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BOSTON
- Tuesday, January 5, 2021 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Offices of
Health and Human Services and Public Safety today announced the nonprofit
organizations selected to receive grants from the 2021 Youth Development
Fund. Totaling $885,000 in funding, 34 Boston-based organizations will
receive funding to support and increase youth development and violence
prevention programming. Organizations selected will implement programming
for either priority area previously identified by the Office of Health and
Human Services: Youth Violence Prevention or Continuum Support.
"A
fundamental part of our residents' public health and public safety is
expanding existing services and implementing additional strategies to
increase the accessibility of youth programming and violence
prevention," said Mayor Walsh. "It's no question that the
COVID-19 pandemic has placed added burdens on the wellbeing of residents,
beyond their health. That's why I'm proud to work with these organizations
who will complement the City's ongoing efforts, and I want to thank all of
these partner organizations for their collaboration in these vital
efforts."
Tuesday, December 29,
2020 - Mayor Walsh joined Chief of Health and Human Services Marty Martinez
for the Youth Development Fund Recipient Orientation.
PRIORITY ONE: YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Grants
targeting youth violence prevention have been funded to organizations using
evidence-based strategies that work to shape individual behaviors, and
address relationship, community, and societal factors that influence risk
and protective factors for violence.
PRIORITY TWO: CONTINUUM SUPPORT
Funding
support nonprofit organizations that address the City of Boston's
identified needs in the youth and young adult violence prevention
continuum, including services for youth and young adults up to age 30 that
address unmet needs created by or directly related to COVID-19; case
management or supportive services for school-age youth ages 13-18 who are
Department of Youth Services-involved or high-risk for gang involvement due
to history of neighborhood or family gang activity; and programs aimed at
mitigating or preventing the use of social media to incite or promote
violence, focused on ages 18 to 30.
Of
organizations receiving funding, 45 percent are led by a woman and 55
percent are led by a person of color. Of programs awarded, 33 percent are
led by a woman and 88 percent are led by a person of color. Seventy-six
percent of organizations will service Dorchester, 76 percent will service
Roxbury and 55 percent will service Mattapan, in addition to other
neighborhoods.
"YouthConnect
is excited to deepen our partnership with the City of Boston and work with
the other recipients of this grant," said Andrea Perry, Executive
Director of YouthConnect. "This will ensure that, even during the most
challenging times, our collective efforts can strengthen Boston's
neighborhoods and ensure that young people have access to the services they
need to thrive in the future."
"This
funding is a lifeline to help us continue our work as an organization
dedicated to empowering Women of Color, said Erika Rodriguez, Executive
Director of Chica Project. "We thank Mayor Walsh and his
administration for creating this funding resource, which allows so many
local non-profits to continue working towards social justice and
equity."
"Sportsmen's
is thrilled to learn that we will have the opportunity to work even more
closely with the City of Boston to provide crucial services to youth and
families along the Blue Hill Corridor," Toni Wiley, Chief Executive
Officer of Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center. "We know that
this pandemic has had devastating and long-lasting effects on our youth and
young adults, many of which will be evident for years to come and we are
committed to working collaboratively to mitigate those negative
effects."
Mayor
Walsh has doubled funding for the Youth Development Fund each year for the
past three years. For Fiscal Year 2019, Mayor Walsh invested $250,000 into
the Youth Development Fund, $500,000 was allotted for Fiscal Year 2020, and
for Fiscal Year 2021, Mayor Walsh has committed $1,000,000.
Below are the grantees awarded funding from the 2021 Youth
Development Fund. Additional funding will be available in the spring as
part of the Fund.
Continuum Support Grantees:
Boston
Medical Center Corporation: Violence Intervention Advocacy
Program (VIAP) will provide victims of gunshot and stab wounds between the
ages of 16 and 24 with wraparound case management services, job and
educational training needed to redirect their lives and avoid future
violence.
Boys and Girls Clubs of
Boston, Inc.: BGCB's YouthConnect Social Workers provide gang and
at-risk youth confidential, voluntary community-based mental health
supports and resource coordination, including via tele-health
sessions.
Codman Square Health Center: Programming to support
young people aged 13-18, and their families, through targeted leadership
development programs, mentoring, and healthy lifestyles education.
Fathers' Uplift, Inc.: Targeted support for
the Youth Enrichment program and clinical therapy services for young men
ages 18-30 who are fathers and/or at-risk, with the aim to end cycles of
fatherlessness; key approaches used are coaching, mentoring and clinical
therapy.
RFK Children's
Action Corps, Inc.: Alternative to detention programming for medium- to
high-risk 14-17-year olds, in Suffolk County that allows youth to remain at
their home, in the community and in school.
Violence in Boston: Violence in Boston
will provide proven-risk young men, ages 15-28, wrap around services such
as housing resources, food access, music therapy, education and legal
assistance.
Violence Prevention Grantees:
Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.: ABCD's SummerWorks and WorkSMART programs
serve both in-school and out-of-school youth, providing them critical
employment skills through weekly intensive work readiness workshops
followed by job placements.
Artists for Humanity: AFH provides teens
from Boston opportunities to learn and earn income through paid employment
in art and design
Boston Asian Youth Essential Service: Boston Asian YES
provides services and programs for at-risk and high-risk Asian youth, ages
13-22. It is the only Chinatown community agency that provides outreach,
prevention and intervention services to this cohort and has a long history
of partnering with BPD, alternative education programs and other social
service providers.
