OpportunityTitle: OJJDP FY 14 Practitioner-Researcher Partnership Mentoring Childrenof Incarcerated Parents Demonstration Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories), units of local government (including federally recognized tribal governments, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.     Applicants under this program must be in a partnership consisting of a practitioner/service provider and an evaluator/research institution. Applicants must submit their applications under one of the following two categories:     Category 1: Program Development and Implementation. OJJDP-2014-3795    Category 2: Evaluation. OJJDP-2014-3796       To be considered eligible under this program, all applicants must document in their application abstract that they have a partnership with an organization that has agreed to submit an application under the alternate category. Category 1 practitioner applicants must identify their corresponding evaluator/research partner applying under Category 2, and Category 2 evaluator/ research applicants must identify their corresponding practitioner partner applying under Category 1. In addition, Category 1 applicants must implement the same mentoring program model and practice enhancements in multiple sites, and Category 2 applicants must conduct a multi-site evaluation.     OJJDP may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
Description: This demonstration program will support a practitioner-researcher partnership to develop and evaluate new mentoring practices to serve the needs of youth whose parents are incarcerated. Incarcerated parents and their children are a heterogeneous group, and associations between parental incarceration and developmental outcomes are complicated. However, research has shown that having an incarcerated parent can present individual and environmental risks for the child and increase the likelihood of negative outcomes. While mentoring has been shown to be an effective intervention for youth , more research is needed to understand how the unique needs of youth who have incarcerated parents are best supported through mentoring. Under this demonstration program, practitioners and researchers must partner to enhance existing mentoring programs to serve children of incarcerated parents and evaluate the new approach. (The program development/implementation and evaluation will be funded as two separate awards under the corresponding categories described below.) The mentoring model that applicants will develop and test should enhance their existing mentoring services, incorporate changes to each of the eight elements of mentoring practice noted below, and be implemented across multiple sites. The evaluation should be a rigorous, random assignment experimental design. This program is authorized pursuant to paragraph (2), under the Juvenile Justice heading, in the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2014, P.L. 113-67, 128 Stat. 5, 64.
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