Title V Discretionary Grants Awarded FY 1999

Project Title
Agency/City
Project Director

Funded
Amount

Project
Description

First Year Grants:

Parent Education Program
Smyth County
Norma Teaters
540.783.3298

$20,000

Works with at risk youth and first-time offenders and their families to stabilize home situations and prevent delinquency and youth violence.

Rural Virginia Juvenile Delinquency Turn-Around Project
Middle Peninsula/Northern Neck Community Services Bd
Cheryl Matteo-Kerney
804.693.5068

$64,946

Provides tutoring, mentoring, adventure-based programming, community service activities to first-time offenders and at risk youth.

Continuing Grants: 2nd Yr.

Norfolk Assessment Center
City of Norfolk
Stephen Blair
757.664.6480

$68,115

Collaborative inter-agency program to identify, assess, and evaluate, youth showing CHINS behaviors and to intervene with youth and their families.

YES Project
Amelia
Rae Moore
804.392.9461

$38,704

After-school program for middle and high school students offers tutoring, psycho-education support groups, life skills training, community service activities, parent education workshops.

Truancy and Curfew Assessment and Diversion Centers
Richmond
David Avery
804.646.5981

 

$41,920

Collaborative inter-agency program designed to provide services to youth apprehended by police for early problem behaviors such as truancy and curfew violations. Provides psychological assessment, parent/child mediation, law-related education, anger management, music, life skills.

YES, Petersburg
Petersburg
Christine Petri
804.861.4720

$51,708

Provides resilience-building and independent-living skills to youth in public housing.

Youth Leadership Program
Alexandria Redevelopment & Housing Authority
Alexandria
Archie Morris
703.549.7115, x222

$44,820

After-school pre-employment program for at risk and court-involved youth. Matches youth with "job" experiences in the community. Offers tutoring, computer, leadership training. Includes parental involvement.

TEAM Program
Nottoway
Linda Staylor
804.292.7421

$68,040

Conflict mediation programs and services in alternative and regular high schools to reduce aggression. Services in alternative school to assist in transition to home school.

Parental and teacher involvement.