Deadline: 18-Apr-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seek applications for the 2022 Youth Mentoring Research and Evaluation Program.
OJP 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.
Mentoring is a prominent strategy for delinquency prevention and victimization recovery that offers at-risk youth structured support from older or more experienced mentors to provide positive role models and promote resilience.
Priorities
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for rigorous youth mentoring research and evaluation projects to address one or more of the following research priorities:
- increasing the capacity for achieving broad, population-level impacts;
- understanding how mentoring can advance change mechanisms promoting positive youth development;
- examining program participation long-term effects; and
- optimizing program effectiveness through iterative cycles of development paired with rigorous evaluation feedback.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Others
- County governments
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Independent school districts
- Small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For 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.
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