Frequently Asked Questions

Statistics on residential placement of juvenile status offenders are available in Juveniles in Residential Placement, a resource that's part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) National Report Series. Also see the Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (EZACJRP) data analysis tool on the OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book website.

Data regarding missing children, including the percentage that are family abductions, are available on the Missing Children Statistics section of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website. Data are also available in Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics, published annually by the Federal Bureau of Investigation through its National Crime Information Center.

See the Missing Children Special Feature for additional information and resources

Statistics on juvenile drug use can be found in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report, National Survey on Drug Use & Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse sponsored survey, Monitoring the Future

The National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions site provides ratings of justice-related programs and practices, including those aimed at stopping gun violence. Visit the Crime & Crime Prevention and the Juveniles sections of the CrimeSolutions site to access program information. Additional information on programs aimed at preventing juvenile gun violence can be found in the Youth Violence Special Feature.

The Attorney General of the United States is Merrick B. Garland.

ASAP is the shared services payment system used by the Department of the Treasury that will replace the Grants Payment Request System for grants payments. Through this platform, recipients of DOJ grant awards and other forms of federal assistance will be able to request and receive payments for grants managed through JustGrants.

Drawdown is the term used to describe the process when a recipient requests and receives money under an award agreement.

The ASAP website can be found at https://fiscal.treasury.gov/asap/

First, the awarding government agency will create a POC from the System for Award Management. If you are the POC, you should have received two emails—one providing you with your ASAP username and one providing a temporary password with a link to create a new password. 

If you are not the recipient organization POC, you must be assigned one of the six roles to use ASAP: 

• POC—adds user or modifies their roles.
• Head of organization—approves changes to users and their roles. (Note: There can be only one head of organization.)  
• Financial official—enters and maintains banking account information.
• Authorizing official—adds payment requestor and inquirer only users.
• Payment requestor—initiates payment request.
• Inquirer only—can only run reports so no other role is allowed.

Once you are assigned a role, you should be able to create an account and access ASAP using your role’s permissions. 

You can request payments directly through the ASAP system. Be mindful that if you do not have the payment requestor role, you will not be able to request payment for your organizations awards. 

If you have the payment requestor role, login to ASAP.gov, mouse over “Initiate Payment Request,” and then follow the instructions: 

• For same day settlement, select Fedwire.
• For same day Automated Clearing House (ACH), enter current date in next step. 
• For next day ACH, simply select ACH.