With this solicitation, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to support states’ implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed policies to improve juvenile justice system outcomes and sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective delinquency prevention and intervention programs.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/28/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Goals
- Category 1: Juvenile Justice System Reform
- The goal of Category 1 is to support states to develop and implement innovative or research based policies, practices, and programming designed to improve youth outcomes and reduce contact with the youth justice system and strategically reinvest resulting costs saved or averted into effective prevention and intervention programs. The proposed system reforms should come from a system improvement strategy shaped by a process that engages stakeholders across youth-serving agencies and disciplines and includes rigorous data analysis.
- Category 2: Juvenile Justice System Reform Training and Technical Assistance
- The goal of Category 2 is to support a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to assist grantees awarded under Category 1 through the development and implementation of their reforms.
Objectives
Category 1: Juvenile Justice System Reform Objectives include:
- Conducting intensive and objective agency-spanning data analysis.
- Engaging all relevant stakeholders in the process and building the collaboration necessary to examine data on a statewide level while considering all aspects of the justice system, including local perspectives.
- Crafting and implementing innovative, data-driven approaches to improving public safety, contemplating policies to reduce offending, recidivism, and costs.
- Identifying and aligning state and local resources to meet those ends.
- Implementing and testing the proposed responses.
- Measuring outcomes and program performance.
- Developing and implementing a sustainable strategy for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into proven, effective prevention and intervention programs and services for youth.
Category 2: Juvenile Justice System Reform Training and Technical Assistance
Objectives include developing, implementing, and disseminating TTA based on best practices for engaging stakeholders, analyzing data and identifying drivers, developing innovative or research-based responses, implementing responses, and measuring outcomes.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,400,000
- Category 1: Juvenile Justice System Reform: $1,450,000
- Project Period: 36 months
- Category 2: Juvenile Justice System Reform Training and Technical Assistance: $1,500,000
- Project Period: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
For Category 1: Juvenile Justice System Reform
- State governments
For Category 2: Juvenile Justice System Reform 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
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
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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