Youth Development Grant Awards 2006/2007

Active Fiscal Year 06/07January 2007

Law-Related Education(federal)

This program supports a variety of activities and meetings for teachers, students and other legal and social services personnel to facilitate broader use of law-related methods, materials, programs and strategies.
CT Consortium for Law & Citizenship Education, Inc.
Law-Related Education
$50,000 / Supports regional conferences for students in grades 9-12, a middle school debate program, a statewide training session for teachers, etc.and training of a curriculum for police to teach to students that covers Connecticut’s criminal laws concerning youth.

Connecticut for Community Youth Development(federal)

This program supports direct service providers, supervisors, planners, advocates, youth funders and program managers who work with, or on behalf of, youth ages 12 to 18.
CT Consortium for Law & Citizenship Education, Inc.
CCYD Technical Assistance
$139,000 / Supports Connecticut for Community Youth Development (CCYD) activities including the annual youth funders conference, training for direct service personnel and technical assistance to the JJAC on the youth development framework and best practices.

Implementing Local Delinquency Prevention-Title V (federal)

This program provides up to two-thirds of the funding for 20 months to implement a local delinquency prevention plan based upon an assessment of risk and protective factors associated with the development of delinquent behavior in the community’s children.
Town of Bloomfield
Juvenile Delinquency
Prevention Initiative
$64,354 / This project will support a camp program for 3rd and 4th graders, a 10-week group for middle school females, a resource packet for families of middle school youth, forums for adults led by youth—“Please Hear What We Are Not Saying,” and a drop-in room at the middle school.
Town of Killingly
Next Generation
$54,574 / Using this “seed” money, the Killingly Next Generation Initiative plans to implement a model after school program at the high school and, working with youth and sponsoring agencies, develop long-term support for youth programming among families and businesses.
City of Meriden
Positive Learning for Ultimate Success (PLUS) in Meriden, $78,000 / This project will provide community based diversion programs for 75 students aged 10 to 15 years referred by the school. Youth will be offered counseling, community service, case management and recreation at the Meriden Boys & Girls Club and Girls Incorporated.
Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (state)
The purpose of the Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP)Program is to continue to expand and provide safe haven programming to the youth of Connecticut.
Agency / Grant Award / Cash Match
Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. / $850,000 / $425,000
NeighborhoodYouthCenter Program Revised(federal)
The purpose of the Neighborhood Youth Center Program Revised is to support neighborhood centers in providing specific local initiatives to increase positive experiences for youth ages 12 through 18 yearsin Connecticut’s 7 largest cities.
Neighborhood / Agency / Award $
Bridgeport, North End / Boys and Girls Club of Bridgeport / $90,000
Norwalk, NorwalkCenter / Carver Foundation of Norwalk, Inc. / $54,000
New Haven, Dwight / Central Connecticut Coast YMCA / $90,000
Bridgeport, East End / Charles D. Smith Jr. Foundation / $120,000
New Britain, Citywide / City of New Britain/3 Middle Schools / $216,000
Bridgeport, East Side / McGivney Community Center, Inc. / $65,027
Hartford, Frog Hollow / Mi Casa Family Service & Ed. Ctr. / $90,000
Waterbury, South End / New Opportunities, Inc. / $53,202
Hartford, Weaver / Urban League of Greater Hartford, Inc. / $29,379
Waterbury, Walnut, Orange, Walsh / Waterbury Youth Service System, Inc. / $54,000

In addition to the grants listed in the table, funds support the University of Connecticut Center for Applied Research and the Youth Development Training and ResourceCenter for the purposes of conducting an Interactive Outcome and Program Improvement Process evaluation of the Neighborhood Youth Center Program Revised.

NeighborhoodYouthCenter Boys & Girls Clubs Program(state)
The purpose of the Neighborhood Youth Center Boys & Girls Clubs Program is to continue to expand and provide safe haven programming to the youth of Connecticut.
Agency / Grant Award / Cash Match
ConnecticutAlliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc. / $1,000,000 / $1,000,000
NeighborhoodYouthCenterState Grant Program(state)
The Neighborhood Youth Center State Grant Program will support specific local initiatives to increase positive experiences for youth ages 12 through 18 years in neighborhoods in New Haven.
Agency / Grant Award / Match
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Hartford / $66,667 / $33,334 (cash)
Central Connecticut Coast YMCA / $66,666 / $16,667 (cash)
$16,666 (in-kind)