Deadline: 9-May-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is seeking applications for funding to support and enhance the National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program (NJJDAP) through the assembly of juvenile justice-related datasets, innovative analysis of, and reports on, complex data and issues, and dissemination strategies through publications and online resources that advance the relevance, utility, and accessibility of national juvenile justice data for the juvenile justice community and the public.
The National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program (NJJDAP) produces vital statistical information to the field regarding juvenile risk behaviors, juvenile victimization, juvenile offending, and the juvenile justice system’s response to law-violating behavior.
Objectives
The primary objectives of this solicitation include the following:
- Identify and assess national data sets that collect information on juvenile and criminal justice, victimization, offending, risk factors, and related issues.
- Analyze, interpret, and publish available data on juvenile populations, their victimization, offending, and risk factors relevant to current juvenile justice policy and practice needs and public interest.
- Analyze, interpret, and publish information from OJJDP-sponsored statistical data collections, not limited to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and the Juvenile Residential Facility Census.
- Analyze, interpret, and publish information on juveniles involved in the justice system from other national data collection programs.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,400,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,400,000
- Award Floor: $0
Ineligible Funding
- Applications primarily to purchase equipment, materials, or supplies. (A budget may include these items if they are necessary to conduct research, development, demonstration, evaluation, or analysis).
- Applications that are not responsive to the purposes of this specific solicitation.
- Applications that fail to provide a plan to support the current OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book web content.
Federal Award Administration Information
OJP sends award notifications by email through JustGrants to the individuals listed in the application as the application submitter and the authorizing official (E-Biz POC and AOR). The email notification includes detailed instructions on how to access and view the award documents, and steps to take in JustGrants to start the award acceptance process.
For each successful applicant, an individual with the necessary authority to bind the applicant will be required to:
- Log in.
- Execute a set of legal certifications and a set of legal assurances.
- Thoroughly review the award, including all award conditions.
- Sign and accept the award.
The award acceptance process is electronic in JustGrants. Award notifications are sent to the Entity Administrator, Authorized Representative, and Application Submitter. If the individuals who will be assigned the Grant Award Administrator and Financial Manager for this award are not already users of JustGrants, those individuals will need to be invited to gain access and log into JustGrants in order to assign the necessary roles for award acceptance.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits that do not have a status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities.
- County governments.
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
- City or township governments.
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments).
- Nonprofits having a status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- Special district governments.
- Independent school districts.
- Small businesses.
- Private institutions of higher education.
- State governments.
- For profit organizations other than small businesses.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338729