The City of Sanger has established a grant program which provides Public Safety Sales Tax (PSST) funding to address anti-gang and anti-drug strategies including prevention, intervention, and youth development.
Donor Name: City of Sanger
State: California
City: Sanger
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/12/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Reflecting the City’s efforts to make Sanger a more livable community, this program is designed to provide funding for a coordinated community response to youth gangs in Sanger. The strategies to be employed include collaboration among local agencies, groups, and businesses to develop a true sense of community in reducing the anti-social behavior activities of youth who find themselves participating in or being lured into gangs and/or drugs. They believe this is accomplished through a variety of programs including education, peer mentoring, and alternative positive activities. The intent of the program is to further support community-based youth-serving agencies that develop Sanger’s young people, thus preventing youth gangs and fostering positive relationships with the schools, churches, local community agencies, and neighborhood crime prevention efforts.
Objectives
The key objectives of the grant program are to:
- Provide funding that will mobilize the local community to implement strategies to address gang activity and violence;
- Provide education and build awareness regarding youth gangs;
- Provide education and build awareness among parents and local community members regarding the impact youth gangs and drugs have on the community;
- Create and maintain relationships with those youth most at risk of being victims or suspects of gang related violence;
- Create and maintain effective communication with partner service providers and involved community members; and,
- Identify at-risk youth and deter gang membership
The goals of the program are to:
- Decrease the potential for acts of gang related violence and retaliatory acts
- Decrease anti-social behavior.
- Increase the number of service referrals offered to gang affected at-risk youth in areas of counseling, mentoring, education, employment training and job opportunities and other assistance related programming.
- Quantify the effectiveness and results of the program, project, activity, or event in relation to the objectives of the funding.
- Increase communication with and develop collaboration between law enforcement, parole, probation, and community partners for implementing intervention or prevention strategies.
The priority of the program is to support strategies and programs that implement identified best practices to address youth gang violence. Best practices include prevention, intervention, and youth development. Prevention is identified as an effort that places emphasis on providing young children (ages 7-14) with knowledge and skills aimed at steering them away from a life of crime, drugs, and gangs. Specific gang resistance materials include problem solving skills; clarifying values, dreams and goals; individual self-esteem building, and strength building. Lessons address gang avoidance, substance abuse, refusal and “escape” skills, aggression, anger, and violence management. Intervention programs or strategies include cognitive behavior therapy (counseling), mentoring, vocational training, tattoo removal, tutoring, life skills, socialization skills and peer mediation.
Eligibility Criteria
- City-sponsored program and service providers.
- Registered non-profit organizations and churches .
- Organizations who serve the youth of Sanger.
To be considered eligible, all proposals must demonstrate that:
- Primarily Sanger residents will be served.
- An effort has been made to seek funding from sources other than the City and the applicant.
- Funding and/or non-funding partnerships have been established.
For more information, visit City of Sanger.
