OJJDP FY 2022 Youth Violence Prevention Program | O OJJDP 2022 171400

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The OJJDP FY 2022 Youth Violence Prevention Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), under CFDA 16.548. The program is designed to help communities develop, strengthen, or expand practical strategies that prevent youth violence, with a specific emphasis on youth gang or group involvement and the violence associated with those groups. The solicitation is framed within the broader Office of Justice Programs (OJP) priorities, which include advancing civil rights and racial equity, improving access to justice, supporting crime victims and people impacted by the justice system, strengthening community safety, protecting the public from emerging threats, and building trust between law enforcement and communities.

Funding is provided through a grant mechanism, and the program anticipates making a small number of awards, with an expected total of four awards. Individual awards are capped at an award ceiling of $250,000, indicating that projects are intended to be targeted and implementation-oriented rather than large-scale statewide initiatives. The opportunity was released on July 13, 2022, with an original application deadline of August 29, 2022, placing it within a typical federal solicitation window where applicants are expected to propose a clearly scoped, evidence-informed plan that can be executed within the resources available.

A wide range of applicant types are eligible, reflecting the reality that youth violence prevention often requires cross-sector leadership and partnerships. Eligible applicants include county governments and city or township governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education as well as private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education); and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The solicitation also notes an additional eligibility category ("Others"), implying there may be further clarifications in the full announcement for specialized entities or collaborative structures. This broad eligibility is consistent with prevention work that may be led by local government, schools, universities, community-based organizations, tribal governments, or service providers, often in partnership with law enforcement, victim services, and community stakeholders.

At its core, the grant opportunity supports the development or enhancement of community strategies to prevent youth violence before it escalates into serious harm, retaliation, or entrenched gang/group dynamics. While the summary does not list allowable activities in detail, the stated focus suggests funding is meant to support prevention approaches that reduce risk factors for youth involvement in violent groups, strengthen protective factors, and improve community-level coordination. In practice, programs in this space commonly include elements such as outreach and engagement with at-risk youth, credible messenger or mentoring models, school and community-based prevention programming, conflict mediation, trauma-informed supports, and coordinated community responses that align prevention, intervention, and services for victims and impacted families. The emphasis on civil rights, racial equity, and trust-building also signals that proposed strategies are expected to be fair, inclusive, and attentive to the ways youth violence intersects with discrimination, overexposure to the justice system, and community-police relationships.

Overall, this solicitation funds localized, prevention-focused efforts intended to reduce youth violence and youth gang/group violence while advancing justice system values such as equity, community trust, and support for people harmed by crime. It targets applicants that can translate these priorities into concrete, community-grounded plans and measurable prevention strategies within a modest award size.

• 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 2022 Youth Violence Prevention Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.548.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 13, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 29, 2022. (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 $250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Independent school districts, 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, Nonprofits that do not have 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, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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