The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications for its Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers Program.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/06/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This NOFO will support four regional children’s advocacy centers (CACs) that will deliver coordinated training and technical assistance to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect and the provision of services to child victims and their families.
Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: Improve communities’ ability to develop, maintain, and enhance a comprehensive, multidisciplinary response to the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect
- Objective 1: Assist communities in developing child-focused, community-oriented, facility-based programs to improve the resources available to child victims and families.
- Objective 2: Provide high-quality specialized training and technical assistance to CACs, child abuse multidisciplinary teams, and state chapters. Training and technical assistance should be developed and coordinated in partnership with the other Regional CACs.
- Goal 2: Assist CACs and/or multidisciplinary teams to more effectively meet the needs of child victims.
- Objective 1: Enhance coordination among community agencies and professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases.
- Objective 2: Develop and/or expand resources in multiple modalities to reach a variety of practitioners, including curricula, publications, and resources to support optimal practice implementation and to address new, emerging, and innovative areas identified as needed in the field.
- Objective 3: Train physicians and other health and behavioral health professionals in the multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect.
- Objective 4: Develop and strengthen capacity of state chapter organizations to deliver training and technical assistance (TTA) to local CACs on their own.
Priorities
Applicants seeking priority consideration should specify in the proposal narrative (and in the budget detail form, if applicable) which of the following goal(s) the project is intended to advance and how it will do so:
- Directly supporting law enforcement operations (including immigration law enforcement operations);
- Combatting violent crime;
- Supporting services to American citizens;
- Protecting American children; and
- Supporting American victims of trafficking and sexual assault
This program will fund four RCACs—one in each of the four U.S. Census regions— to improve the response to child abuse and neglect through strategic coordinated training and assistance to multidisciplinary teams, local CACs, and state chapter organizations.
The states included in each of the four U.S. Census Regions are:
- Northeast Region: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- Southern Region: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- Midwest Region: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
- Western Region: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Funding Information
- Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $4,500,000
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $1,125,000
- Period of Performance: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Local public and private nonprofit children’s advocacy center agencies and organizations.
- Eligible applicants are limited to local public and private nonprofit children’s advocacy center agencies and organizations that can demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience providing regional or national training and technical assistance to a wide range of multidisciplinary professionals and others (including children’s advocacy center staff) with respect to the judicial handling and investigative response to child abuse and neglect cases.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
