OJJDP FY 18 Improving Juvenile Reentry Programs Capacity for Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting | OJJDP 2018 13707

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The OJJDP FY 18 Improving Juvenile Reentry Programs Capacity for Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting opportunity is a discretionary grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), designed to strengthen how juvenile reentry programs collect, analyze, and report data. The central goal is not simply to fund direct services, but to improve the measurement infrastructure behind juvenile reentry work so jurisdictions can more consistently track what services are delivered, what outcomes result, and how those outcomes relate to public safety and successful youth reintegration.

This funding builds on OJJDP's Juvenile Reentry Measurement Standards project launched in FY 2015. That earlier effort developed a model set of standards intended to help state and local jurisdictions measure juvenile reentry services and outcomes in a more aligned way. The idea is to reduce the current patchwork of definitions and tracking methods that make it hard to compare results across programs and locations, and hard to determine which reentry approaches are most effective. By standardizing key measures and improving data quality, jurisdictions can better assess the impact of reentry services on rehabilitation, reintegration, and community safety.

Under this FY 2018 opportunity, the award supports technical assistance aimed at implementing the measurement standards in real-world settings. The assistance is expected to focus heavily on practical strategies for cross-system collaboration, particularly around data sharing and coordinated measurement across agencies that touch a youth's reentry pathway. In juvenile reentry, information often sits in separate systems (juvenile justice agencies, courts, probation, detention or placement facilities, education systems, behavioral health providers, child welfare, workforce programs, and community-based organizations). This grant emphasizes approaches that help these systems work together to share relevant data responsibly and to track services and outcomes in a unified, meaningful way.

A major component of the work is improving how programs measure reoffending and recidivism. The opportunity highlights the need for best practices so reoffending can be defined, measured, and monitored consistently across programs and jurisdictions. That typically involves clarifying what events count (for example, arrest, referral, petition, adjudication, conviction, or re-confinement), setting appropriate follow-up windows, documenting data sources, and ensuring measures are comparable enough to support program management and performance reporting. The broader intent is to make recidivism tracking more reliable and useful as one part of evaluating reentry success, alongside other outcomes tied to education, employment, housing stability, family connection, and behavioral health engagement.

The opportunity anticipates a single award with an award ceiling of $1,000,000. It is listed under CFDA 16.812 and was created March 29, 2018, with an original closing date of May 29, 2018. Eligible applicants are broad and include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (both with and without 501(c)(3) status), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, small businesses, and other eligible entities as described in the solicitation's additional eligibility information.

While OJJDP-funded programs are identified as a priority for receiving assistance, the announcement makes clear that requests will be considered from any state or local jurisdiction seeking to improve the way it measures juvenile reentry services and outcomes. In practice, that means the grant is meant to help jurisdictions build stronger performance measurement and reporting capacity, adopt shared standards, and support better decision-making about juvenile reentry programming by grounding it in consistent, credible data.

• 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 18 Improving Juvenile Reentry Programs Capacity for Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.812.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 29, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 29, 2018. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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