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