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This page provides access to past funding opportunities from OJJDP. Use the search filters below to help you find results for specific solicitations. From the results, select a solicitation title to view details about the opportunity as well as any resulting awards.

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Fiscal Year: 2015

OJJDP FY 15 Title II Formula Grants Program

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Only the agency that each state's chief executive designates is eligible to apply for these funds. It will support state and local efforts to plan, establish, operate, coordinate, and evaluate policies and projects for the development of more effective programs and reform efforts.

OJJDP FY 15 Prison Rape Elimination Act Reallocation Funds

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Among other things, PREA provides that a state whose governor does not certify full compliance with the standards is subject to the loss of 5 percent of any DOJ grant funds that it would otherwise receive for prison purposes unless the governor elects to submit an assurance that the state will use the 5 percent only to achieve and certify full compliance with the standards in future years. 42 U.S.C. § 15607(e). OJJDP’s Title II, Part B, Formula Grants Program is one of the DOJ grant programs subject to this requirement.

OJJDP FY 15 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Invited

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The goals and objectives of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force are to: maintaining and expanding state and regional ICAC task forces to prevent, interdict, investigate, and prosecute Internet crimes against children and technology-facilitated child exploitation; and improving task force effectiveness to prevent, interdict, investigate, and prosecute Internet crimes against children technology-facilitated child exploitation. As stipulated in Section 104 of the PROTECT Act, applicants must address the following functions: • working consistently to achieve the purposes described

OJJDP FY 15 Enhancing Forensic Capacity HERO Child Rescue Corps Initiative

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OJJDP will provide support to Internet Crimes Against Children task forces to hire wounded, injured, or ill veterans to: 1) enhance digital forensic examination capacity through supporting digital forensic analyst positions in select ICAC task forces; 2) improve ICAC task force effectiveness to prevent, interdict, investigate, and prosecute Internet crimes against children and technology-facilitated child exploitation, and 3) reduce forensic examination backlogs, and/or increase the number of forensic exams completed by ICAC task forces during the project period.

OJJDP FY 15 Smart on Juvenile Justice: Enhancing Youth Access to Justice Initiative

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This initiative will provide funding to (1) develop effective, well-resourced model juvenile indigent defender offices and (2) develop and implement standards of practice and policy for the effective management of such offices. Through training and technical assistance, this initiative will provide cost-effective and innovative training for the juvenile indigent defense bar and court-appointed counsel working on behalf of juvenile indigent defendants, particularly in traditionally underserved areas.

OJJDP FY 15 Second Chance Act Strengthening Families and Children of Incarcerated Parents

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications to pilot programs that will strengthen the relationships between children, their caregivers, and their incarcerated parent(s) who is confined in a federal correctional facility. This program furthers the Department’s mission by supporting efforts to reduce recidivism and expanding services and education programs that strengthen an incarcerated parent’s engagement with his or her children and family.

OJJDP FY 15 Second Chance Act Comprehensive Statewide Juvenile Reentry System Reform Implementation Program

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In FY 2014, OJJDP funded six states under the Second Chance Act Comprehensive Statewide Juvenile Reentry Systems Reform Planning Program to develop a collaborative approach to planning and capacity building to improve youth reentry outcomes. This solicitation will support the implementation of the plan in the six states to reduce juvenile reentry recidivism rates and improve positive youth outcomes. Applicants will identify a large enough target population of incarcerated youth to impact state or local outcomes and focus on youth assessed as medium to high-risk for reoffending.

OJJDP FY 15 Mentoring for Youth: Underserved Populations: Category 1: Youth with disabilities

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OJJDP is focusing this solicitation on the needs of the following underserved populations: youth with disabilities; youth in foster care; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning youth (LGBTQ). OJJDP will assist in establishing or expanding mentoring and support services for youth in these three underserved populations.

OJJDP FY 15 Youth With Sexual Behavior Problems Program

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This program will fund agencies that use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to provide intervention and supervision services for youth with sexual behavior problems and treatment services for their child victims and families. Award recipients will target services for youth with sexual behavior problems, their child victim(s), and parents/caregivers. Youth participating in this program must undergo a mental health evaluation to determine if they are amenable to community-based treatment and intervention.

OJJDP FY 15 Juvenile Justice Model Data Project

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This project will identify critical information requirements across the juvenile justice system (e.g., victimization, community wellness, law enforcement, diversion, detention, indigent defense, prosecution, adjudication, transfer to criminal court, corrections, reentry, and recidivism). It will develop model data elements with recommended definitions and coding categories that administrative data systems and other juvenile justice-related data collection efforts (e.g., community surveys) can adopt.

OJJDP FY 15 Police and Youth Engagement: Supporting the Role of Law Enforcement in Juvenile Justice Reform

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The mission of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is to provide national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. To fulfill this mission, OJJDP collaborates with professionals from diverse disciplines to improve juvenile justice practices and policies.

OJJDP FY 15 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program: Vermont

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Pursuant to the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-401, hereafter, the PROTECT Act), the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program seeks to maintain and expand state and regional task forces to address technology-facilitated child exploitation. These task forces work collaboratively as a national network of law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies that prevent, interdict in, and investigate Internet crimes against children.

OJJDP FY 15 Second Chance Act Smart on Juvenile Justice: Community Supervision

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As many as 100,000 youth under the age of 18 are released from juvenile correctional facilities every year. These young people often return to their communities with complex needs, such as physical and behavioral health issues and barriers to education and employment. This grant program will provide funding to state and local government agencies and federally recognized Indian Tribes to implement evidence-based supervision strategies to improve outcomes for juveniles under community supervision.

OJJDP FY 15 Juvenile Drug Courts Communities of Practice

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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) envisions a nation where our children are healthy, educated, and free from violence. If they come into contact with the juvenile justice system, the contact should be rare, fair and beneficial to them. To help OJJDP fulfill this vision, this program will fund Communities of Practice, a project to promote information sharing and learning among juvenile drug courts.

OJJDP FY 15 Initiative To Develop Juvenile Reentry Measurement Standards

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This solicitation seeks proposals for rigorous research regarding juvenile and/or older adolescent reentry. The goal of the research will be to advance understanding and implementation of effective, developmental science-informed reentry practice in the field. OJJDP expects this research will highlight practices that will improve positive outcomes for youth transitioning out of placement and reduce recidivism. OJJDP will identify priority areas for this solicitation based on current gaps and needs in the literature and practice.

OJJDP FY 15 Second Chance Act Smart Juvenile Justice: Community Supervision Training and Technical Assistance Program

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As many as 100,000 youth younger than 18 years old are released from juvenile correctional facilities every year. These young people often return to their communities with complex needs, such as physical and behavioral health issues and barriers to education and employment. This grant program will provide training and technical assistance to state and local government agencies and federally recognized Indian Tribes to support their efforts to implement evidence-based reform strategies to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for juveniles under community supervision.