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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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Awardee Name: EMPOWER

Number of Awards: 13
Total Amount Awarded: $5,688,484

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2022 Hale Apuakea (Hawaiian for place of refuge, sanctuary, asylum, place of peace and safety) OJJDP FY 2022 Supporting Vulnerable At-Risk Youth and Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT HI 15PJDP-22-GG-04982-PROT $600,000 Open
2021 Substance Use Mentoring Program YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT LA 15PJDP-21-GG-03619-JJOP $543,974 Open
2020 Awareness, Mentorship, Prevention, Protection (AMPP) Violence Prevention Program OJJDP FY 2020 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence EMPOWER 225 LA 2020-CV-FX-K008 $1,015,150 Open
2020 Expansion of Big Sky Youth Empowerment's Experiential Based Group Mentoring Program OJJDP FY 2020 Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC MT 2020-JU-FX-0026 $500,000 Open
2017 American Samoa Youth Offender Reentry Program OJJDP FY 17 Smart on Juvenile Justice: Enhancing Youth Access to Justice Initiative EMPOWERING PACIFIC ISLAND COM MUNITIES AS 2017-CZ-BX-0022 $300,000 Closed
2016 Healing Place Serve Mentoring Child Victim Program OJJDP FY 16 Mentoring for Child Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Domestic Sex Trafficking Initiative Empower 225 LA 2016-MU-MU-0013 $445,664 Closed
2009 Neighbors Empowering Youth's Computer Repair & Training Apprenticeship Project OJJDP FY 09 Earmarks Programs Neighbors Empowering Youth CA 2009-JL-FX-0051 $100,000 Closed
2008 Gang Prevention Community Initiative OJJDP FY 08 Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program Youth Empowerment Mission, Inc. NY 2008-JV-FX-0115 $192,350 Closed
2007 REACH to Connect Prevention and Intervention Program for Youth OJJDP FY 07 Prevention and Intervention Programs Youth Empowerment Services SC 2007-JL-FX-0059 $492,150 Closed
2006 Truancy Prevention Intervention Program OJJDP FY 2006 Congressional Earmark Programs (DPD) Community Empowerment Association PA 2006-JL-FX-0326 $197,446 Closed
2003 Good Knight Crime & Violence Prevention Program/Homeland Security/Bilingual FY 2003 OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs Good Knight Child Empowerment Network Inc MD 2002-JN-FX-K001 $496,750 Closed
2002 JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK PROGRAMS OJJDP Congressional Earmark Programs Good Knight Child Empowerment Network Inc MD 2002-JN-FX-K001 $705,000 Closed
2000 FY 2004 Continuation Drug-Free Communities Support Program OJJDP Discretionary Continuation Programs - Demonstration Empowerment Zone Coalition MI 2000-JN-FX-0073 $100,000 Closed