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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary documents to receive and expend grant funding from the California Board of State and Community Correction for the Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Program in the amount of $500,000 for two years;
Authorize a required in-kind match of $500,000 from Pacific Gateway; and
Increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Department of Development Services (DV) by $500,000. (Districts 1,6,7,8,9)
DISCUSSION
The California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Program (CalGRIP) is a State grant awarded by the California Board of State and Community Correction (BSCC). CalGRIP was designed to provide youth, who are identified as being involved in criminal or gang activity, or are at risk of becoming so, with positive alternatives to gang participation in a safe environment. CalGRIP promotes community awareness and education through anti-gang messages and enhances the coordination of existing youth and gang violence prevention efforts to maximize the return on the investment of limited resources.
Since 2008, the City has been the recipient of four other CalGRIP grants. The first three of these grants have been successfully implemented, while the fourth is currently underway and expected to be completed by December 31, 2013.
On November 14, 2012, the Department of Development Services was awarded a fifth round of CalGRIP funding (CalGRIP 5). The fifth grant, in the amount of $500,000, is a two-year grant beginning January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2014, and requires a 100 percent in-kind match for a total program budget of $1,000,000. The 100 percent, in-kind match will be provided by Pacific Gateway through existing programming such as the Hire-a-Youth Program and Workforce Investment Act’s Youth Career Academies.
CalGRIP 5 aims to divert Long Beach youth from gang affiliation and contact with the juvenile justice system, as well as reduce...
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