U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government, Department of Justice.

Training and technical assistance

Child Abuse Prevention Resources Available Online

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO), supported by OJJDP, provides a collection of publications and resources for professionals working in fields associated with child abuse prevention. CALiO is a service of the National Children's Advocacy Center.

Resources:

  • Learn how OJJDP is working to prevent child abuse through partnerships, programs, and training and technical assistance.
  • Learn how children's advocacy...

OJJDP FY 19 Supporting Effective Interventions for Adolescent Sex Offenders and Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems

Closing Date

This program will fund project sites to develop a community-based, multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach to responding to youth with sexual behavior problems, their child victims, and their families as well as a training and technical assistance provider to support project sites in developing intervention models. The purpose of this program is to prevent sexual reoffending, promote healing, and provide services for victims and families. The program...

OJJDP To Provide Drug Treatment Resources at Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit

OJJDP will provide drug treatment resources at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit on April 22-25 in Atlanta, GA. The Summit brings together stakeholders to address the opioid crisis and discuss what's working in drug abuse prevention and treatment. Available resources include the following OJJDP fiscal year 2019 funding opportunities:

OJJDP FY 19 Coordinated Assistance to States Program

Closing Date

OJJDP's Center for Coordinated Assistance to States (CCAS) provides states, territories, Tribes, and communities with coordinated resources and training and technical assistance (TTA) to assist in planning, operating, and assessing delinquency prevention, intervention, and juvenile justice systems improvement projects. CCAS is also the primary vehicle for OJJDP to provide TTA to states to ensure they are in compliance with the core requirements of the Formula...

OJJDP FY 19 Comprehensive School-based Approach to Youth Violence and Victimization Prevention, Intervention and Accountability

Closing Date

This program will support a comprehensive effort to address youth violence and victimization through implementing prevention, intervention and accountability efforts in a school-based setting. The goals of the program are to: 1) reduce the incidence of school violence through accountability efforts for offenders; 2) respond to victimization whether as a result of violence that occurs in the school or community; 3) improve overall school safety...

OJJDP FY 19 Drug Treatment Courts Training and Technical Assistance Program

Closing Date

The Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program will fund a TTA provider for family drug courts under Category 1 and a TTA provider for juvenile drug treatment courts under Category 2. The TTA under this program will support OJJDP funded drug courts as well as family drug courts and juvenile drug treatment courts across the nation. In addition, TTA under this program will...

OJJDP FY 19 Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCA) Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Prosecutors

Closing Date

The OJJDP FY 2019 Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Prosecutors program will fund a national training and technical assistance program for attorneys and others who are involved in the criminal prosecution of child abuse to enhance the effectiveness of the investigation and prosecution of such crimes. The successful applicant will be required to provide training and technical...

The AMBER Advocate, Issue IV 2018

Date Published
January 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material, Case Study
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored

Department of Justice Releases Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the release of the Fiscal Year 2019 Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS), which allows Tribes to submit a single application for most of the Department's Tribal grant programs. Funding will be used to improve public safety and victim services in Tribal communities. OJJDP supports two purpose areas under CTAS: Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts and the Tribal...

OJJDP FY 19 Victims of Child Abuse Regional Children's Advocacy Centers Program

Closing Date

The FY 2019 Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) Regional Children's Advocacy Centers (RCAC) Program will support four regional children's advocacy centers, one situated within each of the four U.S. census regions, to: (1) develop multidisciplinary teams, local programs, and state chapter organizations that respond to child abuse and neglect investigation, treatment, intervention, and prosecution; and (2) deliver training and technical assistance that strengthen existing multidisciplinary...

OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center To Host Tribal Youth Conference

 

The OJJDP Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center will host the 2018 National Tribal Youth Conference on December 3-4, 2018, on the Agua Caliente Reservation in Palm Springs, CA. The conference theme is "Reclaiming the Sacred Circle: Justice and Healing for Tribal Youth through Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment." This event will bring together OJJDP Tribal Youth Program and Juvenile Healing to Wellness Court grantees and...

Applications Being Accepted for Youth in Custody Practice Model Initiative

The  (CJJR) at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, in partnership with the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, in partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA), is accepting applications for its Youth in Custody Practice Model initiative. This program will help state and county juvenile correctional agencies and facility providers implement a comprehensive service delivery approach for youth in residential care. Up to four sites...

OJJDP Model Programs Implementation Guides

Date Published
May 2016
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Instructional Material (Programmed), Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review, Administration/Management Material
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored