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  • Office Of Justice Programs grant (2024)

  • Amount: $400,000

  • Recipient: University Settlement Society Of New York

  • Purpose: University settlement society of New York (USS) and the Asian American Federation (AAF) are proposing a project to address the rapid rise in anti-Asian hate crimes that has persisted since the pandemic, serving Asian American community members in New York city as well as reaching Asian serving organizations across New York state. USS will build upon its successful history of the rejoice! Organize! Activate! Reclaim! (ROAR!) Festival that was held in 2022 and 2023. Specifically, ROAR! will be expanded to a full year, ten part event series that addresses hate crimes through workshops on the importance of and how to report hate and bias-based incidents; connections to and information about mental health care; and facilitation of dialogue and opportunities for community healing. As a partner in this work, AAF will provide in-language sessions teaching community members on topics including situational awareness, conflict de-escalation, and upstander intervention techniques. Additionally, to scale learnings beyond the local community, AAF will also bring together an anti-Asian hate violence working group that will convene Asian-serving organizations across the state to create a playbook of replicable best practices for community-based approaches to addressing hate. This playbook and other learnings from the proposed project will also be shared with local law enforcement to increase knowledge of how to support and address hate crimes in the Asian American community. USS and AAF anticipates the following as part of the program: attendance of more than 400 Asian American community members annually; engaging more than 20 organizations as part of the working group; ensuring 60 percent or more participants increase their awareness of available wellness and safety resources, as well as how to report hate incidents; developing a playbook of community-led approaches to addressing hate crimes; and, engaging local police to strengthen the communitys approach to addressing anti-Asian hate.


https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_15PBJA24GG02844ADVA_1550/
 
Office Of Justice Programs grant (2024)


Amount: $400,000


Recipient: Dutchess County Of (Inc)


Purpose: The Dutchess County District Attorney's office's "we the people, united we stand against hate - a community based approach to preventing, educating, and addressing hate and hate based crimes" is a collaborative initiative to address, mitigate, and prevent hate crime and increase victim reporting. This project focuses on the education on and prevention of hate crime through community outreach and partnerships, crime analytics and data collection, and targeted resource distribution to improve hate crime reporting. The District Attorney's office will create two new positions- the Hate Crime Outreach Coordinator and the hate crimes analyst - to aid in the education, prevention, and investigation of bias-related crimes, including those committed online. Dutchess County, located in the Hudson Valley region and New York metropolitan area, is a culturally rich and diverse community of nearly 300,000 residents across 825 square miles. Over the last few years, hate crime prosecution has increased in the community, but victim reporting has remained low. Further, prosecuting such crimes is a difficult feat without overwhelming evidence that a crime is bias-related. With grant funding for outreach, education, and data collection, the District Attorney's office can enhance collaborations with educational institutions and local law enforcement agencies, identify target areas for both outreach and enforcement, and provide necessary resources to not only increase reporting, but also decrease the likelihood of hate crimes occurring in the first place. The District Attorney's office has established a robust partner network which includes the Dutchess County sheriff's office, municipal law enforcement agencies representing the largest jurisdictions in the county (city and town of Poughkeepsie, town of Hyde park, city of Beacon, and town of East Fishkill), higher education institutions with a collective student body of over 16,000 (Dutchess County community College, Vassar College, and Marist College), and 18 k-12 schools that participate in the sheriff office's school resource officer (SRO) program.


https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_15PBJA24GG03086MUMU_1550/
 
Office Of Justice Programs grant (2023)


Amount: $400,000


Recipient: Right To Be Inc.


Purpose: Bystander intervention to prevent and de-escalate hate-based violence against LGBTQ+ community members in Texas Right to Be (formerly Hollaback!) will work with the Houston coalition against hate to develop and scale bystander intervention trainings to prevent/de-escalate hate crimes/hate incidents against the LGBTQ+ community in Texas. Over the course of 36 months, right to be will develop a bystander intervention curriculum, deliver bystander intervention trainings to address anti-LGBTQ+ violence, scale trainings by equipping LGBTQ+ organizations to deliver the curriculum, and evaluate the impact on reporting, confidence in de-escalation skills, and rate of intervention. The work is segmented into three sections: year one: curriculum development and bystander intervention training series launch year two: train the trainer year three: scaling and evaluation with the support of the BJA - right to be will train 7,000 people in Texas, with a priority on in-person trainings and working group development in Houston. That includes 4,500 people directly trained in bystander intervention, 10-12 LGBTQ+ organization leads trained to deliver curriculum, and 2,500 additional community members trained through the train the trainer program. In addition to direct training participants, right to be will distribute bystander intervention materials and reporting information from the training series to over 10,000 people in Texas. Subrecipient Houston Coalition Against Hate- designated as a culturally specific organization - will support curriculum development and train the trainer sessions in-person in Houston and digitally through Texas. Beneficiaries include members of the LGBTQ+ community, and an intentional focus on allies - people who have LGBTQ+ family members, colleagues, neighbors, friends, and students - who are seeking skills in identifying and safely deescalating hate incidents. As a result of the training series, over 95% of participants will report an increased awareness of hate incidents, and over 95% will report being able to safely intervene using right to be's tested bystander intervention methodology, in a six month follow up study, over 65% of recipients will report using bystander intervention in their daily lives - preventing the escalation of violence and directly supporting LGBTQ+ communities members at a time of increased hate.

