OJJDP FY 2017 Safe and Thriving Communities: Planning and Collaboration | OJJDP 2017 10940

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The OJJDP FY 2017 Safe and Thriving Communities: Planning and Collaboration grant (Opportunity Number OJJDP 2017 10940; CFDA 16.123) is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. It is designed to help jurisdictions in the nation most affected by youth-related gun crime and gang violence begin or strengthen a coordinated, community-wide response, with a particular focus on the most violent neighborhoods. Rather than immediately funding full-scale programming, this opportunity concentrates on the groundwork that makes effective violence reduction possible: shared planning, stronger partnerships, better use of data, and improved capacity to act together across systems.

At its core, the grant supports an initial phase of collaborative strategic planning and capacity-building so communities can develop a clear, locally tailored plan to reduce youth gun and gang violence. The program emphasizes multi-disciplinary and community partnerships, meaning applicants are expected to bring together stakeholders who often operate separately and align them around common goals, roles, and measurable strategies. The approach OJJDP describes blends balanced and restorative practices with data-driven problem solving and coordinated action at both the policy level (rules, priorities, interagency agreements, decision-making structures) and the practice level (how frontline systems identify risk, respond to incidents, connect youth to services, and prevent retaliation or escalation).

A central requirement is the use of a collaborative body that genuinely represents the people and systems most connected to the problem and its solutions. That collaborative group must include affected youth and families, city or county leadership, and a wide range of public and private partners. The solicitation specifically points to stakeholders such as law enforcement, public health, courts, workforce and jobs development, housing, and local schools and colleges, among others. The intent is to ensure the planning process is not dominated by a single agency and that it reflects community realities, incorporates prevention and intervention perspectives, and can coordinate enforcement, services, and opportunity-building in a coherent strategy.

The funded activities are oriented toward preparing a community to implement a comprehensive plan in a later phase. Awards are meant to support planning and capacity-building steps such as training and technical development for partners, staff development to improve coordination and readiness, and data development to strengthen how jurisdictions collect, share, analyze, and use information to guide decisions. By investing in these foundational elements, OJJDP aims to help jurisdictions build the infrastructure needed for sustained, strategic violence reduction rather than isolated or short-term responses.

This planning grant is also explicitly positioned as a stepping-stone to implementation funding. OJJDP indicates that successful applicants will be positioned to apply for a projected subsequent limited competition to implement the plans developed under this award. In practice, that means the deliverables from this grant are expected to include a credible collaborative structure, an actionable strategic plan grounded in local data, and stronger cross-sector capacity that demonstrates the jurisdiction is ready to move from planning to execution.

Key administrative details include an award ceiling of $333,000, with approximately 10 awards expected. The opportunity was posted December 29, 2016, with an original closing date of April 3, 2017. Eligible applicants include state governments and other entities as described in the solicitation’s additional eligibility information. Overall, the grant is structured to help high-violence communities organize themselves for effective, coordinated action, bringing public systems and community voices into the same planning process so that later implementation efforts are more targeted, evidence-informed, and sustainable.

• 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 2017 Safe and Thriving Communities: Planning and Collaboration" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.123.
• This funding opportunity was created on Dec 29, 2016.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 03, 2017. (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 $333,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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