OJJDP FY 2023 Supporting Effective Interventions for Youth With Problematic or Illegal Sexual Behavior | O OJJDP 2023 171641

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The OJJDP FY 2023 Supporting Effective Interventions for Youth With Problematic or Illegal Sexual Behavior opportunity is a Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) discretionary funding program offered through a cooperative agreement. Its core purpose is to help communities build or strengthen coordinated, evidence-informed intervention and supervision services for youth who have engaged in problematic or illegal sexual behavior, while also ensuring that victims and their families or caregivers can access appropriate treatment and supportive services. The program is grounded in broader DOJ and OJP priorities that emphasize civil rights, racial equity, improved access to justice, support for victims and justice-involved individuals, community safety, and trust between communities and law enforcement.

A major theme of the solicitation is OJJDPs larger vision for juvenile justice reform, framed around treating children as children, serving youth at home with their families and in their communities whenever possible, and opening up opportunities for youth who are involved in, or at risk of becoming involved in, youth-serving systems. Applicants are encouraged to show how their proposed work aligns with those system transformation priorities. Rather than focusing only on compliance or punishment, OJJDP signals a preference for responses that are developmentally appropriate, rehabilitative, and designed to keep young people connected to family and community supports when safe and feasible.

Another central expectation is meaningful and sustained youth and family partnership. OJJDP frames youth and families, including those with lived experience in youth-serving systems, as essential partners in designing and delivering solutions. Applications are expected to explain in practical terms how youth and family partnership will be integrated into the project plan and reflected in the budget, not treated as an add-on. The solicitation describes partnership as something that can occur at multiple levels: individually through shared case planning and service delivery before, during, and after system contact; at the agency level through involvement in policies, program design, implementation, evaluation, staffing decisions, advisory bodies, and even budget development; and at the system level through strategic planning, system improvement efforts, advocacy, and reform initiatives.

In terms of service delivery, OJJDP expects funded sites to have an established multidisciplinary team that can support a comprehensive, holistic approach for youth with problematic or illegal sexual behavior. This team-based approach is meant to ensure that responses are coordinated across relevant disciplines (for example, juvenile justice, behavioral health, child advocacy, victim services, schools, and other community partners as applicable) and that services address the needs of the youth while also prioritizing safety and support for victims. Importantly, the solicitation ties youth-focused interventions to parallel supports for victims and for victims families or caregivers, indicating that successful projects should not treat these as separate or competing priorities but as connected components of a responsible community response.

The target population is clearly defined by age: applicants must be able to initiate services for youth who are age 17 or younger at the time they are admitted to the program. In practice, that means proposed models should be designed specifically for minors and incorporate developmentally appropriate assessment, intervention planning, supervision strategies, and family engagement practices. While the solicitation highlights intervention and supervision for youth, it also emphasizes treatment and support services for victims and for families or caregivers, reinforcing that the funded work should include both accountability and healing-oriented components.

Administratively, this is a competitive opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number O-OJJDP-2023-171641) with an award ceiling of $450,000 and an expectation of about four awards. The assistance listing is CFDA 16.543, and the activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The original posting date was March 23, 2023, with an original closing date of May 11, 2023. Because the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, applicants should anticipate a more active federal role than in a standard grant, meaning OJJDP may have substantial involvement in areas such as project design refinement, implementation support, reporting expectations, or alignment with federal priorities.

Eligible applicants are broad and include state, county, and city or township governments; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in those nonprofit categories); and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. Overall, the opportunity is aimed at communities that can demonstrate readiness to deliver coordinated services through a multidisciplinary structure, commit to sustained youth and family partnership, and implement interventions that reflect OJJDPs emphasis on equity, victim support, community-based care, and developmentally appropriate approaches for system-involved youth.

• The Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 2023 Supporting Effective Interventions for Youth With Problematic or Illegal Sexual Behavior" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.543.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 23, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 11, 2023. (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 $450,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses.

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