Deadline: 19 June 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 funding under the fiscal year (FY) 2017 Juvenile Justice Systems Reform Promising Practices.
This program furthers the Department’s mission by coordinating, accessing, and disseminating best practices and replicable juvenile justice system reform models and frameworks from OJJDP-funded juvenile justice system reform programs to provide tools and strategies to support states and localities with improving existing services for youth in the justice system.
Objectives
The program will address the following key objectives:
- Development of tools and resources, to include
- reports that synthesize data and resources collected from OJJDP’s juvenile justice reform programs;
- reports and materials that highlight policies, strategies, and models from OJJDP’s juvenile justice reform programs;
- tools that interpret relevant program information from juvenile justice reform policies and strategies, including relevant juvenile justice measures, reductions in recidivism and out-of-home placement, the savings accrued and costs averted, and the portion of costs saved or averted that has been or will be invested in high-performing strategies, that have been collected under OJJDP’s juvenile justice reform programs; and
- publications on topics of relevance for state, tribal, and local policymakers who are planning or implementing juvenile justice system reform efforts, such as informational briefs or reports on the experiences of sites apart from OJJDP’s juvenile justice reform programs.
- Coordination and facilitation of meetings, webinars, and roundtables, to assist OJJDP’s juvenile justice reform programs with sharing success stories, models, lessons learned, and program outcomes.
- Development and dissemination of publications and online resources, to be housed on OJJDP’s website, that will highlight reform efforts, models, and lessons learned from OJJDP’s juvenile justice reform programs.
Award Information
OJJDP expects to make one award of up to $1,000,000 for a 24-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2017.
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled 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
- Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations 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.
- OJJDP welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant.
- Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (“subgrantees”). The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire program.
- Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered. An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (“subgrantee”) in more than one application.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Grants.gov.