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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />CITY AGENCY PROPOSAL <br />FISCAL YEAR 2012-13 PROGRAM <br />AGENCY: Police Department <br />PROJECT NAME: GRIP Program <br />AMOUNT REQUESTED: $ 185,000 <br />This project is designed to provide sustainability of a suitable living environment by expanding <br />intervention, prevention, and suppression programs aimed at reducing criminal activities of gangs. It <br />utilizes a combination of prevention, outreach, probation checks, and arrests to deter the criminal activities <br />of gangs and their members. <br />The GRIP has previously determined what areas in the entire City qualify as low-mod by census tract. The <br />neighborhood selected is one that is in a qualified census tract and one that the City constantly does <br />projects in with other funds to help eliminate blight and reduce criminal activity. <br />GRIP is a program that involves a collaboration of several agencies with the goal of preventing children <br />from joining a criminal street gang. GRIP does not work with gang members, but target students 4th -8th <br />grade students who are at-risk of joining a gang. There are many components of the GRIP program which <br />are all implemented with the goal of preventing Orange County children from joining a criminal street <br />gang. These components include educating parents, faculty and students about the negative impact of <br />criminal street gangs and the signs that a child may be at-risk of joining a gang. <br />GRIP also conducts curfew sweeps. These curfew sweeps are law enforcement operations which involve <br />police officers targeting juvenile curfew violators on school nights. GRIP also conducts Truancy Sweeps. <br />The Truancy Sweeps involve going to the home of chronically truant students and intervening with the <br />students and their parents GRIP conducts Intervention meetings called Strike Team meetings. These are <br />interventions with the minors and the parents of the minors that the GRIP schools have identified as being <br />at-risk of joining a criminal street gang. At these intervention meetings, the parents are informed of their <br />responsibilities under the law and parents and students are required to sign a behavior contract and are <br />given the necessary resources to make positive changes. The GRIP program has several positive incentive <br />programs in place to reward students who meet their goals set by the GRIP partners. The GRIP program <br />also initiates and leads community Gang Prevention programs, including parent greeter and neighborhood <br />watch programs. <br />75A-13