OJJDP FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Emergency Planning Demonstration Program | O OJJDP 2021 47009

Opportunity Information: Apply for O OJJDP 2021 47009

The OJJDP FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Emergency Planning Demonstration Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Its main purpose is to fund projects that put into practice the principles in the guide titled Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities. In practical terms, the program is focused on strengthening preparedness, response, and continuity planning for juvenile justice residential settings, helping facilities build and test plans that better protect youth, staff, and operations during emergencies.

The solicitation is identified as Funding Opportunity Number O-OJJDP-2021-47009 and is associated with CFDA 16.823 under the Law, Justice and Legal Services funding category. The grant mechanism is a standard grant (not a cooperative agreement), and the maximum award amount listed is $150,000 per award. The original application closing date was March 15, 2021, and the opportunity record was created on December 29, 2020. While the posting does not specify the total number of expected awards in the provided text, the ceiling amount indicates projects are intended to be targeted demonstration efforts rather than large-scale, multi-million-dollar implementations.

Eligibility is broad and includes state, county, city or township, and special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments and other tribal organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status; for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); and other entity types as allowed. A notable point in the description is that tribal institutions of higher education are explicitly eligible to apply, which is sometimes stated separately in DOJ/OJJDP programs to clarify inclusion. For the purposes of the solicitation, the term "state" is defined expansively to include not only the 50 states, but also the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories and commonwealths: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

A major compliance condition attached to this FY 2021 DOJ discretionary funding is tied to Executive Order 13929, Safe Policing for Safe Communities. Under this requirement, state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must either be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have begun the certification process to be eligible for FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funds. The certification hinges on two mandatory use-of-force policy conditions: first, the agency's use-of-force policies must comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws; second, those policies must prohibit chokeholds except in situations where deadly force is legally permitted. Importantly, this certification requirement also applies when a law enforcement agency would receive DOJ discretionary funding indirectly through a subaward, meaning applicants must pay attention not only to their own status but also to any law enforcement partners or subrecipients involved in the project.

The solicitation also imposes a financial restriction applicable to all recipients and subrecipients, including for-profit organizations: they must forgo any profit or management fee. This means grant-funded work under this program is expected to be cost-based rather than revenue-generating, and budgets should be structured to recover allowable costs without including profit margins, markups, or management fees that function as profit. For additional details on the Safe Policing certification standards, DOJ directs applicants to the COPS Office webpage that hosts the Standards for Certification, an implementation fact sheet, and the list of designated independent credentialing bodies at https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO.

Overall, this opportunity supports emergency planning improvements in juvenile residential facilities by funding demonstration-level implementation of established planning principles, while also requiring compliance with DOJ-wide FY 2021 law enforcement certification rules (where applicable) and prohibiting profit or management fees for any recipient or subrecipient.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Emergency Planning Demonstration Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.823.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2020-12-29.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-03-15. (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 $150,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Others.

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