Grants Recently Awarded in District 10
Stepping-Up Technology Implementation – Department of Education
Recipient: United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Central Florida
Award: $388,047
Description: The Technology and Media Services program is the primary source of support under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for technology and media-related activities. Technology activities promote the development, demonstration, and utilization of technology. They include activities such as research on using technology to improve learning and provide access to the classroom, and on using interactive telecommunications to provide distance-learning opportunities to children with disabilities in rural communities. Media Services activities focus on individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and individuals who are blind or print disabled. Authorized media activities include:
Educational media activities of educational value to children with disabilities;
Providing described video and captioned television programs, videos, and educational materials;
Distributing captioned and described videos and educational materials;
Providing free educational materials in accessible media for visually impaired and print disabled students in elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and graduate schools; and
Providing cultural experiences that enrich the lives of hearing-impaired individuals and promote their integration and increase public awareness of the achievements of hearing-impaired individuals.
Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) Funding – Department of Labor
Recipient: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Award: $28,394,746
Description: Disaster Recovery DWGs may provide eligible participants disaster-relief employment opportunities to address the effects of COVID-19 on their communities, as well as employment and training activities. Employment Recovery DWGs provide reemployment services to eligible individuals affected by mass layoffs, such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minority Health Community Programs to Improve Minority Health – Department of Health and Human Services
Recipient: Orlando Health
Award: $449,336
Description: The Community-based Approaches to Strengthening Economic Supports for Working Families initiative will serve low-income working families disproportionately at risk for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including racial and ethnic minority families. This initiative seeks to determine whether implementation of earned income tax credit (EITC) outreach and education activities in communities at higher risk for ACEs can result in increased EITC receipt and changes in risk and/or protective factors for ACEs. The Office of Minority Health expects the awarded projects funded under this initiative to:
Establish multi-sectoral partnerships to support EITC outreach and education activities in communities at higher risk for ACEs;
Plan and implement EITC outreach and education activities in communities at higher risk for ACEs;
Develop and implement a process and outcome evaluation plan;
Communicate and disseminate findings, successes and lessons learned; and
Plan for sustainability of successful interventions.
Services for Victims of Human Trafficking – Department of Justice
Recipient: Latisha's House Foundation Florida
Award: $350,000
Description: Funding through this program supports direct services to victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking, as well as for efforts to increase the capacity of communities to respond to human trafficking through the development of interagency partnerships, professional training, and public awareness activities over a three-year project period. The mission is to offer individualized support to empower victims of human trafficking to build a bridge from their traumatic past to a positive future. The OVC funding will allow the program to further develop with trained and equipped staff and volunteers and enhance services for victims of human trafficking and promote their economic empowerment, safety, and overall well-being
Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes – Department of Justice
Recipient: University of Central Florida
Award: $87,206
Description: This research program will focus on use error rate based methods to solving the forensic identification of source problem, with the specific goal of building up a suite of statistical tools to support long term research into the interpretation and presentation of the value of forensic evidence using error rates. It is expected that this work will lead to at least 4 different research programs that will be appropriate to be extended in PhD dissertations in mathematical statistics and statistical pattern recognition. Manuscripts on findings will be promptly prepared and submitted for publication.
Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes – Department of Justice
Recipient: University of Central Florida
Award: $495,056
Description: The overall goal of this project is to strengthen error rate assessment and evidence interpretation by utilizing novel and rigorous statistical methodology. The outcomes of the project will enhance understanding of accuracy and its inherent variability in forensic science disciplines and provide guidance to rigorous interpretation of these measures.
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Department of Justice
Recipient: City of Orlando
Award: $153,241
Description: The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program allows states and units of local government, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice, including for any one or more of the following program areas:
Law enforcement programs;
Prosecution and court programs;
Prevention and education programs;
Corrections and community corrections programs;
Drug treatment and enforcement programs;
Planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs;
Crime victim and witness programs (other than compensation); and
Mental health programs and related law enforcement and corrections programs.
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program – Department of Justice
Recipient: City of Apopka
Award: $15,203
Description: The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program allows states and units of local government, including tribes, to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own state and local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice, including for any one or more of the following program areas:
Law enforcement programs;
Prosecution and court programs;
Prevention and education programs;
Corrections and community corrections programs;
Drug treatment and enforcement programs;
Planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs;
Crime victim and witness programs (other than compensation); and
Mental health programs and related law enforcement and corrections programs.
FEMA Hurricane Irma District 5 Debris Removal – Department of Homeland Security
Recipient: Florida Department of Transportation
Award: $1,696,899.18
Description: During the incident period, Hurricane Irma made landfall with hurricane force winds, heavy rains, and storm surge which deposited vegetative debris, construction and demolition (C&D) debris, hazardous hanging limbs, leaning trees and dangerous stumps on public rights-of-way (ROW) throughout DOT District 5. DOT District 5 encompasses the following Florida counties: Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia. The work was completed from October 18 to December 16, 2017.
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