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Diversity Center Community Hate Crime Prevention program (CHCP)

Award Information

Award #
15PBJA-24-GG-02851-ADVA
Funding Category
Competitive Discretionary
Location
Awardee County
Oklahoma
Congressional District
Status
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
Total funding (to date)
$400,000

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2024, $400,000)

The LGBTQ+ community of Greater Oklahoma is under attack. This community, like other minority communities in the area and across the country, is suffering from a drastic rise in hate crimes and incidents, where its members have been targeted, attacked, bullied, and killed. The Diversity Center of Oklahoma, Inc. understands that the only way to prevent and address hate crimes of any kind is to develop a whole-community based approach that encompasses traditional and non-traditional partner organizations and involves new and innovative outreach, engagement, and educational programs.  

The purpose of the Community Hate Crime Prevention Program is to create new community-wide approaches to preventing and addressing hate crimes in its catchment area. Project activities and outcomes include whole-community engagement activities with non-traditional partner organizations; new and easy-to-use methods to report hate crimes and incidents; new educational programming with non-traditional partners, including, but not limited to, the education system, youth, and young adult groups; an enhanced relationship with other targeted communities; engagement with the wider civic and business community; and the development of a standing relationship with law enforcement. This project will seek to obtain and develop better hate crime and hate incident data, engage stakeholders in a cooperative and joint manner, utilize national training experts in the realm of hate crime prevention, and develop a standing task force of partners.

Date Created: September 23, 2024