For this solicitation, applicants must develop and implement a youth violence prevention strategy targeting middle and high school age youth and/or those youth having multiple risk factors for violence.
The Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence solicitation provides funding for communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to assist children and their families who are exposed to violence build resilience and prevent future juvenile violence and delinquency. Funding can be used to develop and/or enhance support services for children exposed to violence and to help family-serving organizations better recognize and help families at risk for violence.
This program provides support for the planning, implementation, and operation of full-service community schools that improve the coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families, particularly for children attending high-poverty schools, including high-poverty rural schools. Note: Anticipated deadline – Feb 2023
The purpose of the PN program is to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of children living in the most distressed communities of the United States, including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based continuum of high-quality services. Note: Anticipated deadline – March 2023
The purpose of this program is to fund organizations to provide a pre-apprenticeship program model that encompasses education, occupational skills training, leadership development, and post-program placement opportunities to at-risk youth. Note: Anticipated deadline – Feb 2023
The Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program encourages collaboration between state agencies, local government, and community- and faith-based organizations to address the reentry and recidivism reduction challenges posed for youth who are returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities. A competitive grant to support services like intensive case management, mentoring, mental health care, and vocational services to young people at high risk of recidivism. Note: Anticipated deadline – May 2023
The Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives Program (Short title: PREVAYL) provides funding to implement community and societal level strategies that address social determinants of health and racial inequity to prevent violence impacting adolescents and young adults in areas with high rates of violence. Note: Anticipated deadline – March 2023
This solicitation provides funding for communities to develop and provide support services for children exposed to violence as well as training and technical assistance to child and family-serving organizations to help them better recognize and help families at risk for violence.
The Illinois Department of Human Service’s (IDHS/Department) Office of Firearm Violence Prevention (OFVP) is implementing the Reimagine Youth Development (RYD) program to provide after-school and summer programming services to at-risk youth in communities across the state with highly concentrated firearm violence. Note – Rolling deadline