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OJJDP FY 19 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention · OJJDP-2019-14931

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Award Range

$500K – $750K

Total Program Funding

$4.5M

Expected Awards

6

Deadline

April 15, 2019

GRANTQUICK SUMMARYPlain-English Overview

OJJDP FY 19 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention . This program will promote and expand services in detention and correctional facilities to incarcerated individuals who have children younger than age 18. Program activities include developing strategies to increase and enhance communication between the child and his or her incarcerated parent... $500,000-$750,000 per award; $4,500,000 total program funding; ~6 awards expected.

Who Should Apply

Special district governments, City/township governments, State governments, County governments, Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments (+1 more)

Who Should NOT Apply

Organizations not matching the eligible applicant types listed above

Key Requirements (Plain English)

  • •Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories) and units of local government
  • •Deadline: 2019-04-15

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Competitiveness: High — limited number of awards

What This Grant Funds

This program will promote and expand services in detention and correctional facilities to incarcerated individuals who have children younger than age 18. Program activities include developing strategies to increase and enhance communication between the child and his or her incarcerated parent while maintaining safe facilities, and providing transitional reentry services that incorporate a focus on parental responsibility for incarcerated parents and ensuring that youth with an incarcerated parent receive services that support positive youth development.

Who Can Apply

Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories) and units of local government. OJJDP welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, the state or the locality must be the applicant and the other entities must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for conducting and leading the program. Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered. An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (subgrantee) in more than one application.

Eligible Applicant Types

Special District GovernmentsCity/Township GovernmentsState GovernmentsCounty GovernmentsFederally Recognized Tribal GovernmentsOther (see NOFO for details)

Funding Details

Minimum Award
$500K
Maximum Award
$750K
Total Program Funding
$4.5M
Expected Number of Awards
6
Cost Sharing Required?
No
Funding Instrument
grant

Key Dates

Posted: February 13, 2019
Application Deadline: April 15, 2019 (0 days remaining)

Agency Contact

For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html, or at support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. An applicant that experiences unforeseen Grants.gov technical issues beyond its control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline must email the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Response Center (Response Center) at grants@ncjrs.gov within 24 hours after the application deadline to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. Additional information on reporting technical issues appears under “Experiencing Unforeseen Grants.gov Technical Issues” in the How To Apply section. For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the Response Center by telephone at 800–851–3420 or TTY: 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only) or by email at grants@ncjrs.gov. Response Center hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET on the solicitation close date. General information on applying for OJJDP awards can be found at https://www.ojjdp.gov/funding/funding.html. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at https://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2019/FAQ/SCACIP.pdf grants@ncjrs.gov

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