Deadline: 24-Feb-25
The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention is seeking applications to assist jurisdictions in planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming involved or are already involved in the juvenile justice system.
The long-term goal of this effort is to support sustainable, research-based, and data-informed recidivism-reduction policies, practices, and programming, and the strategic reinvestment of cost savings realized through accompanying reforms into effective prevention and intervention programs for the nation’s youth.
This program furthers DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, keep the country safe, and protect civil rights.
- Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
- Category 2: Local Planning and Assessment Sites
Program Goals and Objectives
- The primary goal of the initiative is to support better outcomes for youth and families by investing more resources in prevention and intervention programming across a communitybased continuum of care in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by incarceration. By lifting up community-based alternatives and supporting systems integration, better outcomes for all youth can be achieved. A well-resourced continuum should include a range of supports and opportunities that build on youth and family strengths and assets to promote healthy development, improve family functioning, meet essential needs, and strengthen neighborhoods. Ideally, youth and families would have access to a rich variety of supports and services outside the juvenile justice system so that it is not the only entry point for access, and participation can continue beyond a youth’s involvement in the justice system. Services should be culturally appropriate, effective, and responsive to the evolving needs of youth and families.
- The objective of this initiative is to support interested jurisdictions to conduct a planning process that will identify available resources and existing gaps in prevention and intervention services for youth at risk of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. Creating alternative pathways to deeper system involvement and incarceration for justice-involved youth is central to the initiative; investing in supportive and effective youth-serving systems, no matter where a youth sits on the continuum, in a nonsiloed manner, is good practice. This planning process must be comprehensive, collaborative, and focused on cost savings that allow for the identification, development, and sustainability of promising and evidence-based strategies for youth.
- Objective 1: Identify strategies that support promising and evidence-based approaches that advance the long-term well-being and success of youth and their families.
- Objective 2: Develop economic impact strategies that result in cost savings and identify how those cost savings can be reinvested into the larger continuum of care.
- Objective 3: Establish a sustainable framework that supports the decarceration of youth and the diversion of children identified as being at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system through a coordinated, collaborative strategy that also promotes safe communities.
Funding Information
- Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $7,400,000
- Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 5
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: $800,000
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 18 months
- Category 2: Local Planning and Assessment Sites
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 13
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: $425,000
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 18 months
- Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
Deliverables
- For both Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites and Category 2: Local Planning and Assessment Sites, applicant deliverables must include the following:
- A Comprehensive Community Plan for accessing, delivering, and sustaining a communitybased continuum of care using evidence-based prevention and intervention programs and best practices. This plan should include a timeline and interim benchmarks for the following sequenced parts for OJJDP coordination and support:
- Asset Mapping within the designated jurisdictions to identify leveraged resources and policy/practice strategies for implementation.
- Gap analysis to identify areas of need in the community.
- Identification of the key data points for tracking and monitoring progress to meet youth needs, reduce youth incarceration rates outlined in the NOFO, and assess what practices work best to improve youth well-being and prevent youth crime.
- Identification of cost savings through reforms than can be reinvested in promising practices and evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies that will reduce youth crime and recidivism.
- Long-term sustainability of the community plan activities.
- A Comprehensive Community Plan for accessing, delivering, and sustaining a communitybased continuum of care using evidence-based prevention and intervention programs and best practices. This plan should include a timeline and interim benchmarks for the following sequenced parts for OJJDP coordination and support:
Eligibility Criteria
- The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
- Government Entities
- State governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Category 2: Local Planning and Assessment Sites
- Government Entities
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Category 1: State Agency Planning and Assessment Sites
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