The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention seeks 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 involved or are already involved in the juvenile justice system.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/24/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
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 communitybased 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.
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 nonsiloed 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.
- Objective 1: Identify strategies that support promising and evidence-based approaches that advance the long-term well-being and success of youth and their families.
- Objective 2: Develop economic impact strategies that result in cost savings and identify how those cost savings can be reinvested into the larger continuum of care.
- Objective 3: Establish a sustainable framework that supports the decarceration of youth and the diversion of children identified as being at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system through a coordinated, collaborative strategy that also promotes safe communities.
There are two categories of funding available under this funding opportunity:
- Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
- Category 2: Local Planning and Assessment Sites.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $7,400,000
- Award Ceiling: $800,000.
Grant Period
18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- For the purposes of this NOFO, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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