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CalEMA 08/09 Funded Projects
The CalEMA CalGRIP Grant Program supports prevention, intervention or suppression strategies to reduce gang and youth violence. The following projects are listed alphabetically.
CITIES
Grantee |
County |
Award |
| City of Hayward | Alameda | $400,000 |
| City of Los Angeles | Los Angeles | $962,000 |
| City of Madera | Madera | $400,000 |
| City of Modesto | Stanislaus | $383,423 |
| City of Oakland | Alameda | $400,000 |
| City of Oceanside | San Diego | $400,000 |
| City of Oxnard | Ventura | $399,690 |
| City of Richmond | Contra Costa | $400,000 |
| City of Sacramento | Sacramento | $400,000 |
| City of Salinas | Monterey | $357,021 |
| City of San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $400,000 |
| City of Sanger | Fresno | $398,763 |
| City of Santa Ana | Orange | $400,000 |
| City of Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | $400,000 |
| City of Stockton | San Joaquin | $400,000 |
| City of Union City | Alameda | $314,103 |
| City of Watsonville | Santa Cruz | $400,000 |
COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS
Grantee |
County |
Award |
| African American Unity Center | Los Angeles | $160,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe | El Dorado | $154,072 |
| Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco | San Francisco | $160,000 |
| Brotherhood Crusade | Los Angeles | $160,000 |
| California Youth Outreach (CYO) | Santa Clara | $160,000 |
| Children's Institute, Inc. | Los Angeles | $160,000 |
| Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County | Sonoma | $101,516 |
| Genesis Family Center | Fresno | $145,107 |
| Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club | Los Angeles | $160,000 |
| Oakland Private Industry Council, Inc. | Alameda | $159,541 |
| Second Chance Youth Program | Monterey | $160,000 |
| Yolo Family Resource Center | Yolo | $160,000 |
| Youth Centers of America | Fresno | $159,764 |
CITIES
City of Hayward
County: Alameda
Implementing Agency: Hayward Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: Hayward Positive Alternatives for Youth 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 reentry services for youth ages 14-18 who have been involved with the juvenile or adult justice systems. The targeted prevention, intervention and reentry services are based on: (1) wraparound Multi-Disciplinary Teams 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 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: The Mayor's Office will contract with a community-based organization 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 Rampart GRYD Zone. Individualized Service Provision is defined as wraparound 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, 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 community-based organizations (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, Mayor's Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development - (213) 437-7796 - jeff.carr@lacity.org
City of Madera
County: Madera
Implementing Agency: Madera Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: The project funds gang prevention education for students in grades 4-6 of the Madera Unified School District, an evidence-based intervention strategy through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program, and suppression activities through the Madera County Gang Enforcement Team (MADGET). Specifically, the project will: (1) provide 3,000 4th graders, 3,000 5th graders and 2,000 6th graders joint on-campus Gang Intervention Tutoring by a police officer and a gang prevention specialist; (2) offer 40 on- and off-campus parent/at-risk youth counseling/educational sessions to 2,000 parents and students; (3) partner with Big Brothers/Big Sisters to provide 24 matches to at-risk youth; and (4) continue MADGET's gang suppression activities targeting known and suspected gang members.
Contact Information: David R. Tooley, City Administrator - (559) 661-5400 - dtooley@cityofmadera.com
City of Modesto*
County: Stanislaus
Implementing Agency: Modesto Police Department
Grant Award: $383,423
Project Summary: Project SAFE is a multi-agency collaboration that addresses the gang and youth violence problem in the Stanislaus Enterprise Zone, through a strategy modeled after the Boston Operation Ceasefire project, consisting of suppression, prevention, intervention, education, job training and skills development. The project will target gang members and at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 24 providing: gang-alternative education and resource information to 500 at-risk youth, gang members and affiliates; gang awareness education to 1,800 people in the target communities; and enrollment in the Work for Success Academy for 100 at-risk youth, gang members and affiliates. Will conduct 23 task force suppression operations throughout the county.
