The purpose of this resource page is to identify open grants, training and technical assistance that may be of particular interest to defender agencies, courts, state, local and tribal jurisdictions, research and academic institutions, and non-profit organizations that are working to enhance legal assistance and related services for historically underserved populations. Please contact the issuing entity for more information about listed grants, training and technical assistance.

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2013 Low Income Taxpayer Clinic - Internal Revenue Service
The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic is administered by the Taxpayer Advocate Service at the Internal Revenue Service and awards up $100,000 per year to qualifying organizations to develop, expand and maintain a low income taxpayer clinic. This program is intended to ensure the fairness and integrity of the tax system by: 1) educating low income taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities; 2) providing pro bono representation to taxpayers in tax disputes with the IRS; 3) conducting outreach and education to taxpayers who speak English as a second language; and 4) identifying and advocating for issues that impact low income taxpayers.
Funding Source: Office of the Tax Payer Advocate - Internal Revenue Service
Eligible Grantees: Qualified clinics that represents low income individual taxpayers in controversies with the IRS or operated programs to inform ESL taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities as U.S. taxpayers. Qualified clinics must offer services for free or for no more than a nominal fee.
Deadline: 6/15/2012

*On occasion, this resource page will feature relevant grants from other federal agencies. For a comprehensive listing of all federal grants, please visit www.grants.gov.

Promoting Evidence Integration in Sex Offender Management: Circles of Support and Accountability for Project Sites
The Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) model is a supervision strategy involving the use of community volunteers to provide support to an individual sex offender. COSA assists offenders with garnering community resources, while holding the accountable to their self-monitoring plan, typically following completion of legal supervision. The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking seeks applications from jurisdictions interested in implementing COSA in an effort to advance this model of reintegrating sex offenders to communities and encourage community engagement in the reentry process. The purpose of this project is to support the development of COSA initiatives in conjunction with community corrections programs or programs working in tandem with corrections professional consisting of volunteers, a Core Member (sex offender), and an Outer Circle (community corrections professionals).
Funding Source: Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking
Eligible Grantees: States, the District of Columbia, and units of local government.
Deadline: 6/12/2012

Evaluation of the FY 2011 BJA Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Projects
This solicitation is a collaboration between BJA, NIJ and the National Reentry Resource Center and seeks proposals to examine the BJA Second Chance Act offender reentry demonstration projects funded in Fiscal Year 2011.  The specific focus areas under this solicitation include an evaluability assessment of eight adult offender reentry demonstration projects and a comprehensive evaluation of eight adult offender reentry demonstration projects.  The evaluability assessment plan should: 1) conduct a rapid assessment of the activities underway at the SCA sites and the program activities that appear promising as tools to prevent re-offending and reduce re-incarceration; 2) provide critical information about the sites’ ability to participate in a comprehensive evaluation and make recommendations and submit rationales for the type of evaluation that would be suitable for each project; and 3) acquire and obtain supplemental information that BJA and the NRRC may use to better provide training and technical assistance for these and other SCA sites.  The evaluation design must effectively measure reduction in recidivism rates,  reduction in crime, increased employment and education opportunities, reduction in violations of conditions of supervised release,  increased payment for child support, increased housing opportunities, reduction in drug and alcohol abuse, increased participation in substance abuse and mental health services, and program cost effectiveness.
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees:States, territories, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions and tribal institutions of higher education, and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline: 6/11/2012

Second Chance Act Adult Offender Reentry Demonstration Projects
In collaboration with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the National Reentry Resource Center, the National Institute of Justice seeks proposals to examine the Second Chance Act (SCA) adult offender reentry demonstration projects funded by BJA in fiscal year 2011. The specific focus areas under this solicitation include: (1) an evaluability assessment of eight adult offender reentry demonstration projects (anticipates one award of up to $400,000) and; (2) a comprehensive evaluation of eight adult offender reentry demonstration projects (anticipates one award of up to $3 million).
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions and tribal institutions of higher education, and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline: 6/11/2012

