JJ Youth Development Grant Awards 2006/2007



Youth Development Grant Awards 2007/2008

Active Fiscal Year 07/08 July 2007

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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. |

|CT Consortium for Law & Citizenship |Supports regional conferences for students in grades 9-12, a middle school debate program, a statewide |

|Education, Inc. |training session for teachers, etc. and training of a curriculum for police to teach to students that |

|Law-Related Education |covers Connecticut’s criminal laws concerning youth. |

|$50,000 | |

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|Connecticut for Community Youth Development (federal) |

|This program supports direct service providers, supervisors, planners, advocates, youth funders and program managers who work with, or on behalf of, |

|youth ages 12 to 18. |

|CT Consortium for Law & Citizenship |Supports Connecticut for Community Youth Development (CCYD) activities including the annual youth funders |

|Education, Inc. |conference, training for direct service personnel and technical assistance to the JJAC on the youth |

|CCYD Technical Assistance |development framework and best practices. |

|$47,971 | |

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|Implementing Local Delinquency Prevention-Title V (federal) |

|This program provides up to two-thirds of the funding for 20 months to implement a local delinquency prevention plan based upon an assessment of risk |

|and protective factors associated with the development of delinquent behavior in the community’s children. |

|Town of Bloomfield |This project will support a camp program for 3rd and 4th graders, a 10-week group for middle school |

|Juvenile Delinquency |females, a resource packet for families of middle school youth, forums for adults led by youth—“Please |

|Prevention Initiative |Hear What We Are Not Saying,” and a drop-in room at the middle school. |

|$64,354 | |

|Town of Killingly |Using this “seed” money, the Killingly Next Generation Initiative plans to implement a model after school |

|Next Generation |program at the high school and, working with youth and sponsoring agencies, develop long-term support for |

|$54,574 |youth programming among families and businesses. |

|City of Meriden |This project will provide community based diversion programs for 75 students aged 10 to 15 years referred |

|Positive Learning for Ultimate Success |by the school. Youth will be offered counseling, community service, case management and recreation at the|

|(PLUS) in Meriden, $78,000 |Meriden Boys & Girls Club and Girls Incorporated. |

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|Governor’s Urban Youth Violence Prevention Program (state and 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. |

|City of Bridgeport |This project will combine academic, cultural and health related offerings from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday |

|Trumbull Gardens Teen |through Saturday for up to 150 youth ages 12 to 18 years old in the multi-purpose building on the grounds |

|Center |of the Trumbull Gardens housing project. |

|$87,000 | |

|C.A.R.D. Foundation, Danbury |This agency provides the skills for adolescents with mental health issues to succeed. This project will |

|B.O.O.S.T. Program |expand their summer B.O.O.S.T. program and support the gains 50 youth made through therapy, parent |

|$75,000 |management training, liaison with schools and mentoring. |

|Cardinal Shehan Center |This project will serve 75 middle and high school youth from Bridgeport meeting two times per week and |

|H.O.P.E. Initiative |Saturdays and providing Job Readiness, Mentorship, Recreation and Fitness (basketball, strength training),|

|$65,895 |and Education (homework help, SAT prep). |

|Carver Foundation of Norwalk, Inc., Youth |This project will support Carver’s after school program that will prepare 70 middle and high school |

|Development Program |students for the transition to the next grade and ultimately to college. In addition, Carver will serve |

|$90,000 |another 85 youth each month through Teen Forums and Teen Explosion Nights. |

|Casa Otonal, Inc., New Haven, Youth Violence|This project will be a collaboration between Casa Otonal, Easter Seals Goodwill Industries and the Youth |

|Prevention Program |Development Training and Resource Center., with Youth As Leaders benefiting 26 middle school youth, and |

|$90,000 |the Hill Youth Action Team benefiting 12 high school students. |

|Central CT Coast YMCA |The New Haven Youth Center in the Dwight neighborhood serves 75 to 120 youth ages 12 to 18 years annually.|

|Dwight Youth Violence Prevention Program |This project will allow the center to continue to offer a range of activities and experiences of interest |

|$89,977 |to youth such as recreation opportunities & Teen Leaders Club. |

|Community Renewal Team, Inc., Youth Arts & |CRT’s Youth Artisan and Technology Center will provide programming for up to 40 youth and their families |

|Technology Center |from Hartford by incorporating five basic elements: artistic exploration, academic support, health and |

|$40,000 |wellness, life skills and student leadership. |

|Ebony Horsewomen, Inc. |This program for 20 youth ages 12 to 18 from the “Northeast” section of Hartford will take place at Keney |

|Urban Equine Violence Prevention |Park. It will operate 3 afternoons per week and on Saturdays. In addition to barn work and riding, youth|

|$78,672 |will have a program of health, nutrition and leadership activities. |

|Town of Enfield |100 underserved youth residing in the Thompsonville area who are 12 to 18 years old and expelled, |

|Project Success |suspended, dropped out or at risk will be served using evidenced based programs in work readiness, problem|

|$80,000 |solving, and conflict resolution, and by providing recreational activities. |

|Town of Manchester |Funding under this proposal will be used to introduce two evidence-based programs (Strengthening Families |

|Manchester Teen Center Enhancement |and Girls’ Circle), to hire police officers as mentors, to fund a theater program and baby sitter training|

|$55,773 |for youth, and to increase the hours of the Teen Center. |

|McGivney Community Center, Inc., McGivney |This will help continue services at the McGivney Community Center where about 125 youth ages 12 to 18 |

|Teen Programming |years receive homework help, supplemental education services, computer literacy, music program, |

|$76,957 |scholarship fund, youth council, arts and crafts, and recreation. |

|City of New Britain |This proposal will continue the after school program in the three middle schools, which operates Monday |

|Exercise the Right Choice |through Friday, 2:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. from October to May and on ten Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. |

|$199,772 |Each site serves over 50 youth daily. |

|City of New London |This proposal will support a program coordinator at a newly created “satellite” office in the New London |

|New London Violence Prevention |High School to connect students to a number of activities including Teens Off The Hook field trips, SADD |

|$78,000 |chapter, monthly Students Night Out and community service options. |

|City of Norwalk |This proposal had excellent youth and parent input. Their plan is to serve 100 youth in the renovated |

|Norwalk Violence Prevention Program |teen center at 20 West Avenue. Offerings will include peer leadership groups, academics and enrichment, |

|$96,259 |career exploration and recreation. |

|Original Works, Inc. |This comprehensive and disciplined program in four core artistic elements (theater, music, dance and |

|YouthArtWorks |visual arts) will serve a group of approximately 60 youth from the East End of Bridgeport Tuesdays through|

|$100,000 |Fridays from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. |

|Urban League of Greater Hartford, Inc., |This project will offer center-based services and outreach to 60 youth and parents through a five-day a |

|Urban League Achievement Center |week after school program at Weaver High School including fitness from Hartford Knights youth organization|

|$96,760 |and cultural offerings from Hartford Footlights. |

|Waterbury Youth Service System, Inc. |This Walnut-Orange-Walsh Center program will provide 47 youth with youth leadership development |

|Silence The Violence |opportunities. The center will increase its hours of operation to Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 9 |

|$99,935 |p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for a “Silence the Violence” program. |

|CT Consortium for Law & Citizenship |Supports the implementation of the 17 approved grants of OPM’s Governor’s Urban Youth Violence Prevention |

|Education, Inc. |Program with professional development for direct service personnel and on-line and on-site technical |

|Support to GUYVP Programs, $135,852 |assistance on youth development and evaluation. |

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