OJJDP FY 17 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Implementation Program | OJJDP 2017 11028

Opportunity Information: Apply for OJJDP 2017 11028

The OJJDP FY 17 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Implementation Program is a discretionary federal grant opportunity run by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to help states take proven family drug court practices and embed them more permanently into statewide systems. The core idea is to move beyond isolated local successes and make those effective approaches standard practice across the larger child welfare, substance abuse treatment, and court systems. By doing that, OJJDP is aiming to strengthen how states respond to families in the child welfare system when parental substance use disorders are a driving factor, with the larger goal of improving outcomes for children, parents, and entire families.

The program focuses on statewide systems reform rather than creating brand-new courts from scratch. It emphasizes increasing the capacity of family drug courts to serve families more effectively, especially those involved with child welfare where substance use is contributing to safety risks, removals, or reunification challenges. A major part of the effort is improving cross-system collaboration so that courts, child welfare agencies, and treatment providers are working in alignment instead of operating in silos. The expectation is that better coordination will expand access to a comprehensive set of services for families, which in turn supports child safety and stability, parental recovery, timely permanency decisions, and stronger long-term family functioning.

This FY 2017 solicitation is invitation-only and is limited to five specific entities that previously received awards under the OJJDP FY 2014 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Program (SSRP). The only eligible applicants are the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts, New York State Unified Court System, Colorado Judicial Department, Judicial Branch of Iowa, and the Supreme Court of Ohio. In other words, it is not an open competition for new jurisdictions; it is designed to continue or deepen implementation work already underway in those states.

OJJDP allows collaborative proposals where multiple organizations participate in carrying out the work, but the application structure is tightly defined. Only one entity can be the official applicant and primary award recipient, and that entity must take full responsibility for administering the funds and managing the overall program. Any partnering organizations must be listed as subrecipients (subgrantees). Each eligible applicant may submit only one application, although the same organization could appear as a subrecipient on more than one application submitted by different eligible applicants.

Administratively, the opportunity is a cooperative agreement, which typically signals that OJJDP expects to have substantial involvement in the project’s direction, monitoring, or implementation compared with a standard grant. The Funding Opportunity Number is OJJDP 2017 11028, and it is listed under CFDA 16.585 in the law, justice, and legal services category. The solicitation was created on May 17, 2017, with an original closing date of June 21, 2017. OJJDP anticipated making five awards, with an award ceiling of $852,655. The notice also states that OJJDP may choose to fund applications from this solicitation in future fiscal years, depending on application merit and the availability of appropriations, meaning continuation or additional funding could be possible if federal funding and program priorities allow.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 17 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Implementation Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.585.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-05-17.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-06-21. (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 $852,655.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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