Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley this week delivered $5,000 in seized drug money to Boston’s TenPoint Coalition to help fund the Crossroads Project, a program that mediates disputes among the city’s at-risk young men as a violence deterrent.

Conley delivered the funds to Reverend Jeff Brown, executive director of the TenPoint Coalition, and Rufus Faulk, program director for the organization’s Gang Mediation Initiative, on Oct. 6. The money comes from Conley’s annual Asset Forfeiture Reinvestment Program, which diverts cash seized in narcotics investigations to Suffolk County non-profits that keep young people away from drugs, crime, and violence.

“The TenPoint Coalition is one of the nation’s most successful and effective anti-violence and intervention groups,” Conley said. “Our partnership over the years has only grown stronger as we address the issue of youth violence in our different but parallel ways. When we stand together like this, we really can change the city’s future for the better.”

The TenPoint Coalition’s Crossroads Project is a pilot program that will take gang-involved youth outside the City of Boston to resolve conflicts without violence or retaliation. The program is expected to generate information on and responses to gang-related conflicts in order to resolve current and future disputes without violence.

“If we can mediate those disputes now, we can forestall the possibility of violence later,” Conley said. “We want to stop the cycle of violence now.”

Money distributed annually through the Asset Forfeiture Reinvestment Program reflects a portion of drug dealers’ cash and assets seized by Conley’s office, State Police, and local law enforcement agencies during the past year. Massachusetts law allows up to 10% of those monies to be redistributed to non-profit community groups within the district attorney’s jurisdiction.

This year’s awards total $50,000, or $32,500 more than the funds distributed in the first round of reinvestment grants 17 years ago. The program has been in existence since 1992, when the awards totaled $17,500.

The annual grant application is available in June and awards are distributed to eligible groups in the fall.