OJJDP FY 19 Comprehensive School-based Approach to Youth Violence and Victimization Prevention, Intervention and Accountability | OJJDP 2019 14964

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The OJJDP FY 19 Comprehensive School-based Approach to Youth Violence and Victimization Prevention, Intervention and Accountability opportunity is a discretionary Department of Justice grant program run through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is designed to help communities take an organized, school-centered approach to reducing youth violence and victimization by combining prevention, intervention, and accountability strategies rather than relying on a single program or short-term response. Awards are made as cooperative agreements, meaning recipients should expect an ongoing, active role from the federal agency in shaping, supporting, and monitoring the work.

At its core, the program aims to strengthen school safety and reduce youth harm through four main goals: first, lowering the incidence of school violence by emphasizing appropriate accountability for offenders; second, providing a meaningful response to victimization whether the harm happened at school or in the surrounding community; third, improving overall school safety conditions; and fourth, preventing violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted school and the broader community connected to that school. The framing makes it clear the program is not only about reacting to incidents after they occur, but also about reducing the conditions that allow violence and victimization to take root.

The grant emphasizes addressing the full spectrum of violence that affects children and youth, recognizing that school safety is influenced by more than what happens inside a building during school hours. Funded efforts can focus on issues such as bullying, physical assault, sexual assault, family violence (including child maltreatment and domestic violence), gang activity and gang-related violence, and gun violence. This broad scope reflects the reality that many students experience overlapping risks and trauma, and that victimization in one setting often affects behavior, attendance, learning, and safety in another. Because of that, the program supports both direct service programs (activities that provide services to youth and families) and system-level changes (policy, coordination, protocols, referral pathways, data-sharing practices, and other structural improvements that make responses more consistent and effective).

A central expectation is that funded sites build and implement comprehensive strategies developed through a multidisciplinary strategic action planning process. In practice, this means applicants are expected to bring together key partners across sectors to assess needs, identify priorities, and agree on a coordinated plan. While the specific partners are not listed in the summary text, the multidisciplinary requirement typically implies collaboration among schools, juvenile justice stakeholders, law enforcement where appropriate, behavioral health providers, child welfare, victim services, community-based organizations, and other local leaders who influence youth safety and wellbeing. The program is structured so that planning is not treated as an optional preliminary task, but as the foundation for selecting interventions and accountability approaches that fit local conditions.

In addition to funding local implementation, the opportunity includes support for an identified training and technical assistance provider to help with the initial strategic planning efforts. This is intended to raise the quality and consistency of the planning phase, help communities translate assessment findings into workable strategies, and support stakeholders in building shared processes for prevention, intervention, and accountability. In other words, the grant is set up to help communities avoid fragmented efforts by offering structured support early on, when alignment and decision-making can be most challenging.

From an eligibility and administrative standpoint, the opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number OJJDP 2019 14964) falls under CFDA 16.818 and is categorized under Law, Justice and Legal Services. The summary states eligible applicants include local and tribal government entities, and the eligibility list includes state, county, and city or township governments, special district governments, and federally recognized tribal governments. It also lists for-profit organizations and small businesses, plus an "others" category referencing additional eligibility clarifications in the full announcement, suggesting that some non-government entities may be able to apply under certain conditions or roles, but the stated emphasis is on local and tribal governmental leadership. The application window opened with a creation date of March 21, 2019, and had an original closing date of May 20, 2019.

Funding levels indicate an award ceiling of $800,000, with an expectation of about nine awards. Taken together, that implies the program is intended to support a limited number of sites at relatively substantial funding levels, likely to enable multi-component strategies rather than single isolated services. The overall thrust of the opportunity is to help selected communities build a coordinated, school-based framework that can both prevent violence and victimization and respond effectively when harm occurs, while also strengthening accountability and improving the safety climate for students and staff.

• 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 19 Comprehensive School-based Approach to Youth Violence and Victimization Prevention, Intervention and Accountability" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.818.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 21, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 20, 2019. (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 9 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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