentoring program called "Youth Averted from Delinquency (YAD)" to 90 juvenile justice system-engaged youth ages 10-17 in Kerr County, Texas over three years. The YAD program aims to improve outcomes for this population through evidence-based group mentoring,...

This three-year, $900,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will support Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc.'s expansion of its mentoring programs in California under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JMP; CFDA 16.726). LATM will recruit and train 864 mentors to provide in-person and virtual mentoring to 3,204 at-risk middle school youth across the Los Angeles and San Diego Unified School Districts. The...

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...

This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program) will allow Keiki 'O Ka 'Aina Preschool, a nonprofit Native Hawaiian organization, to implement the "Supporting Keiki of Incarcerated Parents Hawaii" initiative. This 3-year project will provide culturally responsive mentoring and family strengthening services to 12-225 children of incarcerated parents aged 4-17 in Hawaii....

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $705,664 Project Grant under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to Inspire Together, a minority-owned, woman-owned nonprofit organization in South Los Angeles. The grant will fund a 3-year project from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027 to provide pre-release case management and linkages to supportive services for 200 youth transitioning from Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall to the South Los Angeles...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) provides $500,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso, Inc. to implement a three-year initiative called "Implementing a Mentoring Ecosystem for Borderland Youth in the Juvenile Justice System". The project aims to deliver targeted mentoring services and enhance protective factors for youth involved in the...

The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to Casa Esperanza Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned nonprofit organization in Boston, Massachusetts. The grant will fund the "TRANSCEND: Empowerment, Recovery and Re-entry Program" to serve Latino individuals returning from incarceration with substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders. The program will provide integrated,...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Second Chance Act Reentry Initiative (CFDA 16.812) to Guara Bi Inc., a non-profit organization in Caguas, Puerto Rico. The grant will fund comprehensive pre- and post-release reentry services for 75 justice-involved youth ages 16-20 at two juvenile correctional facilities in Puerto Rico, as well as 6 months of case management and supportive services for an...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $999,749 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Los Angeles Team Mentoring, Inc. The 3-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will enable the organization to expand its mentoring services to 2,790 at-risk middle school youth in underserved areas of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Fresno County, California. The program will recruit and train 322 mentors to provide...