Deadline: 10-Mar-2025
The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention is seeking applications to provide funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence (CEV) build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency.
Funding can be used to: (1) develop and/or enhance direct support services for children exposed to violence to reduce the adverse impact of violence on youth, families, and communities, and to help family-serving organizations better recognize and help families at risk for exposure to violence; and (2) support multidisciplinary or coalition-building efforts to enhance communities’ responses to CEV.
Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: The overall goal of the program is to build the capacity of families and communities to help children exposed to violence.
- Objective 1: Support and enhance family and community responses to children exposed to violence.
- Objective 2: Increase protective factors to reduce the traumatic impact of exposure to violence and prevent future violence, delinquency, and victimization.
- Objective 3: Build the capacity of communities to develop and implement prevention and early intervention strategies to support children exposed to violence and enhance wellness and healing.
Funding Information
- Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $6.8 million
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 8
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $850,000
- Anticipated Period of Performance Start Date: October 1, 2025
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 36 months
Deliverables
- Convene a collaborative team or coalition of stakeholders (existing or newly created) to guide and inform the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan to address children exposed to violence.
- Develop and/or enhance an existing comprehensive plan to address children exposed to violence and its impact on community safety by the end of the first year of funding. This plan should identify specific communities where services will be implemented based on available data and can include outreach strategies to increase awareness of CEV in the targeted communities. This plan will be presented to OJJDP for review/approval.
- Develop and implement trauma-informed, culturally appropriate approaches along the prevention and intervention continuum that fill gaps and address risk factors as well as build on protective factors to prevent and reduce the impact of exposure to violence on children and families in the target communities.
- Support the provision of evidence-based mental health services for children who experience trauma and exposure to violence.
Eligibility Criteria
- The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Government Entities
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
- Educational Organizations
- Independent school districts
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (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
- Other
- Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
- Units of local government
- Government Entities
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