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Recent Awards

OJJDP recently awarded three cooperative agreements under the Tribal Juvenile Accountability Discretionary Grant program. Recipients are the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, the Chickasaw Nation (Oklahoma), and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. Authorized through the Juvenile Accountability Block Grants program, this initiative provides funds to federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to strengthen tribal juvenile justice systems by encouraging tribes to implement accountability-based programs and services. Recipients received up to $300,000 for a 3-year project and budget period.

The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a collaborative effort of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services, recently awarded 24 new grants to local educational agencies to support and expand existing activities related to youth violence prevention and healthy childhood development. Award amounts ranged from a maximum yearly award of $1 million for rural school districts and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools to $2 million for suburban school districts and $3 million for urban districts.

Recent Solicitation

Applications for the Safe Start: Promising Approaches for Children Exposed to Violence project were due on September 10, 2004. This project will help communities implement collaborative cross-agency strategies to reduce the impact of children’s exposure to violence, with emphasis on young children (age 6 and younger) and their families. OJJDP is currently reviewing applications and expects to make award announcements in early 2005.

Other Funding News

OJJDP has assumed leadership of the juvenile and family components of the Office of Justice Program’s Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program. These two components were formerly administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

On October 1, 2004, the grant management responsibilities for the Drug-Free Communities Support Program were transferred from OJJDP to the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CSAP, in collaboration with the Office of National Drug Control Policy, announced the FY 2004 awards to new grantees.