Project Grant 90SR0205

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 $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to create and evaluate a toolkit to support youth-led civic engagement and build social cohesion within local communities. The project team at Georgia Tech Research Corporation will develop data-driven tools and activities to help youth collect, analyze, and represent neighborhood data in ways that promote community dialogue, transparency, and...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a $494,674 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Youth Emergency Services, Inc. (doing business as Y E S House), a non-profit organization in Gillette, Wyoming. The funding will support a 3-year initiative to provide community-based and school-based mentoring services to 255 at-risk youth involved in the juvenile justice system across rural northeast Wyoming. Key program...

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,...

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 $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 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 $3,000,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program, will fund the USAID YOUTH EMPOWER (EMPOWER) ACTIVITY in Jamaica over a five-year period from December 2023 to December 2028. The EMPOWER Activity aims to address risk and resilience factors influencing at-risk Jamaican youths' participation in crime and violence. The project will bolster civic education and...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded a $346,728 Project Grant to Options for Youth under the Consolidated And Technical Assistance Grant Program to Address Children and Youth Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence and Engage Men and Boys as Allies (CFDA 16.888). The 36-month grant will support the "What's Up with Manhood" project, which aims to engage teenage boys aged 14-19 in South Lawndale, Chicago as allies in preventing domestic violence,...