OJJDP FY24 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success | O OJJDP 2024 172146

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OJJDP 2024 172146

The OJJDP FY24 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success grant is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is designed to help jurisdictions strengthen how they prevent youth from entering the juvenile justice system and how they respond more effectively when young people are already at risk or involved. Rather than focusing on a single program, the emphasis is on planning and assessment work that helps communities identify, coordinate, and improve a set of services across the full range of youth needs, often described as a "continuum of care." The aim is to build a more connected, community-based approach so youth can access the right supports at the right time, instead of relying on fragmented or purely justice-system-driven responses.

This solicitation specifically supports jurisdictions in examining and selecting promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services. Applicants are expected to look at what is currently available in their community, assess gaps and overlaps, and use research and local data to determine which approaches are most likely to reduce reoffending and improve youth outcomes. The long-term vision goes beyond short-term project outputs. OJJDP is pushing for sustainable, research-based, and data-informed policies and practices that reduce recidivism and improve decision-making across agencies. A key theme is "strategic reinvestment," meaning that as jurisdictions implement reforms that reduce reliance on costly approaches (for example, unnecessary confinement or inefficient system processes), any cost savings should be intentionally redirected into prevention and intervention strategies that have stronger evidence of effectiveness for young people and families.

Awards under this opportunity are made as cooperative agreements, which typically means the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement in the funded work compared to a standard grant. The program falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category and is associated with CFDA number 16.548. The funding opportunity number is O-OJJDP-2024-172146, and the opportunity was created on May 22, 2024, with an original application closing date of July 8, 2024. OJJDP anticipated making approximately 13 awards, with an award ceiling of up to $800,000 per award, indicating mid-sized awards meant to support serious local planning, assessment, and system-development efforts rather than small pilot activities.

Eligible applicants include state governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and other eligible entities, with the description highlighting units of local government such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, and other general-purpose political subdivisions of a state. In practical terms, the opportunity is geared toward local jurisdictions that can convene partners and influence how youth-serving systems work together, including juvenile justice, schools, behavioral health, child welfare, community-based providers, and other stakeholders. The overall objective is to help communities build a coordinated, community-based framework of prevention and intervention services that is grounded in evidence and local data, improves outcomes for youth, and supports lasting reforms that can be maintained through smarter reinvestment of resources over time.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY24 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.548.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-05-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-08. (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 $800,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 13 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Others.

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