Deadline: 21-May-24
The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention is seeking applications for the Arts Programs for Justice-Involved Youth to support and strengthen collaborations between artsbased organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance promising and effective interventions that provide access to high-quality arts programs with and for current or previous justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors.
OJJDP defines justice-involved youth as those participating in courtordered diversion or community-based programs, serving on probation due to a delinquency finding by a juvenile court, or placed in detention, correctional, residential facilities, or other out of home placement in the juvenile justice system. OJJDP’s guiding philosophy is to enhance the welfare of America’s youth and broaden their opportunities for a better future. To bring these goals to fruition, OJJDP is leading efforts to transform the juvenile justice system into one that will Treat Children as Children; Serve Children at Home, With Their Families, in their Communities; and Open Up Opportunities for System-Involved Youth.
OJJDP envisions a juvenile justice system centered on the strengths, needs, and voices of youth and families. Young people and family members with lived experience are vital resources for understanding and reaching persons involved or at risk of involvement with youth-serving systems. OJJDP asks stakeholders to join them in sustainably integrating bold, transformative youth and family partnership strategies into the daily work. OJJDP believes in achieving positive outcomes for youth, families, and communities through meaningful engagement.
Objectives
- Increase collaboration between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems through the development, enhancement, or expansion of partnerships.
- Increase high-quality arts programs that serve justice-involved youth.
- Increase the number of current or previous justice-involved youth participating in high-quality arts programs that seek to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors.
- Reduce risk factors and increase protective factors of justice-involved youth through participation in high-quality arts programs.
Goals
- Reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors of justice-involved youth through the development, enhancement, and/or expansion of highquality, culturally relevant arts programs.
- Increase participation of justice-involved youth in high-quality arts programs that are in alignment with OJJDP’s overarching priority areas and that integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships in their program design and budget.
Priority Areas
- In order to further OJP’s mission, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
- To receive this consideration, the applicant must describe how the proposed project(s) will address identified inequities and contribute to greater access to services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization. Project activities under this consideration may include, but are not limited to, the following: improving victim services, justice responses, prevention initiatives, reentry services, and other parts of an organization’s or community’s efforts to advance public safety. Applicants should propose activities that address the cultural (and linguistic, if appropriate) needs of communities, outline how the proposed activities will be informed by these communities, and implement culturally responsive and inclusive outreach and engagement.
- Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40 percent of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget web-based form) are a population-specific organization that serves communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
- For purposes of this solicitation, population-specific organizations are nonprofit, nongovernmental, or Tribal organizations that primarily serve members of a specific underserved population and have demonstrated experience and expertise providing targeted services to members of that specific underserved population.
- To receive this additional priority consideration, applicants must describe how being a population-specific organization (or funding the population-specific sub recipient organization(s)) will enhance their ability to implement the proposed project(s) and should also specify which historically underserved populations are intended or expected to be served or have their needs addressed under the proposed project(s).
- Note: Addressing these priority areas is one of many factors that OJP considers in making funding decisions. Receiving priority consideration for one or more priority areas does not guarantee an award.
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
Funding Information
- Anticipated total amount to be awarded under this solicitation: $200,000
- Anticipated maximum dollar amount per award: Awards will be up to $50,000
- Anticipated number of awards: 4
- Period of performance start date: October 1, 2024
- Period of performance duration (months): 24 months
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
- 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
- Private institutions of higher education
- Other- units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
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