Office of Minority Health

Minority Youth Violence Prevention: Integrating Public Health and Community Policing Approaches (MYVP)

The Minority Youth Violence Prevention (MYVP) program is a partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to support an initiative to integrate public health and violence prevention approaches. MYVP intends to demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating public health and community policing approaches to reduce disparities in access to public health services and violent crimes and improve the health and well-being of communities of color. MYVP will support program interventions developed through adaptations, refinements, and modifications of promising violence prevention and crime reduction models that are tailored to at-risk minority male youth (10-18 years-old) and integrate a problem-solving approach.

Non-Federal MYVP Grantees	City	State	Funding Level
Asian Media Access, Inc.	Minneapolis	MN	$380,000
Chatham County Board of Commissioners	Savannah	GA	$220,100
City of Cincinnati	Cincinnati	OH	$345,000
City of West Palm Beach	West Palm Beach	FL	$340,000
DeKalb County Board of Health	Decatur	GA	$357,557
Health Education Council	West Sacramento	CA	$370,000
Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Inc.	Binghamton	NY	$325,536
Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County	Kannapolis	NC	$362,668
Youth Alive	Oakland	CA	$133,333
Total: $2,834,194