Past Funding

Section 101 of the Second Chance Act authorizes the Department of Justice to award grants to states to improve reentry outcomes for incarcerated youth. The Second Chance Act Program helps communities develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative strategies that address the challenges that reentry and recidivism reduction pose. Developing a comprehensive approach for reducing recidivism is challenging for even the most sophisticated juvenile justice agencies, requiring access to data, changes to service delivery, and coordination from multiple systems.

This program will fund agencies that use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to provide intervention and supervision services for youth with sexual behavior problems and treatment services for their child victims and families. Award recipients will target services for youth with sexual behavior problems, their child victim(s), and parents/caregivers of the offending youth and child victims. Youth participating in this program must undergo a mental health evaluation to determine if they are amenable to community-based treatment and intervention.

The selected applicant will serve as OJJDP's principal technical assistance provider addressing girls and their involvement with the juvenile justice system. The successful applicant will:

This program supports efforts of eligible applicant organizations to develop or enhance their mentoring capacity, facilitate outreach efforts, and increase the availability of direct services for child victims (17 years old or younger) of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and domestic sex trafficking (DST).

Children's advocacy centers provide a coordinated response to victims of child abuse through multidisciplinary teams composed of representatives from community agencies and professionals involved with intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that respond to child abuse cases. The program objectives of a CAC are to:

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Second Chance Act Strengthening Relationships Between Young Fathers, Young Mothers, and Their Children initiative will provide funding to support the successful transition for young fathers and mothers as they return to their families and communities from detention, out-of-home placement or incarceration.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to identify training providers to serve the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program. The state and regional ICAC task forces work collaboratively as a national network of law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies that prevent, interdict, and investigate technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and Internet crimes against children.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to build the capacity of Tribal communities across Alaska through the development of multi-disciplinary partnerships that address the specific needs and common challenges of those who work with Alaska Native youth. The successful training and technical assistance provider will build or expand a regional network that will create partnerships to address Alaska Native youth's cultural needs and support their successful functioning at home, in school, and in the community.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) envisions a nation where our children are healthy, educated, and free from violence. If they come into contact with the juvenile justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them. To help OJJDP fulfill this vision, this program will fund training and technical assistance to states, state and local courts, units of local government, and Tribal governments that will build their capacity to develop, maintain, and enhance juvenile drug courts for substance-abusing youth.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) envisions a nation where our children are healthy, educated, and free from violence. If they come into contact with the juvenile justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them.

Juvenile Justice System Improvement Division Invited Awards

Among other things, PREA provides that a state whose governor does not certify full compliance with the standards is subject to the loss of 5 percent of any DOJ grant funds that it would otherwise receive for prison purposes unless the governor elects to submit an assurance that the state will use the 5 percent only to achieve and certify full compliance with the standards in future years. 42 U.S.C. § 15607(e). OJJDP’s Title II, Part B, Formula Grants Program is one of the DOJ grant programs subject to this requirement.

The congressionally mandated tasks of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children include, but are not limited to:

OJJDP will provide support to Internet Crimes Against Children task forces to hire wounded, injured, or ill veterans to: 1) enhance digital forensic examination capacity through supporting digital forensic analyst positions in select ICAC task forces; 2) improve ICAC task force effectiveness to prevent, interdict, investigate, and prosecute Internet crimes against children and technology-facilitated child exploitation, and 3) reduce forensic examination backlogs, and/or increase the number of forensic exams completed by ICAC task forces during the project period.

This initiative will provide funding to (1) develop effective, well-resourced model juvenile indigent defender offices and (2) develop and implement standards of practice and policy for the effective management of such offices. Through training and technical assistance, this initiative will provide cost-effective and innovative training for the juvenile indigent defense bar and court-appointed counsel working on behalf of juvenile indigent defendants, particularly in traditionally underserved areas.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications to pilot programs that will strengthen the relationships between children, their caregivers, and their incarcerated parent(s) who is confined in a federal correctional facility. This program furthers the Department’s mission by supporting efforts to reduce recidivism and expanding services and education programs that strengthen an incarcerated parent’s engagement with his or her children and family.