NIJ: Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks applications for funding to advance knowledge to inform efforts to prevent, detect, disrupt, reduce, and/or otherwise combat the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults.

Donor Name: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Deadline: 04/13/2023

Size of the Grant: $1,500,000.00

Grant Duration: 36 months

Details:

NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of study; including but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers, and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement. Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable.

Priority Areas

• The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
  • Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
    • Applications that propose research project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality, when making award decisions.
    • Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget Web-Based Form) identify as a culturally specific organization.
  • Minority Serving Institutions
    • NIJ will give special consideration in award decisions to proposals from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
    • MSIs include:
      • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
      • Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSI)
      • Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU)
      • Alaska Native-serving Institutions or Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions (ANNH)
      • Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI)
      • Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institutions (AANAPISI)
      • Native American-serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTI)

Goals

The goal of this solicitation is to advance knowledge to inform efforts to prevent, detect, disrupt, reduce, and/or otherwise combat the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults.

Objectives

An applicant should address the objectives that are relevant to their proposed program/project in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline web-based form. This solicitation seeks to support projects that:

• evaluate programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults;
• conduct research on individuals who abuse older adults;
• conduct research on polyvictimization in older adults; and
• conduct research on fraud and financial exploitation of older adults.

Topic Areas

NIJ’s program of research on the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults (age 60 years or above) seeks to improve knowledge and understanding of key relevant issues through science.

For the purposes of this solicitation, NIJ is seeking proposals to address one or more of the following four topic areas:

• Evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults.
• Research on individuals who abuse older adults.
• Research on polyvictimization in older adults.
• Research on fraud and financial exploitation of older adults.

Funding Information

• Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation $1,500,000.00

Period of Performance

36-month project period and budget period.

Eligibility Criteria

• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
• City or township governments
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Private institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• County governments
• Special district governments
• Small businesses
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Independent school districts
• State governments
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Unrestricted
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

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