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Joint resolution approving the State's Attorney's Office (SAO), the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), and the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative 2022 Grant in the amount of $1,500,000.
Staff Summary
* This Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant will provide funding for the SAO Gun Violence Prevention Initiative (GVPI).
* The purpose of the GVPI is to work with community-based organizations to identify and hire violence interrupters who will work to reduce gun violence, specifically in Waukegan, North Chicago, and Zion and to provide opportunities for the most at-risk in our communities.
* The GVPI will engage residents, community leaders, local businesses, faith leaders, service providers, and high-risk individuals to build coalitions and develop strategies to reduce violence.
* The long-term and short-term key to reducing violence is through aggressive, evidence-based techniques that rely upon intense and sustained engagement with at-risk individuals over several years.
* The funding of $1,500,000 will provide for: violence interrupters, violence interrupters' supervisor, program manager, and program director salary and benefits expenses; contracted consultant expenses, computer equipment, electronic equipment, training, and printed materials.
* The grant performance period is October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2025.
* The source of program funding is 100 percent federal funding, no County funds are required.
* If funding for this program and these positions ends, and new funding is not secured, the program and positions will be eliminated.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has awarded Fiscal Year 2022 Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Grant funding for the Lake County State's Attorney's Office (SAO) Gun Violence Prevention Initiative (GVPI); and
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