Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces Grant Recipients for $18 Million Dollar Initiative to Prevent Intimate Partne...(ifornia partner for BHTR BSCF will fund ...),Health

Date:11/19/2008

ifornia partner for BHTR, BSCF will fund one California site. This philanthropic partnership leverages dollars in California, while combining the complementary expertise of both foundations to advance collective learning on how to prevent teen dating violence and abuse. Working collaboratively with the 11 local sites, FVPF will create a learning community to prevent teen dating violence and sexual abuse, sharing its expertise in leading national initiatives and creating social change, as well as providing guidance and technical assistance to the sites.

"Our focus on preventing intimate partner violence fits squarely into the mission of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Vulnerable Populations Portfolio. Intimate partner violence is one of the nation's most serious public health problems. In addition to physically injuring women and men, it undermines the fundamental idea of family as a place of support and nurture. Our health and well being are critically connected to how we live, work, learn and play," says James Marks, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President and Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Group. "Our goal is to discover new public health models that can, of course, prevent relationship violence and even more help our young people build relationships of warmth and mutual support, and that is why the focus on adolescents is essential."

The 11 grant recipients were chosen after a rigorous seven month selection process, which drew more than 500 applications from different sites across the country. A National Advisory Committee comprised of the nation's leading scholars, advocates and domestic violence service providers, working with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, selected 56 organizations to submit full proposals. Each site, targeting diverse communities, will receive a grant award of up to $1 million dollars over the next four years.

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