Office of Justice Programs Resources
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Provides training and technical assistance to organizations, groups, and individuals, including judges, attorneys, justice officials, community organizations, and others working to create a more fair, effective, and humane justice system. Offers hands-on support to help plan, implement, and evaluate new policies, programs, practices, and technologies to achieve systemic change, resulting in safer communities, reduced incarceration, and improved community perceptions of and relations with law enforcement and the justice system. Focuses on the following areas of reform: preventing crime, rethinking incarceration, strengthening families, engaging communities, improving decision-making, aiding survivors, and advancing fairness.
Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)Offers a variety of evidence-based resources, information, training, strategic tools, technical assistance, and expert help to communities facing severe and emerging gang problems. Assists with the development of comprehensive strategies to prevent gang involvement, reduce gang-related crime and violence, and improve public safety and well-being in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the nation.
Sponsors: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)Funding
Funding to address substance use disorders (SUDs) and related issues. List may include programs with a primary purpose other than addressing SUDs.
Grants funds to assist jurisdictions with starting a juvenile drug treatment court (JDTC) or strengthening the assessment procedures and treatment systems of an existing JDTC. Seeks to reduce recidivism and substance use through intensive court supervision, effective treatment, and other trauma-informed services for youth with substance use disorder (SUD), such as opioid use disorder (OUD), or co-occurring mental health disorders (CODs).
Application Deadline: Feb 5, 2021Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Offers funding to states, territories, and units of local government to promote and expand services in detention and correctional faculties to meet the needs of incarcerated individuals and their minor children, and to provides services to children of incarcerated parents. Focuses on supporting activities that foster positive family engagement, and programs to reduce the likelihood of antisocial behaviors and future involvement in the juvenile justice system in children with incarcerated parents.
Application Deadline: Feb 5, 2021Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Offers funding to states, territories, local governments, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to increase public safety and reduce recidivism among moderate to high-risk youth following release from a juvenile residential facility. Seeks to support program services within a facility that provide screening and assessment of youth needs, such as mental health, substance use, housing status, and risk of reoffending; identify and coordinate appropriate community-based program services at least 90 days prior to release; provide case management services; and connect youth with evidence-based programming designed to ensure continuity of services and a successful transition from placement to the community during the appropriate prerelease and post-release phases of the reentry program.
Application Deadline: Feb 5, 2021Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Grants funds to help jurisdictions establish new family drug courts (FDCs), enhance existing FDCs, or expand FDC operations state- or county-wide. Offers substance use treatment, prevention, and support services to parents, including veterans, using the family drug court model. Aims to provide recovery support and other services to reunify families and protect children, and supervise parents with opioid use disorder (OUD), other substance use disorders (SUDs), or co-occurring mental health disorders (CODs).
Application Deadline: Feb 8, 2021Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Provides funding to support prevention, intervention, diversion, and treatment programs and services to benefit youth and families impacted by opioids and other substance use disorders. Seeks to enhance public safety through collaboration with law enforcement, courts, organizations that address substance use, child welfare agencies and other community stakeholders. Funding is also available to develop and implement training and technical assistance resources to promote best practices and innovative strategies to address the opioid crisis.
Application Deadline: Feb 8, 2021Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Funds community-based reintegration services for offenders re-entering society from incarceration. Supports the formation and execution of residential and jail-based programs to provide treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and co-occurring mental health disorders (COD) in state, local, and tribal correctional and detention centers.
Application Deadline: Feb 16, 2021Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Provides funding to state, local, and tribal governments to contract with organizations to provide recovery housing and other reentry services for individuals leaving incarceration, with a specific focus on the needs of individuals with substance use disorders (SUD). Aims to increase public safety and lower recidivism rates by helping formerly incarcerated individuals successfully rejoin society. Services funded through this opportunity must be performance-based or outcome-based, making payment dependent upon reaching agreed upon goals.
Application Deadline: Feb 16, 2021Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Supports state and local efforts to plan, implement, and enhance prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) in order to prevent the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs, such as opioids. Strengthens the ability of law enforcement and public health agencies to collect and analyze controlled substance prescription data and to track prescribing across providers and states by integrating PDMPs with electronic health records (EHRs), pharmacy dispensing software (PDS) systems, health information exchanges (HIEs), and other healthcare facilities and systems.
Application Deadline: Feb 19, 2021Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Provides funds to support new and existing adult drug courts (ADCs), veteran treatment courts (VTCs), and other drug courts by offering grants and technical assistance to states, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments. Finances activities centered on preventing overdoses, reducing opioid and other substance abuse, and decreasing recidivism.
Application Deadline: Mar 3, 2021Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Supports state, local, and tribal jurisdictions with evaluating reentry systems for justice-involved individuals and helps build capacity by implementing or expanding reentry programs and enhancing service delivery. Aims to improve the overall quality of reentry systems in order to reduce violence and recidivism for a specific target population. Addresses barriers to successful reentry in the key areas of housing, education, and employment as well as screening, assessment, and referral to treatment for individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) and/or mental health disorders.
Application Deadline: Mar 16, 2021Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Funds for nonprofit organizations and Indian tribes with a documented history of providing comprehensive, evidence-based reentry services to develop or expand comprehensive, evidence-based reentry services and programs. Aims to decrease recidivism and violence by offering case management and other services to help past offenders or previously incarcerated individuals successfully return to their communities, including small or rural communities.
Application Deadline: Mar 16, 2021Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Provides funds to develop a set of clinical guidelines and protocols for the medical management of substance withdrawal in jails. Guides jail administrators, correctional officers, and jail-based clinicians in enacting policies and procedures to safely address issues related to substance withdrawal among the adult detainee population. Focuses on challenges such as rapid withdrawal from opioids, benzodiazepines, methamphetamines, and other substances; risk screening for opioid withdrawal-related suicide; medication maintenance for entering detainees; transitioning to buprenorphine treatment or detoxification; standards for dosage and administration of agonist medication, and other aspects of jail-based withdrawal management. Creates withdrawal guidelines and protocols informed by the best evidence-based clinical practices that are also responsive to the unique needs and challenges of providing care in a jail-based setting.
Application Deadline: Oct 28, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Provides formula grant funding to local governments to enhance the functioning of the criminal justice system, with a focus on efforts to address violent crime and serious offenders. Funds may be used for additional personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, training, technical assistance, and information systems to support activities that will help prevent, control, or reduce crime; enforce the criminal law; and strengthen the courts, corrections, probation, and parole authorities. Supports drug treatment, enforcement, prevention, and education programs.
Application Deadline: Aug 19, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Assists medical examiners and forensic pathologists in efficiently handling the immense need for autopsies that has resulted from opioid-related overdose deaths. Seeks to provide accelerated and improved forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services by funding expenses related to personnel, training, equipment, infrastructure, and more.
Application Deadline: Jun 19, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Assists states in meeting the increased need for autopsies due to opioid-related overdose deaths by improving the quality and efficiency of forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services. Offers funding by formula to enhance personnel, training, equipment, infrastructure, and other components of forensic examination.
Application Deadline: Jun 19, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Enhances the work of medical examiners and coroners in the U.S. by providing funds to agencies accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduated Medical Education (ACGME) to recruit qualified applicants for fellowship programs. Improves medical and legal death investigation services by assisting medical examiner and coroner agencies actively seeking accreditation through an independent accrediting organization.
Application Deadline: Jun 15, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Aims to decrease opioid misuse and opioid-related overdose deaths by offering financial and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal government entities. Helps provide treatment and recovery services for individuals involved with the criminal justice system resulting from opioid, stimulant, or other substance use. Seeks to reduce crime impacts in rural and urban communities.
Application Deadline: Jun 5, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Offers funds and technical assistance to states, local governments, and federally recognized Indian tribes to foster positive interactions between law enforcement and people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse. Aims to establish a partnership among law enforcement and behavioral health professionals to promote improved responses and outcomes for people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse who become involved with the criminal justice system.
Application Deadline: May 18, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Provides funding, technical assistance, and training to support direct services for children and youth who are crime victims and have been impacted the current crisis of addiction and substance use, including the use of opioids, methamphetamines, other substance misuse, and polysubstance use. Supports services for children and youth ages 0-18 and includes direct service activities such as information about and referral to trauma-informed victim services, personal advocacy, medical services, on-scene emotional support at drug/crime related incidents, and follow-up care, including counseling, support groups, and other types of mental health treatment.
Application Deadline: May 4, 2020Sponsor: Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC)
Offers funding to states, territories, local governments, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to increase public safety by supporting cross-system collaboration to improve responses and outcomes for youth with mental illness (MI) or co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse (CMISA) who come into contact with the juvenile justice system.
Application Deadline: May 4, 2020Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Provides funding to community corrections agencies to build capacity and increase the effectiveness of probation and parole programs. Promotes best and evidence-based probation/parole practices, with the goal of increasing success rates for individuals under supervision and reducing rates of recidivism, helping to lower crime, victimization, prison/jail admissions, and taxpayer expense. Assists in the development, implementation, and testing of innovative tools and strategies to help predict violent recidivism and strengthen information sharing efforts. Facilitates collaboration between agencies and officials working in areas related to criminal justice and community corrections.
Application Deadline: Apr 28, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Enhances the ability of corrections systems to provide treatment and recovery services for people with substance use disorders (SUD) both during incarceration and reentry into society. Supports evidence-based SUD treatment services, including medication-assisted treatment, prison-based family treatment programs, screening and assessment for SUD, cognitive behavioral interventions, case management, and recovery support services. Seeks to reduce alcohol and substance use among offenders both while incarcerated and upon release, with the purpose of reducing recidivism, promoting recovery, improving public health and safety, and facilitating successful reentry into society.
