Deadline: 2 March 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2017 Smart on Juvenile Justice: Enhancing Youth Access to Justice Initiative. This program furthers the Department’s mission by funding efforts that reduce recidivism and ensuring that children receive the guarantees of due process and equal protection.
OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are healthy, educated, and free from violence. If they come into contact with the juvenile justice system, that contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them. OJJDP recognizes the critical role that juvenile defenders play in ensuring that justice-involved youth are treated fairly at each contact point in the juvenile justice system that services and treatments are beneficial to the youth, and that youth’s fundamental rights are not violated. OJJDP recognizes that the role of the juvenile defender is highly complex and specialized.
This initiative will fund a national training and technical assistance provider to provide education, resources, and assistance to juvenile defenders; juvenile defense offices; regional juvenile defender resource centers; and states, tribes, and localities committed to improving their juvenile defense services. This initiative also will fund two regional juvenile defender resource centers to support communities of juvenile defenders and juvenile defense delivery systems in their service areas. Finally, this initiative will support five civil legal services providers to represent youth reentering their communities to overcome collateral consequences; overcome barriers to housing, employment, and education; and successfully reintegrate into society.
Program Categories
This initiative is composed of three categories.
- Category 1: Juvenile Defense Training and Technical Assistance. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit 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.
- Category 2: Regional Juvenile Defender Resource Centers. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit 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.
- Category 3: Second Chance Act Juvenile Reentry Legal Services. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations) and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
Federal Award Information
- OJJDP expects to make up to eight awards under this solicitation, for an estimated total of $3.8 million.
- Under Category 1 (training and technical assistance), OJJDP expects to award one cooperative agreement of up to $1.5 million for a 24-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2017.
- Under Category 2 (regional defender resource centers), OJJDP expects to award $800,000 in the form of two cooperative agreements of up to $400,000 each for a 36-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2017.
- Under Category 3 (reentry legal services), OJJDP expects to award $1.5 million in the form of five grants of up to $300,000 each for a 24-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2017.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.
