Deadline: 02-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) are seeking applications for funding to develop and promote post-secondary and professional continuing education for child protection professionals in the field, including law enforcement officers, social workers, mental and medical health professionals, and prosecutors.
Goal
- The goal of this program is to increase the knowledge base of mandated reporters and child protection professionals by creating, enhancing, or expanding and distributing training on evidence-based methods for identifying and screening children for exposure to violence.
Objectives
- Increase child advocacy training opportunities in undergraduate, graduate, or continuing education programs.
- Support integration of these trainings into degree or certificate-based tracks for child protection professionals.
Deliverables
Specific deliverables for this program include but are not limited to the following:
- Conduct an analysis of curricula needs in the area of child advocacy and children exposed to violence for child protection professionals, with recommendations to OJJDP.
- Develop a plan for integrating new or enhanced training curricula into post-secondary (undergraduate, graduate, or continuing education) educational programs to ensure maximum training opportunities for child protection professionals.
- Create new and/or enhance existing child protection training and disseminate/deliver training resources in response to the aforementioned plan.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $900,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $450,000.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 2
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 12
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the 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, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, State governments, Other.
- 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.
- To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333623