National Pretrial Reporting Program
The Bureau of Justice Statistics seeks applications to design and test strategies to field the National Pretrial Reporting Program (NPRP). NPRP will replace the State Court Processing Statistics program as BJS's primary data collections series focused on the pretrial release process in state courts. The objectives of this project are to: 1) develop a survey instrument that can asses capacities of local jurisdictions to provide statistical information on pretrial release and misconduct at the aggregate level; 2) identify 50 to 100 jurisdictions in which to field the NPRP Jurisdictional Capacity Survey; and 3) develop methods to encourage participation from pretrial agencies, court personnel, sheriff and local jail officials, and prosecutors for the purpose of supporting the NPRP.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
Eligible Grantees: For-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher learning, and consortia with demonstrated organizational and community-based experience working with American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including tribal for-profit and nonprofit organizations, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal consortia.
Deadline: 6/8/2012

Sex Offender Management Fellowship Program
The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) will be funding for the first time three fellowship positions focusing on victims' issues, prevention and education, and practices and research in Indian Country in the field of sex offender management. The SMART Office's Victim Assistance Fellowship will identify programs and policies focused on victims of sexual violence to enhance the coordination of these programs and policies with other programming in the Department of Justice in the area of sex offender management. The Fellowship for Prevention and Education will identify ways to enhance and broaden programming designed to improve the prevention of, and education about, sexual violence and victimization in our communities. Finally, the SMART Office's Sex Offender Management in Indian Country Fellow will asswss the state of sex offender management research, programs and practive in Indian Country (including services for victims of sexual violence), identify the sex offender management experts in tribal communities and gather these experts for an Indian Country forum in order to develop recommendations for future SMART Office activities related to sex offender management in Indian Country.
Funding Source: Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking
Eligible Grantees: Individuals who demonstrate knowledge and familiarity of SORNA and sex offender management related work, and have a specific ability and strong desire to support technical assistance, training, and other needs of the SMART Office in the area of sex offender management.
Deadline: 6/7/2012

Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
This program is a part of the Administration’s larger Neighborhood Revitalization Initiaitve that supports local and tribal communities in developing place-based strategies to change neighborhoods of distress into neighborhoods of opportunity. The goal of the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation program is to improve community safety by designing and implementing effective, comprehensive approaches to addressing crime within a targeted neighborhood as part of a broader strategy to advance neighborhood revitalization through cross-sector community-based partnerships. To achieve these goals, successful strategies must commit to accomplishing several objectives: 1) enhance a community-based team with the presence of criminal justice, social service, and neighborhood revitalization partners to implement the project; 2) collaborate with local law enforcement and a research partner to conduct an analysis of crime drivers and an assessment of needs and available resources; and 3) develop a strategy that offers a continuum of approaches to address the drivers of crime, including potentially, enforcement, prevention, intervention, and revitalization strategies.
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States and units of local governments, non-profit organizations, and federally recognized Indian tribes.
Deadline: 6/7/2012

Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
The National Institute of Justice is interested in funding multiple criminal justice research projects involving researcher-practitioner partnerships as well as capturing in detail relevant accounts of these collaborations. Results of these projects should lead to better criminal justice policy, practice, and research, including as it relates to the participating practitioner partner. NIJ intends to support criminal justice research in the following two areas related to new and ongoing researcher-practitioner collaborations: 1) The Junior Faculty Grant Program to Promote Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships which is intended in part to develop a junior faculty member within a research organization skills and interest in developing and sustaining criminal justice researcher-practitioner partnerships; and 2) The Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Fellowship Placement Program which supports the placement of a researcher within a criminal justice based organization to initiate new or strengthen existing researcher-practitioner partnerships .
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States , territories, units of local government, federally-recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline 5/30/2012

Research on the Link between Victimization and Offending
NIJ seeks applicants for funding to support research that uses existing data, supplements ongoing research or constitutes new research which has the potential to add significantly to the understanding of the victim/offender overlap and may provide direction for improving criminal justice and prevention policies and practices.  Objectives for this solicitation are to: 1) develop and analyze information and data having clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States; and 2) develop and analyze information and data that enhances knowledge of the link between victimization and offending.
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States, territories, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions and tribal institutions of higher education, and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline 5/29/2012

