Deadline: 23 February 2017
The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), a component of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking applications from eligible entities for a program entitled “OJJDP FY 17 Racial and Ethnic Disparity Training and Technical Assistance”.
The project will support the implementation of a major OJJDP initiative to address racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, further strengthening OJJDP’s support for the core requirement to reduce disproportionate minority contact of youth with the juvenile justice system.
Funding Information: The estimated total program funding is $1,000,000.
Program Priorities
- It will provide tailored education, training, technical assistance, and resources to state, local, and tribal governments and private organizations to help them address their needs in reducing disproportionate minority contact.
- The resource center will also help identify and implement promising and evidence-based strategies that have a sound theoretical basis and/or have demonstrated measurable success in reducing disproportionate minority contact.
- The technical assistance project will provide funding resources to state, local, and/or tribal governments to promulgate and implement evidence-based, culturally and gender-sensitive approaches to reduce disproportionate minority contact at the various contact points throughout the juvenile justice system.
- The resource center will also document, disseminate, and train on best practices, including community-driven solutions that demonstrate measurable results in reducing disproportionate minority contact.
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- 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
- Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and 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.
- OJJDP welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (“subgrantees”). The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire project.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can access their application package via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Racial and Ethnic Disparity Training.