Youth Reinvestment Grant Program


The YRG grant program is aimed at diverting youth from initial or subsequent contact with the juvenile justice system using approaches that are evidence-based, culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate. Grant funds will be used to target underserved communities. Grantees include local government agencies and community-based organizations. Local government agencies must pass through 90 percent of awarded funds to community-based organizations who will deliver diversion services. All grantees must provide diversion and alternative-sanction programs, academic- and vocational-education services, mentoring, behavioral health services, and/or mental health services.

Quarterly Progress Report Resources

 

Local Evaluation Plan (LEP) Webinar - LEP Resources Page

 

YRG Cohort 2 Grantee Orientation, October 5-7, 2020

 

Youth Reinvestment Grant Cohort 2 Project Abstracts

YRG-2 Proposal Abstractsopens PDF file

 

YRG Cohort 2 Request for Proposals

In November 2019, the BSCC released the Cohort 2 Youth Reinvestment Grant RFPopens PDF file for grant funds available through the YRG Program. Community-based organizations, as well as California Cities and Counties, were eligible to apply.

 

2019 Youth Reinvestment Grant Program Executive Steering Committee Roster 

2019 YRG ESC Detailed Member Profilesopens PDF file

# Name Title Agency/Organization
1 David Steinhart (Chair) Director & BSCC Board Member Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program
2 Arthur Bowie* Retired Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office
3 Beverly Brook Chaplain Santa Cruz County Juvenile Detention Center
4 Michelle Scray Brown Chief Probation Officer San Bernardino County Probation
5 Paul Espinosa* Captain Los Angeles Police Department
6 Jane Halladay Goldman Director, Service Systems Program National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
7 Josh Green Director of Criminal Justice Programs Urban Peace Institute
8 Donna Groman Judge Los Angeles County Superior Court
9 Brooke Harris Adjunct Professor Supervising Clinical Attorney Loyola Law School, Center for Juvenile Law & Policy
10 Gerry Lopez Managing Deputy District Attorney Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, Crime Prevention Unit
11 Christina Maricic California Youth Representative Self-employed
12 Meghan Medlin Owner/Consultant Medlin Workforce & Reentry Solutions
13 Laura John Ridolfi Policy Director W. Haywood Burns Institute
14 Brook Smith Associate Director The Children’s Initiative
15 Patricia Soung Policy Director of Youth Justice Children's Defense Fund – California
16 Paul Watson President/CEO The Global Action Research Center

*Did not score proposals

 

2019 YRG ESC Meetings and Agenda

Date Location Agenda
April 16, 2020 Zoom Meeting 4.16.20 Agendaopens WORD file
September 19, 2019 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 9.19.19 Agendaopens WORD file
September 18, 2019 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 4.30.19 Agendaopens WORD file
 

YRG Year-1 Statewide Data Dashboardopens PDF file

 

NGO Assurances

 

Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) Webinar – January 16, 2020

 

Grantee Orientation - October 8, 2019

 

2018 Youth Reinvestment Grant and Tribal Youth Diversion Grant Project Abstracts

 

Youth Reinvestment Grant and Tribal Youth Diversion Grant Requests for Proposal (RFPs)

In January 2019, the BSC released the Cohort 1 Youth Reinvestment Grant (YRG) RFPopens PDF file and the Cohort 1 Tribal Youth Diversion (TYD) RFPopens PDF file for grant funds through the YRG and TYD grant programs. California Counties and California Cities were eligible to apply for YRG funds. Federally recognized Indian Tribes in California were eligible to apply to TYD funds.

