NIJ Grant: National Longitudinal Study on Young Adult Interpersonal Violence

With this solicitation, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for a nationally representative, longitudinal study examining long-term trajectories of risk for, experiences with, and recovery after experiencing interpersonal violence (IV, victimization and perpetration) among young adults who do and do not attend college. NIJ is interested in a range of IV committed by partners, family members, acquaintances, and strangers, including nonconsensual sexual contact, intimate partner violence, and stalking. Applicants are strongly encouraged to refer to and familiarize themselves with the recommended study design outlined in the final report for the National Study of Young Adults, Longitudinal Cohort Pilot Study (see https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/300704.pdf) and the relevant study data and materials at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research’s (ICPSR) National Archive of Criminal Justice Data or NACJD (ICPSR 37914, https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACJD/studies/37914). However, applicants are not limited to these previous recommendations and study materials. Applicants who demonstrate that they will augment the study design to reflect present day contexts and conditions, and/or offer newer and innovative methods, modes, and approaches that enhance efficiency and effectiveness, will be given greater consideration.

NIJ expects that this effort will be funded incrementally, subject to the availability of funds. Applicants are expected to develop their project design in phases with discrete deliverables at the end of each phase, and to budget accordingly. The funds provided with this solicitation in FY 2023 are intended to support only the initial phase(s) of this multi-year effort. The SF-424 and JustGrants budget submitted with the application should reflect the initial phase(s) to be supported by funding available under this solicitation. The applicant’s proposed deliverables for the initial phase(s) must include, at a minimum, the deliverables identified under “Interim Project Deliverables” (see below under “Deliverables”). The applicant is also expected to provide, as a separate attachment, a budget for the full multi-year study using the budget template available at https://www.ojp.gov/funding/apply/forms/ojp-budget-detail-worksheet.

It is anticipated that upon successful completion of the initial phase(s), subsequent years of the project will be funded as a supplement, subject to the availability of funds.

NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of the study, including, but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers, and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement.

Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable.

Applications proposing research involving partnerships with criminal justice or other agencies, should include a letter of support, signed by an appropriate decision-making authority from each proposed, partnering agency. A letter of support should include the partnering agency’s acknowledgement that de-identified data derived from, provided to, or obtained through an award funded by NIJ will be archived by the grant recipient with the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the conclusion of the award. Applicants and their potential partners are encouraged to review NIJ’s data archiving guidance. If selected for an award, grantees will be expected to have a formal agreement in place with partnering agencies by January 1, 2024. That formal agreement must include a provision to meet the data archiving requirements of the award.

NIJ seeks proposals that include robust, creative, and multi-pronged dissemination strategies that include strategic partnerships with organizations and associations that are best equipped to ensure that research findings lead to changes in policies and practices related to the subjects of study. Special consideration will be given to proposals that dedicate at least 15% of the requested project award funding toward implementing such strategies, as demonstrated in the Budget Worksheet and Budget Narrative.

In the case of partnerships that will involve the use of federal award funds by multiple partnering agencies to carry out the proposed project, only one entity/partnering agency may be the applicant (as is the case with any application submitted in response to this solicitation); any others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant is expected to conduct a majority of the work proposed.