The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs announced millions of dollars in grant awards from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to support programs designed to improve outcomes for youth, strengthen the juvenile justice system, and ensure child protection.
Descriptions of individual OJJDP awards can be found by clicking on the links below.
- More than $136 million to support youth and reform the juvenile justice system. The grants will support programs to reform state and local juvenile justice systems, prevent and intervene in youth violence, provide mentoring programs and reentry services for young people and their families, and study outcomes for justice-involved youth.
- Nearly $105 million to protect children from exploitation, trauma, and abuse. The grants will support programs to protect children from violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation, and to improve the judicial system's handling of child abuse and neglect cases.
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Date Published: November 8, 2022