CalGRIP-Funded Projects (Region I-A)

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

City Impact

County: Ventura
Location of Services: Oxnard
Grant Award: $500,000 (EDD)

Project Summary: The purpose of Transformation Works is to provide job training, job experience and intensive case management services for 75 Ventura County youth, ages 14 - 24, who are gang members, gang-involved, gang-affiliated, or at-risk of being gang involved; foster youth; and/or disabled youth.  Project participants are at-risk, on informal probation, incarcerated, on formal probation and/or experiencing re-entry after incarceration.  The project focuses on a transformation in behavior, attitude, academic endeavors and job endeavors, so participants enter the project as a "detriment" to their community and exit the project as a "benefit" to their community.

Contact Information: Betty Alvarez Ham - (805) 983-3636

City of Oxnard

County: Ventura
Implementing Agency: Oxnard Police Department
Grant Award: $399,690

Project Summary: Operation PeaceWorks will customize the features of the Boston Operation Ceasefire project to achieve two goals: (1) bring together local and regional law enforcement—including ATF, FBI and DEA—to identify the causes and activities that contribute to continued increases in the use of firearms during gang-related and juvenile crimes, and to develop a plan of action to address them; and (2) provide viable alternatives to gang membership through intensive counseling, community service, academic assistance, employment skills training and paid employment opportunities to gang-involved youth in Oxnard’s City Corps.  Operation PeaceWorks also will increase the capacity of the faith-based, volunteer-led Police Department Clergy Council to formalize PeaceMaker and HopeBoys community outreach programs that engage gang-involved individuals, families and communities in changing norms for tolerance of gang and gun violence.

Contact Information: Scott Hebert, Commander - (805) 385-8290 - scotthebert@oxnardpd.org

City of Santa Barbara

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

Project Summary: Through a comprehensive strategy of prevention/education, intervention, and suppression, this project is designed reduce violent crime in the target area by providing services to both gang-involved youth and youth that are at-risk of gang involvement.  160 youth will be served through targeted case management, which includes individualized case plans, individual/family counseling and support services, and vocation/life skills training.  An additional 608 6th grade students will receive gang prevention education in their classrooms (6th graders will be targeted because of their increased risk of joining a gang).

Contact Information: Gilbert Torres, Captain - (805) 897-3728 - gtorres@sbpd.com

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