Joint Adult Drug Court Solicitation to Enhance Services, Coordination, and Treatment
The Bureau of Justice Assistance in conjunction with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of HHS seeks applicants to enhance the court services, coordination, and evidence-based substance abuse treatment and recovery support services of adult drug courts. The overall goal of this solicitation is to build and/or expand drug court capacity of state, local and tribal levels to reduce crime and substance abuse among high-risk/high need offenders. Objectives include: 1) enhancing the provision of ancillary services that prevent recidivism such as individualized treatment, vocational and educational services, and community reintegration services to achieve long term recovery; 2) supporting strategies that ensure drug court practitioners have tools to effectively manage these interventions, including data collection and analysis, training, and technical assistance; and 3) ensuring all substance abusing offenders receive targeted research based and data driven services.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (HHS)
Eligible Grantees: State and local courts, counties, units of local government and federally recognized Indian tribal governments.
Deadline: 5/24/2012

Answering Gideon’s Call: Improving Indigent Defense Delivery Systems
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed the right to counsel in criminal cases in every state, yet today even after all of the important decisions that followed, recognizing the right to counsel in juvenile and misdemeanor cases have yet to be fully realized. BJA seeks applicants who are interested in developing innovative, data driven approaches to indigent defense delivery systems. The purpose of this initiative is to contribute to indigent defense knowledge and practice by testing approaches to providing quality indigent defense services using the American Bar Association’s Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. BJA’s goals for this initiative are to enhance a state or local jurisdiction’s ability to provide quality representation to indigent defendants, and promote innovation and strategies that incorporate the ABA Ten Principles.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Eligible Grantees: State or local governments, independent boards or commissions, state or local public defender organizations, or other organizations, including not-for-profit organizations, with whole or partial responsibility for administering or overseeing indigent defense services.
Deadline: 5/24/2012

Ensuring Procedural Justice Throughout the Adjudication Process: Pretrial Reform, High Performance Prosecution, and Smarter Sentencing Practices
Under this solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to improve and elevate the functioning of the criminal justice system (with specific emphasis relating to the adjudication process) by assisting state and local jurisdictions and tribal governments to ensure procedural fairness in the criminal justice system. The objectives of this program are to: 1) improve the cost effectiveness and conditions of our nation’s jails as well as the administration of justice by facilitating pretrial reform efforts on a broad geographic and jurisdictional scale; 2) promote informed decision making by prosecutors and provide them with additional resources to increase their effectiveness; and 3) foster the implementation of smarter sentencing practices and to increase awareness/understanding of the research that supports successful offender rehabilitative efforts.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Eligible Grantees: For-profit and nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher learning that support national initiatives to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system.
Deadline: 5/24/2012

Desistance From Crime Over the Life Course

This solicitation seeks proposals to conduct research that enhances knowledge and understanding of the process of desistance from crime. Areas identified as needing further research include but are not limited to: 1) the dynamic process of desistance that considers changes in individual offenders’ psychological states, developmental capacities, life events, and social context and how these relate to changes in offending; 2) understanding the underlying mechanisms inherent in the process of desistance from crime; and 3) linking research on desistance from crime more closely with juvenile and criminal justice policy and practice.
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States , territories, units of local government, federally-recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline: 5/23/2012

Social Science Research on Indigent Defense
The National Institute of Justice seeks applications for funding to examine indigent criminal defense services, policies, and practices. This includes services provided by any of the following: State-funded, county-funded, city-funded, or tribal public defender's offices; contract indigent defense lawyers; court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants; and/or pro bono services provided by criminal defense attorneys. These services can be at the pretrial, trial, post-conviction, and/or appellate stages and involve either juvenile and/or adult defendants. Applicants are encouraged to consider research involving either (1) access to counsel and waiver of counsel by juveniles and/or adults, or (2) the effectiveness of other defense team members in indigent defense cases. However, other strong research proposals will be considered as well.
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States , territories, units of local government, federally-recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline: 5/23/2012

