Title: Crime Prevention through Safer Streets Grant Program
Overview
The Crime Prevention through Safer Streets Grant Program is a funding opportunity offered through the Office of Adult and Juvenile Assistance (OAJJA) for fiscal year 2023.
The goal of the Crime Prevention through Safer Streets Grant Program is to allow the department and local governments to evaluate and design safer streets and neighborhood models that discourage crime, revitalize community image, and establish place-specific crime prevention strategies that account for geographic, cultural, economic, and social characteristics of the target areas.
Resource: SB22-001 Crime Prevention through Safer Streets Utilizing Design Management Strategies
Project Application DEADLINE: October 19, 2022
Additional Resources: Application Instructions (link) and FAQs (link)
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About the Funding Agency:
The mission of the Division of Criminal Justice is to improve the public safety of the community, the quality of services to crime victims, and the effectiveness of services to offenders. We accomplish this by analyzing policy, conducting criminal justice research, managing programs, and administering grants.
Program Description
Purpose of the Funds
To award grant funding to eligible recipients for the evaluation of and design of safer streets and neighborhood models that discourage crime, revitalize community image, and establish place-specific crime prevention strategies that account for geographic, cultural, economic, and social characteristics of the target areas.
Resource: SB22-001
Statutory Authority
C.R.S. 24-33.5-117. Crime prevention through safer streets grant program
Eligible Activities
The grant may be used for improvements designed to decrease the incidence of crime and create safer streets. Such improvements may include:
- Better lighting
- Improved trash collection
- Access control
- Territorial reinforcement
- Improved space management
- Other improvements designed to decrease the incidence of crime and create safer streets
Required Application Components
All grant applications must address all of the following:
- The target area and crime challenge the applicant hopes to address
- Data regarding the incidence of crime in the target area, disaggregated by the type of crime, and demographic data
- The specific projects the grant would fund
- Measurable or observable goals to decrease the incidence of crime, disaggregated by the type of crime
- Details on how the applicant has collaborated with communities and other agencies in developing the improvements to be funded under the application
- Details on how the plan would prevent the displacement of homeless populations and harm to communities of color and vulnerable populations
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance Available
General technical assistance will be offered to all grantees through webinars, office hours, and other means.
The Division of Criminal Justice may provide technical assistance to interested agencies subject to available appropriations, the scope of the request, and feasibility within the timeline provided.
For questions regarding technical assistance, contact Jack Reed at jack.reed@state.co.us.