CalGRIP-Funded Projects (Region II)

This is a list of local anti-gang projects funded by CalGRIP dollars.  The applicant agencies listed here were successful in a highly competitive Request-For-Proposal process.  CalGRIP allows for local jurisdictions to implement prevention, intervention or suppression activities – or a combination thereof – based on local need.  Cities and community-based organizations were eligible to apply.  Since the inception of the CalGRIP Initiative, three rounds of grant funding have been awarded (2008-09 - 2009-10 coming soon).  Projects are listed alphabetically.

FUNDED 2008-09

Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco

County: San Francisco
Location of Services: Hunters Point
Grant Award: $160,000

Project Summary: This program will engage youth (primarily ages 8-18) in the Hunters Point area who are new to the Club and at risk of academic failure and/or becoming involved in gangs or violence.  This prevention-based strategy will expand the membership and services of the Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club at Hunters Point.  The program will address the needs of the target population through an innovative and deliberate blend of Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Model Programs including: formal mentorship aimed at academic skills enhancement in an afterschool setting, using the Achievement Matters curriculum.  The program will provide comprehensive youth development strategies, teen-specific services with career/ vocational development and behavioral health services based upon the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/Treatment model.

Contact Information: Harold Love, Senior Director of Program Services - (415) 445-5488 - hlove@kidsclub.org

California Youth Outreach (CYO)

County: Santa Clara
Location of Services: Central and East Oakland
Grant Award: $160,000

Project Summary: CalGRIP funds will establish a new Case Management Care and Support Services component to serve 50 gang-involved and gang-impacted youth per year, helping them toward pro-social alternatives and away from crime and violence.  These youth will be targeted by street outreach workers, referred by probation or other service providers, or transitioning to home from county and state detention facilities.  Support services will include longer-term case management, education, skill-building and social/recreational programming. CYO has planned for pre-release services for youth and their families (including home visits); re-entry services (including intensive case management); and aftercare services (including school transition and support groups).

Contact Information: Ron Soto, Executive Director - (408) 280-0203 - ron@cyoutreach.org

City of Hayward

County: Alameda
Implementing Agency: Hayward Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000

Project Summary: Hayward Positive Alternatives for Youth (HPAY) will provide:  prevention through education for all students in grades 5 and 7 in Hayward Unified School District (HUSD), professional development for HUSD teachers of grades 5-12, and workshops for HUSD parents; targeted prevention for youth determined to be at high-risk of gang involvement; intervention for youth identified as gang-involved; and re-entry services for youth ages 14-18 who have been involved with the juvenile or adult justice systems.  The targeted prevention, intervention and re-entry services are based on: (1) wraparound Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) providing comprehensive, wraparound services to at-risk and gang-involved youth and their families; (2) connecting youth to work and leadership opportunities; and (3) connecting work experience with education.

Contact Information: John Beard, Manager, Youth and Family Services Bureau - (510) 293-7048 - John.beard@hayward-ca.gov

City of Oakland

County: Alameda
Implementing Agency: Oakland Department of Human Services
Grant Award: $400,000

Project Summary: Oakland Gang Reduction, Intervention, and Prevention Program (O-GRIPP) will build upon the City’s Measure Y, a $20 million per year investment in crime reduction, to implement a strategy modeled after the Boston Operation Ceasefire project.  O-GRIPP will target six contiguous police beats in West Oakland.  It will fund a data analyst, case manager, expanded involvement of the Mayor’s Street Outreach Coordinator and a targeted community education message.  It will also form a West Oakland Public Safety Council that will be the focus of neighborhood crime reduction planning.  O-GRIPP will use data from probation, parole and police to identify gang-involved individuals and invite them to Call-Ins where law enforcement will outline sanctions for future violence, and job support service programs and employers will offer training, services and jobs.

Contact Information: Sara Bedford, Policy and Planning Manager - (510) 238-6794 - bedford@oaklandnet.com

City of Richmond

County: Contra Costa
Implementing Agency: City of Richmond, Office of Neighborhood Safety
Grant Award: $400,000

Project Summary: The Richmond Community Wellness Collaborative (RCWC), Phase II, seeks to address the root causes of the epidemic of gang violence in the city of Richmond by expanding upon and strengthening the services of the RCWC I, funded during the first cycle of the CalGRIP program.  RCWC II will build upon the success of the first phase by expanding the service area to include the entire city, adding a program case manager, providing boot camp conditioning and program/job readiness training for extremely difficult-to-serve clients, and offering additional employment training opportunities in the form of an Entrepreneur Boot Camp and a Computer Technician training course.

Contact Information: Devone Boggan, Director - (510) 621-1219 - Devone_boggan@ci.richmond.ca.us

City of Salinas

County: Monterey
Implementing Agency: Salinas Police Department
Grant Award: $357,021

Project Summary: The City of Salinas will implement Operation Ceasefire to reduce gang violence, illegal gun possession, and gun violence in the target community.  Will partner with the Monterey County Probation Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Youth Outreach (CYO) and Second Chance Youth Program (SCYP) to host two annual Violence Prevention Summits where law enforcement will emphasize to at-risk youth that there will be swift and severe consequences for violent conduct.  To assist participants in avoiding a violent lifestyle, the project will provide referrals to CYO, SCYP, the Silver Star Resource Center and other supporting community organizations that will offer educational services and work opportunities to at-risk and incarcerated youth.

