OJJDP FY 2017 National Intertribal Youth Leadership Development Initiative
The award recipient will build on the successes of the past OJJDP National Intertribal Youth Leadership Summits and the Today’s Native Leaders program to further expand the types of leadership development support that OJJDP offers to tribal youth.
This initiative aims to enhance tribal efforts to increase youth engagement, coordination, and action related to juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and public safety in Indian country.
The recipient will employ multiple strategies, including the development of a group of youth leaders who will have an integral role in planning and convening national and regional learning events and virtual learning opportunities to strengthen the ability of tribal youth to initiate, contribute to, and participate in culturally relevant efforts that reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors to prevent juvenile delinquency.
This initiative aims to enhance tribal efforts to increase youth engagement, coordination, and action related to juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and public safety in Indian country.
The recipient will employ multiple strategies, including the development of a group of youth leaders who will have an integral role in planning and convening national and regional learning events and virtual learning opportunities to strengthen the ability of tribal youth to initiate, contribute to, and participate in culturally relevant efforts that reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors to prevent juvenile delinquency.
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
full announcement
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are limited to federally recognized tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, states (including territories), units of local government, nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
For-profit organizations (as well as other recipients) must forgo any profit or management fee.Eligible applicants that propose to provide direct services to youth may include youth who are up to age 24 in the population they will serve.
OJJDP welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant.
Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (“subgrantees").
The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire program.
Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered.
An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (“subgrantee”) in more than one application.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2017/IntertribalYouthLeadership.pdf
Contact:
For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, or via email to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. An applicant th
Agency Email Description:
Agency Email:
grants@ncjrs.gov
Date Posted:
2017-05-15
Application Due Date:
2017-06-29
Archive Date:
2017-07-29
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