CFDA#
16.839
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Summary
The OJJDP FY 2024 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence program supports 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:
- reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and
- prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.
OJJDP has identified the following specific program objectives:
- Improve school capacity to prevent incidents of violence and intervene early to address them.
- Enhance and expand partnerships between school systems and community-based organizations to address school violence.
- Expand opportunities for family engagement with school personnel to mutually address risk factors for violence.
- Improve communication between home and school to enhance protective factors for student success.
This program seeks to increase school safety through the development and expansion of evidence-based and promising violence prevention and reduction programs and strategies to support school climate. Through this initiative, OJJDP expects applicants to utilize a collaborative approach between schools and community-based organizations (CBOs) to develop and implement these strategies. Funded sites under this initiative will operate from the following three principles:
- Relationships between schools and CBOs require open lines of communication and a shared commitment at the leadership level to accomplish the core goal of increasing school safety and improving school climate.
- Key contributors to youth violence include risk factors within the individual, family, and school/community domains. Funded strategies must address all three to be successful.
- Families are critical partners in dealing with school violence, and their engagement is a critical ingredient for success.
History of Funding
The total allocation in FY23 was $22,000,000 with a maximum award of $1,000,000.
The total allocation in FY22 was $24,500,000 with a maximum award of $3,500,000.
2022 awards can be seen at: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/awards/list?field_award_status_value=All&state=All&field_funding_type_value=All&fiscal_year=&combine_awards=Enhancing+School+Capacity+To+Address+Youth+Violence&awardee=&city=#awards-awards-list-block-gkgdpm1ooymuyukj
Additional Information
Each funded project site will identify a service network of CBOs that have experience in operating violence prevention and early intervention programs with youth and families. This cross-sector network will offer a bridge between families and the identified school to prevent and reduce violence. Funding from this solicitation must support the following components for project sites:
- A local coordinator to lead the project, support the development of any needed memorandums of understanding (MOUs), host regular meetings, and ensure that each involved agency and school identifies a dedicated liaison to the initiative.
- Development or expansion of violence prevention and reduction strategies to be implemented by CBOs that provide the target youth population with supportive services. These services should:
- Be individualized to the particular student
- Engage the family as a critical change agent.
- Include an intensive case management approach delivered by a CBO that connects youth and families with the existing network of services to meet the needs of the individual youth. This includes addressing access to service issues. We know that if the basic needs of the students are not met, students may exhibit behavioral issues.
Applicants must propose and undertake their work through a multidisciplinary, multiagency team of stakeholders. This can be an existing collaborative group or one that is formed specifically for this project. At a minimum, stakeholders should include representation from the Local Education Agency (LEA) where the initiative is taking place, as well as relevant CBOs that support the identified service support to be provided. In addition to educators, this multidisciplinary team could include mental health, child welfare and social services, youth-serving community organizations, county/local public sector leadership, courts/probation, and law enforcement.
The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
Two priority areas include:
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
- Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40 percent of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget web-based form) are a population-specific organization that serves communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
To receive this additional priority consideration, applicants must describe how being a culturally specific organization (or funding the culturally specific subrecipient organization(s)) will enhance their ability to implement the proposed project(s) and should also specify which populations are intended or expected to be served or to have their needs addressed under the proposed project(s).
This program is funded to support the purposes authorized under the Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018 (or STOP School Violence Act). Funds may not be used for the purchase of target-hardening equipment to secure schools, such as cameras, security systems, fencing, locks, etc. In addition, these funds may not be used to pay for armed security officers or school resource officers. Applicants interested in funding for target hardening should refer to the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP).
The OJJDP has offered a webinar for this program on May 9, 2024. For more information, go to https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/events/stop-school-violence-program-fy-2024-solicitation
Eligibility Details
Eligible applicants include:
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Other - units of local government (such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state)
Private K–12 schools, including private charter schools, should apply as nonprofits.” Private for-profit K–12 schools, including for-profit private charter schools, should apply as for-profit other than small businesses.” Public charter schools should apply as independent school districts.”
OJJDP will consider applications under which two or more entities (project partners) would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant for the solicitation. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees).
Deadline Details
The SF-424 and the SF-LLL are to be submitted in Grants.gov by June 10, 2024 at 11:59 pm. The full application is to be submitted in JustGrants by June 24, 2024 at 8:59 pm. Similar deadlines are anticipated annually.
Award Details
Approximately $23,000,000 is available in FY24. Twenty three (23) awards are anticipated to be given. Maximum award is $1,000,000. Project period is 36-months. Cost share / match is not required.
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