Boston Showstoppers
Girls Academic and Athletic Program: Serving ages 8-18, the
program aims to help student-athletes achieve their academic, athletic, and
professional dreams through a mix of coaching and mentoring.
Boys and Girls Clubs of
Dorchester, Inc.: Partnering with BDP, the Club supports programming that
forges positive community-police relations and teaches young people
alternatives to violence; summer programming provides enrichment activities
such as field trips.
Chica, Inc.: Chica provides
culturally responsive programming addressing a range of areas, including
mentoring, community building/civic engagement, leadership development and
college access programming.
College Bound Dorchester: Boston Uncornered
aims to engage Core Influencers, individuals who have the most influence on
gang-involved and at-risk youth, with College Readiness Advisor to take
them away from street corners towards a pathway to education.
East Boston Ecumenical Community
Council: EBECC assists at-risk Latino students struggling in school
through integrated academic and psycho-social programming, which
promotes healthy lifestyles, problem solving skills and independent
thinking.
Elevate Boston/ Teach 1 Youth Development Collaborative: Elevate provides
supplemental mentoring, academic tutoring and athletic activities to BPS
students; summer programming will also feature digital
technology/fabrication training and social-emotional activities.
Foundation for Boston
Centers for Youth & Families: BCYF programming teaches social-emotional
skills, the competencies needed to excel in the 21st-century workplace and
empowers young people to develop the project management, leadership, and
financial literacy skills needed to be successful in college and career.
Immigrant Family Services Institute
(IFSI): IFSI addresses violence among Haitian young people by
teaching protective skills and behaviors that enable them to express their
needs and concerns in a safe space, providing them tools and creative
methods for approaching and resolving conflicts.
Inquilinos Boricuas en
Acci ón (IBA): IBA prepares young
people aged 13-18 for school and life success by offering an
employment-based program, centered on arts education, that fosters
meaningful relationships and experiences integrating community organizing,
social and emotional supports.
Justice Resource Institute,
Inc. dba STRIVE Boston: Programming provides proven-risk youth with support,
leadership and work experience opportunities that will help them to become
productive, responsible and law-abiding.
MBK617: MBK617 is supporting a
range of youth development activities for young people in Dorchester and
Roxbury that allows them to create and maintain healthy relationships with
other youth regardless of where they are from in Boston. Their efforts focus
on supporting the psycho-social development of young people through peer
mentoring, youth support and other enrichment activities.
More Than Words: MTW programming
empowers young people to move their lives forward, supporting them access
the education and employment services they need to build healthy, safe, and
self-sufficient futures.
Phoenix Multisport, dba The Phoenix: Phoenix Boston helps
young adults in recovery find supportive, sober communities and provides
them stability and consistency during high-risk transitional periods.
Roca Boston: Roca's
programming aims to help high-risk young men leave streets and gangs and go
to work through population-specific programming that changes behavior.
Soccer Without Borders: SWB advances uses
soccer as a vehicle for positive change, engaging newcomer refugees and
immigrant youth in East Boston and surrounding communities.
Sociedad Latina, Inc.: Sociedad addresses
four key focus areas towards youth success: Education, Workforce
Development, Civic Engagement, and Arts & Culture, and aims to build
deep relationships with families to move students through middle school,
high school, and college.
Somali Development Center: The SDC promotes
social, educational and economic development programs at the Islamic
Society of Boston to immigrant young people and engages caregivers who are
bilingual and struggle with supporting their kids as a result of their
language proficiency.
Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center: STEC is a
year-around, youth centered organization offering tennis, academic and
enrichment programs for K-12 aged youth; programming supports closing the
achievement gap.
The Center for Teen Empowerment: TE's violence
prevention and youth arts groups meet online (and/or in person, when
possible) to implement initiatives that engage peers and adults in
addressing community violence, educational equity, racial equity and mental
wellness.
The Clubhouse Network: The Clubhouse
encourages young people to explore the creative uses of technology and
develop professional and life skills such as problem-solving and teamwork;
students learn computer-generated art, develop scientific simulations and
design animations.
Uphams Corner Community Center DBA
Bird Street Community Center: Bird Street provides a space where young
people, under structured adult supervision, can focus on positive,
productive activities and identities. Funding will enhance the Center's
capacity to effectively address young people and their families' exposure
to community violence and support the development of emotional coping
skills to address trauma.
West End House Boys and Girls Club: West End House is
expanding past its foundational programs in academic success and the arts
to develop and implement new, year round social justice activities. Teens -
including those invited from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester -
will receive a generous weekly stipend for participation in the program
being administered jointly with City Mission.
Youth Guidance: BAM is a school-based
counseling and mentoring program that improves the social-cognition and
behavioral competencies of predominantly young men of color who have been
exposed to stressors and face social, behavioral, and/or emotional
challenges.
YWCA Boston: YW Boston is combining
two initiatives focused on girls - the Girls Health Program and a social
justice education and leadership development program - in order to provide
high quality courses that teach girls advocacy and public engagement
skills.
YMCA of Greater Boston: The YMCA will support
summer employment for teens: last year the Y hosted 934 young people; and
continue with Academic Credit Recovery where students can
"recover" academic credit and so they can graduate on time.
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