With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to assist jurisdictions in planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming or already involved in the juvenile justice system.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Goals
- The primary goal of the initiative is to support better outcomes for youth and families by investing more resources in prevention and intervention programming across a community based continuum of care in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by incarceration. By lifting up community-based alternatives and supporting systems integration, better outcomes for all youth can be achieved.
- A well-resourced continuum should include a range of supports and opportunities that build on youth and family strengths and assets to promote healthy development, improve family functioning, meet essential needs, and strengthen neighborhoods. Ideally, youth and families would have access to a rich variety of supports and services outside the juvenile justice system so that it is not the only entry point for access, and participation can continue beyond a youth’s involvement in the justice system. Services should be culturally appropriate, effective, and responsive to the evolving needs of youth and families.
Objectives
The objective of this initiative is to support interested jurisdictions to conduct a planning process that will identify available resources and existing gaps in prevention and intervention services for youth at risk of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. Creating alternative pathways to deeper system involvement and incarceration for justice-involved youth is central to the initiative; investing in supportive and effective youth-serving systems, no matter where a youth sits on the continuum, in a non-siloed manner, is good practice. This planning process must be comprehensive, collaborative, and focused on cost savings that allow for the identification, development, and sustainability of promising and evidence-based strategies for youth. Specific program objectives include:
- Identify strategies that support promising and evidence-based approaches that advance the long-term well-being and success of youth and their families.
- Develop economic impact strategies that result in cost savings, and identify how those cost savings can be reinvested into the larger continuum of care.
- Establish a sustainable framework that supports the decarceration of youth and the diversion of children identified as being at risk of involvement in the criminal justice system through a coordinated, collaborative strategy that also promotes safe communities.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $7,400,000.
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award:
- Category 1: up to $800,000
- Category 2: up to $425,000
Period of Performance Duration
18 months
Eligibility Criteria
For Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
- State governments
For Category 2: Local Planning and Assessment Sites
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Units of local government (such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state)
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “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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