Project Grant 90SR0079

This $441,788 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.060 - Sexual Risk Avoidance Education) supports the Positive Youth Outcomes (PYO) Middle School Project implemented by Operation Keepsake, a non-profit organization in Twinsburg, Ohio. The program aims to teach adolescents strategies for voluntarily avoiding non-marital sexual activity through evidence-based curricula, medically accurate information, and...

Residential Youth Services & Empowerment (Ryse) will provide housing navigation, life skills training, behavioral health services, and economic development support to at-risk youth in Hawaii through a $600,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The goal of the Supporting Vulnerable and At-Risk Youth Transitioning out of Foster Care program (CFDA 16.049) is to promote positive youth outcomes...

This $900,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will fund the Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc. to expand their successful mentoring initiative for at-risk and high-risk youth with disabilities. The funding will support providing one-on-one mentoring services to at least 205 youth ages 17 and younger across central and eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey through September 2025. Partners...

The Pinoleville Pomo Nation received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Tribal Youth Program (CFDA 16.731) to develop a trauma sensitive afterschool program. The program will employ a coordinator to provide trauma informed therapeutic classes in art, music, drama, writing, yoga, dance, meditation and serve as a mentor for at-risk youth ages 17 and younger. Referrals will come from schools and tribal...

The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $567,627 Project Grant to Beginning New Outreach, Incorporated to deliver the Beginning New Outreach Opioid Affected Youth Program. This program provides mentoring, substance abuse prevention education using an evidence-based curriculum, and positive youth development services to youth ages 11-17 affected by the opioid crisis in Georgia and Alabama. The goal is to help participants voluntarily refrain...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $748,818 Project Grant to Beginning New Outreach, Inc., a minority-owned nonprofit organization, to deliver an evidence-based substance abuse prevention program curriculum paired with positive youth development (PYD) services. The project will focus on youth ages 10-17 in Muscogee County, Georgia, providing the Narconon: Truth About Drugs prevention curriculum and PYD services in areas such as...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), through the Delinquency Prevention Program (CFDA 16.548), has awarded The Skills Center Inc. a $250,000 Project Grant to provide an array of sports-based youth development services for 50 minority middle and high school girls annually over a 3-year period. The program, titled "Tampa YES," will deliver trauma-informed, positive youth development programming that includes individual education plans, tutoring, mentoring,...

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...

This $425,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.548 Delinquency Prevention Program) aims to address high rates of youth mental health issues and substance use in York and Polk Counties, Nebraska. The initiative will partner with local schools, health departments, and community organizations to implement targeted interventions, including regular mental health screenings, counseling services,...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the OVW Research and Evaluation (CFDA 16.026) program provides $496,834 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop and pilot test a prevention approach tailored for sexual and gender diverse youth (SGDY) and their caregivers to address adolescent relationship abuse disparities. The project aims to co-design an intervention with SGDY, caregivers, and community leaders informed by theories...