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OJJDP FY24 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

Closing Date
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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.

Behavior Change Interventions to Stop School Violence

This program will engage over 100 young people per year through prevention services and provide intensive intervention to the highest risk 15–18-year-olds who are at the center of youth violence and gang activity.

OJJDP FY 2023 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
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.

OJJDP Announces Upcoming Webinars

Register for upcoming youth justice-related webinars.

The Role of Mentoring in Addressing the Effects of Community Violence 

September 1, 2022
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Affecting Change in Tribal Juvenile Justice Systems by Decolonizing Mental Health Services and Integrating Indigenous Ways of Being

September 7, 2022
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Talking Circle: Exploring the Intersections Between Human Trafficking and Missing or Murdered Indigenous People

September 8, 2022
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Lockdown Drills Panel

September...

NIJ Releases Two Reports on School Resource Officers

The National Institute of Justice has released two research reports on investigating the effectiveness of school resource officers (SROs):

OJJDP FY 2022 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
The program supports 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.