Application Deadline: Apr 27, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Expands existing mentoring services and activities for youth ages 17 or younger at risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and justice system involvement. Supports various mentoring approaches, such as one-on-one, group, or peer mentoring, provided in informal, school, or program-based settings, giving special priority to services for youth impacted by opioids. Utilizes mentoring to reduce risk factors and problem behaviors, such as poor school attendance and performance or alcohol and drug use, and works to provide young people opportunities for personal growth and development.
Application Deadline: Apr 13, 2020Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Funds for training and technical assistance to help tribal communities plan, create, and operate programs to address criminal cases of child abuse and neglect, especially cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Funds trauma-informed activities and services, including outreach and awareness efforts, victim assistance, and emergency services for children and family members. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2020Sponsor: Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC)
Funds to support strategic planning and development to improve tribal justice systems, public safety, and community wellness. Supports plans to address violent crime and illegal use of substances, including alcohol and opioids. Offers links to training and technical assistance providers to help communities and law enforcement provide services to victims of child abuse, domestic and/or dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2020Sponsors: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC), Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Office of Violence Against Women (OVW)
Funds to develop new or expand existing juvenile healing to wellness courts to enhance the capacity of tribal courts to respond to the alcohol and substance use related issues of youth under the age of 21. Emphasizes creating comprehensive diversion and alternatives to incarceration programs for those impacted by the opioid epidemic. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2020Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Funds to support the renovation and expansion of existing facilities or the development of prefabricated or permanent modular facilities for tribal justice systems. Supports infrastructure in locations that lack permanent or sufficient structures for staff, resident, and inmate safety and security issues. Seeks to reduce recidivism; promote staff training, health, and wellness; offer correctional alternative programs; implement domestic violence shelters and programs; and increase the functional capacity of facilities. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Funds to tribes to develop, support, and improve adult tribal justice systems. Seeks to support tribal and law enforcement efforts to prevent and reduce crime, including crime related to opioids, alcohol, stimulants, and other substance use. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2020Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Funds tribal efforts to reduce and prevent juvenile delinquency through prevention, intervention, and treatment services to violence-exposed children. Supports interventions for court-involved tribal youth and offers substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and prevention programs. Aims to promote public safety and positive outcomes by helping the juvenile justice system respond more fairly to American Indian and Alaska Native youth. Part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Application Deadline: Feb 25, 2020Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Funds for rural communities to prevent and reduce opioid overdose deaths among individuals who come into contact with law enforcement or are involved with the criminal justice system in high-risk rural communities and regions. Strengthens activities related to strategic planning, cross-sector collaboration, data collection, opioid prescribing, overdose prevention, linkage to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, and peer recovery support services.
Application Deadline: Jul 26, 2019Sponsors: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Funds for demonstration projects to support statewide adoption of the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) mobile tool. ODMAP helps states quickly track and analyze fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses and the administration of naloxone by first responders. Works to establish coalitions in local communities to use ODMAP data to inform public health and safety interventions for specific geographic areas or populations at high risk for overdose.
Application Deadline: Jun 27, 2019Sponsors: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Supports communities and law enforcement in developing and implementing evidence-based suppression strategies outlined in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Comprehensive Gang Model that target youth who are currently at risk of being involved with gangs. Works to promote public safety by reducing gang violence and victimization experienced by youth and decreasing risk factors associated with juvenile delinquency, such as substance abuse.
Application Deadline: Jun 24, 2019Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Provides funds to increase the capacity of law enforcement agencies to reduce violence, gang-related crime, and delinquency and victimization by youth, specifically transitional-aged minors. Supports evidence-based prevention, intervention, enforcement, and trauma response strategies to foster public safety and help youth heal from violent experiences. Provides funding and technical assistance to communities to develop and implement effective strategies that address transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and decrease gang involvement for unaccompanied alien children (UAC).
Application Deadline: Oct 4, 2018Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
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Describes opportunities and resources related to mentoring, including relevant research, programmatic grants, training and technical assistance, and publications. Aims to increase access to effective mentoring services for youth in hopes of reducing youth substance use, aggression, depression, and criminal behavior while improving self-esteem, academic performance, and peer relationships.
Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)Video recording sharing highlights from a December 13-14, 2018 workshop in Knoxville, Tennessee attended by rural sheriffs and judges. Workshop hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development and the Bureau of Justice Assistance to brainstorm ideas and discuss new methods to address the opioid crisis.
Sponsors: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), USDA Rural Development (USDA RD)Provides an overview of the Second Change Act (SCA) grant programs that support state, local, and tribal governments and other nonprofit organization to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for individuals who have been incarcerated.
Sponsor: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)