Smart Probation: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving Money, and Creating Safer Communities
The purpose of this program is to improve probation success rates, which would in turn improve public safety, reduce returns to prisons and joails, and save tax payer dollars. The goal of this program is to develop more effective and evidence-based programs that effectively address offenders’ needs and reduce recidivism. The objectives of Smart Probation demonstration projects are to : 1) Improve supervision strategies that will reduce recidivism and provide training, technical assistance (TTA), and policy support; 2) Promote and increase collaboration among agencies and officials who work in probation, pretrial, law enforcement, and related community corrections fields; 3) Develop and implement strategies for the identification, supervision, and treatment of “high risk/high needs” probationers that may serve as a model for other agencies throughout the nation; 4) Objectively assess and/or evaluate the impact of innovative and evidenced-based supervision and treatment strategies; 5) Demonstrate the use and efficacy of evidence-based practices and principles to improve the delivery of probation supervision strategies and practices.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Eligible Grantees: States, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments.
Deadline: 5/21/2012

Second Chance Act Adult Offender Comprehensive Statewide Recidivism Reduction Demonstration Program
The Second Chance Act authorizes federal awards to states that may be used for demonstration projects to promote the safe and successful reintegration into the community of individuals who have been incarcerated or detained and reduce overall recidivism rates. Objectives for this program are to fund at the state level effective strategies for reducing recidivism and enhancing public safety which incorporate the following principles: 1) focus on the people most likely to commit more crimes; 2) use evidenced-based programs proven to work and ensure the delivery of services is high quality; 3) deploy supervision policies and practices that balance sanctions and treatment; and 4) target places where crime and recidivism rates are the highest.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Eligible Grantees: State departments of corrections.
Deadline: 5/21/2012

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**NEW** Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Training and Technical Assistance Program
This new initiative supports comprehensive place-based and community-oriented initiatives that involve service providers from multiple sectors and disciplines, as well as community representatives from all types of organizations, to work together to reduce and prevent crime and revitalize communities.  BJA seeks applicants with extensive training and technical expertise, experience, and knowledge in: 1) community-oriented strategies that involve the engagement of community residents and partners to work collaboratively with criminal justice and other neighborhood revitalization initiatives; 2) place-based strategies to effectively identify, assess, and target crime hot spots or crime problems; 3) enhancing cross-sector and community partnerships particularly with partners that support community revitalization and social service providers; 4) local research-practitioner partnerships to lead data-driven strategic approaches; and 5) developing and managing the core elements of national TTA programs.                                                                                                                                                                
Funding Source:Bureau of Justice Assistance
National nonprofit and for-profit organizations or institutions of higher learning.
Deadline: 6/20/2012

Adult Drug Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center Initiatives
The purpose of the Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program is to provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments to develop and implement drug courts that effectively integrate evidenced-based substance abuse treatment, mandatory drug testing, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially supervised court setting with jurisdiction over substance-abusing offenders. The overall goal of the Adult Drug Court TTA Program is to assist operational adult drug treatment court programs in the development and implementation of improved program practices for increased program effectiveness and long-term participant success.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Eligible Grantees: For-profit  and nonprofit organixations, faith-based and community organizations and institutions of higher learning with demonstrated expertise ub assustubf communities to develop, implement, and enhance drug courts.
Deadline: 6/14/2012

Promoting Evidence Integration in Sex Offender Management: Circles of Support and Accountability Training and Technical Assistance Project
The Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) Training and Technical Assistance Program will support projects funded under the Promoting Evidence Integration in Sex Offender Management: Circles of Support and Accountability for Project Sites Grant Program by providing training and technical assistance to jurisdictions that wish to develop COSA programs in conjunction with community corrections programs and to provide ad hoc training and technical assistance to community volunteer groups, faith-based organizations or others seeking to develop COSA programs. Applicants should be able to demonstrate: 1) expertise in sex offender management practices; 2) experience in developing and implementing the COSA model; 3) proficiency in developing and providing technical assistance in sex offender management; 4) ability to complete program assessments; 5) knowledge of recruiting, training and managing volunteers; and 6) experience in educating the public about sex offenders and sexual violence, including community notification schemes, public education campaigns, and victim support programs.
Eligible Grantees: For-profit organizations, nonprofit, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education with demonstrated experience in sex offender management and delivery of training and technical assistance.
Deadline: 6/12/2012

