Title:
Grant Application - Provide Violence Prevention Programming in Schools
Summary
ACTION:
1. Affirm the submission of a grant application in the amount of up to $300,000 to the Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force of the Western District of North Carolina to provide school-based violence prevention programs in Mecklenburg County; and
2. If awarded, recognize, receive and appropriate the grant funds and authorize one additional position in the Community Support Services Department, Prevention Intervention and Services Division: 1 Full time Information and Education Coordinator to provide neighborhood service coordination (annual market rate is $62,102).
Staff Contact: Stacy M. Lowry, Community Support Services Director
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
The mission of Community Support Services (CSS) Intervention and Prevention Services Division is to connect the dots among multiple forms of violence to promote a healthier, safer and more equitable community through intervention, primary and secondary prevention. Funding from the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative for the Western District of North Carolina will be used by the department to work with law enforcement and community stakeholders to address violent crime. CSS will support this work through school-based prevention efforts including Teen Dating Violence Prevention programming in schools, social media outreach, engagement summit with CMS, and attending the Youth Violence Prevention Conference. It is anticipated that the grant will be awarded for a 3-year term with funds spent evenly each year of the grant. The grant application is due April 11, 2019.
PROCUREMENT BACKGROUND:
N/A
POLICY IMPACT:
N/A
FISCAL IMPACT:
Increase in revenue and associated expenditures in the amount of $300,000 in fund G001.