The Initiative for Students and youth Conflict Resolution Education

Overview

<p>The JAMS Foundation/ACR Initiative for Students and Youth Mission: The population to be served by the funding streams will be (1) youth in preK-12 age range and/or (2) adults working with these youth populations in ways that directly transfer CRE skills for adults to the youth populations through education, training and services. Funding Contexts: The contexts for projects may be a variety of contexts including community, schools, alternative education (online education, charter schools, after school programs), government (juvenile justice facilities, courts) and NGO settings. While some proposals may be able to secure and guarantee access to or cooperation from traditional K-12 school districts/schools, we are exc The funding focus for the 2018 funding cycle intends to support: Contextual Factors -- Programs that advance the development, implementation, and/or assessment of conflict prevention and resolution strategies to serve youth in families whose integrity is jeopardized by changes in social environment that can lead to gang involvement. These programs should focus on changes in the social environment which must include one or more changes in:<br>• Family composition;<br>• Home location;<br>• Education;<br>• Trauma;<br>• Addiction;<br>• Violence;<br>• Perpetual unresolved conflict;<br>• Prison;<br>• Economic challenges; or,<br>• Access to efficient, effective and responsive education, justice, opportunity, or conflict prevention/resolution services.<br>Population to be served -- These programs may be building on what some agencies are already doing, but will specifically aim to integrate the development of conflict resolution training, education or services to help address<br>each of the following areas of impact:<br>• Individual (e.g., youth, family, service provider);<br>• Institutional (e.g. Criminal Justice System, Public/Subsidized Housing, School); and,<br>Mission: The population to be served by the funding streams will be (1) youth in preK-12 age range and/or (2) adults working with these youth populations in ways that directly transfer CRE skills for adults to the youth populations through education, training and services. Funding Contexts: The contexts for projects may be a variety of contexts including community, schools, alternative education (online education, charter schools, after school programs), government (juvenile justice facilities, courts) and NGO settings. While some proposals may be able to secure and guarantee access to or cooperation from traditional K-12 school districts/schools, we are excited by opportunity to support possible funding of CRE work from other contexts. Thus, projects in pre-K-12 schools will be considered but emphasis will be on projects outside that context. • Environmental Conditions (e.g. Economic, Socioeconomic, emerging). Projects would focus on forming and fostering the relationships between each of the individual area, youth, family, service provider and one of the institutions in the institutional area and one of the environmental condition, to ensure that future decision points integrate the learning that took place related to constructive conflict engagement. The populations to be served will be (1) youth in pre-K to12th grade age range; (2) adults serving in the parental role for those youth; and (3) adults working with those youth populations in ways that directly transfer conflict prevention and resolution skills to address conflictited by pportunity to support possible funding of CRE work from other contexts. Thus, projects in pre-K-12 schools will be considered but emphasis will be on projects outside that context.</p>