Deadline: 25 January 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) are seeking applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2017 National Gang Center. This program furthers the Department’s mission by supporting states’ and communities’ responses to gang-related crime and violence and gang activity by youth and adults.
The National Gang Center tracks current research and trends on gangs and maintains a database of comprehensive information on the development and implementation of effective gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies. Many of these strategies and effective programs are on the National Gang Center’s Strategic Planning Tool, which is designed to help communities assess and address local gang problems.
Objectives
The National Gang Center will accomplish the following:
- Develop and maintain the National Gang Center website to serve as a one-stop shop for publications and practitioner-oriented resources on youth and street gangs. The site must include research and best practices on gang prevention/intervention; updated, comprehensive literature reviews of effective gang prevention/intervention and community-based antigang programs and policies; and a database on gang-related legislation, searchable by state or topic.
- Identify promising gang programs and strategies and maintain this information in a searchable database. This should include a review and synthesis of all new research and evaluation material on antigang programs, strategies, and initiatives. The National Gang Center should use a targeted marketing plan to disseminate this information to federal, state, and local practitioners actively involved in antigang efforts and provide practitioner-oriented materials to allow for successful program translation.
- Develop a comprehensive antigang training plan to be delivered to chronic gang cities, community partners, and law enforcement agencies/personnel. The training plan should support the incorporation of street outreach workers to help address gang-related issues in the community. These outreach workers, in most instances, have a long-standing history with high-risk populations in the community.
- Produce and support the production of publications and resource materials for federal, state, and local practitioners; policymakers; and researchers, as approved by OJJDP and BJA. The National Gang Center should maintain a gang information listserv where practitioners can communicate with one another around this issue.
- Deliver the following existing antigang training curricula/courses and develop new antigang courses based on emerging gang issues:
- Basic Gang Investigators Course provides a standardized core curriculum of generalized subject matter to support the investigation and prosecution of street gangs, coupled with a module containing location-specific intelligence about gangs in a region. The course delivery should be no longer than 4 days and should be directed to gang investigators who have less than 1 year of experience.
- Gangs 101 Train-the-Trainer Course provides a standardized core curriculum of generalized subject matter to support instructor training and the delivery of curricula related to the investigation and prosecution of street gangs. The course delivery should be no longer than 4 days and should be directed to experienced trainers (e.g., officers who have conducted formal classroom training or roll call training).
- Gang Unit Supervision provides a standardized core curriculum for state and local law enforcement officers who are currently or soon will be assigned to supervisory or command duties in a gang unit or task force.
- Gangs in Indian Country provides a standardized core curriculum for tribal law enforcement officers assigned to antigang duties. Blocks of instruction will include Native American Gangs Overview, Regional Gang Overview, Gang Intelligence, Gang Investigations, Interviewing Gang Members, Awareness of the Gang Influence on Tribal Crime, Gang Suppression Strategies and Tactics, Jurisdictional Legal Considerations, and Resources and Programs.
- Strategy Seminar for Law Enforcement Executives provides a standardized core curriculum for police chiefs, sheriffs, and senior command staff of large, medium, and small communities.
- Offer services in accordance with adult learning theory and that use a variety of delivery methods (e.g. distance learning). As appropriate and required, the applicant will conduct an impact evaluation of the courses developed and delivered.
- Respond to training and technical assistance requests related to gangs (e.g., provide access to antigang information for law enforcement, other criminal justice professionals, nongovernmental organizations, and community members, and assist in the development of antigang programs, strategies, and policy).
- Support communications efforts:
- Develop publications on emerging gang-related issues that range from policy briefs (2 to 5 pages) to larger documents (10 to 50 pages).
- Develop and maintain a calendar of related training and technical assistance activities.
- Submit at least three articles for OJJDP to disseminate to the juvenile justice field.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations, including tribal nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). For-profit organizations (as well as other recipients) must forgo any profit or management fee.
How to Apply
To be considered timely, an application must be submitted by the application deadline using online application system.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit National Gang Center Grants.