The Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) brings into focus one of OJP's core missions: to work with local communities to analyze public safety and criminal justice problems, develop solutions, and foster local-level leadership to implement and sustain these solutions. CCDO continues the many successes of the well-known Weed and Seed strategy - an innovative and comprehensive multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and community revitalization, and establishes a single organizational infrastructure that provides a nexus for these activities, offering training and technical assistance to help communities help themselves.

CCDO also works on reentry issues, helping state and local agencies access and leverage resources from existing state formula and block grants to integrate returning offenders. It partners with public and private institutions and joins with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in a Public Housing Safety Initiative for public and federally assisted housing, including American Indian housing. The American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Affairs Desk, a part of CCDO, enhances access to information by federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes regarding funding opportunities, training, and technical assistance.