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Continuum of services

Serving Children at Home

Research has consistently shown that youth involved in the justice system have better outcomes and are less likely to reoffend when they receive services and supervision in their home communities, not in institutions.

OJJDP FY24 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success

Closing Date
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Application JustGrants Deadline
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to assist jurisdictions in planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming or already involved in the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP FY24 Juvenile Justice Evidence Translation Project

Closing Date
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Application JustGrants Deadline
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support the development and dissemination of translational tools and resources – current knowledge about what works packaged in accessible, comprehensible, actionable form for use by everyday youth serving (nonresearcher) practitioners, and lay persons to effect and sustain positive change – on key topics spanning the juvenile justice continuum in order to improve the juvenile justice system and prevent juvenile...

OJJDP FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care To Support Youth Success

Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support communities in conducting planning and assessment activities that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will serve as a strong foundation for preventing youth from entering the juvenile justice system, diverting them from moving deeper into the system (i.e., detention and corrections) and ultimately providing them with the...