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Gang Resistance Education and Training Program
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program is a life-skills competency program designed to provide students with the skills they need to avoid gang pressure and youth violence. G.R.E.A.T.'s violence prevention curricula help students develop values and practice behaviors that will help them avoid destructive activities. G.R.E.A.T. program staff coordinate project activities with federal, regional, state, and local agencies, as well as, individuals from community and civic groups. The goal of the program is to train criminal justice professionals to deliver a school-based curriculum that teaches life-skills competencies, gang awareness, and violence-avoidance techniques.
The city of Albuquerque will continue serving as a G.R.E.A.T. Evaluation site and will deliver all four components during the grant project period (elementary and middle school, Families Program, and Summer Program). The City of Albuquerque Police Department (APD) is currently collaborating with the Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Weed and Seed sites to implement anti-gang strategies in city schools. G.R.E.A.T. funding would allow the APD to have a significant impact on preventing delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.
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