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CalGRIP Funded Projects (Region I)
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
African American Unity Center
County: Los Angeles
Location of Services: South Los Angeles
Grant Award: $160,000
Project Summary: The Youth Development Program is a three-level comprehensive, coordinated, evidence- and research-based gang prevention strategy. The first level is a community-wide public education and social awareness campaign. The second level engages program youth and their families in cultural and educational enrichment, mentoring, life and social skills development, and community and civic engagement activities. The third level is the most intense, in which 50 at-risk youth, ages 10-15, will be enrolled into a six-day per week, year-round development program that is designed to effectively address the 14 area-specific risk factors that contribute most to youth joining gangs, engaging in delinquent behavior, or being victimized by gang activity9.
Contact Information: Charisse Bremond, Executive Director - (323) 846-3322 - cbremond@earthlink.net
Brotherhood Crusade
County: Los Angeles
Location of Services: Watts
Grant Award: $160,000
Project Summary: March to 1000 is a comprehensive, coordinated, evidence- and research-based gang prevention strategy that focuses on creating a thirst for knowledge and engaging youth in education as a means of providing a vehicle to avoid or escape gang life. It will engage the youth and their families in family cultural and educational enrichment, mentoring, life and social skills development, and community and civic activities. March to 1000 will enroll 40 probation-assigned, at-risk youth, ages 10-15, from the public housing developments in Watts into a six day per week, year-round development program that is designed to effectively address the 14 area-specific risk factors that contribute most to youth joining gangs, engaging in delinquent behavior, or being victimized by gang activity.
Contact Information: Charisse Bremond Weaver, President and CEO - (323) 846-3322 - cbremond@earthlink.net
Children’s Institute, Inc.
County: Los Angeles
Location of Services: Central Los Angeles
Grant Award: $160,000
Project Summary: The proposed program approach (Saving Youth) will focus primarily on preventing gang-affiliated activities and violence, while providing family and community services that support the prevention efforts. Saving Youth will be family-focused and will employ a three-pronged strategy, which will include: Level (1) a core set of required services designed to improve youth and parent communication, competencies and well-being; Level (2) services in which both youth and parents participate in either a clinical intervention track aimed at addressing trauma or a behavioral track aimed at addressing issues of gang and interpersonal violence, or both; and Level (3) an array of family and community support services.
Contact Information: Ana Moscoso, Project Director - (213) 385-5100 - amoscoso@childrensinstitute.org
City of Los Angeles
County: Los Angeles
Implementing Agency: Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development
Grant Award: $962,000
Project Summary: This project has prevention, intervention/reentry, and suppression components. Prevention: Through a competitive RFP process, the Mayor’s Office will contract with a community-based organization (CBO) to provide prevention services to 100 youth between the ages of 10 and 15 at highest risk of joining gangs (as determined by the City of LA’s Youth Services Eligibility tool) in the Rampart Gang Reduction Youth Development (GRYD) Zone. The focus of the services will be targeted street gang prevention—programs to discourage neighborhood youth from initial involvement with street gangs. Intervention: The gang intervention strategy is a two-pronged approach, integrating both Community-Based Gang Intervention and Individualized Service Provision. Community-Based Gang Intervention is defined as violence interruption and crisis response activities and will entail responding to gang-related incidents and confrontations in the GRYD Zone. Individualized Service Provision is defined as wrap-around services such as case management, counseling, academic and vocational education, job training and placement, and other linkages to programs in the community. The focus of this objective will be 100 gang members or gang-involved youth and young adults ages 14-25 who are ready to leave the gang life. The contractor will administer the Los Angeles Risk and Resiliency Check-Up (LARRC), a risk and protective assessment tool, and then track client progress in the GRYD’s Web-Based Client tracking system. Suppression: Suppression services will be designed to remove the most dangerous and influential gang members from the community, work with CBOs to develop graduated sanctions for less serious offenders, share information and coordinate the efforts of confinement facilities and service providers, and develop a formal referral process between law enforcement and CBOs.
Contact Information: Rev. Jeff Carr, Director - (213) 437-7796 - Jeff.carr@lacity.org
City of Santa Ana
County: Orange
Implementing Agency: Santa Ana Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: The Santa Ana Police Athletic and Activities League (SAPAAL) is designed to be a proactive, long-term strategy to reduce gang violence and gang crime through prevention, education and suppression. SAPAAL will partner with community-based organizations, educational programs, and law enforcement agencies to achieve its goal of reducing gang membership, crime, and violence. The program will provide tutoring, mentoring, and organized activities to youth in the target area; will offer the Parent Institute for Quality Education program to parents at a target elementary school; will implement the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program at an intermediate school; and will deploy multi-agency gang suppression teams to identify, arrest, and prosecute repeat, hard-core violent gang members. The program also will provide an opportunity for youth to join the police department as Explorer scouts and Police Cadets.
Contact Information: John Gabelman, Police Commander - (714) 245-8050 - jgabelman@santa-ana.org
KidWorks, Inc.
County: Orange
Location of Services: Santa Ana
Grant Award: $240,214
Project Summary: This grant supports prevention services delivered out of two community centers, located in rival gang territories, that target the predominantly Latino families and youth in the area. Based on the Search Institute's Developmental Assests model, the services focus on education, prevention, family and community services. Services include: Homework Club (after-school tutoring, computer training and library resources) for K-5th grade students and YouthWorks (leadership development, mentoring, creative arts, and academic support) for 6th-12th grade students. It also involves college and career development with application assistance and SAT preparation. AdultWorks focuses on enabling parents to get involved in their children’s lives and participate productively in their communities.
This project works to bridge the gap between the two gang-affiliated neighborhoods. Children were crossing ‘gang-lines’ to attend activities/services at the main KidWorks complex. To help alleviate the problem, the local Housing and Redevelopment has provided a community center at a newly renovated apartment complex for the Homework Club and YouthWorks. With help from the Santa Ana Police Department, KidWorks has brought families from both gang areas together for all-day entertaining social events. It is becoming evident to KidWorks staff and neighborhood families that youth participating in KidWorks are feeling relief from gang confrontations. Homework Club serves 145 students; YouthWorks serves 100 students; Adultworks serves 248 families.
Contact Information: Heather Huntley, Project Director - (714) 834-9400 - heather@kidworksonline.org
Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club
County: Los Angeles
Location of Services: Lincoln Heights, El Sereno, Highland Park and Boyle Heights
Grant Award: $160,000
Project Summary: Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach (GPTTO) is an evidence-based, nationally recognized Boys & Girls Clubs of America initiative that will serve at least 50 youth not currently served by the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club, providing them with research-based positive youth development programs, case management services and additional interest-based Club programs. The initiative includes mobilizing community-based partners to examine the gang problem and assist with project implementation through referrals, service provision and tracking. The goal of the project is to prevent crime, deter gang involvement and help youth become productive and caring adults.
Contact Information: Juana Lambert, Executive Director - (323) 221-3173 - jlambert@labgc.org
