Faith & Community-Based Youth Violence Prevention Training & Technical Assistance Initiative
Throughout our nation’s history, faith and community-based organizations have served both as sources of comfort and vehicles of support for those in need. Grieving families and others who have suffered victimization often turn to leaders of these organizations in times of need. These organizations are often effective at gaining the trust of high-risk youth and their families, a core competence that allows faith and community-based organizations to directly provide aid and help connect these young people and their families with other supports through the public service sector. Faith and community-based organizations can help provide a second chance to youth who offend and/or who are victims after a tragedy and restore hope in these youth to undertake positive life changes and move toward healing. These organizations are critical partners in local efforts to prevent and intervene in youth violence and promote well-being of children and youth. OJJDP strongly encourages applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and serve as the fiscal and administrative lead, and other project partners must be proposed as sub recipients. Furthermore, applicant entities must provide information on how they will implement, coordinate, and track project management duties between project partners. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal Nonprofit and for-profit organizations) and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipient organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.Overview
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