Deadline: 11-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 provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary continuum of intervention and supervision services for youth with problematic and/or illegal sexual behavior and treatment services for their victims and families/caregivers.
Goals
The goal of this program is to prevent sexual reoffending by youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior, promote healing, and provide services for victims and families/ caregivers. This program will assist applicants in developing comprehensive, multidisciplinary approaches to provide a continuum of intervention and supervision services for youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior; and treatment services for child victims and their families/caregivers.
Objectives
An applicant should address all of the objectives listed below in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline web-based form.
- Improve family and system responses for youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior as well as child victims and their families/caregivers.
- Increase protective factors in targeted youth to prevent sexual reoffending or continued problematic sexual behavior.
- Enhance existing community/system response by filling identified gaps in service provision/programming.
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).
- Culturally specific organizations are defined for the purposes of this solicitation as private nonprofit or tribal organizations whose primary purpose as a whole is to provide culturally specific services to racial and ethnic groups, including, among others, Black people, Hispanic and Latino people, Native American and other Indigenous peoples of North America (including Alaska Native, Eskimo, and Aleut), Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and/or Pacific Islanders.
- 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.
- In support of this Executive Order, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Priority Consideration for Demonstrated Partnerships In order to be successful in working with cases addressing issues related to youth with sexual behavior problems and youth with illegal sexual behavior, it is important for communities to utilize an existing multidisciplinary team of stakeholders. OJJDP does not expect applicants to create or establish a new MDT for this approach, but rather to expand or enhance an existing MDT to work on these specific cases. Applicants that can demonstrate the existence of this MDT will receive priority consideration.
- To receive this consideration, the applicant must include the following as separate attachments in Just Grants:
- An attachment labeled “Multidisciplinary Team Partner List” with names of participants on the team and the name of their agency as well as the lead agency.
- A copy of fully executed letters of commitment or memoranda of understanding (MOUs) indicating the team that will staff these cases of youth with sexual behavior problems.
- To receive this consideration, the applicant must include the following as separate attachments in Just Grants:
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.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 4
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $450,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $1,800,000.00
Deliverables
Applicants are expected to conduct a comprehensive assessment of existing system resources that details the continuum of intervention services available for the target population (adolescents with illegal sexual behavior and youth with problematic sexual behavior), and treatment services for the youth victims and their families/caregivers and propose projects that support the provision of services across this continuum.
- Develop or enhance community-based intervention (including evidence-based treatment) and supervision services for adolescents with illegal sexual behavior and/or youth with problematic sexual behavior. All proposed services for funding must satisfy an identified gap in already funded services within the applicant jurisdiction as identified in the overview of existing system resources.
- Develop or enhance treatment services for youth victims and non-offending family members/caregivers.
- Enhance and/or maintain an existing multidisciplinary team to specifically manage cases involving youth with problematic and/or illegal sexual behavior; and that supports a comprehensive holistic approach to treatment and services for victims and families/caregivers.
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education.
- State governments.
- 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.
- For profit organizations other than small businesses.
- City or township governments.
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
- County governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.