This federal Project Grant award of $449,060 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) will enable Communities United, a non-profit organization, to implement its Healing Through Justice initiative in Chicago. The initiative aims to address the impact of violence on the mental health and wellness of 500 at-risk youth in Chicago. It will engage these youth through positive youth development, restorative...
This federal Project Grant award of $3,000,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) supports the implementation of PROJECT COPES (Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment in School Health Centers). The project aims to expand existing services in school-based health centers (SBHCs) located in predominantly lower-income African American and Latino communities on Chicago's South and West sides....
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) to Endeavor Health, a non-profit healthcare provider in the Chicago area. The grant funds the development and implementation of a hospital-based community violence intervention program called "Endeavor to Heal" at three of Endeavor Health's hospitals. The program aims to decrease instances of violent injury in high-crime...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), supports a study titled "CHAMP-V + LAW: A Program to Prevent Youth Violence by Addressing Upstream Structural Determinants through Community Health Worker and Civil Legal Aid Interventions." The $3,927,249 award to the University of Chicago aims to...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $1.6 million Project Grant to Cure Violence Global on September 2, 2022 under the Financial Assistance for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (CFDA 97.132) federal grant program. The grant will support Cure Violence Global's efforts to deliver counter violent extremism services in Chicago, Illinois through June 2023. Specifically, the organization will implement community-based public health initiatives to increase awareness of the...
The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago was awarded a $972,405 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.818 Children Exposed to Violence) to develop and implement the Strengthening Chicago's Youth (SCY) - Hospital Based Violence Intervention Program (SCY-HVIP). This 3-year project will screen and assess 375 children ages 0-19 who present to the emergency department with a violent injury, and...
This $1,200,000 project grant awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) will expand Sinai Health System's capacity to provide effective trauma- and grief-focused treatment and services for children, adolescents, and their families on the southwest side of Chicago who have experienced traumatic events. The key objectives are to: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $1,312,000.00 to the University of Chicago to adapt an inhaled substance use intervention for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. The funding supports research and development activities to transform healthcare for military service members and the broader public by investigating innovative approaches to disease prevention,...
The Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) will receive $2 million through September 2025 under the Department of Justice's Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative program to expand the delivery of community violence intervention and prevention services in Chicago, Illinois. MFS will use the funding to build upon its existing Communities Partnering 4 Peace network of 16 community-based organizations that provide hyper-local violence reduction services. Specifically, MFS...
This $2,500,000 Project Grant award, made under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), will enable Sinai Health System's Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to expand behavioral health services for 75 or more youth and young adults aged 6-24 who are at risk or screening positively for serious mental health conditions. The program, to be named "Under the Rainbow", will provide...
The University of Chicago Medical Center received a $4,400,000 Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives (CFDA 93.493) program. The grant will fund the "Community Violence Intervention Ecosystem Collaborative" initiative, which aims to provide hospital-based crisis intervention and community-based violence intervention programming in high-risk neighborhoods in Chicago, specifically Englewood and South Deering.
The initiative partners with organizations like Metropolitan Family Services, Public Equity, and Claretian Associates to strengthen collaboration and coordination of victim services and case management, with the goal of preventing re-injury and connecting survivors of violence to comprehensive recovery support. The grant's multidisciplinary approach addresses social determinants of health and structural characteristics that contribute to interpersonal violence, leveraging hospital-based and community-based interventions to benefit the targeted populations. The award period runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2025.