Deadline: 3-May-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding to implement targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only).
This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting efforts to reduce violent crime in and around schools.
Goals
The goal of this initiative is to support the development and expansion of strategies that increase school safety and promote a positive and supportive school climate by preventing and reducing school violence.
Objectives
An applicant should address all of the objectives listed in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline web-based form.
OJJDP has identified the following specific program objectives:
- Improve school capacity to prevent and intervene early to incidents of violence.
- Enhance and expand partnerships between school systems and community-based organizations to address school violence.
- Expand opportunities for family engagement with school personnel to mutually address risk factors for violence.
- Improve communication between home and school to enhance protective factors for student success.
Priority Areas
The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.
In support of this Executive Order, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality.
- To receive this consideration, the applicant must describe how the proposed project(s) will address potential racial inequities and contribute to greater access to services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality, and identify how the project design and implementation will specifically incorporate the input or participation of those communities and populations disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and the criminal justice system overall.
- 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% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget Web-Based Form) identify as a culturally specific organization.
- To receive this additional priority consideration, applicants must describe how being a culturally specific organization (or funding the culturally specific subrecipient organization (s)) will enhance their ability to implement the proposed project(s) and should also specify which populations are intended or expected to be served or to have their needs addressed under the proposed project(s).
Funding information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $1,000,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $22,000,000.00
Deliverables
Project sites must address the following deliverables in their application as part of their project design and implementation:
- Develop a school safety strategic plan that is informed by available local data and existing plans. This strategic plan is to be submitted within 9 months of the date of the award and should be comprehensive and updated annually as a key deliverable.
- Identify a service network of CBOs that have experience in operating violence prevention and early intervention programs with youth and families. This network will offer a bridge between families and the identified school to prevent and reduce violence.
- Develop program strategies that provide the target youth population with service “backpacks” that are individualized to the particular student and engage the family as a critical change agent for the student.
Eligibility Criteria
- Private K–12 schools, including private charter schools, should apply as “nonprofits.” Private for-profit K–12 schools, including for-profit private charter schools, should apply as “For-profit other than small businesses.” Public charter schools should apply as “independent school districts.”
- For the 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 2023 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
- 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 more information, visit Grants.gov.