Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program

The Tony Grampsas youth services grant program (grant program) provides grants to community-based programs to reduce incidents of youth crime and violence. The youth mentoring program, the student dropout prevention and intervention program, and the student before-and-after school project (collectively, the "programs") were created within the grant program. The bill repeals the individual programs and instead lists the programs as allowable uses for grant money under the grant program.

The bill transfers certain responsibilities from the Tony Grampsas youth services board (board) to the department of human services (state department). The bill repeals local public-to-private funding match requirements.

The bill requires each entity that receives a grant to annually report certain information to the state department; except that an entity that has an operating budget of less than $1.5 million, or that receives a grant in the amount of not more than $25,000, is not required to report on the outcomes achieved by the services provided and the methods used to track the outcomes.

The bill makes conforming amendments.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)