Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Formula Grants

OJJDP's Formula Grants Program supports state and local delinquency prevention and intervention efforts and juvenile justice system improvements. Within the program purpose areas, states can provide job training, mental health and substance abuse treatment, community-based programs and services, reentry/aftercare services, and school programs to prevent truancy. OJJDP provides funds directly to states to help them implement comprehensive juvenile justice plans based on the needs in their jurisdictions.Purpose areas can be found here: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/programs/formula-grant-areas

Eligibility: To be eligible to receive a formula grant under JJDPA Title II, Part B, Formula Grants program, a state must (1) satisfy 33 statutory state plan requirements, (2) designate a state agency to prepare and administer the state’s comprehensive 3-year juvenile justice and delinquency prevention plan, (3) establish a State Advisory Group to provide policy direction and participate in the preparation and administration of the 3-year plan, and (4) commit to achieve and maintain compliance with the four core requirements of the JJDPA: deinstitutionalization of status offenders, separation of juveniles from adult inmates, removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups, and addressing racial and ethnic disparities.

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Walter Cerf Community Fund

The Walter Cerf Community Fund (WCCF) makes grants to address charitable needs in the state of Vermont. Priority interests are the arts, education, historic preservation, and social services, reflecting the pattern of giving established by Mr. Cerf over many years. Within these issue areas, there is a strong desire to support work that addresses the needs of underserved populations. The WCCF prefers proposals that encourage cooperation, collaboration, and community building. We highly value the input of the Preservation Trust and strongly encourage grantseekers for historic preservation projects to consult with the Trust before submitting an application. The WCCF will rarely fund an entire project, but favors projects which have support from a variety of sources.

Eligibility: Grant applications will be accepted from organizations that are located in or serve the people of Vermont. Organizations must be tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or be a public agency, school, or municipality in the state of Vermont. Nonprofit organizations or community groups who do not have 501(c)(3) status may apply for grant awards if another eligible organization acts as a fiscal sponsor.

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Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation 

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) is focused on the most pressing problems facing underserved communities today and invests in proven programs that improve education, health care, homelessness and social justice for all Angelenos. Since 1995, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) has invested more than $25 million in programs and grants to nonprofits. Grant applications are accepted two times a year and we take applicants through a three-month review cycle.

Eligibility:

• Program must fall within one or more of the three LADF Pillars;
• Program must be located in the Greater Los Angeles area. Geographic priority is LA County;
• Request must come from an organization (no funding will be made to individuals);
• Grants will be made only to organizations with open, non-restrictive membership that operate open to all regardless of race, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religious belief or nationality. Nothing in the guidelines shall prohibit a program from specifying an age, sex or physical capacity classification, as long as it is reasonable under all the circumstances, and is consistent with applicable law;
• The organization must be certified as tax exempt under Section 501© (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and is not a private foundation as defined in section 509(a) of that Code. The organization must be in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the California Franchise Tax Board and the California Secretary of State;
• Applicant acknowledges that it has a written policy that addresses its commitment to keep children safe from sexual abuse by preventing, recognizing and responding to situations both on and off the playing field that in any way compromises their safety.

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Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (HHS)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research to support evaluation of innovative programs, practices, or policies to address risk for violence and inequities in risk for violence among groups experiencing a high burden of community violence. This effectiveness research will help expand and advance understanding of approaches to prevent community violence and to eliminate racial and ethnic inequities in risk for community violence. Innovative approaches are those that have not been rigorously evaluated for effectiveness in reducing community violence. Consistent with CDC’s commitment to achieving health equity, investigation of inequities in exposure to and uptake of the selected approaches, and/or stratified analyses examining the differential impacts of the approach across populations disproportionately impacted by violence is a priority. Funds are available to conduct studies focused on preventing all forms of community violence involving youth or young adults (ages 10-34 years), including assaults, homicides, violence between groups, and threats/use of weapons.

Eligibility: Funding will help support the evaluation of primary prevention strategies, programs, or policies that target universal or selected high-risk populations (i.e., populations that have one or more risk factors that place them at heightened risk for perpetration of violence).

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Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program

 The Justice Assistance Grant Program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas including law enforcement, prosecution, indigent defense, courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, planning, evaluation, technology improvement, and crime victim and witness initiatives and mental health programs and related law enforcement and corrections programs, including behavioral programs and crisis intervention teams.

Eligibility: State governments, the District of Columbia, and territories.

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Title V Delinquency Prevention Program

The purpose of this program is to prevent youth at risk of becoming delinquent from entering the juvenile justice system and to intervene with first-time and non-serious offenders to keep them from further contact with the juvenile justice system.The goal is to reduce the likelihood that youth will become serious and violent offenders as adults, reducing the burden of crime on society and saving taxpayers billions of dollars

Eligibility: States, territories, units of local government, federally recognized tribal governments, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and institutions of higher education. Forprofit organizations must agree to waive any profit or fees for services

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Tribal Youth Program (Title V)

The mission of the OJJDP is to strengthen the juvenile justice system by providing training, technical assistance, and information on trends, new approaches, and innovative techniques to juvenile courts and court personnel; law enforcement; detention and corrections; youth service providers; and child advocacy organizations. 

Eligibility: Federally-recognized Indian tribes, tribal coalitions and Native Alaska Villages are eligible to apply.

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Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program

The Tony Grampsas Youth Services (TGYS) program is a statutory program providing funding to community-based organizations for prevention and intervention programs for children, youth, and their families working to prevent youth crime and violence, youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, student dropout, and child abuse and neglect.

Eligibility: Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program (TGYS) funding can be used to fund programs that address factors at the individual and relationship level of the socio-ecological model, fund prevention and intervention programs for youth crime and violence, child abuse and neglect, youth alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and student dropout. Funding can also be used to implement new direct-service programs, with programs providing direct services within six months of award, or continue, enhance, or expand existing direct-service programs. TGYS funding can also be used for reasonable operating and administrative expenses (e.g., database or financial software, fiscal staff, etc.) that directly support TGYS funded programs, as well as program evaluation activities (budget may include 5% for evaluation or $10,000, whichever is lower, per program). It can also fund programs that provide screenings or assessments and referrals if there are post surveying measures or outcomes that can evaluate effectiveness. Intermediary agencies that apply can use funds to prepare communities/local grantees for program implementation and provide staff training, technical assistance, program monitoring, evaluation coordination, and direct service funding to subcontracting agencies.

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