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Department of Justice Application Season is Here!

Prepare early — any time during the year — to ensure your registration and users are up to date in the systems involved in the application process. Review the DOJ Grant Application Submission Checklist to identify which actions you can take now and what to expect when you start an application. 

OJJDP FY24 Enhancing Youth Defense

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to implement youth defense delivery system enhancements that strengthen and improve the representation of youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP FY24 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children

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The goal of this program is to develop or expand services within juvenile and adult detention and correctional facilities to improve outcomes for incarcerated parents and their minor children by implementing programs and services to reduce recidivism and support responsible parenting that lead to healthy child development, resiliency, and improved interactions among incarcerated parents and their minor children, and family and community members.

OJJDP FY24 Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to address and improve the reentry and recidivism challenges encountered by youth returning to their communities from juvenile residential or correctional facilities.

OJJDP FY24 National Mentoring Programs

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to fund national mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement.

OJJDP FY24 Emergency Planning Demonstration Program for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support emergency planning for state, local, and Tribal juvenile justice residential facilities. For youth who reside in residential facilities, it is crucial that applicants plan for and facilitate continued meaningful engagement with family and other supportive members of their community.

OJJDP FY24 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support the efforts of communities to develop prevention and intervention responses that identify, respond to, treat, and support children, youth, and families impacted by opioid use and other substance use disorders.

OJJDP FY24 Family Treatment Court Program

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to build the capacity of state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to establish new family treatment courts, enhance existing family treatment courts, or expand family treatment courts at the larger state and county levels.

OJJDP FY24 Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to build the capacity of states, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to implement new and innovative approaches to enhance existing juvenile drug treatment courts and improve outcomes for youth with substance use disorder or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, including those with histories of trauma.

OJJDP FY24 Strengthening ICAC Technological Investigative Capacity

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to increase the technological investigative capacity and associated training of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force personnel nationwide through the development, refinement, and advancement of widely used investigative tools, methods, and technologies that address child pornography (herein referred to as child sexual abuse material - CSAM), exploitation, and sex trafficking.

OJJDP FY24 Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Misuse

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth impacted by opioids and other substance misuse. This program supports mentoring programs to reduce juvenile delinquency, substance misuse, and problem and high-risk behaviors such as truancy.

OJJDP FY24 Arts Programs for Justice-Involved Youth

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support and strengthen collaborations between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance promising and effective interventions that provide access to high-quality arts programs with and for current or previous justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors.

OJJDP FY24 Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support states to implement innovative and/or research-based, data-informed policies to improve youth justice system outcomes and implement sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective youth justice prevention and intervention programs.

OJJDP FY24 Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support communities to assist girls age 17 and younger who are at risk of involvement and/or involved in the juvenile justice system. Funding will support communities to develop, enhance, or expand early intervention programs and/or treatment services for girls involved in the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP FY24 Mentoring Programs for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to implement and deliver mentoring services to youth populations that are involved in the juvenile justice system (including those youth currently placed within a juvenile correctional facility or those who have recently been released from a juvenile facility).

Office of Justice Programs Funding Opportunity


BJA FY24 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based
Closing Date: June 10, 2024 
Grants.gov Deadline: May 30, 2024, 18:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: June 10, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern 
With this solicitation, the Office of Justice Programs seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community-based violence intervention and prevention programs.

National Institute of Justice Funding Opportunity 

NIJ FY24 Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime
Closing Date: April 29, 2024 
Grants.gov Deadline: April 18, 2024, 11:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: April 29, 2024, 8:59 pm Eastern 
With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with OJJDP, seeks proposals for funding to conduct an expansion or extension of one or more ongoing/existing longitudinal research studies that focus on delinquency and crime throughout the life-course.

Fiscal Year 2024 DOJ Program Plan

The Department of Justice Program Plan provides summary details of the current and anticipated funding opportunities each DOJ grant-making Component is expecting to release or has released in a particular fiscal year.

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