The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding under the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by helping states to improve the fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency of their juvenile justice systems.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/11/2022
Grant Size: $800,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
Objectives
Objectives include implementing and testing the proposed responses, measuring outcomes and program performance, and developing and implementing a sustainable strategy for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into proven, effective youth justice programs and services.
Goals
- The goal of this program is to support states to implement innovative or research-based, statewide recidivism reduction policies, practices, and programming, and strategically reinvest resulting costs saved or averted into effective prevention and intervention programs.
- The proposed statewide system reforms should derive from a system improvement strategy shaped by a process that engages stakeholders across youth-serving agencies and disciplines, and includes rigorous data analysis.
- Juvenile justice systems should help prevent reoffending through the use of trauma-informed interventions rooted in knowledge about adolescent development.
- States should identify their own priorities for juvenile justice system reform within the justice reinvestment framework.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,400,000
- Award Ceiling: $800,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- For purposes of this solicitation, “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.
- Eligible applicants that propose to provide direct services to youth must not include youth who are age 18 or older in the population they will serve.
- To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body, or have started the certification process, to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
- To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions:
- the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and
- the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