The Drug Court Training
The Drug Court Training Initiative offers training opportunities for operational adult and family drug court teams. The overarching goals of the program are to help drug courts develop better program practices, improve program outcomes, and enhance services that lead to greater program effectiveness and long-term participant success.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance in conjunction with the National Drug Court Institute
Eligible Grantees: Trainings are available to drug court professionals at all levels of experience.
Deadline: Ongoing

Drug Court Adult Technical Assistance
The Bureau of Justice Assistance Drug Court Clearinghouse/Technical Assistance Project at American University, provides a wide range of onsite and office-based technical assistance to help adult drug court programs to develop and implement improved program practices to promote program effectiveness and long-term participant success.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance in conjunction with the Drug Court Clearinghouse/Technical Assistance Project at American University
Eligible Grantees: Adult drug court programs.
Deadline: Ongoing

Tribal Law & Policy Institute
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) is a 100% Native American-owned and operated nonprofit organization that develops and delivers educational, research, training, and technical assistance programs that promote the enhancement of justice in Indian Country and the health, well-being, and culture of Native peoples. TLPI provides a wide array of training, technical assistance, and evaluation services for Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance in conjunction with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Eligible Grantees: Tribal jurisdictions.
Deadline: Ongoing

Drug Court Statewide Technical Assistance
The Center for Court Innovation develops publications and internet materials of special interest to a drug court audience, disseminates materials on drug court computer applications, and can provide hands-on consulting to practitioners in the United States and abroad. With support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Center provides a culturally competent and user-friendly national training and technical assistance program to strengthen statewide drug court systems. Broadly, the program aims to improve statewide drug court systems in the following key topic areas: planning, operations, technology, evaluation, and institutionalization.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance in conjunction with the Center for Court Intervention
Eligible Grantees: Drug court programs.
Deadline: Ongoing

Regional Network of Mentor Community Courts
The Bureau of Justice Assistance, in conjunction with the Center for Court Innovation, has chosen community courts in Dallas, Hartford, and Seattle to serve as regional mentors for jurisdictions seeking to improve their handling of low-level criminal cases. The mentor courts—which were chosen in a peer-reviewed competitive process—host site visits, answer questions over the phone or internet from practitioners, and participate in conferences and workshops.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance in conjunction with the Center for Court Innovation
Eligible Grantees: Jurisdictions seeking to improve their handling of low-level criminal cases.
Deadline: Ongoing

Justice Reinvestment Project
Justice reinvestment staff, with the help of expert consultants, work closely with state policymakers to advance fiscally-sound, data driven criminal justice policies to break the cycle of recidivism, avert prison expenditures and make communities safer. To assist state policymakers, justice reinvestment staff is providing technical assistance to a limited number of states that demonstrate a bipartisan interest in the justice reinvestment strategy.
Funding Source: The Justice Reinvestment Project receives support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and private grant makers such as The Pew Charitable Trusts, the JEHT Foundation, and the Open Society Institute
Eligible Grantees: States demonstrating a bipartisan interest in justice reinvestment.
Deadline: Ongoing

**NEW** National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance Project

The purpose of this solicitation is to identify and select a TTA provider who will provide assistance to those cities that are participating in the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention in achieving the goals outlined in the solicitation and assist the sites specifically in the implementation and updating of their comprehensive youth violence prevention plans.  Objectives of this project  are to: 1) provide diverse subject matter experts to offer onsite consultations to the Forum sites; 2) develop and provide culturally competent and community-driven approaches to implement balanced approaches and data-driven strategies to youth violence issues; 3) facilitate peer-to-peer consultation and networking between Forum sites to promote problem-solving and innovation through the exchange of information and ideas across communities; and 4) provide tools and practical techniques for working across disciplines to facilitate information sharing, communication, and coordination of balanced approaches and data-driven strategies to address youth violence.
Funding Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Eligible Grantees: States, territories, units of local governments, federally recognized tribal governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations and institutions of higher education.
Deadline: 6/25/2012

