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Mentoring for Children of Incarcerated Parents

Link

https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-ojjdp-2024-172108

Additional Links

Notice of Funding Opportunity (Grants.gov)

Deadline

Application Deadline: Jun 10, 2024

Sponsor

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

Purpose

Provides grant funding to implement and deliver mentoring services to children of incarcerated parents (COIP). Supports culturally and age/developmentally appropriate mentoring programs designed specifically for COIP in areas with high rates of incarceration. Includes one-on-one, group, and peer mentoring approaches in home, family, school, and/or community settings. Aims to establish programs that promote family engagement and community connectedness and serve as a bridge between youth, families, correctional institutions, schools, and the community through outreach, engagement, and other supportive services.

Program objectives include:

  • Develop culturally and age or developmentally appropriate topics related to addressing COIP internalized and externalized behaviors and coping strategies to adjust to life without having immediate access to the incarcerated parent
  • Recruit and retain mentors who are based in or have strong ties to the communities they serve, and demonstrate credibility, integrity, and leadership
  • Screen and train mentors annually
  • Facilitate at least a weekly group mentoring session to track both mentor and mentee progress and maximize participants' engagement
  • Facilitate at least 4 hours of monthly one-on-one mentoring sessions between mentors and mentees
  • Develop and maintain relationships with community and government agencies to provide participants with or connect them to resources
  • Curate, organize, plan, or execute at least 12 annual accessible community events for participants
  • Supply COIP with resources to contact or visit their incarcerated parents and mentors
  • Provide support to COIP to prepare them for their interaction with the incarcerated parent at least 72 hours before contact
  • Provide support to COIP within 24 hours after they have contact with their incarcerated parent
  • Assist COIP and their caregivers with their transportation needs related to programming and access to the incarcerated parent
  • Facilitate at least 2 annual group meetings with COIP's caregivers
  • Collect information on services offered or referred to parents and children in the program

Amount of Funding

Award ceiling: $400,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 4
Estimated total program funding: $1,600,000

Who Can Apply

Eligible applicants include:

  • Federally recognized tribal governments and tribal organizations
  • Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education
  • Independent school districts

Applicants must have operated an established mentoring program for at least 1 year prior to the release of this opportunity.

Priority consideration is given to proposals 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.

Geographic Coverage

Nationwide

What This Program Funds

Capacity Building • Operating Costs and Staffing • Training Providers

Application Process

Application instructions, requirements, and other information can be found in the funding announcement.

Applications must be submitted electronically through a 2-step process:

  • Step 1: Applicants will submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by the June 10, 2024 deadline.
  • Step 2: Applicants will submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the June 24, 2024 deadline.

Applicant webinar
(Registration required)
May 17, 2024
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern

Contact

For questions on submitting in grants.gov:
800-518-4726
support@grants.gov

For questions on submitting in JustGrants:
833-872-5175
JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov

For programmatic and technical questions:
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Response Center
800-851-3420
TTY at 301-240-6310
grants@ncjrs.gov

Topics This Program Addresses

Community Planning and Coalition Building • Justice System • Parents, Families, and Children • Social Services • Youth