The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding to develop, enhance, or expand arts programs for justice-involved youth.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/06/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting high-quality arts programs for current and previous justice-involved youth, including Tribal and Indigenous youth, to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors. OJJDP defines justice-involved youth as those participating in court-ordered diversion programs in detention, correctional, or other residential facilities, and/or who are on probation due to a delinquency finding by juvenile court.
OJP 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.
Applicants must describe how their proposed project/program will integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships into their project plan and budget. Depending on the nature of an applicant’s proposed project, youth and family partnership could consist of one or more of the following:
- Individual-level partnership in case planning and direct service delivery (before, during, and after contact with youth-serving systems).
- Agency-level partnership (e.g., in policy, practice, and program development, implementation, and evaluation; staffing; advisory bodies; budget development).
- System-level partnership (e.g., in strategic planning activities, system improvement initiatives, advocacy strategies, reform efforts).
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support high-quality arts programs for justice involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and highrisk behaviors. This project seeks to support and strengthen collaborations between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance effective interventions, which may involve emphasizing the unique capability of the art interventions to enhance protective factors and reduce risk factors that lead to justice system involvement, including individual characteristics, social influences, and community conditions.
Goals, Objectives and Deliverables
Goals
- Goal 1: Reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors of justice-involved youth through the development, enhancement, and/or expansion of high-quality, culturally relevant arts programs.
- Goal 2: Increase participation of justice-involved youth in high-quality arts programs that are in alignment with OJJDP’s overarching priority areas and that integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships in their program design and budget.
Objectives
An applicant should address the objectives that are relevant to their proposed program/project in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline web-based form.
- Objective 1: Increase collaboration between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems through the development, enhancement, or expansion of partnerships.
- Objective 2: Increase access to high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth.
- Objective 3: Increase the number of current or previous justice-involved youth participating in high-quality arts programs that seek to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors.
- Objective 4: Reduce risk factors and increase protective factors of justice-involved youth through participation in high-quality arts programs.
Deliverables
Grant deliverables include the following:
- Collaborative partnerships between juvenile courts and arts-based resources to provide justice-involved youth with high-quality arts programs for diversion and probation.
- Collaborative partnerships between juvenile detention, correctional, and other residential facilities and arts-based resources to provide high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth.
- High-quality community-based arts programs for current or previous justice-involved youth.
- Culturally relevant and responsive community-based programs for racial and ethnic minority justice-involved youth.
Funding Information
- Total Funding Award: $250,000
- Maximum Award: $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.