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Building Community Collaboration for School Safety
To address increasing safety concerns in schools and communities, Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) will offer expert training and technical assistance to grantees of the OJJDP FY 2022 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence program.
LISC will work with designated schools in OJJDP grantee sites and their community-based partners to help them build relationships, establish common goals, and identify strategies that align with safety priorities and resources within their communities.
LISC will work with each grantee site to assess their strengths and needs, create work plans to address the needs, collaboratively implement them, measure progress, and plan for sustainability.
LISC will offer broadly-applicable resources to help grantees and practitioners understand how to form effective partnerships, use data to identify appropriate evidence-based strategies, and measure success.
LISC will provide tailored technical assistance to each site based on identified needs and foster a peer-sharing network for sites to learn from one another.
LISC will leverage its expertise from serving as National TTA Provider to three Department of Justice programs (focusing on place-based community violence, rural violent crime, and school violence) to support program implementation and direct service activities.
LISC will deploy its Safety & Justice staff and contract with several subject matter experts with which LISC has existing relationships to serve the OJJDP sites.
As a result of LISC’s TTA, grantee sites will increase their ability to create coordinated safety strategies that provide youth and their families connection points within schools and their communities to receive support and resources when needed, reduce incidences of violence and perceptions of fear within the school and community, and obtain sustainable results. This work to reduce school violence will benefit students, parents, teachers, school staff, and their surrounding communities.
Provider Organization
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Award Details
Services
Services LISC will offer include:
Training and technical assistance to a wide range of communities, agencies, and disciplines on evidence-based practices used to address youth violence and victimization, violence reduction, delinquency prevention, and accountability.
Assisting sites to develop a multidisciplinary collaborative team, including building community support and involvement.
Strengthening site efforts to conduct systemwide assessments to understand youth violence and victimization challenges and root causes and to then develop strategic implementation plans to provide school-based prevention and intervention strategies to reduce youth violence and victimization.
Supporting efforts to identify and collect data that document the process and progress of program implementation.
Audience
Child Protection and Advocacy Professionals
Community Members
Faith-Based Organizations
Families
Juvenile Justice Specialists
Law Enforcement
Mental Health Professionals
Mentoring Professionals
Nonprofit Organizations
School Personnel
Students
Volunteers
Youth
Youth Advocates
Youth Services Professionals
Eligibility
Sites (and partners) awarded funding in Category 1 of the OJJDP FY 2019 Comprehensive School-Based Approach to Youth Violence and Victimization award.
Agencies in which OJJDP has reviewed and approved a TTA request.
