Upcoming Grants Related to Criminal/Juvenile Justice
U.S. Department of Justice: Coordinated Tribal Assistance
Deadline: Feb 24, 2015
The Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) provides federally-recognized Tribes and Tribal consortia the opportunity to conduct comprehensive planning, enhance law enforcement, bolster justice systems, support and enhance efforts to prevent and control delinquency and strengthen the juvenile justice system, prevent youth substance abuse, serve sexual assault and elder victims, and support other efforts to combat...
Project TEAM: Technical Assistance – Tribal, State, and Local Government Collaborative for Joint Jurisdictional Court Initiative
Deadline: Jan 30, 2015
Project TEAM has been funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to assist federally-recognized Indian tribes and their state or local government partners with developing a joint jurisdiction collaborative initiative in the courts or criminal justice system. The goal of Project TEAM is to improve client outcomes, build relationships...
U.S. Department of Education: Performance Partnership Pilots
Deadline: Mar 4, 2015
The Performance Partnership Pilots (P3) program will enable up to ten pilot sites to test innovative, outcome-focused strategies to achieve significant improvements in educational, employment, and other key outcomes for disconnected youth using new flexibility to blend existing Federal funds and to seek waivers of associated program requirements. Disconnected youth are defined as individuals between...
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation: Reclaiming Futures
Deadline: Nov 13, 2014
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will fund two new Reclaiming Futures sites, to join its existing national network of sites. The Reclaiming Futures model combines system reforms, treatment improvement, and community engagement to help young people break the cycle of drugs, alcohol and crime. Key elements of the Reclaiming Futures model include: Establishing substance abuse...
U.S. Department of Justice: Second Chance Act Strengthening Relationships Between Young Fathers and Their Children: A Reentry Mentoring Project
Deadline: Jul 17, 2014
The FY 2014 Second Chance Act Strengthening Relationships Between Young Fathers and Their Children: A Reentry Mentoring Project helps ensure that the transition young fathers make from secure confinement facilities back to their families and their communities is successful and promotes public safety. The current solicitation will fund mentoring and comprehensive transitional services, emphasizing developing parenting skills, to offenders...
U.S. Department of Justice: Service, Support & Justice – A Strategy to Enhance Law Enforcement Response to Victims Demonstration Project
Deadline: Jun 9, 2014
In 2009, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) released a national strategy and toolkit of implementation resources to support the enhancement of law enforcement’s response to victims of crime. Under the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims (ELERV) initiative, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), the strategy and resources were developed, pilot-tested, and validated...
U.S. Department of Justice: Tribal Community Wellness Centers – Serving Crime Victims’ Needs
Deadline: Jul 15, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime’s goal for this solicitation is to foster innovation that will support efforts of a tribal community to expand current crime victim assistance programs or models to address the complex, longer-term challenges many victims face. Consequently, this solicitation offers tribes an opportunity to address underlying factors such as poverty,...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Minority Youth Violence Prevention: Integrating Public Health and Community Policing
Deadline: Jun 13, 2014
The Office of Minority Health (OMH), in partnership with the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, is supporting a national initiative to integrate public health and violence prevention approaches. OMH is seeking applications from organizations that can serve as demonstration sites for addressing both the disparities in access to public health and the elevated risk of violence and...
U.S. Department of Justice: Smart Pretrial Demonstration Initiative
Deadline: May 27, 2014
The Smart Pretrial Demonstration Initiative (SPDI), administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), is part of BJA’s “Smart Suite” of crime fighting programs—Smart Prosecution, Smart Policing, Smart Supervision, and now Smart Pretrial. The FY 2014 SPDI grant program seeks to build upon analysis-driven, evidence-based pretrial justice by encouraging local and tribal jurisdictions to effectively implement...
U.S. Department of Justice: Second Chance Act Two-Phase Juvenile Reentry Demonstration Program: Planning and Implementation
Deadline: Jun 2, 2014
The purpose of this solicitation is to support demonstration projects to improve juvenile reentry outcomes. The objectives of this reentry process are to provide youth with services and supervision in both confinement and the community—based on and matched to their assessed risks and criminogenic needs—that support their successful reentry. Youths’ reentry plans should reflect specific...
U.S. Department of Justice: Second Chance Act Two-Phase Adult Reentry Demonstration Program: Planning and Implementation
Deadline: Jun 2, 2014
The goal of this program is to support jurisdictions to develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative strategies that address the challenges posed by reentry to increase public safety and reduce recidivism for medium to high risk individuals reentering communities from incarceration. Within the context of this initiative, “reentry” is not envisioned to be a specific...
U.S. Department of Justice: Second Chance Act Comprehensive Community-Based Adult Reentry Program Utilizing Mentors
Deadline: Jun 2, 2014
The Second Chance Act grant programs are designed to help communities develop and implement comprehensive, evidence-based, and collaborative strategies that promote success and reduce the likelihood of recidivism of individuals returning from incarceration. “Reentry” is not a specific program, but rather a process that starts at jail or prison intake, and ends when formerly incarcerated...
U.S. Department of Justice: Vision 21: Using Technology To Expand National and International Access to Victim Services
Deadline: May 15, 2014
This program will provide project funding to eligible nonprofit organizations that propose to use technology creatively to interact directly with crime victims and provide information, referral, crisis assistance, and longer term help. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications under the three following categories of victim service projects: 1. National-Scope Victim Service Initiatives:...
U.S. Department of Justice: Practitioner-Researcher Partnership Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents Demonstration Program
Deadline: May 27, 2014
This demonstration program will support a practitioner-researcher partnership to develop and evaluate new mentoring practices to serve the needs of youth whose parents are incarcerated. Incarcerated parents and their children are a heterogeneous group, and associations between parental incarceration and developmental outcomes are complicated. However, research has shown that having an incarcerated parent can present...
U.S. Department of Labor: Face Forward 2 – Intermediary and Community Grants
Deadline: May 2, 2014
Face Forward 2 – Intermediary and Community grants will offer organizations the opportunity to develop programs that address the employment barriers of court-involved youth while helping these youth develop the employment skills needed to obtain good jobs. These grants will help participants move forward into the future by combining the most promising workforce and juvenile...