| Account | Description | FY2018 Spending |
FY2019 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4000-0005 | Safe and Successful Youth Initiative For youth violence prevention program grants administered by the executive office of health and human services; provided, that the grants shall be targeted at reducing youth violence among young persons at highest risk of being perpetrators or victims of gun and community violence; provided further, that any new grants awarded from this item in fiscal year 2019 shall comply with the grant application requirements set forth in item 4000-0005 of section 2 of chapter 38 of the acts of 2013; provided further, that the executive office of health and human services may select the same evaluator in fiscal year 2019 as selected in fiscal year 2018; provided further, that the secretary shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 15, 2019 detailing: (a) successful grant applications; (b) a set of clearly-defined goals and benchmarks on which grant recipients shall be evaluated; and (c) outcomes and findings from the grant awards for fiscal year 2018; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended to Springfield Partners For Community Action, Inc. for the AWAKE program in the city of Springfield, to provide comprehensive youth development and violence prevention services to at-risk youth; provided further, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended for the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services, Inc. to provide comprehensive youth development and violence prevention services to at-risk youth; provided further, that not less than $75,000 be expended to the South End Community Center's Community Youth Corp Program; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the Merrimack Valley Public Safety Youth Center in the city of Lawrence; provided further, that funds may be set aside for the administration of these programs; and provided further, that these funds shall be available to those municipalities with the highest annual number of youth homicides and serious assaults as determined by the executive office of health and human services |
7,320,000 | 8,145,000 |