OJJDP FY24 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence | O OJJDP 2024 172084

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The OJJDP FY24 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number O-OJJDP-2024-172084) is a discretionary federal grant offered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under CFDA 16.839. It is structured as a cooperative agreement, which generally means the federal agency expects to have an active role during the project period (for example, through collaboration, monitoring, and participation in key decisions), rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back.

The main purpose of the program is to reduce and prevent youth violence in school-based settings serving kindergarten through 12th grade only. OJJDP is aiming to strengthen school safety by helping communities develop, expand, and implement evidence-based and promising violence prevention and reduction approaches. The opportunity is not framed as a purely enforcement-driven school safety effort; instead, it emphasizes strategies that improve overall school climate, which typically includes factors like student connectedness, supportive relationships, consistent and fair discipline practices, and systems that identify and address conflict or risk before it escalates into violence.

A central expectation of the solicitation is collaboration between schools and community-based organizations (CBOs). Applicants are expected to use a coordinated, partnership-driven approach where schools do not operate in isolation, and where local community partners help design and deliver programming, supports, and interventions. The intent is to build a more complete prevention and response capacity by combining what schools can do internally with what community organizations can provide, such as mentoring, behavioral health supports, conflict mediation, youth development programming, family engagement services, and other wraparound resources that can operate in and around the school environment.

Eligibility is broad and includes state governments, county governments, city or township governments, and other units of local government (explicitly including general purpose political subdivisions such as towns, boroughs, parishes, and villages). Other eligible applicants include independent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, tribal organizations (including those not federally recognized as governments), nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. This wide eligibility suggests OJJDP intends to fund a variety of lead applicants, as long as the proposed project is clearly grounded in K-12 school settings and demonstrates meaningful school-CBO collaboration.

Awards are expected to be sizable, with an award ceiling of $1,000,000 per award, and OJJDP anticipated making about 23 awards. The solicitation was created on April 25, 2024, and the original closing date for applications was June 10, 2024. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, which aligns with OJJDP's mission to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and related public safety concerns, while also supporting prevention-oriented, developmentally appropriate interventions for youth.

Overall, this opportunity is designed for applicants that can show a clear, practical plan to reduce youth violence in K-12 schools by scaling interventions with evidence behind them, strengthening school climate, and building durable partnerships between education systems and community organizations so prevention and response efforts are coordinated rather than fragmented.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY24 Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.839.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-25.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-10. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 23 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Others.

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