Deadline: 24-Mar-25
The National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) program of research on the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults (age 60 years or above) seeks to improve knowledge and understanding of key relevant issues through science.
Program Goal
- The National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program fosters the development of new knowledge and tools that can be applied to reduce crime and advance justice, particularly at the state and local level.
Program Objectives
- Develop, demonstrate, and evaluate programs and practices relevant to criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victims’ services outcomes.
- Identify and analyze the causes and correlates of crime.
- Improve the functioning of the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
- Develop new methods for the prevention and reduction of crime.
- Develop new methods to detect, investigate, and prosecute crime.
- Enhance the justice research infrastructure.
Areas
- For the purposes of this NOFO, NIJ is seeking proposals to address one or more of the following topic areas:
- Evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults.
- Research on financial fraud against older adults, including knowledge building around scam prevention messaging.
- Research on formal and informal caregivers who abuse (either financially, physically, sexually, and/or emotionally) or neglect older adults, to inform intervention and prevention program development.
- Forensic research involving the development of radiographic evidence and bioinformatic approaches relevant to the physical abuse of older adults.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $1,600,000
Duration
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: January 1, 2026 Anticipated Period of
- Performance Duration: To be determined by the requirements of the research, up to 60 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Government Entities
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
- Educational Organizations
- Independent school districts
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public Housing Organizations
- Public housing authorities
- Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (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
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small businesses
- Organizations other than Small businesses
- Government Entities
For more information, visit Grants.gov.