OpportunityTitle: OJJDP FY 2014 Coordinated Assistance for States
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.      OJJDP welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for conducting and leading the project.
Description: OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are healthy, educated, and free from violence. If they come into contact with the juvenile justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them. OJJDP&#146;s Coordinated Assistance for States&#146; project will further this vision by providing states and communities with coordinated resources and training and technical assistance to assist in the planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and assessing of delinquency prevention, intervention, and juvenile justice systems improvement projects. This program is authorized under section 221 of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 5601, et seq. Training and technical assistance topic areas fall under the Title II Formula Grants program areas (see Appendix B, page 27), with emphasis on supporting the following topic areas and/or groups: &#149; State and local ethnic and racial disparities reduction strategies. &#149; State-level compliance monitoring of the core requirements of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDP Act), which are deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO)(42 U.S.C. &#167;223(a)(11), separation (42 U.S.C. &#167;223(a)(12), jail removal (42 U.S.C. &#167;223(a)(13), and disproportionate minority contact (DMC) (42 U.S.C. &#167;223(a)(22). &#149; State advisory groups (SAGs) appointed under the JJDP Act. &#149; State, local, and tribal departments of juvenile justice and corrections, service providers, and private organizations that operate juvenile facilities. &#149; Justice information sharing across juvenile justice, child welfare, mental health, and education systems. &#149; Emergency planning among state, local, and tribal juvenile justice residential facilities based on the principles outlined in Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities, www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/234936.pdf. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 5631-5633) authorizes the Administrator of OJJDP to provide training and technical assistance to states, tribes, and units of local government or nonprofit organizations to support the justice system&#146;s response to juvenile delinquency.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Email
GrantorContactText: Justice Information Center (JIC) at 1&#150;877&#150;927&#150;5657, via e-mail to JIC@telesishq.com, or by live Web chat. JIC hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, and 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern time on the solicitation close date.