OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence | O OJJDP 2022 171399

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The OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence opportunity is a discretionary Department of Justice grant, administered through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is set up as a cooperative agreement, which generally means the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement in guiding or collaborating on the work during the award period rather than simply providing funds with minimal federal interaction. The program sits within the Law, Justice and Legal Services funding activity category and is tied to CFDA (now often referred to as Assistance Listing) number 16.818, which is commonly associated with OJJDP programming.

This particular posting is explicitly labeled "Invited to Apply," meaning it was not structured as a fully open, competitive solicitation where any eligible entity could submit an application. Instead, OJJDP indicated that program-specific direction would be provided through an Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Invitation Letter, which is referenced as the primary source for detailed requirements. In practical terms, that kind of language usually signals that OJJDP had already identified a specific organization (or a very small pool of organizations) it intended to fund for this work, and the posted notice functions more as the formal public record for the award process than as a broad call for applications.

The focus of the work is training and technical assistance (TTA) related to strategies that support children exposed to violence. While the posting itself does not lay out the specific deliverables, "training and technical assistance" in the OJJDP context often includes developing practitioner-focused resources, providing consultation to sites or jurisdictions, delivering webinars and in-person trainings, creating toolkits or implementation guides, and helping organizations adopt evidence-informed approaches. The intended beneficiaries implied by the title are systems and professionals who serve children and families impacted by violence, which can include juvenile justice agencies, schools, child welfare providers, victim service organizations, community-based programs, and multidisciplinary teams. The central goal is typically to strengthen capacity, improve practice, and promote coordinated responses so that children exposed to violence receive more effective support and fewer downstream harms.

Funding details included an award ceiling of $1,000,000, with an expectation of a single award. That combination points to a single, national-level TTA provider or lead organization tasked with delivering the work at scale or across multiple jurisdictions. Because it is one award, it is also likely that the recipient would either have in-house expertise across multiple domains (trauma-informed care, victim services, juvenile justice, implementation support) or would coordinate a network of subject-matter experts and partner organizations to cover the full scope of requested assistance.

The opportunity was published on July 14, 2022, with an original closing date of July 21, 2022, which is an unusually short application window by typical competitive-grant standards. That short timeline further reinforces the "invited to apply" structure, where the invited applicant is already prepared to submit and the agency is working within a tight funding or administrative schedule.

The statutory authority cited is 34 U.S.C. 11171-11172, along with the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103). These authorities provide OJJDP with the legal basis to fund activities connected to juvenile justice priorities and related national initiatives, including capacity-building efforts like TTA. The notice does not spell out match requirements, period of performance, or the detailed program narrative expectations; instead, it directs interested parties to the OJP Invitation Letter for those program-specific instructions.

Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with a note to consult an additional eligibility field for clarification. In invited opportunities, eligibility language can be somewhat secondary because the practical eligibility is constrained by the invitation itself. Even so, the category suggests the recipient could be a nonprofit organization, academic institution, or other qualified entity capable of delivering national or multi-site training and technical assistance in the children-exposed-to-violence space.

Key identifiers for tracking the opportunity include the funding opportunity number O-OJJDP-2022-171399 and the title as posted. The administering agency is the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, signaling hands-on federal collaboration during implementation.

• 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 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.818.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 14, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 21, 2022. (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: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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