Tribal Youth Justice Program (within Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation - CTAS)

Tribal Youth Justice Program (within Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation - CTAS) is sponsored by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). This program helps Tribes improve their juvenile justice systems and supports prevention, intervention, and treatment approaches that benefit youth.

FACT SHEET PURPOSE AREA 9 # COORDINATED TRIBAL ASSISTANCE SOLICITATION COPS O˜ce’s Public Safety and Community Policing > (COPS O˜ce), CFDA #16. 710 > (BJA, COPS O˜ce, OVW, OJJDP, OVC), CFDA #16.

608 BJA’s Tribal Justice Systems BJA’s Tribal Justice System Infrastructure Program OVC’s Children’s Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities OJJDP’s Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Program For additional information on the Tribal Youth Program, contact: Program Manager O˜ce of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention O˜ce of Justice Programs Kara. McDonagh@ojp. usdoj.

gov The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 1974 established the O˜ce of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to support local and state e°orts to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP collaborates with professionals from diverse disciplines to improve juvenile justice policies and practices by supporting states, local communities, and Tribal jurisdictions in their e°orts to develop and implement e°ective programs for juveniles. OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are free from crime and violence. If they come into contact with the justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneÿcial to them.

OJJDP provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to youth delinquency and victimization. The O˜ce helps states, localities, and tribes develop e°ective and equitable juvenile justice systems that create safer communities and empower youth to lead productive lives.

OJJDP sponsors research, program, and training initiatives; develops priorities and goals and sets policies to guide federal juvenile justice issues; disseminates information about juvenile justice issues; and awards funds to states, tribes and communities to support local programming.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched its Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) in Fiscal Year 2010 in direct response to concerns raised by Tribal leaders about the Department’s grant process that did not provide the ˝exibility tribes needed to address their criminal justice and public safety needs.

Through CTAS, federally recognized Tribes and Tribal consortia were able, for the ÿrst time, to submit a single application for most of DOJ’s Tribal grant programs. DOJ designed this comprehensive approach to save time and resources and allow Tribes and DOJ to gain a better understanding of the Tribes’ overall public safety needs.

CTAS is not a program but is the overarching structure, under which ten separate grant program applications are collected.

CTAS is currently operated through collaborative e°orts across many department components, bureaus, and o˜ces, including: • Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) • O˜ce of Justice Programs (OJP) • Executive O˜ce for United States • O˜ce of Juvenile Justice and Attorney’s (EOUSA) Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) • O˜ce of Community Oriented Policing • O˜ce of Tribal Justice (OTJ) Services (COPS) • O˜ce for Victims of Crime (OVC) PURPOSE AREA PROVIDERS Bureau of Justice Assistance O˜ce of Justice Programs U.S. Department of Justice 810 Seventh Street NW, 4th Floor Washington, DC 20531 (202) 616-6500 | www.

bja. gov Email tribalgrants@usdoj. gov for questions regarding the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitations.

U.S. Department of Justice O˜ce of Community Oriented Policing Services 145 N Street NE Washington, DC 20530 (800) 421-6770 | www. cops. usdoj.

gov O˜ce of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 810 Seventh Street NW Washington, DC 20531 (202) 307–5911 | www. ojjdp. gov O˜ce for Victims of Crime 810 Seventh Street NW, Second Floor Washington, DC 20531 (202) 307-5983 | www.

ovc. gov OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Program (TYP) is Purpose Area 9 under the CTAS. OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Program (TYP) seeks to support and enhance Tribal e°orts to prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency and strengthen a fair and beneÿcial juvenile justice system response for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth.

OJJDP understands that tribal nations have widely varying circumstances, strengths, and needs that may challenge their ability to prevent juvenile delinquency or to intervene and treat tribal youth when necessary. The funding in this purpose area is made available to enable tribes to create, expand, or strengthen approaches along the juvenile justice continuum that can range from prevention to intervention and treatment.

We recommend that applicants propose a project that initially focuses on one aspect of the continuum, such as diversion or treatment, based on determined need. OJJDP also recommends applicants ensure proposals for TYP funding are created with broad, tribal-wide planning e°orts and with community support, which will be critically important in sustaining e°orts beyond the award period.

