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Posted on March 1, 2023March 1, 2023 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Cook County Awards Community-Based Service Providers $25 Million to Address Gun Violence
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Cook County Awards Community-Based Service Providers $25 Million to Address Gun Violence

IDHS and Cook County Justice Advisory Council partner to expand Anti-Violence Programming in vulnerable communities

In response to high levels of gun violence experienced since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention (OFVP), together with Cook County’s Justice Advisory Council (JAC), announced today $25 million in grants to fund a diverse array of service providers focused on supporting residents at risk of experiencing gun violence in Chicago and Suburban Cook County.

“Working together, we will rise to the challenge of addressing gun violence in our region,” said Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

“For the past three years, we have engaged in an unprecedented level of intergovernmental coordination around gun violence prevention. This funding is a testament to our shared commitment to building safe and thriving communities in Cook County, and throughout Illinois. We will continue to invest in effective, equitable, and sustainable solutions that address the root causes of gun violence in our communities.”

“This funding demonstrates a commitment among Illinois leaders to cooperate and eliminate bureaucratic hurdles so that qualified violence prevention providers can quickly receive the resources that they need to adequately address firearm violence, one of our state’s most significant public health challenges,” said Chris Patterson, Assistant Secretary, the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle

“As partners, we will continue to take a thoughtful, targeted approach to violence intervention in communities with the highest rates of firearm violence. Together, through our partnership with Cook County, across all levels of government, and alongside our community stakeholders, we are working effectively to prevent and reduce gun violence.”

In Summer 2022, the JAC awarded a historic initial $75 million in Gun Violence Prevention and Reduction Grants, funding individual organizations and coalitions that represent 68 services providers.

Partnering with Illinois Department of Human Services’ Office of Firearm Violence Prevention allows Cook County the opportunity to leverage State funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), to expand upon JAC’s successful funding model that provides vital support to vulnerable and at-risk residents in communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration.

Through this second funding cycle of $25 million, another 39 grant awards to individual organizations and coalitions will support 74 service providers working to build safer communities in Cook County and Chicagoland. The $75 million of 2022 funding builds on over $50 million in County funded grant investments distributed by the JAC between 2015 and 2020.

“Gun violence is not acceptable anywhere, and can never be accepted as normal. We cannot accept children growing up without parents, lost to gun violence. We cannot accept a world where parents lose their children to senseless shootings,” said Cook County Commissioner Frank J. Aguilar. 

“Through these new grant investments, and all the hard work of elected officials, stakeholders, dedicated front-line organizations, and families, we commit to never accept gun violence as normal. I commend these 16th District organizations for doing the necessary work and coordinating efforts with my office to ensure that violence in our district is addressed comprehensively, backed by evidence, with support from the community.” 

“Throughout Cook County, community-based service providers are leading the way in delivering culturally-responsive, innovative, and effective gun violence prevention programming,” said Avik Das, Executive Director of the Justice Advisory Council.

“These organizations are working on the front lines of the gun violence crisis and they need robust and sustained support to make a lasting impact. Cook County is grateful to be collaborating with the Illinois Department of Human Services Office of Firearm Violence Prevention whose support is allowing us to scale up funding to meet the great need for services.”

At the same time, in 2022, the Illinois Department of Human Services issued Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) across the City of Chicago and Cook County to provide similar services to those outlined in the JAC initiative. IDHS has issued over $140M in violence prevention and youth development services funding across Illinois.

More information about Cook County’s Gun Violence Prevention and Reduction Grant Initiative is available here: www.cookcountyil.gov/JACGrants

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