OJJDP FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success | O OJJDP 2023 171851

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The OJJDP FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success opportunity is a discretionary Department of Justice grant, administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), designed to help communities plan and assess how they can build stronger, community-based supports for young people. The overall intent is to reduce youth incarceration and crime by helping jurisdictions create a coordinated continuum of prevention and intervention services that keeps youth at home, connected to their families, and supported in their own communities. The solicitation reflects OJP and OJJDP priorities around advancing civil rights and racial equity, increasing access to justice, supporting victims and system-impacted individuals, strengthening community safety, and building trust between law enforcement and communities. It also aligns with OJJDPs broader vision for juvenile justice transformation: treat children as children, serve them at home and in their communities, and expand opportunity for youth who come into contact with youth-serving systems.

A central expectation of this grant is that applicants build real youth and family partnership into the way the project is designed and carried out. OJJDP emphasizes that young people and family members with lived experience are essential to understanding what works and what is missing in local systems. Applicants are required to describe how they will integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family engagement in both the project plan and the budget, rather than treating it as a one-time consultation. The solicitation recognizes several ways this partnership can show up, including individual-level involvement in case planning and service delivery (before, during, and after system contact), agency-level partnership in program and policy development or advisory structures (including staffing and budget input), and system-level partnership in strategic planning, advocacy, reform, and system improvement efforts.

The funded work focuses on planning and assessment activities that help a community take a clear look at what it already has and what it lacks. The goal is to map existing resources across prevention, diversion, and intervention; identify gaps contributing to deepening system involvement; and develop a practical roadmap for strengthening the service continuum. In other words, the grant is meant to help communities figure out how to prevent initial entry into the juvenile justice system, divert youth away from detention and corrections when possible, and connect youth to evidence-based or promising services that support long-term success such as improved safety, health, stability, and law-abiding behavior. A key theme is that better planning and smarter service coordination can also help communities reinvest cost savings into the most effective prevention and recidivism-reduction strategies, rather than relying on expensive and harmful confinement-driven approaches.

This opportunity was offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning recipients should expect active involvement from the federal funding agency beyond a standard pass-through grant. The funding opportunity number is O-OJJDP-2023-171851, and it is associated with CFDA numbers 16.540, 16.548, and 16.827 under the Law, Justice, and Legal Services activity category. Eligible applicants include a broad range of entities: state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; public and private institutions of higher education; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); and for-profit organizations including small businesses.

The solicitation was posted on August 11, 2023, with an original closing date of September 28, 2023. Awards were capped at up to $1,500,000 per award, with an expected total of 26 awards. Overall, the grant is structured to help localities do the groundwork needed to redesign how youth are supported, using community-based, evidence-informed approaches and sustained youth and family partnership as the backbone of the planning process.

• The Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 2023 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.540, 16.548, 16.827.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 11, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 28, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 26 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, 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, Small businesses.

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