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For Immediate Release
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 |
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MONSE Announces Fourth Round of ARPA Allocations to CVI Ecosystem
MONSE continues to accept grant applications for organizations dedicated to community violence intervention, victim services, youth justice, community healing, and re-entry work.
BALTIMORE, MD (Wednesday, October 5, 2022) – Today, Mayor Brandon M. Scott and the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE) announced another round of recipients of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars targeted at improving public safety outcomes to community-based organizations (CBOs). The distribution of awards totaling $500,000 is directly aligned with the Scott Administration's charge to co-produce public safety with the Baltimore community. This funding is in addition to the $17.9 million already allocated to Baltimore CBOs and other institutional partners and is part of the $50 million ARPA investment that Scott allocated to the public safety agency last year.
“We are making unprecedented investments to build a comprehensive violence prevention and intervention ecosystem," said Mayor Brandon M. Scott. "I look forward to continuing to support our community-based organizations and nonprofits who are directly engaged in this work and support our residents from the ground up.”
Year to date, MONSE has announced $1,225,000 in competitive grants to organizations engaged in community violence intervention, victim services, youth justice, community healing, and re-entry work. All applications are evaluated by community grant reviewers with professional and/or lived experience in these areas.
“We are proud to continue to expand Baltimore’s CVI ecosystem to make our city safer and healthier for everyone,” said Director Shantay Jackson of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement. “From re-entry to victim services, the more we invest in our CVI ecosystem through our community-based organizations, the more of an impact we will have on Baltimoreans across the city.”
A list of this round of community-based organizations and institutions to receive grants follows:
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Art with a Heart Inc.
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$25,000
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Single Year
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Art with a Heart, Inc. works to provide engaging, educational, and interactive visual arts classes to under-resourced Baltimore residents. In order to achieve its mission, Art with a Heart works to harness the benefits of arts education to cultivate positive, long-lasting changes in the lives and communities of its students.
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Youth Justice
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
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$250,000
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Single Year
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The Collaborative: University of Maryland (social work faculty, staff, and police officers) will work with credible messengers to provide street-based outreach and service provision within the footprint of Eutaw to MLK and Baltimore to Saratoga to address poverty, drug use, mental health issues, unemployment, violence, and crime. Stakeholders include people who are housing insecure, unemployed, people engaged in the sale or use of drugs/alcohol, people at high risk of violence, and people who are experiencing mental health challenges.
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Community Violence Intervention
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HTP Homes
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$50,000
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Single Year
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HTP Homes' 18-month construction skills program equips at-risk young adults and justice-involved citizens who lack traditional academic credentials, have limited work experience,
or are returning citizens, with in-demand skills to acquire jobs in the construction field.
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Re-Entry
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BCIITY (Baltimore City Intergenerational Initiative for Trauma & Youth)
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$25,000
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Single Year
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BCIITY's coalition members provide a wide range of trauma-informed care, community-based, and culturally responsive mental health services that reflect both mainstream and non-traditional practices. Developing a pilot “Ecosystem Relationship Management” (ERM) platform that would be able to track and segment participants, providers, partners, and other stakeholders to analyze how various parts of the system connect, identify gaps and missed opportunities, and identify where interventions and/or resource allocation could have the greatest impact on youth mental health
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Community Healing
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Libraries Without Borders
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$25,000
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Single Year
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In partnership with the Black Mental Health Alliance (BMHA), LWB US will pilot the Baltimore Crown Project. This two-year, community-based initiative will offer mental health resources in barbershops and hair salons in Baltimore City.
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Community Healing
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Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)
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$50,000
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Single Year
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AWE will provide social, academic, and vocational support services to foreign-born minor and young adult trafficking survivors in Baltimore. AWE will create the Steps to Success program to address the unique challenges faced by minor and young adult trafficking survivors. Steps to Success will promote positive social engagement and support academic and vocational achievement for trafficking survivors between the ages of 15 and 24. Through trauma-responsive social inclusion activities and academic and vocational support, AWE aims to provide survivors with the necessary tools to successfully navigate their new communities.
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Victim Services
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Holistic Life Foundation, Inc
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$50,000
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Single Year
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HLF provides yoga and mindfulness education for underserved students and residents in the Baltimore community and beyond. Their comprehensive approach helps individuals develop their inner lives through yoga, mindfulness, and self-care. To initiate and advance community healing, HLF proposes offering yoga and mindfulness classes in Baltimore area drug treatment centers and homeless shelters. This four-year project will utilize HLF instructors to teach participants yoga practices and mindfulness techniques on location.
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Community Healing
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The Community Builders
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$25,000
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Single Year
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TCB aims to establish safety, connectedness, and support among youth, and community members through the following objectives:
Promote community healing and positive engagement, build social cohesion, and foster intergenerational understanding between youth and adult residents. Achieved by implementing monthly youth violence reduction initiatives with 60 youth and ten collaborative partners. Youth undergoing training are not only learning de-escalation techniques and building their capacity to reduce violence among peers; they are duly reflecting on their mental process surrounding this issue by engaging in self-reflection.
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Youth Justice
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$500,000
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ARPA grant applications submitted to MONSE are reviewed by Community Grant Reviewers, a group of 18 Baltimore residents with diverse backgrounds and who have relevant expertise and experience in MONSE’s funding priority areas. Grant applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis based on funding availability.
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