This may include the substantive involvement of key stakeholders such as tribal youth, elders and tribal leaders as well as service providers, law enforcement, child welfare, court and probation o˜cials, and schools, as appropriate and applicable to the proposed program design. Applicants may choose to address any of the following eligible activities described below, and should choose from the following three categories.

Seeding Change Planning Grant (Category 1) This category will support a dedicated planning period for tribes to develop strategies to improve and/or enhance tribal juvenile justice systems that include prevention, intervention, and treatment programs and services for youth.

Cultivating Change Implementation Grant (Category 2) This category will support the implementation of a new Tribal Youth Program for tribes that are seeking funding to support programs, services, and/or system improvements. Harvesting Change Enhancement/Expansion Grant (Category 3) This category will continue, expand, or enhance a current OJJDP-funded Tribal Youth Program.

Note: The population of youth served under this grant must not include youth who are age 18 or older. Priority areas eligible for funding include the areas below. Prevention services to impact risk factors for delinquency and promote protective factors.

This may include mentoring, youth development, anti-gang education, truancy and school dropout prevention programs, after-school programs, and anti-bullying and parenting education programs. Prevention, intervention, and treatment for children exposed to violence.

This includes development and implementation of trauma-informed practices in programs and services that address child abuse and neglect and the e°ects and issues of childhood trauma or exposure to violence. Applicants should familiarize themselves with the DOJ report on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence.

Development and implementation of tribal best practices and traditional healing methods to support tribal youth. This may include engaging youth in activities centered on cultural preservation, land reclamation, green or sustainable tribal traditions, and language preservation. Interventions for court-involved tribal youth.

This may include therapeutic services, mentoring, graduated sanctions, restitution, diversion, home detention, foster and shelter care, and other alternatives to detention. Intervention and treatment services for children exposed to sex tra˜cking. This may include the development of or implementation of programs and services for children who are victims of sex tra˜cking.

Please see the OJJDP Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children/Sex Tra˜cking Literature Review: https://ojjdp. ojp. gov/mpg/literature-review/csec-sex-tra˜cking.

pdf 3. Treatment Treatment services for at-risk and high-risk youth. This may include alcohol and drug abuse treatment and prevention programs; mental health treatment (counseling, referral and placement); and development of comprehensive screening tools, crisis intervention, intake assessments, treatment team planning, and therapeutic services for co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.

Services for youth in detention or out-of-home placement. This may include green or sustainable tribal traditions, risk and needs assessments, educational and vocational programming, mental health and substance abuse services, family strengthening, recreational activities, and aftercare and re- entry services to help successfully reintegrate the youth into the tribal community. Improvement or establishment of data collection systems.

This may include e°orts to create or improve abilities to track youth in detention, placement, or community-based programs with the goal of improving understanding of and responses to youth and community needs. OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) centers assists selected project sites as they work to achieve their goals and objectives.

Through this TTA, OJJDP assists Tribal Grantees to increase their skills, knowledge and capabili- ties in developing e°ective and sustainable programs for reducing juvenile delinquency and increasing youth potential in Tribal Commu- nities. The TTA provided to the OJJDP CTAS grantees includes onsite visits and long-distance support as well as the opportunity for peer-to-peer learning throughout the life of the grant award.

OJJDP’s Tribal Youth Program TTA Centers are also available to provide assistance to all federally recognized tribes and can be accessed at https://www. tribalyouthprogram. org / and at https://www.

resourcebasket. org /. Tribal New Grantee Orientation OJJDP CTAS grantees are required to participate in a new grantee orientation.

This training provides all new grantees an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of key grant administration resources and a greater awareness of recom - mended practices in grant administration. Only federally recognized Tribes are eligible to apply for funding under Purpose Area 9 (Tribal Youth Program). This includes Alaska Native Villages and Tribal consortia consisting of two or more feder-ally recognized Indian Tribes.

Please see the CTAS solicitation for more information on funding amounts. Seeding Change Planning Grant (Category 1) - Tribes that have a Purpose Area 9 award with an end date in or after 2022 are not eligible to apply for this grant award. Cultivating Change Implementation Grant (Category 2) - Tribes that have a Purpose Area 9 award with an end date in or after 2022 are not eligible to apply for this grant award.