Evaluation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention FY 2010 Second Chance Act Juvenile Offender Reentry Demonstration Project
This solicitation seeks to award a grant to measure the processes, outcomes, costs, and impacts of the juvenile offender reentry programs that received funding in FY 2010 from OJJDP, and to assess the effectiveness of the Second Chance Act in reducing recidivism among juvenile offenders. The grantee will be required to assess the juvenile offender demonstration projects’ ability to fulfill the requirements associated with a full-scale evaluation and collect baseline recidivism data for juvenile offenders engaged in the Second Chance Act juvenile offender reentry demonstration projects funded in FY2010. Evaluation designs must effectively measure the following outcomes: 1) reduction in recidivism; 2) reduction in crime; 3) increased employment and education opportunities; 4) reduction in violations of conditions of supervised release; 5) increased payment of child support; 6) increased housing opportunities; 7) reduction in drug and alcohol abuse; 8) increased participation in substance abuse and mental health services; 9) usefulness (utility) of risk-needs assessment tools in the subsequent provision of services; and 10) program cost effectiveness.
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States, territories, units of local government including federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions and tribal institutions of higher education, and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline: 5/31/2012

The National Training and Technical Assistance Center
The mission of Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention National Training and Technical Assistance Center is to promote the use of evidence-based practices by providing practitioners with innovative training and technical assistance to meet the diverse needs of the children in the juvenile justice system, to reduce juvenile delinquency and crime and to ensure the safe and equal treatment of all children in the juvenile justice system.
Funding Source: Office of Juvenile Justice& Delinquency Prevention
Eligible Grantees: Juvenile Justice Practitioners
Deadline: Ongoing

Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program
This program assists nonprofit organizations and individuals to build Indian leadership and capacity in tribal communities to advocate for systematic change that will enhance the safety of women in an Indian Tribe.  The objectives of this program are to: 1) increase awareness of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking committed against American Indian and Alaska Native women; 2) enhance the response to violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women at the Tribal, Federal, and state levels; and 3) identify and provide technical assistance to coalition membership and tribal communities to enhance access to essential services to American Indian and Alaska Native women that have been victimized. Funds under the Tribal Coalitions Program may be used to: 1) develop or enhance appropriate standards of service for service providers; 2) bring local tribal programs together to identify gaps in services and to coordinate activities; and 3) conduct statewide, regional, and/or tribally-based meetings or workshops for tribal advocates, survivors, community members, legal services, health care professionals, and criminal justice representatives.
Funding Source: Office of Violence Against Women
Eligible Grantees: Current grantees of the Tribal Coalitions Program that received funding in fiscal year 2010 and that have a current, active grant award; and new applicants, which include established nonprofit tribal coalitions that formerly received funding from the Tribal Coalitions Program but do not have an open award, as well as first-time applicants that have never before received funding from the Tribal Coalitions Program.
Deadline:  5/22/2012

Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program
The Campus Program encourages a coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety and assistance and supports efforts to hold offenders accountable.  This program supports activities that develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campuses. Funds under the Campus Program may be used for the following purposes: 1) to provide personnel, training, technical assistance, data collection, and other equipment with respect to the increased apprehension, investigation, and adjudication of persons committing sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking on campus; 2) to develop, enlarge, or strengthen victim services programs on the campuses of institutions involved, including programs providing legal, medical, or psychological counseling, for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, and to improve delivery of victim assistance on campus; 3) to create, disseminate, or otherwise provide assistance and information about victims’ options on and off campus to bring disciplinary or other legal action, including assistance to victims in immigration matters; or 4) to provide capital improvements (including improved lighting and communications facilities, but not including the construction of buildings) on campuses to address the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.      
Funding Source: Office on Violence Against Women
Eligible Grantees: Institutions of Higher Education
Deadline: 5/22/2012                                                                                                         

