OJJDP FY24 Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence

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. Funding can be used to develop and/or enhance support services for children exposed to violence to reduce the adverse impact of violence on youth, families, and communities, and to help family-serving organizations better recognize and help families at risk for exposure to violence.

This program focuses on building protective factors for children exposed to violence; increasing access to and providing evidence-based, culturally specific, trauma-informed specialized services/intervention(s) to support children and families who are impacted; as well as the sustainment of this work.

There are two categories of funding available under this solicitation:
Category 1 Project Sites - Funding under this category can be used to develop and/or enhance support services for children exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities. Funded project sites are expected to work with the training and technical assistance provider.
Category 2 Training and Technical Assistance – Funding under this category will support a training and technical assistance provider to support the Category 1 project sites.

Eligibility
This solicitation is composed of two grant categories. Applicants must clearly designate the category for which they are applying. The following entities are eligible to apply:

Category 1: Project Sites 

• State governments 
• Special district governments
• City or township governments
• Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
• County governments
• Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
• Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Independent school districts

Category 2: Training and Technical Assistance

• Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• For-profit organizations other than small businesses