The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding to support family-based alternative justice programs.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $750,000.00
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting states and communities as they develop and implement effective diversion and alternatives to justice programs for parents/primary caregivers in the criminal justice system to improve child, parent, and family outcomes.
Applicants must describe how their proposed project/program will integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships into their project plan and budget. Depending on the nature of an applicant’s proposed project, youth and family partnership could consist of one or more of the following:
- Individual-level partnership in case planning and direct service delivery (before, during, and after contact with youth-serving systems).
- Agency-level partnership (e.g., in policy, practice, and program development, implementation, and evaluation; staffing; advisory bodies; budget development).
- System-level partnership (e.g., in strategic planning activities, system improvement initiatives, advocacy strategies, reform efforts).
Goals
The goal of the Family-Based Alternative Justice Program is to establish new and enhance existing family-based alternative justice programs for parents/primary caregivers in the criminal justice system to improve child, parent, and family outcomes. The anticipated outcomes of these programs include increasing family preservation, improving parental attachment, increasing healthy child development, preventing children from entering the foster care system, improving parenting skills, reducing the likelihood of future involvement in the criminal justice system, and reducing the financial impact on the criminal justice and/or child welfare systems.
Objectives
- The objectives are to develop and implement, family-based interventions that support and serve justice-involved parents/caregivers and their children, expand understanding of the scope and impact of parental/caregiver incarceration, and test the efficacy of these interventions and models in mitigating the harmful impacts of incarceration on children and their families.
- OJJDP expects family-supportive cross-system coordination and community collaborations that include justice-involved parents/caregivers, attorneys representing justice-involved parents/caregivers, prosecuting attorneys, treatment providers, probation and community supervision agencies, child protective services, community health agencies, community-based organizations, schools, state and local corrections departments, and law enforcement.
- Programs must work in partnership with a researcher or consultant to demonstrate whether and the extent to which these programs result in cost savings for the criminal justice and/or child welfare systems in the long term.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $5,487,051.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $750,000.00
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
36
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Small businesses
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
