OJJDP Grant for Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment

Eligible applicants that propose to provide direct services to youth must not include youth who are age 18 or older in the population they will serve.

To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body, or have started the certification process, to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding. To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions: (1) the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and (2) the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward. For detailed information on this certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO to access the Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Implementation Fact Sheet, and the List of Designated Independent Credentialing Bodies.

All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are free from crime and violence. If children encounter the justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneficial to them. The Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative will support states’ implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed recidivism-reduction policies, practices, and programs across multiple juvenile justice system components and disciplines. The justice reinvestment framework requires that states develop and implement sustainable strategies for reinvesting costs saved or averted as the result of these system improvements into proven effective juvenile justice prevention and intervention programs.