"Today the Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announced grant awards totaling more than $8 million to reduce youth violence and gang activity in six communities across the country.
“OJJDP’s Community-Based Violence Prevention program focuses youth violence prevention efforts on what research shows works,” said OJJDP Administrator Robert L. Listenbee. “Through a combination of prevention, intervention, enforcement, and reentry programs, these sites will promote alternatives to violence and make communities safer.”
The six grant recipients include:
• City of Camden, N.J.: $1,416,420
• City of East Baton Rouge, La.: $1,458,231
• City of Kansas City, Mo.: $1,271,319
• City of Newport News, Va.: $870,316
• City of Syracuse, N.Y.: $1,491,825
• Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention: $1,500,000..."
http://ojp.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/2013/ojppr092313.pdf
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