OJJDP FY 2023 Victims of Child Abuse Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Professionals | O OJJDP 2023 171600

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The OJJDP FY 2023 Victims of Child Abuse Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Professionals opportunity is a Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) discretionary funding announcement designed to strengthen how communities respond to child abuse through high-quality training and hands-on technical assistance. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement during the project period (for example, providing ongoing guidance, coordination, and oversight). OJJDP is seeking a single award (expected awards: 1) with an award ceiling of up to $3,000,000.

The core purpose of the solicitation is to fund the development and implementation of training and technical assistance for professionals who work on child abuse cases, with a clear emphasis on promoting effective delivery of the evidence-informed Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) Model and the broader multidisciplinary response to child abuse. In practice, this points toward improving coordinated work across the professionals and systems that touch these cases, such as child advocacy centers, law enforcement, child protective services, prosecutors, medical and mental health providers, victim advocates, and other partners who collectively form multidisciplinary teams. The intent is to build capacity so responses are more consistent, trauma-informed, and effective, and so communities are better positioned to protect children and support victims through a coordinated approach.

The opportunity is also framed within broader Office of Justice Programs (OJP) priorities that go beyond program mechanics and into the values the work should reflect. OJP highlights commitments to advancing civil rights and racial equity, increasing access to justice, supporting crime victims and people impacted by the justice system, strengthening community safety, protecting the public from crime and evolving threats, and building trust between law enforcement and communities. Applications are therefore expected to align with these themes, including consideration of how training and technical assistance activities can improve fairness, accessibility, and outcomes for diverse communities and reduce disparities in how systems respond to child abuse.

OJJDP places the solicitation within its guiding philosophy of improving the welfare of youth and expanding their opportunities for a better future, while advancing a transformation of the juvenile justice system summarized as treating children as children, serving children at home with their families in their communities, and opening opportunities for system-involved youth. Even though this particular funding is focused on child abuse professionals and the CAC model, applicants are encouraged to explain how their approach supports these youth-centered priorities. The solicitation reflects OJJDP's view that lasting improvements come from practices and systems that center the strengths, needs, and voices of young people and families, especially those with lived experience of youth-serving systems.

A major required element is meaningful and sustainable youth and family partnership. Applicants must describe how they will integrate youth and family partnerships into both the project plan and the budget, signaling that this is not meant to be a symbolic or advisory-only component. The solicitation outlines several ways this partnership might look depending on the project design, including individual-level partnership (such as involvement in case planning and service delivery before, during, and after system contact), agency-level partnership (such as contributing to policy, practice, program development, implementation, evaluation, staffing, advisory bodies, and budget development), and system-level partnership (such as participating in strategic planning, system improvement initiatives, advocacy strategies, and reform efforts). Overall, OJJDP is asking applicants to demonstrate that youth and families will play a central, active role in shaping solutions rather than being consulted only at the margins.

Administratively, the funding opportunity is identified as O-OJJDP-2023-171600, with CFDA number 16.758, in the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category. The original posting date was February 15, 2023, with an original closing date of April 5, 2023. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility details referenced in the full solicitation, which implies that interested applicants would need to consult the complete announcement to confirm organizational eligibility and any specific requirements.

• The Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 2023 Victims of Child Abuse Act Training and Technical Assistance for Child Abuse Professionals" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.758.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 15, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 05, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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