Department of Justice: Community-Based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program

Department of Justice: Community-Based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program
Application deadline: May 23, 2011
This program provides support to develop and implement evidence-based programs or strategies to reduce and prevent violence, particularly shootings and killings. Priority will be given to activities that replicate proven multi-disciplinary, community-based strategies to reduce violence that address the following goals: changing community norms regarding violence, providing alternatives to violence when gangs and individuals in the community are making risky behavior decisions, and increasing awareness of the perceived risks and costs of involvement in violence among high-risk young people.