Applications open for $1.2 million in violence prevention grants

(FOX40.COM) –– The Sacramento Authorities department and the city of Sacramento are motivating non-profit organizations to submit applications for grants amounting to over $1.2 million to fight local violence.

On Sept. 7 the Sacramento Police Department Office of Violence Prevention shared the links to the Gang Prevention and Intervention Taskforce (GPIT) and the Evidence-Based Community Violence Interruption, Disruption, and Suppression (EBCVIDS) grant.

The main focus of the program is to enhance neighborhood health and wellness, by offering violence disturbance, suppression and disturbance services and programs to high-risk youth (and their families) who are disproportionately affected by violence, especially to those impacted by gang-related homicides, shootings, and exacerbated assaults, according to the city site.

Criteria for the grant consist of the ability to "enhance the delivery or develop of evidence-based practices designed to interrupt and disrupt high-risk youth's involvement in violence," the site reads.

Grant applications opened on Sept. 7 and will closeat 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 26.

For additional information visit cityofsacramento.gov.