Violence prevention and intervention services in Oakland — including hospital visits to gunshot wound victims, relocation assistance for shooting survivors and their families, and housing, employment, and mental health support for people on probation — are set to receive a significant financial boost.
Oakland is poised to extend $12.8 million in one-year grants to community- and school-based programs focused on reducing violence. The temporary funding is meant to support groups while they wait for Measure NN dollars to become available.
On Tuesday evening, the City Council’s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to allow the Department of Violence Prevention to extend grants totaling $10,765,000 to 21 nonprofits working to address gang violence, gender-based violence, and commercial sexual exploitation, as well as $2,050,000 in grants to five organizations with school-based violence intervention programs. The grants, previously set to expire in September, will now continue into the second and third quarters of next year…