Title V Discretionary Grants Awarded FY 1999 |
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Project
Title |
Funded |
Project |
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First Year Grants: |
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Parent Education
Program |
$20,000 |
Works with at risk youth and first-time offenders and their families to stabilize home situations and prevent delinquency and youth violence. |
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Rural Virginia
Juvenile Delinquency Turn-Around Project |
$64,946 |
Provides tutoring, mentoring, adventure-based programming, community service activities to first-time offenders and at risk youth. |
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Continuing Grants: 2nd Yr. |
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Norfolk Assessment
Center |
$68,115 |
Collaborative inter-agency program to identify, assess, and evaluate, youth showing CHINS behaviors and to intervene with youth and their families. |
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YES Project |
$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. |
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Truancy and
Curfew Assessment and Diversion Centers |
$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. |
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YES, Petersburg |
$51,708 |
Provides resilience-building and independent-living skills to youth in public housing. |
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Youth Leadership
Program |
$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. |
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TEAM Program |
$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. |