Project Grant 90CV0604

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, 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) to operate a Mentoring Children of Promise program in the Greater New Orleans, Louisiana area. This 3-year grant, with an award date of October 1, 2024 and ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027, will allow VOASEL to expand its focus on providing...

The Keiki 'O Ka 'Aina Preschool, a non-profit Native Hawaiian organization in Hawaii, was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program). The grant will fund the "Supporting Keiki of Incarcerated Parents Hawaii" project, which aims to develop and sustain intentional mentoring relationships for 12 to 225 children of incarcerated parents in Hawaii. The project will...

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 (OJJDP) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Kid Power, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization. The 3-year grant will fund a comprehensive youth mentoring and enrichment program to address the academic, social, and emotional challenges facing at-risk youth in Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. The program will implement a multi-phase...

The National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc. (NCMM) received a $2.5 million project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to provide mentoring services under the Juvenile Mentoring Program. NCMM will use the funding to expand existing mentoring programs in nine geographic regions centered on an evidence-based curriculum for at-risk Black youth ages 12-17. Over the three-year period from October 1, 2022 to...

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 (OJJDP) awarded a $400,000 three-year Project Grant (CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program) to the Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (BAF-BBBS) in Buffalo, NY. The funding will support the "Strengthening Community: Collaborative Mentorship for Children & Families Impacted by Incarceration" project, which aims to provide transformative, evidence-based, one-on-one mentoring to 75 children aged 6-17 with...

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 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,...