The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications for funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Enhancing Juvenile Indigent Defense program.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/17/2022
Size of the Grant: $400,000 – $900,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
OJP 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.
Category 1: State and Local Youth Defense System Improvements
Goals
The goal of this program is to implement youth defense delivery system enhancements that strengthen and improve youth defense.
Objectives
Program objectives are to ensure that all youth involved in the juvenile justice system have access to high-quality, specialized legal representation and access to resources that address the collateral consequences of justice system involvement. Awardees will implement national best practices for enhancing youth defense, which can be found in the National Juvenile Defense Standards.
Category 2: National Youth Defense Training and Technical Assistance
Goals
The goals of the training and technical assistance are to strengthen and improve the quality of youth defense practice nationally; help youth defender offices improve service delivery and build sustainable capacity; advance racial justice through youth defense, and cultivate youth defense leaders, build communities of practice, and elevate youth defense as a specialized legal career path.
Objectives
Program objectives are to ensure that youth defenders have access to high quality, specialized legal training, practice tools, resources, publications, communities of practice, and leadership development opportunities; support state and local grantees to implement effective, system-level enhancements that sustainably improve youth defense service delivery; and, identify and respond to youth defense gaps, needs, and emerging issues at the local, state, regional, and national levels.
Priorities
- Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
- Give priority consideration to applications that include project(s) that will 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.
- OJJDP will give priority consideration to applicants that demonstrate a commitment to ensuring fairness, equity, and access to justice for all children and families regardless of their race or ethnicity; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity or expression; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.
- Give priority consideration to applicants that can demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because the applicant (or at least one proposed sub-recipient that will receive at least 30% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget Worksheet and Budget Narrative) identifies as a culturally specific organization. To receive this additional priority consideration, applicants must describe how being a culturally specific organization (or funding the culturally specific sub-recipient organization(s)) will enhance their ability to implement the proposed project (s) and should also specify which culturally specific populations are intended or expected to be served or to have their needs addressed under the proposed project(s).
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation – $2,500,000.00
- Category 1: State and Local Youth Defense System Improvements – $400,000.00
- Category 2: National Youth Defense Training and Technical Assistance – $900,000.00
Grant Period
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 36.
Eligibility Criteria
- Category 1: State and Local Youth Defense System Improvements
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Category 2: National Youth Defense Training and Technical Assistance
- 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
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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