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In fiscal year (FY) 2008, OJJDP awarded more than $391 million in grant awards to help at-risk youth, protect children, and improve juvenile justice systems nationwide. Awarded through formula, block, and discretionary funding, these grants support State and community efforts to prevent crime and enhance public safety by focusing on the well-being of our Nation's young people.

OJJDP awarded more than $124 million directly to States and territories in formula and block grants to implement a range of programs that support safe communities. These funds will support delinquency prevention activities, efforts to enforce laws against underage drinking, and accountability-based programs to reduce juvenile offending and strengthen juvenile justice systems. The Office also awarded more than $267 million in discretionary grants to support a range of delinquency prevention and child protection activities.

OJJDP invested more than $71 million this year to help develop and enhance the capacity of communities to provide mentoring services to at-risk youth and support anti-gang strategies nationwide. This year, mentoring grants will focus on the needs of underserved populations, including at-risk youth in American Indian and Alaska Native communities and Latino communities that have gang problems.

The funding also supports a variety of child protection activities. OJJDP awarded more than $17 million in grants to State and local law enforcement agencies under its Internet Crimes Against Children task force program to support joint local, State, and Federal efforts to investigate and prosecute cybercrimes against children and keep children safe from Internet predators.

More information about OJJDP's FY 2008 awards is available through the program links listed below.

Funding through formula and block grants is available to States and territories through the State agency designated by the Governor. Juvenile Justice Specialists in each State administer the funding for programs through subgrants to units of local government, local private agencies, not-for-profit organizations, community- and faith-based organizations, and American Indian/Alaska Native jurisdictions in accordance with legislative requirements.

• Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Block Grants Program
• Juvenile Accountability Block Grants Program
• Title II Formula Grants Program
• Title V Community Prevention Grants Program

Discretionary Grants

OJJDP awards discretionary grants to States, units of local government, private organizations, not-for-profit organizations, community- and faith-based organizations to administer programs.

• Brief Interventions and Referrals to Treatment (BIRT) for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Drug Courts
• Child Protection Division Grants
• Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Earmarks
• Court Appointed Special Advocates Program
• Congressionally Directed Earmarks
• Demonstration Programs Division Grants
• Edward Byrne Memorial Earmarks
• Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Discretionary Program
• Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program
• Internet Crimes Against Children Continuations
• Juvenile Drug Courts Training and Technical Assistance
• Latino Youth Mentoring Program
• Membership Support Services for Not-for-Profit Missing Children's Organizations
• Mentoring for At-Risk Tribal Youth Programs
• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Program
• National Mentoring Programs
• Nonparticipating State Program, Wyoming
• State Relations and Assistance Division Grants
• Strengthening Youth Mentoring through Community Partnerships
• Tribal Youth Program
• Tribal Youth Program's Juvenile Accountability Discretionary Grants
• Victims of Child Abuse Program