Grant Will Boost Anti-Drug Efforts
The city’s Housing Authority has received $234,000 from federal officials to continue anti-drug efforts in Oxnard’s public housing complexes.
Officials said the money will be used to support a number of programs that have been launched in recent years to give young residents an alternative to drugs, such as a computer training program, a video production class and numerous sporting activities.
City Councilman Bedford Pinkard lauded federal officials for focusing on youth in their anti-drug efforts.
“It is a great feeling to know the powers . . . are beginning to understand prevention versus intervention,” Pinkard said in a statement.
The Oxnard grant money is part of $217.3 million that federal housing officials are distributing to housing agencies across the country to run anti-drug programs, officials said.
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