 

Cohort 1 Executive Steering Committee Roster

YRG ESC Detailed Member Profilesopens PDF file

# Name Title Agency/Organization
1 David Steinhart (Co-Chair) Director BSCC Board Member Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program
2 Mark Varela (Co-Chair) Chief Probation Officer BSCC Board Member Ventura County Probation Department
3 Jessica Chandler* Social Worker LA County, Dept of Children & Family Services
4 Amy Cohen Child, Adolescent, Adult & Family Psychiatry Director Center for Collaborative Parenting
5 Paul Espinosa Captain Los Angeles Police Department
6 Donna Groman Judge Los Angeles Juvenile Delinquency Court
7 Frankie Guzman* Director, California Youth Justice Initiative National Center for Youth Law
8 Jane Halladay Goldman Director, Service Systems Program National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
9 Brooke Harris Adjunct Professor Supervising Clinical Attorney Loyola Law School, Center for Juvenile Law & Policy
10 Olin Jones* Founder Olin C. Jones Consulting
11 Patricia Lee Chief Juvenile Public Defender City & County of San Francisco
12 Julio Marcial Director of Youth Justice Liberty Hill Foundation
13 Laura John Ridolfi Policy Director W. Haywood Burns Institute
14 Patricia Soung Policy Director of Youth Justice Children's Defense Fund - California

*Did not score proposals

 

Tribal Advisory Group 

TAG Detailed Member Profilesopens PDF file

# Name Title Agency/Organization
1 Olin Jones TAG Chair YRG Liaison Founder Olin C. Jones Consulting
2 Dayna Barrios Youth Initiatives Project Director Sacramento Native American Health Center
3 Angie Cavaliere* Minor's Counsel Children's Law Center of California
4 Bill Denke Director Sycuan Tribal Police Department
5 Heather Hostler Director California Department of Social Services Office of Tribal Affairs

*Did not score proposals

 

Cohort 1 Meetings and Agenda

Youth Reinvestment Grant Meetings

Date Location Agenda
October 9, 2018 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 10.9.18 Agendaopens PDF file
October 10, 2018 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 10.10.18 Agendaopens PDF file
November 15, 2018 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 11.15.18 Agendaopens PDF file
November 16, 2018 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 11.16.18 Agendaopens PDF file
May 2, 2019 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 5.2.19 Agendaopens PDF file
June 4, 2019 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 6.4.19 Agendaopens PDF file
 

Tribal Advisory Group Meetings

Date Location Agenda
October 23, 2018 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 10.23.18 Agendaopens PDF file
October 24, 2018 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 10.24.18 Agendaopens PDF file
April 30, 2019 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 4.30.19 Agendaopens WORD file
May 30, 2019 BSCC Board Room, Sacramento 5.30.19 Agenda
 

The Youth Reinvestment Grant Program was established in the 2018 Budget Act (Senate Bill 840, Chapter 29, Statutes of 2018) and the related trailer bill (Assembly Bill 1812, Chapter 36, Statutes of 2018).

YRG Cohort 2 Bidders' Conference

In December  2019, the BSCC hosted Bidders’ Conferences to provide clarity on the Request for Proposals (RFP) instructions and allowed interested applicants to ask questions about the RFPs and the RFP process. Video and resources provided below.

 

Cohort 2 RFP Process Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Answers

 

Statewide Program Evaluation Request for Proposals

Statewide Program Evaluation RFPopens WORD file

 

Cohort 1 Notices of Intent to Apply for YRG and TYD

Applicants interested in applying for the Youth Reinvestment Grant (YRG) and/or the Tribal Youth Diversion (TYD) Grant were asked but not required to submit a non-binding Notice of Intent to apply. Choosing not to do so was not grounds for disqualification. Further, prospective applicants that submitted a Notice of Intent but decided not to apply were not be penalized.

Submitted Notices of Intent to Apply

Cohort 1 Bidder's Conferences

In February 2019, the BSCC hosted Bidders’ Conferences to provide clarity on the Request for Proposals (RFP) instructions and allowed interested applicants to ask questions about the RFPs and the RFP process.

Tribal Youth Diversion Grant RFP Bidders' Conference

Youth Reinvestment Grant RFP Bidders' Conference

 

Cohort 1 RFP Process Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Answers

 

For information about the Youth Reinvestment Grant please contact:

Field Representative - Eddie Escobar,  Eddie.Escobar@bscc.ca.govcreate new email

Cohort 1: Program Analyst – Johnny Sanchez,  Johnny.Sanchez@bscc.ca.govcreate new email

Cohort 2: Program Analyst – Julie Axt, Julie.Axt@bscc.ca.govcreate new email

YouthReinvestmentGrant@bscc.ca.govcreate new email