Tasks include looking at current response systems and starting research on child abuse and neglect and elder abuse. About 280 sites would get grants to educate about 1,000 middle school students each. Other agencies plan to devote billions to the cause. Through three-year State Incentive Grants, the funds aim to raise the level of substance abuse prevention. The funds will support 14 to 16 new projects in addition to the 25 that are already operating or on the drawing board.
States start local prevention service models.
Groups other than public housing authorities get these grants as the housing agencies get other money for the activities. Officers get a 50 percent discount buying HUD-owned foreclosed properties in revitalization zones. The budget would fund 62,000 AmeriCorps service members involved in community service projects that could help police. The request would support 800 coordinators serving more than 1,300 schools. Charles Pekow is a journalist living in Maryland.