December 3, 2012
The city of Salinas last week accepted two grants that aim to help the city cope with its troublesome gang problem.
A $423,505 state grant provides funding for the city’s Recreation-Park Department, and for two nonprofits, Partners for Peace and California Partnership for Safe Communities. The money, from CalGRIP (Gang Reduction Intervention and Prevention), will fund parental training for at-risk youth, extended hours at the two East Salinas community centers, and activities for teens, among other things. The grant total is being matched by the city.
A nearly $125,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will be used to evaluate the impact of the city’s 2010 violence reduction plan. The city has partnered with a number of government agencies and nonprofit organizations to reduce and prevent gang violence.
These two grants come just weeks after the city announced a $500,000 justice department grant to implement a program called Project Safe Neighborhoods, which could use former gang members to mediate street violence.
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steinbecker says...
Farr and his pro-amnesty /pro cheap labor buddies are willing to spend almost any amount to try to cover up the disaster of cultural conflict and lawlessness that Salinas has become. Passing H.R. 2885, The Legal Workforce Act, will do far more to create jobs, bring about peace than all these failed attempts to throw money at a problem Salinas didn't have before the passage of the Simpson-Mazzoli Act.
Posted 4 December 2012, 1:46 a.m. Suggest removal
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