Deadline: 16 June 2019
The Youth Justice Fund is currently accepting new proposals for multi-year pilot projects and short term projects with a start date during winter of 2019-2020.
The Youth Justice Fund is designed 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, the Fund is inviting organizations to submit a funding application for projects that aim to address gaps in services in high need communities for Indigenous youth and youth who belong to a vulnerable population that is overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Projects targeting youth who are between the ages of 12 and 17 and currently in conflict with the law, or justice professionals and/or service providers who work with these youth, and focusing on the following activities may be given funding priority:
- Custodial and/or community-based rehabilitative and reintegration programming that are gender and culturally informed;
- Specialised programming for youth struggling with complex mental health issues, trauma, and addictions;
- Collaborative and integrated approaches across youth related support systems/sectors (justice, social, health, education, private sector and community service providers, etc.);
- Training for youth justice professionals to be culturally informed;
- Sharing best practices and developing educational resources in creating and administering youth restorative justice programs.
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.
Activities/Projects
The Fund supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of pilot projects that provide programming and services for youth in conflict with the law. It supports professional development activities, such as training and conferences, for justice professionals and youth service providers. Additionally, it funds research on the youth justice system and related youth justice issues.
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 Aboriginal 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.
How to Apply
Applicants can complete the on-line application via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fund-fina/cj-jp/yj-jj/index.html