Grantee Vignette

Like many grantees, April Thomas, project director of the LUK, Inc., Violence Intervention and Prevention Project (VIP), is facing the harsh realities of state budget cuts.

The Puget Sound Educational Service District (ESD) set the stage early in their grant to create a sustainable coalition of diverse partners.

It was during the start-up phase of her YVPP grant that Patricia Chavez Anaya, project director for Esperanza del Pueblo, uncovered the nucleus of an idea to better serve the Latino community in Ok

There's no telling what can be accomplished when grantees band together in their community.

What happens when a community's longstanding demographics change? Does the change affect a student and/or school staff's perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about diversity?

Early in her two-year YVPP grant cycle, Annette Klinefelter, executive director of the Girls' Initiative Network (GIN), began thinking of ways to maintain and expand Girls' Empowerment Group progra

There's no real magic involved with creating community awareness - it's an art form that takes a lot of good planning and hard work.

In 2002, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was awarded two federal grants: a Safe Schools/Healthy Students and a Targeted Capacity Expansion (Prevention/Early Intervention).

It's not an easy task to serve the needs of rural communities spread out over broad stretches of land.

In Russellville, Arkansas, parents, policymakers, and the community know quite a bit about the SS/HS program because of articles in Russelville's newspaper