ICJIA Budget Actions Taken October 24, 2024

On October 24, 2024, the ICJIA Budget Committee approved five future funding opportunities totaling $8.1 million and awarded $8.7 million in grants to agencies and organizations across Illinois.

Notices of Funding Opportunity

The Budget Committee set aside:

• $490,000 in SFY26 Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council funds to support a part-time local council coordinator for each council that will manage committee work, training, travel, and other related activities.
• $2.9 million in SFY26 Safe From the Start funds to support personnel and fringe expenses, training, travel, supplies, and other related activities/expenses for programs designed to assist in the implementing comprehensive and coordinated community-based models serving children ages 0 to 5 who have been exposed to violence.
• $1,400,000 in FFY22 Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) funds to address mental health and substance use disorders for and support housing needs for justice-involved individuals.
• $850,000 in FY22 JAG funds to support public defense services.
• $2.5 million in SFY25 American Rescue Plan Act funds to support the Government Alliance for Safe Communities Capacity Building Network for Community Safety.

Grant awards

The Budget Committee designated:

• $2.5 million in FFY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative funds to entities to support the efforts of seven community organizations.
• $860,000 in SFY25 Restore, Reinvest, and Renew funds to Bridget to Freedom to support programming in the Cook-Chicago Southern region.
• $1.3 million in Violence Against Women funds to support six multidisciplinary teams across Illinois.
• $1.5 million in FFY23 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds to support 12 Court-Appointed Special Advocate Victim Assistance Programs across the state
• $1.7 million in FFY23 VOCA funds to support 10 Law Enforcement/Prosecution Victim Assistance Services Programs across the state.
• $750,000 in FFY23 VOCA funds to four community organizations for services to victims of human trafficking.
• $121,000 in FFY23 VOCA funds to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office to support its Antiterrorism Emergency Assistance Program, providing a victim services specialist, social worker, and supplies for Highland Park victims of mass violence.