JJ Youth Development Grant Awards 2006/2007



Youth Development Grant Awards 2010/2011

Active Fiscal Year 10/11 June 2011

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|Law-Related Education (federal) |

|This program supports a variety of activities and meetings for teachers, students and other legal and social services personnel to facilitate broader |

|use of law-related methods, materials, programs and strategies. |

|Civics, First, Inc. |Supports planning and delivery of activities, trainings and meetings for teachers and students to |

|Law-Related Education |facilitate a broader use of law-related methods and materials including regional conferences for students,|

|$60,000 |middle and high school debates, mock trial program, and training for teachers. |

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|Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (state) |

|Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP) is a model mentoring program, which matches children ages 7-14 from high poverty urban |

|neighborhoods in the City of New Haven with trained high school and college student counselors. This program requires a 50% cash match. |

|Leadership, Education and Athletics in |LEAP helps children develop their academic skills and improves their abilities to succeed in school. It |

|Partnership |also provides its youth counselors with opportunities to teach and mentor children, and offers them |

|LEAP Program |training and other experiences to develop their leadership skills. |

|$638,722 | |

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|Neighborhood Youth Center Boys & Girls Clubs Program (state) |

|The purpose of this program is to continue to provide and expand safe haven programming for the youth of Connecticut through the addition of staff, |

|services and innovative programming at the 16 Boys & Girls Clubs across Connecticut. This program requires a 100% cash match and will operate from May|

|1, 2010 to April 30, 2011. |

|Connecticut Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, |Funds will be used to support the substance abuse resistance program called SMART MOVES and will continue |

|Inc. |33 outreach-based, innovative safe haven programs. These programs will serve 4,000 “at risk” youth in |

|BGCA Safe Haven Programming, $766,235 |Connecticut. |

|Boys & Girls Clubs of Bridgeport, Inc. |The Jerome Orcutt unit will provide opportunities for area youth to participate in core life-saving |

|Neighborhood Youth Center Safe Haven, |programs including athletics, homework help, academic achievement, mentoring, character development, life |

|$76,624 |skills, job readiness and the arts. |

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|Neighborhood Youth Center State Grant Program (state) |

|The Neighborhood Youth Center State Grant Program will support specific local initiatives to increase positive experiences for youth ages 12 through 18|

|years in high need neighborhoods. This program requires a 50% match and will operate from May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2011. |

|Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Hartford |Centro San Jose’s youth programming will serve youth from Fair Haven with a Positive Youth Development |

|Strengthening New Haven’s Teens, $51,083 |approach, which focuses on academic enrichment, case management and transition support delivered in a |

| |culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. |

|Central Connecticut Coast YMCA |The New Haven YMCA Youth Center will provide a safe, appropriate place for youth in the Dwight |

|Dwight Neighborhood Program, $51,083 |neighborhood. The program will provide support and a variety of opportunities for youth using the |

| |Positive Youth Development framework. |

|Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport,|Funding will support a variety of educational, recreational and cultural programs for youth at the |

|Trumbull Gardens Multi-Purpose Center, |Trumbull Gardens Multi-Purpose Center. Activities are designed to increase student achievement and to |

|$66,663 |provide a safe place for youth to develop leadership skills. |

|Valley Shore YMCA |The Summer of Service is a unique program that will identify and develop leadership skills in 50-75 teens |

|Summer of Service |by engaging them in service learning projects. Projects will vary from environmental to community |

|$38,312 |outreach to technology and will also prepare youth for employment. |

|Rivera Memorial Foundation Inc., After |The program will serve 75 at risk children in the City of Waterbury through after school and summer |

|School & Summer Enrichment, $19,156 |enrichment activities |

|St. Margaret Willow Plaza NRZ Association, |This is a 3-day a week program for 25 youth with monthly and quarterly incentives. Tutoring, enrichment, |

|Inc. |guest speakers, sports & recreation, drug & violence prevention, community service, field trips and more |

|Best Foot Forward |will be provided based on youth input. |

|$19,156 | |

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|Governor’s Urban Youth Violence Prevention Program (federal) |

|The purpose of the Governor’s Urban Youth Violence Prevention Program is to reduce urban youth violence by providing grants for programs to serve youth|

|ages 12 to 18 in urban centers within Connecticut. These programs will operate from February 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. |

|Carver Foundation of Norwalk, Inc., Youth |This Norwalk community-based non-profit will provide critical services to youth ages 12 to 18 including a |

|Development Program |summer and year round after school program. Programming has been developed with input from both parents |

|$150,000 |and youth participants. |

|Ebony Horsewomen, Inc. |This program provides a safe and wholesome facility, the Equestrian Center in Hartford’s Keney Park, for |

|Equine Assisted Violence Prevention |30 youth to use 7 days per week for programming focused on challenging learning, leadership, violence |

|$150,000 |deterrence and employment opportunities. |

|Town of Enfield |Project Success will continue to expand the center’s programs that build assets in youth, extend program |

|Project Success |hours, increase youth involvement and service learning, and increase opportunities for youth to build |

|$150,000 |positive relationships with police and community. |

|McGivney Community Center, Inc., McGivney |This project provides educational and recreational programming for youth that builds skills they need for |

|Teen Programming |school and beyond. Youth are attracted to the center with a variety of programs that cannot easily be |

|$150,000 |found in the Bridgeport East Side neighborhood. |

|Original Works, Inc. |This is a neighborhood arts program that provides youth with substantial arts experiences in dance, music,|

|East End YouthArtWorks |theater and film under the tutelage of professional artists including the creation, development, and |

|$150,000 |performance of original artistic products. |

|Solar Youth, Inc., Solar Youth’s Teen |This New Haven-based non-profit youth development and environmental education organization will provide a |

|Leadership Program |civic engagement internship opportunity for up to 35 youth. Youth will be trained to identify and |

|$77,000 |implement community service action projects. |

|Waterbury Youth Service System, Inc. |The Silence the Violence Program at the WOW/NRZ Community Learning Center will continue to empower the |

|Silence The Violence |youth and help to support and improve overall relations in the Walnut, Orange and Walsh neighborhood of |

|$149,376 |Waterbury. |

|YMCA of Metropolitan Hartford, Inc. |This project will provide funding for the Wilson-Gray YMCA Youth and Family Center, which serves the Clay |

|Wilson-Gray YMCA Teen Programs, $150,000 |Arsenal and Upper Albany Avenue neighborhoods in Hartford. Positive mentors, structured programs, |

| |tutoring, field trips and team building will be offered. |

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