City officials yesterday announced that Boston will be receiving nearly $10 million in grant funding for violence prevention efforts. Mayor Thomas Menino was on hand at the Holland Community Center to tout the mixture of state and federal funds, which will be spread out over five years.

The funding comes as Capitol Hill lawmakers on a so-called “supercommittee” that includes U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) weigh steep cuts to federal programs that could reach $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

“The six awards we are announcing today strengthen our focus on prevention and build on strong partnerships between public health, law enforcement, and the community,” Menino said in a statement. “These grants will help us continue the important work we have already started to prevent violence and reduce its impact, especially in our hardest hit neighborhoods. I am proud to see that Boston’s innovative violence prevention efforts have been recognized at the state and federal level.”

The US Department of Justice will provide $2 million from its “Defending Childhood” Initiative and another $2 million over three years from its Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The latter funding would focus on youth homicides and shootings in Mattapan. A third DOJ grant, pegged at $750,000, will be targeted at male offenders from the Suffolk County House of Correction with gang ties and a history of gun violence who are expected to return to Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.

An additional $1.1 million will come from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national effort, dubbed Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (STRYVE), which could be affected by the deficit-reducing efforts of the “supercommittee.” That money will focus on youth violence prevention efforts in Bowdoin Geneva, Mattapan, Grove Hall, Uphams Corner, and Orchard Gardens.

Another component will be a $2.26 million award from the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The funds are also tagged for at-risk youth.

A sixth and final piece comes in the form of $1.4 million through the popular Shannon Grant program, named for a former senator and administered by state Office of Public Safety and Security, with a focus on youth violence.

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The Menino administration has continually sought to increase efforts in the Bowdoin Geneva area, with the mayor announcing a “community engagement plan” last month while at a meeting at First Parish Church.

The plan includes an attempt to up enrollments in programs at the Holland and Cleveland Community Centers that focus on conflict resolution and self-defense. ReadBoston, a nonprofit aimed at boosting literacy, will focus on parents and caregivers of children up to four years old, and provide childcare and dinner at workshops, according to the mayor’s office.

City Hall officials also pledged to collaborate with local organizations on resource fairs and workshops on interview coaching and searching for jobs.

Another part of the plan includes an expanded “Neighborhood Response Team” focusing on better street lighting, trash removal, and “problem properties,” the mayor’s office said. “We listened to what you asked us to do,” Darryl Smith, assistant commissioner of the city’s inspectional services department, told the crowd of activists, and several elected officials, including state Rep. Carlos Henriquez and City Councillor At-Large Ayanna Pressley, who had gathered at the church.

“We haven’t been sitting still on this issue,” Menino said.

Emmett Folgert, executive director and founding member of the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, has sought to teach teens and others with criminal records how to go to work, including cleaning up damage sustained locally by Tropical Storm Irene.

“It starts with people, it starts with adults who care about these kids,” Folgert said as the First Parish meeting was breaking up. “And these programs are the tool kit.”

William Sheffield, a 19-year-old who lives in Bowdoin Geneva, worked to clean up storm damage in Ronan Park. “It taught me responsibility,” he said, and “how to get up in the morning.”

Rep. Henriquez said having a “neighborhood response team” like the one in the Blue Hill Ave. area, is key. “There are nights where there’s no prostitution on Blue Hill Ave.,” he said. “It works on Blue Hill Ave. You get the full gamut of the city looking at the problem.”