FY2022-2025 Juvenile Intervention

The Juvenile Intervention RFP was launched in 2022 in alignment with the Regional Access Project Foundation’s focus on advancing Health, Mental Health, and Juvenile Intervention throughout the Coachella Valley and Palo Verde Valley. Supporting the social, emotional, and behavioral well being of youth is critical to long term community health and stability. When youth lack access to safe environments, family support, education, culturally responsive services, and healthy lifestyles, risks increase for school disengagement, behavioral health challenges, and limited future opportunity.

Youth and families across Riverside County’s Fourth District from north of Palm Springs to Blythe continue to face barriers to accessing inclusive youth spaces, culturally and linguistically appropriate services, parent education, and awareness of available resources. The Juvenile Intervention RFP addresses these gaps by investing in programs that expand safe and positive youth spaces, strengthen outreach and awareness, build parent and guardian capacity, promote cultural competency and language access, and encourage healthy lifestyles through nutrition, fitness, and behavioral health. By investing in these strategies, the Regional Access Project Foundation aims to create stronger, healthier, and more resilient communities for youth and families and help juveniles reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. Through funding and technical guidance, the Foundation advances equitable outcomes for youth ages 0 to 24 across Eastern Riverside County.

The Juvenile Intervention Grant initiative supports programs aligned with the following strategies. Programs focus on:

• Increase the number of safe, positive, and inclusive spaces for juveniles to support their social and emotional development. 
• Improve awareness of safe, positive, and inclusive spaces for juveniles to support their social and emotional development.
• Increase and improve parent/guardian education to help juveniles thrive and gain positive, nurturing relationships.
• Promote access and support cultural competency of juvenile clients with education of language/stigma/ cultural barriers to service access for youth.
• Increase and promote healthy lifestyles for juveniles which include: nutrition, fitness, and behavioral health.