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History of Funding

2019 Shannon CSI Statewide and Community Assessments are available to view at https://www.mass.gov/doc/2019-shannon-brief-statewide/download

Additional Information

OGR strongly recommends applications demonstrate a collaborative effort within a municipality or region. For each application, OGR encourages a municipal entity to serve as the lead applicant and fiscal agent. OGR encourages sign-off by a Senior/Municipal Department Official to demonstrate executive leadership and commitment to the collaborative effort. Funds may be distributed to project partners by the lead fiscal agent. Project partners in the multi-disciplinary team may include municipal and state law enforcement agencies,2 non-profit community based organizations, and other government agencies including but not limited to: District Attorneys' Offices, Probation, Parole, Department of Youth Services, and Sheriffs' Offices. Multiple municipalities may apply together as a regional collaborative group, with one municipality serving as the lead applicant and as the fiscal agent for the group.

Other Requirements

• Shannon CSI sites must maintain an active steering committee to ensure community collaboration, consistent information sharing, oversight, and direction for the Shannon grant award. The steering committee should represent the spectrum of organizations involved and the diversity of the community. Steering committee by-laws should be provided to OGR at the commencement of each site's grant award.

• Shannon CSI sites must identify a site program director. A site program director shall be appointed or hired to oversee the project at each site and serve as the point of contact for the program partners and OGR. The site program director's role and responsibilities should be provided to OGR at the commencement of each site's grant award.

• The site program director shall distribute a list of funded program partners, funding amount, and bi-annual site and partner programmatic activities and progress to the steering committee. 

• If the Shannon CSI site has a Local Action Research Partner (LARP), the site program director must work with the LARP to ensure timely and accurate bi-annual programmatic reporting for the site and each funded program partner.

• Shannon CSI sites without a LARP must work with the Statewide Research Partner to ensure timely and accurate bi-annual programmatic reporting for the site and each funded program partner.

• The Shannon CSI site must provide the LARP and/or the Statewide Research Partner an opportunity to participate in the steering committee meetings.

• The Shannon CSI site must work with their LARP or the Statewide Research Partner to develop a community assessment for their respective site. Community assessments are to follow the OJJDP guidelines.

• The Shannon CSI site must work with the Statewide Research Partner and LARPs in implementing the individual risk assessment tool to be used for identifying Shannon eligible youth participating in the Shannon CSI funded programs.

• The Shannon CSI site must adopt and utilize the following terms:

• Shannon eligible youth must be: (1) between the ages of 10-24 years of age; (2) living in a high-risk (or hot-spot) area within the community; and (3) at-risk or high-risk of becoming involved, or currently involved, in gang activity.

• Low-risk youth are in danger of engaging in risky behaviors or gang activity, due to the presence of known risk factors for gang involvement, such as exposure to gang affiliates, in their environment (home or community).

• Moderate-risk youth are exposed to the same risks factors as low-risk youth, as well as additional risk individual factors such as school failure, truancy, dropping out of school, substance abuse, court involvement, witnessing violence or violent victimization, and gang involvement as an affiliate or member not yet participating in violent criminal activity.

• High-risk youth are identified as those youth being perpetrators or victims of shooting or stabbing violence, and/or are known gang members.

• Police departments receiving Shannon CSI funding must: a) contribute daily crime data to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Fusion Center's Coplink; and b) report their crime data on a monthly basis (minimum) to the Crime Reporting Unit of the Massachusetts State Police. Agencies which have record management systems which are capable of generating National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data must submit crime data to the Crime Reporting Unit only in this format.

• Police departments receiving Shannon CSI funding that maintain a juvenile lockup must submit monthly juvenile lockup data to the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services via CJIS/LEAPS.

• Police departments receiving Shannon CSI funding will be required to participate and submit case-specific information on officer administration of Narcan/Naloxone using a reporting tool as determined by EOPSS

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