The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding that enhance collaboration between state agencies, local government agencies, Tribes, and community- and faith-based organizations to improve and address the challenges that reentry and recidivism reduction pose for youth assessed at a moderate to high risk of reoffending and who are returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $750,000 – $2,650,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
OJJDP’s guiding philosophy is to enhance the welfare of America’s youth and broaden their opportunities for a better future. To bring these goals to fruition, OJJDP is leading efforts to transform the juvenile justice system into one that will Treat Children as Children; Serve Children at Home, With Their Families, in their Communities; and Open Up Opportunities for System-Involved Youth. OJJDP encourages all proposed applications that work with youth to highlight how the proposed program aligns with these priorities.
OJJDP envisions a juvenile justice system centered on the strengths, needs, and voices of youth and families. Young people and family members with lived experience are vital resources for understanding and reaching persons involved or at risk of involvement with youth-serving systems. OJJDP asks stakeholders to join them in sustainably integrating bold, transformative youth and family partnership strategies into their daily work. OJJDP believes in achieving positive outcomes for youth, families, and communities through meaningful engagement and active partnerships, ensuring they play a central role in collaboratively developing solutions.
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).
OJJDP’s Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program encourages collaboration between state agencies, local government, and community- and faith-based organizations to address the challenges that reentry and recidivism reduction pose for moderate- to high-risk youth returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities.
Grant Categories
Category 1: Improving Youth Reentry
Category 1: Improving Youth Reentry will support states, local governments, and governments in partnership with interested persons and entities (including federal corrections and supervision agencies), service providers, and nonprofit organizations to provide comprehensive reentry services for youth. Reentry planning and services will commence prerelease and continue during and after release from confinement. Youth preparing to reenter or who have recently reentered their communities upon release from a juvenile facility (including housing and mental and physical healthcare) under a juvenile justice agency or juvenile court’s jurisdiction are eligible for program enrollment. Once a youth is enrolled, the award recipient may continue to provide program services until the individual has completed their reentry plan.
- Goals
- The goals of Category 1 programs are to promote positive youth outcomes and increase public safety by decreasing recidivism among youth participating in the award recipient’s reentry programming through developing and implementing comprehensive reentry plans to improve youth outcomes when reentering their communities following release from a juvenile residential facility. For the purposes of this program, recidivism is defined as a return to a residential placement facility, jail, or prison with a new juvenile adjudication and/or criminal conviction or as the result of a violation of the terms of supervision within 24 months of initial release.
- Objectives
- The objective of Category 1 programs is to identify and address the criminogenic and noncriminogenic needs of youth for risk of reoffending and develop and implement comprehensive pre- and postrelease reentry plans, to include case management as well as identification and coordination of appropriate community-based programs as they return to their communities following confinement.
Category 2: Strengthening Community-Based Youth Reentry Programs
Category 2: Strengthening Community-Based Youth Reentry Programs will provide funding to nonprofit organizations to support direct transitional services to help youth to successfully reintegrate into their communities through supportive case management planning, and to deliver relevant training to key stakeholders positioned to positively impact youth’s reentry process.
- Goals
- The goal of Category 2 programs is to promote positive youth outcomes and public safety while reducing recidivism by assisting youth’s successful transition from juvenile residential facilities back to their communities.
- Objectives
- Objectives of the Category 2 programs include the implementation and/or expansion of community-based reentry programs and services that demonstrate partnerships with corrections, parole, probation, and other reentry service providers. These partnerships should collaboratively develop and implement comprehensive, pre- and postrelease case management plans that directly address youth’s criminogenic and noncriminogenic needs, as determined by validated risk and needs assessment tools.
Category 3: Youth Reentry Training and Technical Assistance
Under this category, a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider will provide support and guidance to SCA Youth Reentry grantees and practitioners to improve community supervision practices, produce better outcomes for youth and communities, reduce recidivism, improve public safety, and enhance jurisdictions’ access to the tools and training to adequately identify, as well as effectively serve, these youth’s needs.
Goals
- National Training and Technical Assistance: The Youth Reentry TTA provider will support Category 1 and 2 sites in developing and implementing strategies and programs that assist youth as they transition out of detention and incarceration and reenter their communities to improve outcomes for youth under community supervision, reduce admissions to confinement as a result of community supervision/probation violations, reduce recidivism, promote public safety, and demonstrate effective models that inform and inspire other jurisdictions across the nation. A minimum of $2,000,000 should be allocated in the budget for direct support of Category 1 and 2 sites.
- Youth Justice Fellowship Program: The Youth Reentry TTA provider will create and administer a fellowship program. The TTA provider will select and manage two Youth Justice Fellows with lived experience in the youth justice system to actively participate in all aspects of OJJDP’s national SCA Youth Reentry TTA efforts to ensure that they are grounded in and centered on young people’s lived experienced within the juvenile justice system. A minimum of $500,000 should be allocated in the budget to support the Youth Justice Fellowship Program.
- Youth Reentry Resource: The Youth Reentry TTA provider will work closely with the selected Youth Justice Fellows to significantly expand on existing youth reentry resources currently housed at the National Reentry Resource Center.
Funding Information
- Category 1: Improving Youth Reentry
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $14,251,817.00
- Dollar Amount for Award: $750,000.00
- Period of Performance: 36 months
- Category 2: Strengthening Community-Based Youth Reentry Programs
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $14,251,817.00
- Dollar Amount for Award: $750,000.00
- Period of Performance: 36 months
- Category 3: Youth Reentry Training and Technical Assistance
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $14,251,817.00
- Dollar Amount for Award: $2,650,000.00
- Period of Performance: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
City or township governments, County governments, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Native American Tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American Tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized Tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Small businesses, State governments.
The following entities are eligible to apply:
Category 1: Improving Youth Reentry
- State governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American governments (federally recognized)
Category 2: Strengthening Community-Based Youth Reentry Programs
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American organizations (other than federally recognized governments)
Category 3: Youth Reentry Training and Technical Assistance
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of highern education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
An applicant entity may submit more than one application, if each application proposesa different project in response to the solicitation. Also, an entity may be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.
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