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OJJDP FY24 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Demonstration Program: Implementing the Juvenile Facility Standards

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support state, local, and Tribal juvenile justice residential facilities, and the agencies that oversee them, with the recruitment and retention of staff to assist in complying with the staffing ratio requirements outlined in the national Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.

OJJDP FY24 Expanding Youth Access to Community-Based Treatment – Training and Technical Assistance and Program Development

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to fund a training and technical assistance provider to build capability and capacity of diversion programs serving justice-involved youth under the age of 18 with substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder needs.

OJJDP FY24 Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to fund mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement.

OJJDP FY24 Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency.

OJJDP FY24 Juvenile Justice Evidence Translation Project

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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 FY24 Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Solicitation Webinar

April 2024
Held on April 26, 2024, this webinar assisted eligible applicants interested in applying for the OJJDP FY 2024 Reducing Risk for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Solicitation. It provided a general overview of the program, the goals and objectives, a discussion about the application process, and a Q&A opportunity for participants.

OJJDP FY24 Youth Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks applications for funding to support cross-system collaboration to improve responses and outcomes for youth under the age of 18 or youth under the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders who come in contact with the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP FY24 Children's Advocacy Centers National Subgrants Program

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With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide support to children's advocacy centers (CACs) through a variety of subgrant assistance designed to enhance effective interventions in child abuse cases.

OJJDP FY24 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence

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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.