Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Government of Canada is pleased to announce the Youth Justice Fund to encourage a more effective youth justice system, respond to emerging youth justice issues and enable greater citizen and community participation in the youth justice system.
To support the achievement of these objectives, they are inviting organizations to submit a funding application for projects that aim to address gaps in services for Indigenous, Black and other racialized youth who are overrepresented in the youth criminal justice system across the country.
Objectives
Projects must meet at least one of the following objectives:
- Establish special measures for violent young offenders;
- Improve the system’s ability to rehabilitate and reintegrate young offenders;
- Increase the use of measures, outside the formal court process, that are often more effective in addressing some types of less serious offending;
- Establish a more targeted approach to the use of custody for young people; and
- Increase the use of community-based sentences for less serious offending.
Funding Priorities
- Projects targeting youth aged 12 to 17 at the time of committing an offense and who are currently being dealt under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, or justice professionals and/or service providers who work with these youth, and focusing on the following activities may be given funding priority:
- Extrajudicial/diversion programming that are gender and culturally informed;
- Youth restorative justice programs that are gender and culturally informed;
- Custodial and/or Community-Based Rehabilitative and Reintegration programming that are gender and culturally informed;
- Specialized programming for youth struggling with complex mental health issues, trauma, and addictions;
- Collaborative and integrated Across Across Youth Related Support Systems/Sectors (Justice, Social, Health, Education, Private Sector and Community Service Providers, etc.); and
- Training for youth justice professionals to be culturally informed
Funding Information
An individual grant will not exceed $100,000 per year, per project
Eligible Projects
- Funding may be provided for any of the following:
- Projects that address pressures or emerging priorities with respect to youth in conflict with the law and to respond to them in a manner that is consistent with the intent of the legislative framework and advances federal policy objectives;
- Projects and activities that help to identify, understand, and provide innovative responses to youth justice system challenges at key decision points in the youth justice process;
- Projects that enable greater citizen/community participation in the youth justice system, encourage partnerships among traditional and non-traditional youth justice partners or encourage collaborative responses to youth justice needs; and
- Public legal education and information (PLEI) activities designed to provide accurate information to debunk myths or correct misperceptions or share information ab out effective approaches in dealing with youth in conflict with the law.
Eligibility Criteria
- All of the following are eligible for funding:
- Non-profit community organizations, societies, and associations which have voluntarily associated themselves for a non-profit purpose;
- Canadian institutions/boards of education;
- Bands, First Nations, Tribal Councils, local, regional and national Indigenous organizations;
- Provincial, territorial and municipal governments and their agencies and institutions;
- Private sector organizations as long as such organizations will not make a profit on the work performed;
- For- profit enterprises, research/evaluation organizations and individuals are eligible for funding to conduct research and evaluation activities; and, Individuals.
For more information, visit https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fund-fina/cj-jp/yj-jj/index.html