Grant Details

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. The purpose of the Formula Grants Program solicitation is two-fold:

• Create an overarching, developmentally-appropriate, and trauma-informed framework for states to use to inform and connect youth justice work to development of individual and multi-agency, comprehensive state plans that support the well-being of all youth.
• Give specific instruction for the Three-Year Plan to achieve the formula grant program goals.

 In Louisiana, formula funding may be used for the following program areas:

1. Aftercare/Re-entry - Programs to prepare targeted juvenile offenders to successfully return to their communities after serving a period of secure confinement in a training school, juvenile correctional facility, or other secure institution. Aftercare programs focus on preparing juvenile offenders for release and providing a continuum of supervision and services after release.
2. Alternatives to Detention - Alternative services provided to a juvenile offender in the community as an alternative to incarceration.
3. Child Abuse and Neglect Programs - Programs that provide treatment to juvenile offenders who are victims of child abuse or neglect and to their families, in order to reduce the likelihood that such juvenile offenders will commit subsequent violations of law.
4. Children of Incarcerated Parents - Services designed to prevent delinquency or treat delinquency or treat delinquent juveniles who are the children of incarcerated parents.
5. Community Assessment Centers (CAC) - Centers that lead to more integrated and effective cross-system services for juveniles and their families. CACs are designed to positively impact the lives of youths and divert them from a path of serious, violent, and chronic delinquency. Using a collaborative approach, CACs serve the community in a timely, cost-efficient, and comprehensive manner.
6. Compliance Monitoring - Programs, research, staff support, or other activities designed primarily to enhance or maintain a State's ability to adequately monitor jails, detention facilities, and other facilities, to assure compliance
7. Court Services - Programs designed to encourage courts to develop and implement a continuum of pre- and post-adjudication restraints that bridge the gap between traditional probation and confinement in a correctional setting. Services include expanded use of probation, mediation, restitution, community service, treatment, home detention, intensive supervision, electronic monitoring, translation services and similar programs, and secure community-based treatment facilities linked to other support services.
8. Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed to eliminate or prevent the placement of nonoffenders and accused or adjudicated status offenders in secure facilities
9. Delinquency Prevention - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed to reduce the incidence of delinquent acts and directed to the general youth population thought to be at-risk” of becoming delinquent. This category includes what is commonly referred to as primary prevention” (e.g., parent education, peer counseling, etc.).
10. Disproportionate Minority Confinement - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed primarily to reduce the proportion of minority youth in secure confinement if such proportion exceeds the proportion such groups represent in the general population
11. Diversion - Programs to divert juveniles from entering the juvenile justice system.
12. Gangs - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed primarily to address issues related to juvenile gang activity. This program area includes prevention and intervention efforts directed at reducing gang-related activities.
13. Gender-specific Services - Services designed to address needs unique to the gender of the individual to whom such services are provided.
14. Graduated Sanctions - A system of sanctions that escalate in intensity with each subsequent, more serious delinquent offense.
15. Gun Programs - Programs (excluding programs to purchased from juveniles) designed to reduce the unlawful acquisition and illegal use of guns by juveniles.
16. Hate Crimes - Programs designed to prevent and reduce hate crimes committed by juveniles.
17. Jail Removal - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed to eliminate or prevent the placement of juveniles in adult jails and lockups
18. Job Training - Projects to enhance the employability of juveniles or preparing them for future employment. Such programs may include job readiness training, apprenticeships, and job referrals.
19. Juvenile Justice System Improvement - Programs, research, and other initiatives designed to examine issues or improve practices, policies, or procedures on a system-wide basis (e.g., examining problems affecting decisions from arrest to disposition, detention to corrections, etc.)
20. Mental Health Services - Services include, but are not limited to, the development and/or enhancement of diagnostic, treatment, and prevention instruments; psychological and psychiatric evaluations; counseling services; and/or family support services.
21. Mentoring - Programs designed to develop and sustain a one-to-one supportive relationship between a responsible adult age 18 or older (mentor) and an at-risk juvenile (mentee), which takes place on a regular basis.
22. Native American Programs - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed primarily to address juvenile justice and delinquency prevention issues for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
23. Planning and Administration - Activity related to State plan development, other pre-awarded activities, administration of the Formula Grant Program, including evaluation and monitoring
24. Probation - Programs to permit juvenile offenders to remain in their communities under conditions prescribed by the juvenile court.
25. Restitution/Community Service - Programs to hold juveniles accountable for their offenses by requiring community services or repayment to the victim.
26. Rural Area Juvenile Programs - Prevention, intervention, and treatment services in an area located outside a metropolitan statistical area as designated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
27. School Programs - Education programs and/or related services designed to prevent truancy, suspension, and expulsion. School safety programs may include support for school resource officers and law-related education.
28. Separation of Juveniles from Adult Offenders - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed to eliminate or prevent the confinement of juveniles in institutions where they may come into contact with adults who are convicted of a crime or are awaiting trail on criminal charges
29. Serious Crimes - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed to address serious and violent criminal-type behavior by youth. This program area includes intervention, treatment, and reintegration of serious and violent juvenile offenders.
30. Sex Offender Programs - Programs to support the assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, supervision, and accountability of juvenile sex offenders.
31. State Advisory Group Allocation - Activities related to carrying out the State Advisory Group's responsibilities
32. Substance Abuse - Programs, research, or other initiatives designed to address the use and abuse of illegal and other prescription and nonprescription drugs and the use and abuse of alcohol. Programs include control, prevention, and treatment.
33. Youth Advocacy - Projects designed to develop and implement advocacy activities focused on improving services for and protecting the rights of youth affected by the juvenile justice system.
34. Youth Courts - Youth courts (also known as teen courts) are juvenile justice programs where peers play an active role in the disposition of the juvenile offender. Most youth courts are used as a sentencing option for first-time offenders charged with misdemeanor or non-violent offenses, who acknowledge their guilt. The youth court serves as an alternative to the traditional juvenile court.
35. Strategic Community Action Planning – Programs and activities that bring together committed community leaders and residents to identify and access existing local resources for the development of a multifaceted response to juvenile justice issues.