Harvesting Change Continuation Grant (Category 3) - Only tribes that have an OJJDP funded Purpose Area 9 award with a project period end date that occurs in 2022 are eligible to apply for this award. The need for culturally-based prevention, intervention and treatment programs for at-risk American Indian and Alaska Native Youth is well documented.

Purpose Area #9 funding provides support for tribes to develop and implement culturally based programs for Tribal Youth to impact risk factors for delinquency; interventions for court-involved youth; improvements to the juvenile justice system; alcohol and substance abuse prevention programs; and mental health program services.

The Tribal Youth Program supports these goals and Tribal e°orts to achieve fair and beneÿcial juvenile justice system responses for American Indian and Alaska Native youth. OJJDP recognizes that the opportunity to develop and implement tribal best practices, indigenous practices that have longevity within tribal communities and/or traditional healing methods to support tribal youth exist throughout the juvenile justice continuum.

These approaches may be proposed as prevention, intervention or treatment strategies and may be proposed alone or in combination with other approaches. OJJDP also recognizes that many tribes are impacted by state and local juvenile justice e°orts and endeavor to ensure that their youth receive e°ective and culturally sensitive services.

Proposals that include e°orts to develop or strengthen state-tribal partnerships can be incorporated at any point along the juvenile justice continuum as a component of a tribal youth program. page 3 lUA "" •••" o f J u Jllu Auhu,. c a U .

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,..... 1nd~linquencyl'u~entlon # FUNDING AGENCY OVERVIEW The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) , O˜ce of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, supports law enforcement, courts, corrections, treatment, victim services, technology, and prevention initiatives that strengthen the nation’s criminal justice system.

BJA provides leadership, services, and funding to America’s communities by emphasizing local control; building relationships in the ÿeld; devel - oping collaborations and partnerships; promoting capacity building through planning; streamlining the administration of grants; increas - ing training and technical assistance; creating project accountability; encouraging innovation; and ultimately communicating the value of justice e°orts to decision makers at every level.

BJA works with the O˜ce of Tribal Justice, the O˜ce of Justice Program’s American Indian and Alaska Native A°airs Desk, and other federal agencies, in addition to many culturally appropriate organiza - tions, to maintain focus with the ÿeld and to ensure the program’s goals and objectives are achieved.

Established in 1988 through an amendment to the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) of 1984, O˜ce for Victims of Crime (OVC) is charged by Congress with administering the Crime Victims Fund (the Fund). Through OVC, the Fund supports a broad array of programs and services that focus on helping victims in the immediate aftermath of crime and continuing to support them as they rebuild their lives.

Millions of dollars are invested annually in victim compensation and assistance in every U.S. state and territory, as well as for training, technical assistance, and other capacity-building programs designed to enhance service providers’ ability to support victims of crime in communities across the Nation.

The O˜ce of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) was created through the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The COP S O˜ce is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation's state, local, territory, and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources.

Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.

The COPS O˜ce has also produced and compiled a broad range of information resources that can help law enforcement better address speciÿc crime and operational issues, and help community leaders better understand how to work coop - eratively with their law enforcement agency to reduce crime.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act established OJJDP, a component of the O˜ce of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to support local and state e°orts to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system. In December 2018, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act (JJRA) of 2018 was signed into law, reauthorizing and substantially amending the JJDP Act. https://ojjdpojp.

gov/aboutlegislation . OJJDP collaborates with professionals from diverse disciplines to improve juvenile justice policies and practices by supporting states, local communities, and Tribal jurisdictions in their e°orts to develop and implement e°ective programs for juveniles. OJJDP envisions a nation where our children are free from crime and violence.

If they come into contact with the justice system, the contact should be rare, fair, and beneÿcial to them. OJJDP provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to youth delinquency and victimization. The O˜ce helps states, localities, and tribes develop e°ective and equita - ble juvenile justice systems that create safer communities and empower youth to lead productive lives.

This project was supported by Grant No. 2019-IC-BX-K002 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the O˜ce of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the O˜ce of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the O˜ce for Victims of Crime, and the SMART O˜ce.

Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the o˜cial position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.