Youth Development Grant Awards 2001/2002

Active Fiscal Year 01/02 September 2001

Title V, Delinquency Prevention (Title V and Formula Funds) (federal)
This program provides grants to cities and towns for local delinquency prevention projects based on an approach that calls on communities to identify the risk and protective factors to which their children are exposed in a locally developed three-year Delinquency Prevention Plan. A key component of this approach is the coordination and use of existing programs and resources.

Town of East Haven

Middle School Enrichment Program
$75,000 / Fund an after school enrichment program in the middle school with individual/group physical activities, academic support and opportunities for community involvement.

Town of Griswold

Griswold Youth Community Center
$30,000 / Support the Griswold Youth Community Center providing recreation, peer counseling, tutoring, job training, mentoring, and community service opportunities for “high risk” youth ages 11 to 17 years.

Rushford Center, Inc. and

Town of Middletown

Youth As Resources
$75,000 / Expand the reach of four youth-led program models (Youth Helping Youth, Middlesex Youth United, Teen Summit and Jam Sessions) to serve youth ages 9 and 17 years.

City of Norwalk

South Norwalk Active Learning Center
$75,000 / Fund programs targeting children in grades 1-3 who live in Norwalk Housing Authority properties and surrounding neighborhoods that provide a variety of after school social, cultural and educational activities.

Town of Putnam

Juvenile Review Board and Coordination
$75,000 / Support a Juvenile Review Board system that will provide intervention and diversion, community service and restitution opportunities, and coordination of services for the prevention of delinquency.

City of Stamford

Youth As Resources
$75,000 / Support this national model that pairs groups of youth with caring adults to do community service projects that the youth identify.

University of Connecticut School of Family Studies

Evaluation-Title V Program
$30,000 / Conduct an evaluation of the Title V Delinquency Prevention Program and provide grantees with assistance in choosing outcomes and collecting data on their projects.

Connecticut for Community Youth Development: Challenge for Private Funders (federal)

This program supports private sector funding of programs for youth ages 12 to 18 years. Applicant organizations apply for funds to distribute in a manner consistent with their organization’s funding policies. The objectives of this program are to increase the funding for youth programs; encourage private funders to use a consistent youth development approach to funding; test the usefulness of, and gather feedback on, the Minimum Youth Development RFP Components; and learn about collaborative funding options between public and private funders.

Fairfield County Foundation

CCYD Challenge
$30,000 / Support youth service organizations in two program clusters: 1) youth development and the arts; and 2) employment/community service.

Torrington Area Foundation for Public Giving, CCYD Challenge

$6,000 /

Grant funds to a youth service organization to assist the Foundation in establishing a Youth Advisory Committee.

The Tow Foundation

CCYD Challenge

$40,440 /

Create or enhance programs that focus on mentoring, life skills development, vocational training, mental health and substance abuse counseling, and community service with children at risk of or currently involved in the Connecticut juvenile justice system.

United Way of Greater New Haven, Inc.

CCYD Challenge

$18,000 /

Partner with the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven to assist agencies that have participated in BEST Initiative Training to implement or enhance program components of the youth development framework through smaller grants.

United Way of Westport-Weston, Inc.

CCYD Challenge

$15,000 / Provide a planned program of after school activities at the two middle schools in Westport through direct service providers.

Waterbury Foundation

CCYD Challenge

$30,000 / Provide six to eight youth agencies with funds for staffing and direct program costs to implement programs that address the agencies’ identified youth competency gaps.
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 using a model mentoring program which matches children, ages 7-14 with trained high school and college student counselors.
Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. / $2,076,700 to operate in New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, New London and Waterbury.

Connecticut for Community Youth Development: Training Initiative (federal)

The Connecticut for Community Youth Development Training Initiative seeks to support additional opportunities for community-based delivery of training that is multi-agency, interactive, responsive to diverse staff, and includes developmental outcomes for youth; adolescent development stages and age-appropriate activities; youth involvement and youth leadership skill-building strategies; and varied enrichment activities that would appeal to diverse youth.

CT Association of Nonprofits

CCYD Training Initiative
$12,000 / Promote a youth development approach within residential, group home and foster care facilities with the state through curriculum revision, training of trainers and ongoing staff training.

