ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Community Development Director with a Request to APPROVE Funding for the VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM, in the Amount of $700,000.00.
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BACKGROUND: On August 29, 2022, City Council approved the application and program guidelines for Violence Prevention funding.
The application was released on August 15 and applications were due on September 9th. Twelve completed applications were received requesting a total of over $2 million.
The applications were reviewed and scored by the CDBG Public Services Advisory Commission. The scores received were averaged to create an average score on the attached file. Starting with the highest score, applications were provided full funding until the $700,000 available was allocated. The final application receiving funding will only receive partial funding.
If approved, agreements will be created for the timeframe of November 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023.
A summary of the top scorers is below: (Summaries taken from the applications.)
Dream Center - DCP Youth - $50,000 - DCP Youth is a mentoring and life skills program for students aged ten through eighteen that operates through recreational activities such as indoor sports, arts programs, tutoring and job skills training. Programming runs in conjunction with the Peoria Public Schools calendar from the time school is out at 2:30pm until 6:00pm. Students are picked up each day at their school and then transported to DCP. They receive a snack and then begin the program.
Peoria City/County Health Department - Cure Violence - $250,000 - Cure Violence, initially implemented in Chicago under the name CeaseFire, built on a broad model of behavior change embedded in a public health approach. The program frames violence as a health issue and utilizes evidence-based inputs towards a goal of decreasing violence in data identified hot zone neighborhoods. Cure Violence is focused around interrupting violence,...
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