The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Juvenile Justice System Reform Initiative.
Sponsoring Agency: U.S. Department of Justice
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/06/2021
Size of the Fund: More than $1 Million
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Juvenile Justice System Reform Initiative.
Category 1: Juvenile Justice System Reform Grants
Goal
The goal of Category 1 is to support states to develop and implement sustainable, research-based, and data-informed recidivism-reduction policies, practices, and programming, and the strategic reinvestment of cost savings into effective prevention and intervention programs. Research indicates that juvenile justice systems should put more emphasis on encouraging offender accountability through restorative justice, engaging in community service, and helping youth take responsibility and make amends for their actions. Juvenile justice systems should help prevent reoffending through structured risk and needs assessments and using interventions rooted in knowledge about adolescent development. States should identify their own priorities for juvenile justice system reform within the justice reinvestment framework. Grant activities may focus on reducing trial delays, ensuring speedy bond consideration, guaranteeing that a juvenile’s ability to pay is considered in setting any bond amount, providing mental health and trauma-informed services for youth who are incarcerated, and helping to ensure ending the use of solitary confinement for youth, among other reforms.
Objectives
Objectives include (1) engaging stakeholders, (2) analyzing data and identifying drivers, (3) developing innovative or research-based responses, (4) implementing responses, and (5) measuring outcomes.
Deliverables
Deliverables include the implementation of policies, practices, and/or programs that support juvenile justice system reform, recidivism, and crime reduction. A final report summarizing the changes made and preliminary outcomes must be submitted at the conclusion of the grant period.
Category 2: Juvenile Justice System Reform Initiative Training and Technical Assistance
Goals
The goal of Category 2 is to support a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to assist up to seven selected states under Category 1 and states that have recently (within the past 2 years) enacted policy changes intended to reform the state’s juvenile justice system and are seeking TTA that focuses on implementing juvenile justice reforms. Additionally, states that are not OJJDP awardees will have to demonstrate that they meet the aforementioned requirement in order to receive training and technical assistance.
Objectives
Objectives include developing, implementing, and disseminating TTA based on best practices for (1) engaging stakeholders, (2) analyzing data and identifying drivers, (3) developing innovative or research-based responses, (4) implementing responses, and (5) measuring outcomes.
Deliverables
Deliverables include providing TTA to states related to stakeholder engagement, data analysis, policy development, planning and implementation guidance, and supporting sustainability.
Funding Information
• Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
• Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $8,000,000.00
Eligibility Criteria
• Private institutions of higher education
• State governments
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
The following entities are eligible to apply for Category 1: State governments for purposes of this solicitation, "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. The following entities are eligible to apply for Category 2: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education For-profit organizations other than small businesses Eligible applicants that propose to provide direct services to youth must not include youth who are age 18 or older in the population they will serve.
More information at: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333652
Eligible Countries:
United States