Contact Information: Michael Harden, Interim Chief of Police - (209) 572-9501 - hardenm@modestopd.com
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 - sbedford@oaklandnet.com
City of Oceanside
County: San Diego
Implementing Agency: Oceanside Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: The Oceanside Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Program (Oceanside GRIP) aims to reduce truancy and the risk of gang involvement for youth in the target area through a combination of prevention, intervention and suppression activities. Through the Oceanside GRIP project, the Oceanside Police Department will increase truancy sweeps from 5 to 10 annually; expand its involvement in the truancy reduction program by adding a uniformed officer to contact high-risk truants and their parents; increase curfew sweeps from 4 to 8 annually; increase juvenile probation sweeps targeting high-risk probationers from 4 to 8 annually; and increase the case management capability of North County Lifeline to work with the youth and family members identified through the expanded truancy programs.
Contact Information: Frank McCoy, Chief of Police - (760) 435-4490 - fmccoy@ci.oceanside.ca.us
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 will also 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: Commander Scott Hebert - (805) 385-8290 - scotthebert@oxnardpd.org
City of Richmond
County: Contra Costa
Implementing Agency: 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: Deborah Dias - deborah_dias@ci.richmond.ca.us
City of Sacramento
County: Sacramento
Implementing Agency: Mayor's Office of Youth Development
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: The Youth Violence Recidivism Reduction Project will provide case management, social services, and employment opportunities to 50 adjudicated youth in a high-crime target area who are reentering the public school system. The youth will be validated gang members or have gang indicators. Due to their previous criminal records and delinquent behavior, socio-economic factors, neighborhood environments, and family backgrounds, the target youth are at high-risk for participating in gang-related criminal activities and committing gun violence. The proposed project will primarily focus on a combination of recidivism prevention, school reentry and education, job training, and community service, including referrals to employment, substance abuse and mental health services.
Contact Information: Lyn Corbett, Director, Mayor's Office of Youth Development - (916) 808-8050 - lcorbett@cityofsacramento.org
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. It 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: Commander Kelly McMillin - (831) 758-7999 - kellym@ci.salinas.ca.us
City of San Bernardino
County: San Bernardino
Implementing Agency: Mayor's Office of Community Safety and Violence Prevention
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: Through referrals from the highly successful Operation Phoenix Street Team, the San Bernardino City Operation Phoenix Collaborative will utilize (1) the evidence-based programs of the Urban Youth Conservation Corps to provide prevention, intervention, education training, skills development, community service and employment placement to 14-17 year old at-risk youth; and (2) Wraparound/Case Management services for 18-25 year old probationers and state Division of Juvenile Justice parolees to provide intervention, reentry, education, training, skills development, family services and employment placement in high-need areas of San Bernardino.
Contact Information: Kent Paxton - paxton_k@sbcity.org
City of Sanger
County: Fresno
Implementing Agency: Sanger Police Department
Grant Award: $398,763
Project Summary: The City of Sanger and its seven city partners (Fowler, Kingsburg, Orange Cove, Parlier, Reedley, Selma and the Del Rey Community Services District), all located in Southeast Fresno County, will provide officers to the Multi-Agency Gang Enforcement Consortium (MAGEC)—a regional task force composed of County Sheriff, Probation, District Attorney, municipal police, California Highway Patrol and other state and federal agencies—to enhance gang investigation, suppression, and prosecution activities. MAGEC officers will also work with school and city officials for gang awareness education. In addition, the Grantee cities will create a fund for tattoo removal for each city to use for up to five former gang members per city. Each city also will develop an individual special project to prevent gang involvement and address some of the challenges that youth face post-gang involvement.
