Project Grant SKV42020GR0060

Lawndale Christian Legal Center (LCLC) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753). The grant will support LCLC's holistic, community-based model of restorative justice to prevent contact between Black and Brown youth and the criminal justice system in Chicago, Illinois from March 15, 2022 through September 30, 2023. LCLC's multi-disciplinary team...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $523,234 Cooperative Agreement under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.540) program to Collective Action For Youth. The project will run from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027 and aims to work with the community to create safeguards that steer youth and young adults towards positive goals. Key activities include: establishing regular coordination meetings,...

Through this $425,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.548 Delinquency Prevention Program), the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court and Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice Coordination will partner with Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children to implement a community-based participatory research initiative. The goal is to develop a healing-centered and positive youth development-informed...

The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services received a $425,142 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Indigent Defense Federal Grant Program (CFDA 16.836). The purpose of this 3-year grant is to enhance the representation of youth charged with juvenile or criminal offenses throughout the state of Maine. Key project activities include: Updating the standards of practice for assigned counsel representing youth...

Justice Innovation Inc. will provide youth violence prevention services and programs under a $926,299 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The award will support the Newark Community Solutions-Youth Violence Prevention project to develop coordinated community and justice system responses to violence impacting youth in Newark, New Jersey. Key deliverables include convening a multidisciplinary planning team to inform...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.540 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) provides $250,000 to Social Current Inc., a non-profit organization based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to establish a learning network for 75 community-based organizations (CBOs) serving marginalized communities. The primary goals are to enhance the organizational capacity and resilience of these CBOs, with a focus on increasing their access to...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) to Justice Innovation Inc., doing business as the Center for Justice Innovation, to implement the Youth Justice Initiative at South Brooklyn Community High School and John Jay School for Law. Over the 3-year grant period from October 2023 to September 2026, the Youth Justice Initiative aims to prevent violence and improve school climate by replacing punitive disciplinary...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Children Exposed to Violence (CFDA 16.818) program provides $825,000 to the Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance (CCFJA) to build community and organizational capacity to increase equitable implementation of evidence-based practices that address the impacts of abuse and exposure to violence on children and youth from marginalized communities in Contra...

The Southern University Law Center received a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.548 Delinquency Prevention Program) to support the Louisiana Juvenile Justice Reform Act Implementation Commission (JJRAIC). The project aims to assist the JJRAIC in significantly improving Louisiana's juvenile justice system and reducing risks to youth safety in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems....

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded a 3-year, $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to Douglas County, Nebraska. This grant supports the Creighton University School of Law Juvenile Justice Legal Clinic in expanding its services to provide holistic legal representation, social work support, and restorative justice programming for youth and families in North Omaha. Key activities...