Federal Law Justice and Legal Services Grants

The "Leadership Development for Deputy Wardens and Second in Command" grant aims to provide comprehensive training and resources for deputy wardens in correctional facilities, enhancing their leadership skills, decision-making abilities, and understanding of compliance and accountability, through a modern, interactive e-course and VILT (Virtual Instructor-Led Training).

With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide training and technical assistance to enhance state and local youth defense delivery systems. This program furthers the DOJs mission to reduce violent crime by supporting states and localities in their efforts to address barriers and gaps within their juvenile justice systems for indigent youth.

This is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide notice of the continuation of funding for cooperative agreement award 23JD01GLO2.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations that aim to enhance survivor involvement in anti-human trafficking programs by developing training, resources, and collaborative networks.

This funding opportunity provides specialized support to The Goodnation Foundation for improving coordination between correctional facilities and Medicaid services, aiming to enhance healthcare access and reduce recidivism for individuals reentering the community after incarceration.

This funding opportunity provides $1 million to the Keystone Restituere Justice Center to improve safety and operational efficiency in state correctional facilities through workforce development and cultural reforms.

This grant provides funding to organizations that will conduct a regional workshop aimed at empowering young leaders in Southeast Asia to combat cybersecurity threats and online scams.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to a variety of organizations to deliver essential services for victims of abuse facilitated by technology, such as online stalking and image-based sexual abuse.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to law enforcement agencies and mental health organizations to improve responses to individuals with behavioral health needs, promoting collaboration and effective intervention strategies.

This grant provides funding to law enforcement agencies to train officers in trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches for investigating sexual assault cases.

With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support training and technical assistance (TTA) providers assisting states to use the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) to enhance the fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency of their criminal justice system. JRIs flexible, tailored, and data-driven approach helps states identify and implement policies that are customized to address each states specific challenges and the unique structure and dynamics within each of their systems. This program reduces crime and recidivism by helping states more effectively and equitably allocate resources to address pressing criminal justice challenges and improve system outcomes.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to a specific correctional agency for leadership development initiatives aimed at enhancing sustainability and resilience within its workforce.

This funding opportunity is designed for organizations already involved in a specific cooperative agreement to enhance training programs for managing individuals in restrictive housing environments within correctional facilities.

This funding opportunity provides resources to nonprofit organizations that train and support prosecutors in effectively handling child abuse cases, ensuring justice for child victims.

The purpose of the new RLG activity is to support LEGI in improving its planning and responsiveness to the concerns and public and private service delivery needs of their communities, making sure no group is excluded. With the new LG activity, USAID will support an inclusive and localized approach to ensure citizen accountability. Activity Goal: More effective and responsive local governance and practices. Activity Objective: To develop LEGIs as an effective, responsive, inclusive, and accountable institution to address social issues and provide quality basic services to the most marginalized. Intermediate Result-1: Strengthened LEGI capacity to be more transparent and accountable to the community and to monitor the quality of public and private services: Under this IR, the RLG activity will develop tools and practices that enable local systems to become more accountable, gender-sensitive, effective, and responsive institutions. For sustainability, RLG will work closely with the National Institution of Local Government (NILG) to incorporate successful training interventions in their curriculum (more will be explored in the LG Assessment for sustainability). Under this IR, the activity will support policy advocacy by LEGIs to encourage the national government to adopt legal and policy reforms to expand roles, authorities, and resource allocations for local governments so that they can improve service delivery by the cognizant offices. RLG will make efforts to promote e-governance practices within the LEGI and also to make them instrumental for overall e-governance practices at the community level. Through this IR, USAID intends to work with relevant local government actors to refine and institutionalize participatory practices in annual planning and budgeting for their areas. Intermediate Result-2: Improved civil society, community-based organization, and citizen participation in local decision-making and in monitoring public service delivery, including those contracted out to the private sector: This IR will work on citizen participation in local decision-making by developing Citizens Forums, including training and technical assistance to enhance the forums ability to play an effective and active role in public management oversight. The training will include immediate and ongoing opportunities over an extended period of time for participants to practice and apply their new knowledge, skills, and tools to their participation in local governance, with accompanying coaching by the RLG activity. The LG Assessment will explore existing Citizen Forums at the community level and recommend if those can be included in the RLG activity. Through the existing forums or new forums, the activity will prepare the community to participate in the annual planning and budget session and at the same time strengthen their advocacy capacity for better services. Illustrative interventions: Intermediate Result-3: Strengthened LEGI-private-sector-civil society organization (CSO) coordination to improve the quality of public and private services: Coordination among central government (both field administration and service delivery offices), CSOs and the LEGIs are crucial to ensure optimal governance at the local level. Recent studies[1] indicate that NGOs have crucial roles in improving local governance, especially during the post-pandemic era. Both LEGIs and CSOs/CBOs work very closely with citizens and, with support, can form a tight alliance to advocate for better services for the community. In doing so, this activity will strongly encourage civil society and LEGI to partner with the private sector for improving service delivery.

Gender based violence (GBV) in Guatemala has increased significantly during the pandemic and vulnerable populations including minors are among the victims. The Secretariat Against Sexual Violence, Exploitation, and Trafficking in Persons (SVET) of the Guatemalan Government is the entity with the mandate to ensure the coordination of the prevention, security, justice, welfare, and attention from local authorities to victims and create awareness of these crimes. Cultural awareness and crime prevention in Guatemala have been delegated to the National Civil Police (PNC). However, there are multiple institutions who work with SVET that need to take a more active role in addressing these crimes. The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) is one of these stakeholders, who has the key responsibility of promoting positive values and addressing these kinds of issues with the next generation of Guatemalans. SVET has interinstitutional agreements between them and both MINEDUC and PNC to coordinate and collaborate in topics related to sexual violence, exploitation, and TIP.Standardize and strengthen SVET, with strong knowledge in sexual crimes, exploitation, trafficking in persons (TIP) and a capable train the trainer program to coordinate all the Government of Guatemala (GoG) institutions to conduct awareness campaigns to combat sexual and GBV by rejecting stereotypes and cultural norms that permit these crimes. In addition, empower SVET to identify and initiate through corresponding authorities investigations against criminal structures engaged in money laundering and human trafficking.

To implement a project aimed at advancing U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that is more reflective of and responsive to the needs and perspectives of partner states to ensure strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to the Reno Municipal Court's Adult Treatment Court program in Nevada to enhance its efforts in preventing substance abuse and reducing recidivism among individuals involved in the criminal justice system.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations that help family treatment courts improve services for parents facing substance use and mental health challenges in child welfare cases.

With this solicitation, BJA seeks to invest in current and future leaders in the criminal justice field to advance priority national policy issues and offer cross-developmental opportunities for DOJ staff and criminal justice practitioners and researchers. Awards made under the BJA Visiting Fellows Program will fund fellowships for a period of 24 months for Category 1 and for 36 months under Category 2, including a dedicated immersion period when the Fellow will be expected to commit a significant portion of their time to the fellowship. Fellows will also have an opportunity to work closely with BJA staff members, both virtually and onsite at BJAs office in Washington, D.C.