Contact Information: Thomas Klose, Chief of Police - (559) 875-8521 - thomas.klose@fcle.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: Commander John Gabelman - (714) 245-8050 - jgabelman@santa-ana.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 to reduce violent crime in the target area by providing services to both gang-involved youth and youth who 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: Don Olson - (805) 564-5312 - dolson@santabarbaraca.gov
City of Stockton*
County: San Joaquin
Implementing Agency: Stockton Police Department
Grant Award: $400,000
Project Summary: The Strong Neighborhood Initiative and Neighborhood Renaissance Programs will be leveraged with CalGRIP grant funds to support a comprehensive effort of suppression, intervention and prevention activities, modeled after the Boston Operation Ceasefire project. Law enforcement will conduct long-term surveillance and monitoring of Stockton's most violent gangs, missions/sweeps targeting violent gang activity, and arrest warrant sweeps. A gang/gun hotline will be operated and informants paid for reporting gang/gun activity leading to the seizure of an estimated 200 guns, along with drugs and other contraband. Police will make referrals to Peacekeeper/Youth Outreach Workers (YOWs) who will follow up with 100 gang members and their families and other at-risk youth for purposes of providing services from contracted community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and government service agencies. YOWs will work overtime to conduct critical gang conflict mediation, awareness, and outreach.
Contact Information: Mark Helms, Deputy Chief of Police - mark.helms@ci.stockton.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. Sixty 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: $400,00
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 BASED ORGANIZATIONS
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 activity.
Contact Information: Charisse Bremond, Executive Director - (323) 846-3322 - cbremond@earthlink.net
Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe
County: El Dorado
Location of Services: South Lake Tahoe
Grant Award: $154,072
Project Summary: Gang Prevention Through Targeted Outreach is an evidence-based, nationally recognized Boys & Girls Clubs of America initiative that will serve at least 50 youth, 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 implementation of this initiative through referrals, service provision and tracking. The goal of this project is to prevent crime, deter gang involvement and help youth become productive and caring adults.
Contact Information: Karen Houser - (530) 542-0838 - khouser@bgclt.org
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 Hunters Point 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
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
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
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
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
Genesis Family Center
County: Fresno
Location of Services: Fresno
Grant Award: $145,107
Project Summary: This project represents a comprehensive model aimed at secondary prevention of gang involvement. The program, Project Success, will be housed within an Enterprise Zone that is a high-risk area for gang activity. The core of the proposed program will consist of a prevention model for at-risk youth ages 10-17 and their families who are referred to Genesis via: Behavioral Health Court, probation, schools, and the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Initiative. The gang component will include: mentoring, outreach, case management, and a 10-week course. The mental health component will utilize Functional Family Therapy, an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Best-Practice Model.
Contact Information: Brian Conway, Program Developer - (559) 439-5437 - bconway@genesiskids.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 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
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: Pam Salsedo - (510) 768-4403 - psalsedo@oaklandpic.org
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
Yolo Family Resource Center
County: Yolo
Location of Services: Woodland
Grant Award: $160,000
Project Summary: The Yolo Family Resource Center, in partnership with the Yolo County Office of Education and the Yolo County Probation Department, has developed the Midtown Alternative Village School Project. The partners intend to work together toward a mutual goal of providing effective school-based prevention and intervention strategies to reduce gang activities in communities and neighborhoods. The project seeks to create a safe school environment and provide effective programs to decrease violence in schools and the use of alcohol and other drugs, as well as to provide effective mental health treatment and intervention services and connect Midtown students with the larger community of Yolo County.
Contact Information: Carolyn Castillo Pierson, Executive Director - (530) 406-7221 - ccpierson@yolofrc.org
Youth Centers of America
County: Fresno
Location of Services: Mendota, Huron and Parlier
Grant Award: $159,764
Project Summary: The goal of Taking Back Our Neighborhoods, a community mobilizing and job training project, is to mobilize communities to embrace, empower and transform at-risk youth, families and neighborhoods by providing the necessary leadership and employable skill sets. The focus of the project will be training in the industry areas of recreation, arts and multimedia, with a community emphasis in grassroots community mobilizing and leadership skills development. In addition, neighborhood residents, key community leaders and stakeholders will learn gang prevention strategies and best practices in order to address the environmental factors that affect the vast growing gang epidemic of three underserved, rural communities in Fresno County.
Contact Information: Israel Lara, Executive Director (Faces of Prevention) - (559) 360-1857 - ilara@facesofprevention.org
*Will receive technical assistance to implement the Safe Community Partnership