Grants / Department of Justice / Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention

O-OJJDP-2022-171201: OJJDP FY 2022 Victims of Child Abuse Regional Children's Advocacy Centers Program

Closed Closed May 3, 2022 Opportunity O-OJJDP-2022-171201 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$1.3 million
• Total funding$5.0 million
• Expected awards4
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants are limited to local public and private nonprofit children’s advocacy center agencies and organizations that can demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience providing regional or national training and technical assistance to a wide range of multidisciplinary professionals and others (including children’s advocacy center staff) with respect to the judicial handling and investigative response to child abuse and neglect cases. Nonprofit organizations that hold money in offshore accounts for the purposes of avoiding paying the tax described in 26 U.S.C. 511(a) are not eligible to apply. To advance Executive Order 13929 Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process, to be eligible for FY 2022 DOJ discretionary grant funding. To become certified, the law enforcement agency must meet two mandatory conditions: (1) the agency’s use-of-force policies adhere to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and (2) the agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit chokeholds except in situations where use of deadly force is allowed by law. The certification requirement also applies to law enforcement agencies receiving DOJ discretionary grant funding through a subaward. For detailed information on this certification requirement, please visit https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO to access the Standards for Certification on Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Implementation Fact Sheet, and the List of Designated Independent Credentialing Bodies All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse and the Regional and Local Children's Advocacy Centers awards averaged $4.3 million; this notice allows up to $1.3 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (95% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. The OJJDP FY 2022 Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) Regional Children's Advocacy Centers (RCAC) program supports four regional centers—one situated within each of four designated U.S. Census regions—that enhance and support the development, expansion, and continuous quality improvement of multidisciplinary teams, local children's advocacy centers (CACs), and state chapter organizations responding to child abuse and neglect cases to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect and the provision of children's advocacy center services to child victims and their families.

Category: Law, Justice and Legal Services.

Applying now

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