OJJDP FY24 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success – Training and Technical Assistance – Invited to Apply | O OJJDP 2024 172225

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The OJJDP FY24 Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success - Training and Technical Assistance - Invited to Apply opportunity is a continuation cooperative agreement program from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), focused on helping jurisdictions strengthen how they prevent youth from entering the juvenile justice system and how they respond when youth are already involved. The core of the solicitation is not direct service expansion on its own, but structured training and technical assistance (TTA) that helps communities plan, assess, and align a set of promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services into a coherent, community-based continuum of care. In practical terms, the work is meant to help local leaders understand what programs they currently have, what gaps exist, what the research suggests works, and how to organize services so youth can access the right supports at the right time without falling through cracks between agencies and systems.

A central theme of this grant is building sustainable, research-based, and data-informed approaches to reducing recidivism. OJJDP emphasizes that jurisdictions should use data to guide decisions about policies, practices, and programming, and then keep refining those decisions as results come in. The long-term vision goes beyond short-term improvements: the program is designed to support reforms that can lower system involvement and reoffending, and then use any cost savings created by those reforms to strategically reinvest in prevention and intervention efforts that are proven to help young people succeed. That reinvestment idea reflects a broader public-safety strategy: when communities rely less on expensive and often less effective responses, they can redirect resources toward interventions that address root causes such as unmet behavioral health needs, disrupted schooling, family stressors, substance use, trauma exposure, and lack of stable connections to pro-social supports.

The funding opportunity is identified as OJJDP 2024 172225 under Assistance Listing (CFDA) 16.827, categorized under Law, Justice and Legal Services. It is labeled "Invited to Apply," and the eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," which in context typically indicates a limited, continuation-leaning competition rather than an open nationwide solicitation. The solicitation also names the Institute for Intergovernmental Research, JBS International, Inc., and the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, signaling that these organizations are the intended recipients or key partners for delivering the TTA and supporting jurisdictions through the planning and assessment process.

In terms of scale and timing, the opportunity has an award ceiling of $500,000, with OJJDP expecting to make three awards. The original closing date was August 21, 2024, and the posting/creation date was August 16, 2024, indicating a short application window consistent with an invited or continuation-type announcement. Overall, this grant is best understood as a capacity-building investment: it aims to equip communities with the guidance, tools, and expert support needed to design and maintain a local continuum of care that is evidence-driven, coordinated across systems, and capable of producing measurable improvements in youth outcomes while reducing repeated justice involvement 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 – Training and Technical Assistance – Invited to Apply" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.827.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-08-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-08-21. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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