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Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance, and emergency appropriation of a State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2023 HB0900 Public Act 102-0698, Violence Prevention and Reduction Grant, for the State's Attorney's Office (SAO) Gun Violence Prevention Initiative (GVPI), from the State General Revenue Fund administered through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) in the amount of $450,000 in state funds for the period of September 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
Staff Summary
* This Violence Prevention and Reduction Program 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 $450,000 will provide for seven violence interrupter staff salary and benefits expenses.
* The grant is administered through the ICJIA for the performance period of September 1, 2022, through June 20, 2023.
* The source of program funding is 100 percent state funding, no County funds are required.
* If funding for this program ends, and new funding is not secured, the program and staff will be eliminated.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2023 HB0900 Public Act 102-0698, Section 81, appropriates from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, a grant to the Lake County State's Attorney's Office for a violence interr...
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