Family Court Demonstration Initiative Call for Concept Papers
The Campus Program encourages a coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety and assistance and supports efforts to hold offenders accountable. This program supports activities that develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campuses. Funds under the Campus Program may be used for the following purposes: 1) to provide personnel, training, technical assistance, data collection, and other equipment with respect to the increased apprehension, investigation, and adjudication of persons committing sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking on campus; 2) to develop, enlarge, or strengthen victim services programs on the campuses of institutions involved, including programs providing legal, medical, or psychological counseling, for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, and to improve delivery of victim assistance on campus; 3) to create, disseminate, or otherwise provide assistance and information about victims’ options on and off campus to bring disciplinary or other legal action, including assistance to victims in immigration matters; or 4) to provide capital improvements (including improved lighting and communications facilities, but not including the construction of buildings) on campuses to address the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
Funding Source: Office on Violence Against Women
Eligible Grantees: Institutions of Higher Education
Deadline: 5/22/2012

Services to Advocate and Respond to Youth Grant Program
The Services to Advocate for and Respond to Youth Grant Program is designed to support projects that provide direct counseling, advocacy, legal, and mental health services for children and young adults who have experienced domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The Office on Violence Against Women -funded projects will include linguistically, culturally, and community relevant services for underserved populations or linkages to existing services in the community tailored to the needs of underserved populations.
Funding Source: Office on Violence Against Women
Eligible Grantees: Nonprofit, nongovernmental entities whose primary purpose is to provide services to teen and young adult victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; Community-based organizations specializing in intervention or violence prevention services for youth; Indian Tribes or tribal organizations providing services primarily to tribal youth or tribal victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or Nonprofit, nongovernmental entities providing services for runaway or homeless youth affected by domestic or sexual abuse.
Deadline: The Services to Advocate for and Respond to Youth Grant Program is currently under development. Please check the OVW website for updated information and solicitation announcements.

Evaluation of theOffice for Victims of Crime Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project
NIJ is partnering with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to evaluate the first phase of the OVC Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project.  This solicitation seeks proposals to conduct an evaluation of the first phase of the demonstration project which spans 15 months.  The evaluator funded under this solicitation will be expected to work with OVC and NIJ in coordination with each demonstration site and their local researcher.  Tasks that should be completed during phase 1 include: 1) develop and conduct a baseline study at each site with data collected such that a statistical comparison can be made with data collected once the program is implemented; 2) conduct a series of site visits with selected demonstration sites; 3) provide feedback and assistance to the local researcher during the needs assessment process; 4) work with sites and local researcher to develop the fidelity criteria and the related measurement criteria for implementation of a legal assistance service delivery; and 5) develop the criteria and data collection instruments for measuring the implementation of legal network service delivery (with ability to track case outcomes).
Funding Source: National Institute of Justice
Eligible Grantees: States, territories, units of local government, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations, institutions and tribal institutions of higher education, and certain qualified individuals.
Deadline: 5/29/2012

 

 

Tribal Justice System Capacity Building Training and Technical Assistance Program
This is a comprehensive approach by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to deliver training and technical assistance to build capacity and enhance functioning of tribal justice systems. Its goals are to strengthen tribal governments’ ability to plan, implement, and enhance tribal justice to be able to prevent, control, and investigate crime, to effectively administer justice, and to meet the needs of the community. This program’s goals are consistent with the Tribal Law and Order Act as it also seeks to foster tribal and state collaboration to address jurisdictional and legal issues with regard to law enforcement, courts, corrections and reentry within Indian Country, including tribal based relationships with service providers.
Funding Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Eligible Grantees: Tribal and non-tribal for-profit and nonprofit organizations, faith based and community organizations, institutions of higher learning, tribal colleges and universities, and consortiums with demonstrated national-level and onsite experience working with American Indian and Alaska Native communities
Deadline: 5/31/2012

Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant Writing and Management Academy

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Grants.gov

OJP Grants 101

Tribal Justice and Safety Resource Page