https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_15PBJA23GG04164ADVA_1550/
 
Office Of Justice Programs grant (2023)


Amount: $400,000


Recipient: St. John's Community Health


Purpose: St. John's community health (SJCH) seeks $400,000 over 36 months to implement a community-based stop the hate immigrant and transgender restorative justice program (program). The program will add a program coordinator and outreach worker to our stop the hate team, each bilingual and with shared lived experience with the immigrant and transgender communities, and leverage SJCH's existing deep connections to these communities to gather detailed reports and data on hate crimes and incidents against immigrant and transgender persons, assist victims in accessing services, conduct education, outreach, and trainings, engage the community in developing and implementing solutions, and develop and conduct restorative justice mediations to address hate crimes and incidents. The program will be focused on immigrant and transgender communities in south, Central and East Los Angeles County, California (Los Angeles County service planning areas/spas 4, 6 and 7). Project activities include hiring a new, bilingual program coordinator and outreach worker, each with shared lived experience with target immigrant and transgender communities; establishing a task force to monitor and guide community efforts to address hate incidents; developing content, presentations and outreach to educate the target population and community; taking detailed reports from victims; directly assisting victims in navigating services and addressing incidents; conducting trainings; and developing and implementing restorative justice mediations as an available, effective resource for the community. Expected outcomes include greatly enhanced reporting and data on hate crimes and incidents against immigrants and transgender individuals; an effective task force focused on developing community-based solutions to hate incidents targeted against immigrants and transgender persons; expansion of public awareness and training of community members in restorative justice approaches to hate incidents; implementation of effective restorative justice community-based mediations to address reduce and prevent hate incidents; and a reduction in hate incidents targeted against these populations.


https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_15PBJA23GG04166ADVA_1550/
 
Office Of Justice Programs grant (2023)


Amount: $400,000


Recipient: Nonviolent Peaceforce


Purpose: Nonviolent Peaceforce proposes to implement community based approach to preventing and addressing hate crimes against AAPI and LGBTQ communities in San Diego County California. We are requesting $400,000 to address the rapid increase in hate against Asian and LGBTQ community members in this County. The overall goal of the project is to strengthen the safety ecosystem and build intersectional capacity and solidarity with the local AAPI and LGBTQ+ communities to keep themselves safe from hate crimes and hate incidents. The project has four main sub-goals: first, to prevent hate crimes through designing and implementing strategies that protect potential victims from being targets of hate crimes and hate incidents. Second, to promote community awareness of strategies and tools to use to respond nonviolently to hate-based aggression and promote healing within the communities who have been targeted. Third, to increase victim reporting of hate incidents by providing training materials and culturally differentiated outreach in the many languages of the Asian diaspora in the San Diego area increasing awareness of what constitutes a hate incident and how to report it. And, finally, to improve responses to hate crimes and hate incidents by providing protective accompaniment for victims by trained volunteers from their community to file a police report and to receive culturally appropriate support services. Project activities include convening a coalition and creating a project action plan in the first six months, developing outreach materials and trainings in multiple languages, carrying out protective accompaniments, supporting local community organizations to create their own safety volunteer teams, and implementing a train the trainer program. Nonviolent Peaceforce will lead the data collection and reporting on the project, signing data sharing agreements with community partners in order to measure the number of community members trained in mutual protection skills, the increase in awareness of hate crime and hate incident reporting channels, the number of reports by AAPI and LGBTQ community members, the numbers of community members trained and conducting protective accompaniment and the number of trainers and community safety teams formed. At the end of the 3-year project, Nonviolent Peaceforce will have the data to share how we were able to increase community safety and capacity to respond to hate violence against both the AAPI and LGBTQ communities of San Diego County. We anticipate that this will significantly contribute to a national effort to identify promising practices to help these communities feel and be safer.

https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_15PBJA23GG04165ADVA_1550/
 
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