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SSYI Advocacy Coalition - Safe and Successful Youth Initiative

The SSYI Advocacy Coalition aims to sustain level funding ($10M) to ensure critical services for our state's most proven risk young people. SSYI is unique.

Please see our Call To Action! https://www.facebook.com/events/464563123621765/ The Safe and Successful Youth Initiative was specifically developed to address a gap in current youth violence prevention by focusing on the young men most at risk of killing or being killed. The results are already being seen throughout our state. This coalition (comprised of youth providers and city/law enforcement leaders) was formed to advocate for the necessary funding for communities across the state to continue this important work. SSYI is a violence prevention strategy aimed at reducing youth homicides and serious assaults in Massachusetts. In fiscal year 2012, approximately $10M in grants were awarded to 11 cities (Boston, Lynn, Lowell, Worcester, Springfield, Lawrence, Brockton, Chelsea, Fall River, New Bedford and Holyoke) for targeted intervention programs with high impact youth and their families. This grant program is a coordinated intervention strategy focused on young men (age 14-24) identified as high risk for becoming perpetrators or victims of gun violence. The goal is to ensure that a full continuum of services - trauma informed case management, intensive supervision, employment, education and health care - are available and coordinated in each city and are reaching the target population. The Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) allows youth service providers to team up with local law enforcement leaders and city government officials
to provide services for our most proven-risk youth. SSYI helps our communities because it deters youth impacted by violence, creates more peaceful communities, facilitates community re-entry for offenders and gets guns off our streets. We are currently asking State Senators to co-sponsor an amendment to fully fund SSYI in FY14:

Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz has filed an amendment to the Senate's FY14
budget to fully fund SSYI at $10million (amendment #695). Please call your State Senator and ask that they sign on by noon this Wednesday (5/22) to Senator Chang-Diaz's amendment to restore SSYI funding ( #695) to $10M. For more information contact: Geoff Foster, UTEC Director of Organizing and Political Action at gfoster@utec-lowell.org | 978-856-3947

23/06/2020

Thanks to our lead sponsors Aaron Vega State Rep and Senator Adam Hinds and Ways and Means Chairs State Representative Aaron Michlewitz and Senator Michael Rodrigues for continuing to make SSYI (4000-0005) a priority for our communities.

The results speak for themselves. For every $1 invested into SSYI, the Commonwealth saves $5 in victimization costs! Last year we saw a 36% reduction in violent crimes and a 50% reduction in weapons-related charges in SSYI communities!*

SSYI treats violence and poverty like a public health crisis by funding outreach, workforce, education, case management and counseling for justice-involved emerging adults. Let's continue the funding at $10 million into FY21 to continue lifting up our communities and our young people!

*Data from Executive Office of Health and Human Services and Commonwealth Corporation.

23/05/2017

Thanks to Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz for continuing to lead for SSYI funds in the ! FY18 is a critical year for our funding and your leadership is so helpful.

19/10/2016

SSYI: Please share this event with your networks. We are looking to convene any and all Streetworkers in New England and this means you!

Streetworker Nation! You are cordially invited to join us for our 3rd Annual New England Streetworker Conference! We will be returning for a 3rd year at Gillette Stadium for a day of networking, learning and sharing. Every year we come together to strengthen our Streetworker bonds and also work to...

17/05/2016

SSYI is fully funded in the Senate budget! Join us in saying THANK YOU to Senator Karen Spilka and the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Today is the first time ever that SSYI has received full funding in the Senate budget at $8.9 million. LIKE and SHARE

01/04/2015

Springfield's SSYI program was featured on WGGBSpringfield. SSYI Springfield is led by Anthony Falvo and his team - congrats!

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Shootings and stabbings. We've seen it too many times in the last few weeks alone, but now, some help is on the way for kids in our community. Over $14 million was gran...

26/03/2015

A great piece in today's Herald News about SSYI's success and funding uncertainty. Please share and spread the word about the need for the $2.2 million in the FY15 supplemental budget in conference and for $9.5 million in the FY16 budget!

Youth Outreach, run by Greater Fall River Re-Creation, in jeopardy amid differences in House, Senate budgets

05/03/2015

Thanks to Governor Charlie Baker for recognizing our program as highly effective at reducing violence, and saving tax-payer dollars. We are going to need everyone's help to advocate for the Legislature to fully fund it in the FY16 budget!

23/05/2014

The Senate redrafted Senator Chang-Diaz's amendment and approved an increase from $4 million to $5 million. Now with the Senate at $5 million for SSYI and the House at $4.1 million, a conference committee will be appointed and will resolve the conflicting budgets. Join us in asking the Conference Committee (to be named) to fund SSYI at the Senate's $5 million level!

22/05/2014

The Senate is soon to take up Senator Chang-Diaz's amendment to fully fund SSYI. If not fully funded, we all would face large cuts up to 50%

Please share this photo with your Senators and ask they vote in favor of Senator Chang-Diaz's amendment #940! It is likely to come up later tonight.

16/05/2014

Attention Streetworkers!
Join us for the big conference coming up. Please register online today!

On Thursday, May 29, Streetworkers will be gathering at Gillete Stadium yet again for the 2014 New England Streetworker Conference. We would like for your team to be there! We have 150 seats for this year's event and are looking to get Stretworkers registered ASAP. This conference is for Streetworke…

12/05/2014

With the State Budget being created, the House only funded SSYI at $4M for HY15 in their budget. The Senate will take up their budget this and next week. Let's join Mayor Marty Walsh and Deval Patrick in supporting its full funding at $9.5M!

Mayor Martin J. Walsh attends a meeting for the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) grant program with Governor Deval Patrick. Watch the full event: ...

10/04/2014

The House Ways and Means budget has been released and has funded SSYI at $4M. This is better than last year, but we still need to get it amended up to $9.5M which will fully fund all 11 communities for the entire FY15. There will be an amendment filed by Friday 5pm. We will then ask folks to please contact their Representative in the House and ask them to co-sponsor! Co-sponsor deadline is April 28.

Welcome to the Massachusetts House of Representatives Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Web Site. On this page you will find information and documents related to the House Ways and Means Budget and full text of all Amendments offered by Representatives to the budget document. You can access this information o...

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