The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to support states’ implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed policies to improve juvenile justice system outcomes and sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective juvenile justice prevention and intervention programs.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative employs approaches to juvenile justice which recognize that every state has a role to play in implementing strategies to promote public safety by supporting positive youth outcomes, preventing reoffending, treating youth fairly and equitably, and facilitating appropriate treatment, support, and accountability measures. Through this NOFO, OJJDP seeks to support states’ research-based, developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed responses to youth offending and other public safety and community challenges identified through stakeholder engagement and data analysis. OJJDP anticipates that jurisdictions will convene a diverse committee of critical stakeholders, including state level decisionmakers, juvenile court judges, juvenile justice agency leaders (including juvenile probation, detention, and corrections), policymakers, mental health professionals, community advocates, schools, prosecutors, law enforcement, youth- and family-serving organizations, justice-involved youth and their families, and others concerned with the fair administration of juvenile justice. Stakeholders should represent urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities, as appropriate.
Reforms can address multiple aspects of the system’s interaction with youth, including but not limited to arrest, diversion, adjudication and disposition, community supervision, and aftercare. Applicants are also encouraged to consider non-criminal-justice centered interventions (e.g., interventions related to providing stable housing or educational opportunities) that can reduce the likelihood of reoffending and increase the likelihood of positive youth outcomes. The justice reinvestment framework that informs this initiative is intended to guide states through a datadriven, consensus-based system improvement process by helping states:
- Conduct intensive and objective agency-spanning data analysis they could not otherwise procure on their own.
- Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the juvenile justice system and other systems impacting youth, engaging all relevant stakeholders in the process.
- Build the collaboration necessary to examine data on a statewide level while considering all aspects of the justice system, including local perspectives.
- Craft innovative, data-driven approaches to improving public safety by identifying policies to reduce offending, recidivism, and costs.
- Identify and align state and local resources to meet those ends.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,860,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,620,000.
Grant Period
36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- For the purposes of this NOFO, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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