OJJDP FY 16 Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems Program | OJJDP 2016 9004

Opportunity Information: Apply for OJJDP 2016 9004

The OJJDP FY 16 Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems Program is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) designed to support community-based responses for youth who have engaged in problematic sexual behaviors. The core idea is to fund agencies that can deliver a comprehensive, multidisciplinary model that combines intervention and supervision for the youth, while also providing treatment and supportive services to the child victim(s) and the families involved. The program is built around the expectation that effective work in this area requires coordination across systems such as juvenile justice, mental health, child advocacy, victim services, and family support providers, rather than relying on a single agency working in isolation.

A key program requirement is that participating youth must receive a mental health evaluation to determine whether they are appropriate for community-based treatment and intervention. The solicitation emphasizes a specific target population: youth entering the program generally should not have a prior history of court involvement for sexual offenses. If a site wants to serve a youth outside that parameter, OJJDP must approve the deviation before that youth is admitted. In practice, this signals that OJJDP is aiming to fund early, treatment-oriented intervention for lower-risk or first-time court-involved youth in this category, with the goal of addressing behavior, improving supervision and accountability, and reducing future harm, while also ensuring victims receive proper care and support.

The solicitation is structured into two separate funding categories. Category 1 funds program sites, with OJJDP expecting to make awards to as many as three sites that will implement the direct service model described above. Category 2 funds one organization to provide support, training, and technical assistance (TTA) to the Category 1 sites. The TTA awardee is meant to help the sites implement the model with quality and consistency by offering guidance, tools, training, and problem-solving support across the initiative. Overall, OJJDP anticipates making four awards total across both categories.

Eligibility is broad and includes states and territories, units of local government (such as counties or cities/townships), federally recognized tribal governments, nonprofit organizations (including 501(c)(3) entities), for-profit organizations (including small businesses), and institutions of higher education (including tribal colleges and universities). However, there are notable constraints: recipient organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee under the award, and organizations that currently receive funding or previously received funding as a program site under an OJJDP Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems Program solicitation are not eligible to apply. The solicitation also allows collaborative applications where multiple entities will carry out the work, but it requires one eligible entity to serve as the lead applicant with primary responsibility for administration and overall project management, while partners are proposed as subrecipients. OJJDP limits submissions to one application per lead applicant, although a subrecipient may participate in multiple proposals led by different applicants.

Administratively, this opportunity is offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically means OJJDP expects to have substantial involvement during the project period (for example, coordination, ongoing guidance, or required collaboration with the federal project team and TTA provider). The opportunity falls under the Law, Justice and Legal Services funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 16.543. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is listed as $600,000. The funding opportunity number is OJJDP 2016 9004, and the original application closing date was April 4, 2016 (with a creation date of February 2, 2016). Finally, the solicitation notes that OJJDP may choose to make awards from applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years as well, depending on application merit and the availability of congressional appropriations.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 16 Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.543.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2016-02-02.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-04-04. (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 $600,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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