Bill > AB912

This bill, the Strategic Anti-Violence Funding Efforts Act (SAFE Act), makes several changes to existing laws and establishes new grant programs to address youth violence and trauma. Key provisions include: 1) Reestablishing the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program under the Office of Youth and Community Restoration to provide funding for trauma-informed diversion programs for youth, with priority given to Native American and underserved communities. 2) Creating the Department of Justice Violence Reduction Grant Program to support evidence-based, focused-deterrence collaborative programs that conduct outreach and offer supportive services to reduce violence and gang involvement, with priority given to communities disproportionately impacted. 3) Establishing a grant program under the Department of Parks and Recreation to support new and existing parks, recreation opportunities, and summer programs for youth as violence intervention and prevention strategies. 4) Expanding the School-Based Health Center Support Program to provide increased funding and flexibility for planning, facilities, operations, and services at school-based health centers across the state. 5) Creating a grant program within the California Health and Human Services Agency to provide funding to schools to implement evidence-based interventions for students impacted by trauma, with priority given to counties with high rates of violent crime. The bill aims to reinvest cost savings from prison closures and declining incarceration rates into these new and expanded programs to address the root causes of youth violence and promote positive youth development.

Budget and Finance, Education, Health and Social Services, Justice

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