Project Grant 2017JUFX0005

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) was awarded a $1,217,476 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726). The grant will support BGCA's Mentoring at Boys & Girls Clubs Opioid Prevention Initiative from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. Under the award, BGCA will implement mentoring services focused on opioid abuse prevention at six Boys &...

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast (BGCS) was awarded a $625,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The funding supports the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. BGCS will use the funding in collaboration with partner agency Operation Par to implement programming focused on healthy lifestyles for at-risk and high-risk youth in Pinellas County,...

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast (BGCGC) will implement the Impact School-Based Mentoring Program (IMPACT) through a $1 million cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The goal of this funding is to curb escalating youth violence in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region through the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839), which aims to improve school security and help prevent acts of...

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 U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753). The funding supports the expansion of the organization's Youth Mentoring Program, which aims to provide positive youth development programming and long-term one-on-one mentoring services to 300 at-risk youth and families in the West and Far South Sides of...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) will enable Be A Mentor, Inc. to expand its mentoring services for at-risk and high-risk youth in rural California. The program, titled "Mentors for California Rural Youth," will establish a collaboration between Be A Mentor, the California Police Activities League (sole sub-recipient), and the...

Be A Mentor, Inc. (BAM) was awarded a $900,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to expand mentoring services under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726). BAM will use the three-year award funding to expand its existing youth mentoring program in Richmond, California to serve at-risk and high-risk youth aged 10-17 in the Antelope Valley area of northern Los Angeles County. Key services include...

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...

This $2,000,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice's Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) will fund the "Mentoring Youth Impacted by Opioids Phase 7 (MYIO7)" initiative implemented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA). The initiative will provide 18 months of evidence-based mentoring services to 700 youth aged 17 and younger who have been impacted by opioids and other substance misuse. Key program activities include providing tailored community-based...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Big Brothers / Big Sisters Of Metro Atlanta, Inc. under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). This 12-month grant, titled "MENTORING IN TITLE I MIDDLE SCHOOLS: IGNITING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT", supports...