This will be over and above the $300,000 grant awarded last month through the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Team members of the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance, shown here in this submitted photo, will be collaborating further with Cleveland Heights and its police department, thanks in part to a $175,000 Community Violence Intervention Microgrant awarded through the U.S. Department of Justice. This is over and above a $300,000 federal grant announced last month by the affiliated Bureau of Justice Assistance.CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The U.S.
The collaboration between police and the CPA will “jointly implement youth-targeted, evidence-based violence prevention activities, such as engaging high-risk youth and connecting them with the relevant social, economic and education resources,” city officials said. “These specially trained adults serve as a buffer between the youth population and direct law enforcement response and are a proven means of violence interruption,” city officials noted.
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