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OJJDP FY 2023 Enhancing Youth Defense
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The goal of this program is to implement youth defense delivery system enhancements that strengthen and improve youth defense. This program supports states and localities, through a combination of direct grants and national training and technical assistance, to implement sustainable system improvements that result in improved youth outcomes, reduced recidivism, safer communities, cost savings, and increased public confidence in the juvenile justice system.
OJJDP FY 2023 Victims of Child Abuse Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Professionals
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding for the development and implementation of training and technical assistance for child abuse professionals for the purpose of promoting the effective delivery of the evidence-informed Children's Advocacy Center Model and the multidisciplinary response to child abuse.
OJJDP FY 2023 Arts Programs for Justice-Involved Youth
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors.
OJJDP FY 2023 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program Support
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OJJDP seeks applications for funding to provide support to the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force program. 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.
OJJDP FY 2023 Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
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With this solicitation, OJJDP will provide funding to communities to support girls age 17 and younger who are at risk of involvement and/or are involved in the juvenile justice system. Funding will support communities to develop, enhance, or expand early intervention programs and/or treatment services for girls involved in the juvenile justice system.
OJJDP FY 2023 Community-Based Alternatives to Youth Incarceration
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to fund jurisdictions to close and repurpose youth detention and correctional facilities, reinvest cost savings to expand community-based alternatives to youth incarceration, and assess and respond to the economic impact of closures on facility staff and surrounding communities.
OJJDP FY 2023 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to improve and expand the development and implementation of training and technical assistance on effective responses to missing and exploited children's issues for multidisciplinary teams of prosecutors, state and local law enforcement, child protection personnel, medical providers, and other child-serving professionals.
OJJDP FY 2023 National Mentoring Programs
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to fund national mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement.
OJJDP FY 2023 Supporting Vulnerable and At-Risk Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support the establishment of a pilot demonstration program to develop, implement, and build replicable treatment models for residential-based innovative care, treatment, and services.
OJJDP FY 2023 Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support states' and counties' implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed recidivism-reduction policies, practices, and programs across multiple juvenile justice system components and disciplines, and sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective juvenile justice prevention and intervention programs.
OJJDP FY 2023 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency.
OJJDP FY 2023 Strengthening ICAC Technological Investigative Capacity
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding for applicant organizations to increase the technological investigative capacity of ICAC task forces and their affiliates as well as related state, Tribal, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies through training and the development and/or enhancement of widely used investigative tools, methods, and technologies that address child sexual abuse material and online child exploitation.
OJJDP FY 2023 Family-Based Alternative Justice Program
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This program seeks to build the capacity of states, communities, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to implement new, or enhance existing, diversion and alternative justice programs for parents in the criminal justice system to mitigate the harmful impacts of incarceration on children and their families to improve child, parent, and family outcomes.
OJJDP FY 2023 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only). The goals of the program are to (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community. This solicitation is funded to support...
OJJDP FY 2023 Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Misuse
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth impacted by opioids and other drug misuse. OJJDP aims to assist youth and their families negatively affected by opioids and other substances, especially youth in historically marginalized and underserved communities who will benefit the most from prevention and intervention programs.
OJJDP FY 2023 Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to build the capacity of states, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to implement new and innovative approaches to enhance existing juvenile drug treatment courts and improve outcomes for youth with substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders, including histories of trauma.
OJJDP FY 2023 Supporting Effective Interventions for Youth With Problematic or Illegal Sexual Behavior
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary continuum of intervention and supervision services for youth with problematic and/or illegal sexual behavior and treatment services for their victims and families/caregivers.
OJJDP FY 2023 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support the efforts of states, communities, jurisdictions, nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, and institutions of higher education to implement programs and strategies that identify, respond to, treat, and support children, youth, and families impacted by the opioid epidemic, and other substance use disorders, to ensure public safety.
OJJDP FY 2023 Post-Secondary Education Opportunities for Child Protection Professionals
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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support the training of future mandated reporters and child protection professionals in the field, including law enforcement officers, social workers, mental and medical health professionals, and prosecutors.
Additional Funding Opportunities
Department of Justice Opportunity
FY 2023 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS)
Closing Date: March 28, 2023
Grants.gov Deadline: March 24, 2023, 8:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: March 28, 2023, 8:59 pm Eastern
The Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation provides federally recognized Tribes and Tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety and victimization. The majority of the Department of Justice's existing Tribal government-specific programs are included in and available through this single solicitation. OJJDP supports two purpose areas under CTAS: the Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts and the Tribal Youth Program.
Office of Justice Programs Opportunity
Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative
Closing Date: May 25, 2023
Grants.gov Deadline: May 18, 2023, 8:59 pm Eastern
Application JustGrants Deadline: May 25, 2023, 8:59 pm Eastern
Through this CVIPI opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), in coordination with OJJDP and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), seeks applications for funding to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs.
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