Contact Information: Kelly McMillin, Police Commander - (831) 758-7999 - kellym@ci.salinas.ca.us

City of Union City

County: Alameda
Implementing Agency: Union City Department of Leisure Services
Grant Award: $314,103

Project Summary: The goal of the Union City Youth Safety Initiative is to reduce the incidence and severity of youth violence in the city.  The project will provide outreach, case management, education, job training and placement, and family and community services to youth involved in gang-related violence.  Through ongoing street-based outreach, outreach workers will contact 400 gang-involved youth and enroll at least 100 into the program for six months of case management services, along with 50 of their families.  60 of the most violent gang youth will participate in forums modeled on the Boston Ceasefire “Call-In and Hook-Up” forums.  The project also will fund law enforcement/gang suppression activities and the creation of a comprehensive police data analysis system. 

Contact Information: Tony Acosta, Deputy City Manager - (510) 675-5394 - tonya@unioncity.org

City of Watsonville

County: Santa Cruz
Implementing Agency: Watsonville Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000

Implementing Agency: Watsonville Police Department Grant Award: $400,00 Project Summary: The City of Watsonville, in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, Santa Cruz County Probation Department, Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), and Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance (PVPSA), will work together toward a mutual goal of preventing and suppressing gang-related crime and intervening with high-risk youth to prevent gang membership. The law enforcement partners will focus their violence suppression efforts on the habitual, violent gang offender while PVUSD and PVPSA will provide prevention/intervention services to the city's school-aged youth who have been expelled or suspended for weapons violations. The Community Post-Incident Team will work with the community affected by the gang violence. The goal is to reduce violent gang-motivated crime and increase public safety through inter-agency coordination of services, information exchange, and data analysis.

Contact Information: Terry A. Medina, Chief of Police - (831) 768-3300 - tmedina@ci.watsonville.ca.us

Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County

County: Sonoma
Location of Services: Santa Rosa
Grant Award: $101,516

Project Summary: Padres Unidos is an intervention program that strives to address youth who are choosing or sustaining gang affiliations by strengthening the bonds between parent and child.  The program uses a range of existing partnerships to raise community awareness on gangs, followed by outreach and recruitment to encourage parents with gang-involved or gang-at-risk children to change their behavior in relation to their children.  By providing a high quality behavioral-focused parenting education class to improve parenting skills, using group learning and case management to build optimism and belief in change, Padres Unidos reinforces changes in behavior in the family dynamic.

Contact Information: Vince Harper, Director of Youth and Neighborhood Services - (707) 544-6911 - VHarper@CAPSonoma.org

County of Monterey

County: Monterey
Location of Services: Salinas
Grant Award: $500,000 (EDD)

Project Summary: The Monterey County Targeted Employment project serves 100 youth who are at risk for gang involvement, gang-involved or gang members, and are 18-24 year old. The need to provide a continuum of services from successful local programs that serve youth until their 18th birthday will be answered by our collaboration. Turning Point of the Central Coast, the Rancho Cielo Youth Campus - Salinas Youth Corps, Salinas Adult School, Monterey County Behavioral Health and Probation Department and local employers will support participants' academic and employment achievement and opportunities. Employment opportunities reduce gang involvement, crime and violence so that communities and individuals thrive.

Contact Information: Lynda Dunn - (831) 796-3330

Oakland Private Industry Council, Inc.

County: Alameda
Location of Services: West Oakland
Grant Award: $159,541

Project Summary: This program is a case-management centered program targeting parole or probation youth, ages 16-24, who are reentering West Oakland.  After recruitment and enrollment, the program will provide assessment and testing, assignment of a case manager, and development of an individual service plan with goals and objectives based on the needs and desires of the participant.  Next, the participant will receive employment training, job placement, and job mentoring, as well as education development in the form of GED preparation, Basic Skills education, or post-secondary counseling or vocational training and placement.  The program also will provide life skills development (counseling, case management, parenting, vital records acquisition, etc.) and wraparound services and support (transportation, child care referral and support, etc.).

Contact Information: Melbra Watts, Director of Administrative Services - (510) 768-4454 - mwatts@oaklandpic.org

Oakland Private Industry Council, Inc.

County: Alameda
Location of Services: West Oakland, South and West Berkeley Emeryville and North and Central Richmond
Grant Award: $500,000 (EDD)

Project Summary: The l-80 Opportunity Corridor Program will provide comprehensive educational, employment, case management, and wraparound services to 140 youth along the Interstate 80 corridor in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Focus will be on gang-impacted communities of West Oakland, South and West Berkeley, and Emeryville in Alameda County, and North and Central Richmond in Contra Costa County. The Oakland Private Industry Council (Oakland PIC), the Scotlan Youth and Family Center, Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA),and Richmond Works will be the "anchor partners", joined by Probation, the Oakland Unified School District, Healthy Oakland, the Mentoring Center and Contra Costa and Peralta Community College Districts. Case managers will work with participants to help them on an educational and job training path focused on high growth, high wage jobs, such as construction and building trades, green jobs, allied health and human services and automotive technology.

Contact Information: Gay Cobb - (510) 768-4411

Second Chance Youth Program

County: Monterey
Location of Services: Salinas
Grant Award: $160,000 

Project Summary: Through street outreach and a prevention/intervention strategy, Salinas Outreach Strategies for High-Risk Youth will engage 200 at-risk youth and 40 of their parents in reentry services in partnership with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; job training skills and GED/educational support through the Monterey County Office of Employment Training; Aggression Replacement Training through the Monterey County Probation Department; and recreational programming through the Boys & Girls Club.  Program staff will conduct individual assessments to monitor progress toward goals, with the ultimate goal of renouncing gang affiliation.  The project will include 25 presentations on gang awareness and prevention to 625 community participants.

Contact Information: Brian Contreras, Executive Director -(831) 758-4820 - brian@scyp.org

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