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Awards: List of Funded Projects

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OJJDP's grant awards support state and community efforts to develop effective prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system. Find details for funding awards from OJJDP below.

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Awards Listing

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State: IL,
City: Chicago

Number of Awards: 157
Total Amount Awarded: $96,337,134

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2008 Gang Reduction Intervention Program OJJDP FY 08 Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program SGA Youth & Family Services IL 2008-JV-FX-0112 $168,955 Closed
2010 Project Choice OJJDP FY 10 Earmarks Program SGA Youth & Family Services IL 2010-JL-FX-0510 $225,000 Closed
2022 Tilden Resiliency Intervention Program OJJDP FY 2022 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES, NFP IL 15PJDP-22-GK-03783-STOP $1,000,000 Open
2023 Second Chance Lake County OJJDP FY 2023 Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES, NFP IL 15PJDP-23-GG-02221-SCAX $784,195 Open
2008 Shedd Aquarium At-Risk Youth Initiative OJJDP FY 08 Earmarks Programs Shedd Aquarium Society IL 2008-JL-FX-0486 $427,051 Closed
2010 At-Risk Youth Program Expansion OJJDP FY 10 Earmarks Program South Central Community Services, Inc. IL 2010-JL-FX-0506 $300,000 Closed
2006 JJ Project for Youth Development OJJDP FY 2006 Congressional Earmark Programs (DPD) Sullivan House Child Welfare Agency, Inc IL 2006-JL-FX-0320 $49,361 Closed
2010 An agency-level randomized trial of the effectiveness of youth-centered match support as a delinquency prevention strategy in community-based mentoring OJJDP FY 10 Mentoring Research Best Practices The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois IL 2010-JU-FX-0035 $999,907 Closed
2012 The Effects of Summer Jobs on Youth Violence OJJDP FY 12 Community-Based Violence Prevention FIRE Program The University of Chicago IL 2012-MU-FX-0002 $277,621 Closed
2012 Strengthening mentoring programs for at-risk youth through human capital supports: A large-scale randomized field experiment in Chicago OJJDP FY 12 Mentoring Best Practices Research The University of Chicago IL 2012-JU-FX-0019 $499,050 Closed
2008 The Parents and Children Together (PACT) Program keeps Chicago area children 0-18 years in contact with their incarcerated mothers at the Decatur Women's Correctional Facility through two-way videocon OJJDP FY 08 Earmarks Programs The Womens Treatment Center IL 2006-JL-FX-0290 $218,830 Closed
2006 The PACT Program OJJDP FY 2006 Congressional Earmark Programs (DPD) The Womens Treatment Center IL 2006-JL-FX-0290 $98,723 Closed
2010 Violence Prevention through Youth Leadership OJJDP FY 10 Earmarks Program Uhlich Children's Advantage Network IL 2010-JL-FX-0051 $100,000 Closed
2021 PRECISE: Prevention through Referral, Compensation, and Integrating Structural Equity in Hospital-Based Violence Intervention UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PJDP-21-GK-03863-CBVP $997,357 Open
2023 Roseland Youth Rise OJJDP FY 2023 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PJDP-23-GK-00786-CEVJ $972,406 Open
1996 JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $155,044 Closed
2003 Chicago Project for Violence PreventionCeaseFire FY 2003 OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $447,075 Closed
1996 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Congressional Earmark OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois at Chicago IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $151,683 Closed
1996 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Congressional Earmark OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois at Chicago IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $100,000 Closed
1996 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Congressional Earmark OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois at Chicago IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $149,945 Closed
1996 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Congressional Earmark OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois at Chicago IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $151,258 Closed
1996 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Congressional Earmark OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs University of Illinois at Chicago IL 1996-MU-FX-0013 $705,000 Closed
2016 Evaluating a Cognitive Behavioral Approach for Improving Life Outcomes of Under Served Young Women: A Randomized Experiment in Chicago OJJDP FY 16 Practitioner-Researcher Partnership in Cognitive Behavioral Mentoring Program YOUTH GUIDANCE IL 2016-JU-FX-0004 $247,500 Closed
2017 Evaluating a Cognitive Behavioral Approach for Improving Life Outcomes of Under Served Young Women: A Randomized Experiment in Chicago OJJDP FY 17 Research Invited Applications YOUTH GUIDANCE IL 2016-JU-FX-0004 $247,500 Closed
2018 Evaluating a Cognitive Behavioral Approach for Improving Life Outcomes of Under Served Young Women: A Randomized Experiment in Chicago OJJDP FY 18 Research Invited Applications YOUTH GUIDANCE IL 2016-JU-FX-0004 $750,000 Closed