Deadline: 24-Oct-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is seeking applications for funding to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of a federal system to count and track cases of child maltreatment by youth serving organizations. This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting the development of new knowledge and tools to address the challenges of crime and justice in the United States.
Goals
The goal of this solicitation is to assist DOJ in determining the viability of creating a system to identify the gaps that currently exist in law enforcement and child welfare coordination strategies to better address the challenge of identifying child maltreatment in organizations that serve youth.
Objectives
The objective of this solicitation is to conduct research on the feasibility of establishing a federal system to count and track substantiated cases of sexual abuse and other forms of maltreatment in youth serving organizations.
Deliverables
- Interim report: Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit an interim report prior to the initiation of pilot testing. The interim report will include a comprehensive assessment of available information sources, assessment of the legal frameworks for reporting cases, assessment of approaches to identify cases missed by current government reporting systems and to track system response, recommendations on options for the establishment of a federal system to routinely collect timely information on cases and system response, technical considerations for successful implementation, and cost estimations associated with recommended options.
- Final Research Report: Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit a final research report. Additional information on the final research report requirement for the solicitation is posted on NIJ’s webpage.
- Required Data Sets and Associated Files and Documentation: Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit to the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) all data sets that result in whole or in part from the work funded by the award, along with associated files and any documentation necessary for future efforts by others to reproduce the project’s findings and/or to extend the scientific value of the data set through secondary analysis.
- In addition to these deliverables (and the required reports and data on performance measures), NIJ expects scholarly products to result from each award under this solicitation, taking the form of one or more published, peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles, and/or (if appropriate) law review journal articles, book chapter(s) or book(s) in the academic press, technological prototypes, patented inventions, or similar scientific products. NIJ expects that there will be an equal effort to make the research findings accessible to practitioner and policymaker audiences.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
- Award Floor: $1,500,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants: Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education,
- Other For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Notice regarding law enforcement agencies: State, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process, to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
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To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions:
- The agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and
- The agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward. For detailed information on this certification requirement, to access the Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Implementation Fact Sheet, and the List of Designated Independent Credentialing Bodies.
- Foreign colleges and universities are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit NIJ.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343384