CT 4-H Development Fund

CCYD Training Initiative
$15,814 / Support for two types of training with the 4-H “Moving Ahead” curriculum—a train-the-trainer workshop in Hartford and onging staff training in Hartford and New Haven areas of the state.

CT Youth Services Association

CCYD Training Initiative

$12,000 / Support for youth development trainings in each of the seven CYSA regions.

RYASAP

CCYD Training Initiative

$12,000 / Provide 10 sessions of training to adults who work with youth in southern Connecticut on such strategies as Asset Based Community Development, Youth Resiliency, Character Education, Youth As Resources, Rites of Passage, Study Circles, and Youth In Action.

Waterbury Foundation

CCYD Training Initiative

$11,986 / Provide two training tracks to meet the diverse needs of youth workers in the greater Waterbury region—brief trainings on a variety of topics and an in-depth opportunity for experienced staff through a peer network.

Law-Related Education

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.
CTConsortium for Law & Citizenship Education, Inc.
Law-Related Education
$28,000 / Support regional conferences for students grades 9-12, a middle school debate program, and a statewide training session for teachers, administrators, and community resource people to will address a new state law requiring all students to take a civics course.
Neighborhood Youth Center Program (federal and state)
The purpose of the Neighborhood Youth Center Program is to support neighborhood centers in providing specific local initiatives to increase positive experiences for youth ages 12 through 18 years in Connecticut’s 7 largest cities.
Neighborhood / Agency / Grant Award / Match Requirement
Bridgeport, East Side / Boys and Girls Club of Bridgeport / $43,972.50 / $7,604.17
Bridgeport, Hollow / Boys and Girls Club of Bridgeport / $70,355.98 / $8,833.34
Bridgeport, West End / Burroughs Community Center / $26,383.49 / $8,794.50
Bridgeport, East End / Charles D. Smith, Jr. Foundation / $26,383.49 / $8,794.50
Bridgeport, East Side / Hall Neighborhood House, Inc. / $57,164.24 / $8,516.67
Bridgeport, North End / Hall Neighborhood House, Inc. / $57,164.24 / $8,516.67
Bridgeport, East Side / McGivney Community Center, Inc. / $52,766.99 / $7,300.00
Bridgeport, West Side / Progressive Training Associates, Inc. / $43,972.49 / $14,657.50
Bridgeport, East End / Raphola Taylor Comm. Ctr. YMCA / $108,612.05 / $11,164.10
Bridgeport, South End / South End Community Center, Inc. / $83,547.73 / $27,849.25
Hartford, Frog Hollow / Mi Casa Family Service & Ed. Ctr. / $272,629.44 / $58,497.34
Hartford, Clay Arsenal / SAND Corporation / $114,328.47 / $26,766.67
Hartford, Blue Hills / Urban League of Greater Hfd., Inc. / $114,328.47 / $26,766.67
New Britain, Citywide / City of New Britain/3 Middle Schools / $193,478.95 / $36,578.00
New Haven, Hill / Boys and Girls Club of New Haven / $66,156.61 / $22,052.21
New Haven, Dwight / Central Connecticut Coast YMCA / $132,313.22 / $26,535.50
New Haven, Fair H. / Centro San Jose, Inc. / $132,313.22 / $35,619.69
New Haven, Dixwell / Dixwell Community House / $85,450.00 / $11,817.00
New Haven, Hill / Hill Cooperative Youth Services, Inc. / $66,156.61 / $22,052.21
Norwalk / City of Norwalk / $38,677.32 / $10,689.34
Stamford / City of Stamford / $70,930.26 / $19,603.00
W., Berkeley-Warner / New Opportunities for Waterbury / $41,334.14 / $5,009.08
Waterbury, Brooklyn / New Opportunities for Waterbury / $41,334.14 / $5,009.08
Waterbury, South End / New Opportunities for Waterbury / $53,646.44 / $8,165.75
Waterbury, W-O-W / Walnut-Orange-Walsh NRZ Assoc. / $41,334.14 / $13,778.05
Waterbury, Willow / Waterbury Youth Service System, Inc. / $41,334.14 / $13,778.05

In addition to the grants listed in the table, funds were given to the University of Connecticut School of Family Studies and the Connecticut Consortium for Law and Citizenship Education for the purpose of conducting a second evaluation of the Neighborhood Youth Center Program.