Deadline: 6-Apr-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding to develop, enhance, or expand arts programs for justice-involved youth.
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting high-quality arts programs for current and previous justice-involved youth, including Tribal and Indigenous youth, to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors. OJJDP defines justice-involved youth as those participating in court-ordered diversion programs in detention, correctional, or other residential facilities, and/or who are on probation due to a delinquency finding by juvenile court.
Goals
- Goal 1: Reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors of justice-involved youth through the development, enhancement, and/or expansion of high-quality, culturally relevant arts programs.
- Goal 2: Increase participation of justice-involved youth in high-quality arts programs that are in alignment with OJJDP’s overarching priority areas and that integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships in their program design and budget.
Objectives
- Objective 1: Increase collaboration between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems through the development, enhancement, or expansion of partnerships.
- Objective 2: Increase access to high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth.
- Objective 3: Increase the number of current or previous justice-involved youth participating in high-quality arts programs that seek to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors.
- Objective 4: Reduce risk factors and increase protective factors of justice-involved youth through participation in high-quality arts programs.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 5
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $50,000.00
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/23
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 18
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $250,000.00
Deliverables
Grant deliverables include the following:
- Collaborative partnerships between juvenile courts and arts-based resources to provide justice-involved youth with high-quality arts programs for diversion and probation.
- Collaborative partnerships between juvenile detention, correctional, and other residential facilities and arts-based resources to provide high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth.
- High-quality community-based arts programs for current or previous justice-involved youth.
- Culturally relevant and responsive community-based programs for racial and ethnic minority justice-involved youth.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- City or township 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
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.