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Building safe and supportive neighborhoods through a community-based approach

ILAACP FY09 YIP Mini-Grant Initiative

For fiscal year 2009, the ILAACP Youth In Prevention Mini-Grant Initiative proposes a $60,000 statewide, grant-making initiative providing 12 grassroots organizations with a mini-grant of up to $5,000 to design and implement an innovative, youth-led advocacy project, which addresses one of four pre-identified categories of social and/or health disparities negatively impacting African-American communities.

The four issue areas are:

Environmental Justice
Obesity and Healthy Eating Habits
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Special Projects

To download a copy of the ILAACP FY09 Youth In Prevention Request for Proposals, in Microsoft Word format please click here. To download a copy in PDF format, please click here.

Emails of intent to apply are due to chris.sang@prevention.org by 5 p.m. CST on April 17, 2008.

For more information about this initiative, please contact Chris Sang, ILAACP Project Coordinator, at 312.988.4646 ext. 258.

Community Voices

Community Voices: Illinois African American Perspectives on Violence Against Women and Girls

The Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention's Community Voices project seeks to understand how African American communities in Illinois (outside of Chicago) view and define violence against women and girls. The project will research and document how African American communities in Winnebago, Champaign, and St. Clair counties currently respond to this type of violence and what they believe to be effective strategies for preventing and ending gender-based violence. Project findings will be disseminated to local services providers and policymakers, via a graphically-enhanced report, with the intended objective of raising public awareness about community perceptions of and solutions to violence against women and girls.

Our community partners for this project include Rockford Sexual Assault Counseling, Winnebago County Health Department, Urban League of Champaign County, A Woman's Fund, Violence Prevention Center of Southwestern Illinois, and East Side Health District.

This project is made possible through support from the Chicago Foundation for Women, Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, and Walgreen's Co.

To learn more about this initiative, please contact Malik Nevels at 312.988.4646 ext. 239.

Choose Respect Illinois

The Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA) recently awarded the ILAACP a $25,000 grant to fund our participation in the planning and implementation of Choose Respect Illinois, a statewide, grant-making initiative providing schools, faith-based organizations and after school programs with a mini-grant - i.e., $300K over 3 yrs - to implement a national teen dating violence prevention curriculum targeting youth between the ages of 11 and 14.

The initiative employs an innovative mix of interactive learning tools to teach adolescents how to form healthy relationships to prevent dating abuse before it starts. The Centers of Disease Control & Prevention, the curriculum's author, launched Choose Respect in 10 cities across the United States before partnering with IVPA to launch the country's first statewide initiative. As a member of the statewide Choose Respect Illinois Steering Committee, the ILAACP is responsible for helping to develop the project goals and objectives, increase public awareness about the initiative, and help identify potential grantees serving high need communities.

To learn more about the Illinois Choose Respect RFP please visit the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority at www.ivpa.org or call Chris Sang, ILAACP Project Coordinator at 312.988.4646 ext. 258.

To learn more about Choose Respect, please visit www.chooserespect.org.

Stronger Roots Stronger Branches Conference

Each year in September the Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention partners with the Illinois Department of Human Services, Latino Coalition for Prevention, and Prevention First, Inc. to host the Stronger Roots Stronger Branches Conference.

This unique conference brings together early intervention and prevention social workers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, and administrators from across the country to share and discuss culturally-relevant best practices for strengthening communities of color. Past featured speakers include Jay Winter Nightwolf, Alfred "Coach" Powell, Reverend Alfonzo Wyatt, Dr. Diana McCauley, and Dr. Ramon Del Castillo.

For more information about the 2008 SRSB Conference, please contact Angie Cyrulik at 800.252.8951 ext. 110.

Established in 2005, the Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention (ILAACP) is committed to the development of culturally competent programs, policies and plans for African Americans by ensuring prevention, intervention and educational resources are available throughout the state of Illinois.

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