Deputy Mayor for Public Safety (DMPSJ) in partnership with OVSJG announces the availability of FY 2025 grant funds for strategies designed to improve student safety along school commute routes and during identified school-related events within identified Safe Passage, Safe Blocks priority areas.
Donor Name: Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG)
State:
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/13/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Safe Passage, Safe Blocks (SPSB) supports students as they travel to and from school and in the community. Safe Passage programming includes conflict resolution, mediation services, and community relationship building to keep students safe and improve student attendance. Safe Passage Ambassadors are trained trusted adults from community-based organizations who are assigned to pre-determined routes and work to build relationships with school staff, students, families, and community members
Core required implementation components include:
- Monitoring of student commute routes within the assigned Safe Blocks priority areas.
- Working collaboratively with schools, relevant District agency staff, other SPSB teams, and the surrounding community to identify, intervene, diffuse, and report community violence.
- Supporting attendance by encouraging students to attend class daily and on time.
- Positively engaging with students, families, businesses, civic associations, institutional facilities, and community members within the priority area to build support for the SPSB program.
- Developing and maintaining networks of neighborhood contacts and relationships to enable detection of potentially violent conflicts so that program staff may intervene to de-escalate and mediate to prevent violence.
- Ensuring staff suitability and participation in all training and technical assistance.
- Collecting and analyzing program data to identify trends and ensure proper program implementation.
Project Period
The funding period is October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025 (FY 2025).
Eligibility Criteria
Any public or private, community-based non-profit agency, organization, or institution that has a District business license and provides services or goods within the District is eligible to apply. For-profit organizations are eligible but may not include profit in their grant application.
For more information, visit OVSJG.
