Elementary school age (5-10)
Exploring Outcomes Related to Legal Representation for Parents Involved in Mississippi's Juvenile Dependency System
Implementation Sites Project
Indian Child Welfare Act Judicial Benchbook
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Implications for Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Reasonable Efforts in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases that Involve Domestic Violence
Missing Children, State Care, and Child Sex Trafficking: Engaging the Judiciary in Building a Collaborative Response
Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Guiding Principles
Associations of Father's Lifetime Cannabis Use Disorder With Childs Initiation of Cannabis Use, Alcohol Use, and Sexual Intercourse by Child Gender
Opportunities & Awards
Search OJP Funding Opportunities & Awards
The Explore section of the Funding Resource Center will help you find solicitations to apply to and requirements you should review before applying. For a helpful search filter for all of OJP's funding opportunities, use the DOJ Program Plan. Once you find an opportunity that may fit your organization, refer to the list of Open OJP Solicitations for the full text of the funding opportunity.
Broken Contracts: Reimagining High-Quality Representation of Youth in Contract and Appointed Counsel Systems
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) Resource Page
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the U.S. Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) to coordinate Federal initiatives to strengthen MDI systems and support death investigation services practiced by medical examiner and coroner offices (MECs) across the United States. The MDI-IWG commenced in...
OJJDP March/April 2019 News @ A Glance Video Message
Caren Harp, OJJDP Administrator, March/April 2019 Video Message: Renewing our commitment to preventing the physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children. OJJDP partners with the Children's Bureau (CB), supports the National Children's Alliance SHINE campaign, offers webinars through its National Mentoring Resource Center, works with local child advocacy centers, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) programs, and more to help free the nation's children from violence and neglect. Video run time: 3:41 min.
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OJJDP May/June 2019 News @ A Glance Video Message: Excerpt of Missing Children's Day Remarks
Caren Harp, OJJDP Administrator, May/June 2019 Video Message Excerpt from the 2019 Missing Children's Day Ceremony on May 22, 2019. Administrator Harp discusses OJJDP's efforts to ensure the safety of our nation's children. Video run time: 5:15 min.
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Federal Report Emphasizes State, Local Role in School Safety
The Federal Commission on School Safety's final report includes grant funding, information and research through the Office of Justice Programs as important ways to help states and local communities implement initiatives that protect their students, teachers and staff members.
The report highlights, among other products, OJP's toolkits on police-mental health collaboration and helping victims of mass violence; research on indicators of school crime...
'Bigs in Blue' Shows the Power of Mentoring
As a police officer in the gang unit of the Dallas, Texas, Police Department, Christy Chamberlain sees young people caught in the grip of delinquency nearly every day. She has encountered juveniles as young as 12 who are involved in all types of crime. Even murder. One who stands out in her memory is a middle schooler who repeatedly broke into cars. Then one day...
Heroes Honored on Behalf of Missing, Exploited Children
The Department of Justice and the Office of Justice Programs recognized extraordinary individuals and their outstanding work on behalf of missing and exploited children with awards presented yesterday at the annual ceremony for National Missing Children’s Day.
The awardees—a detective with a state-level task force; two firefighters; and multiple law enforcement officers in two separate jurisdictions—were recognized for getting three child pornographers behind bars...
SMART Forges Partnerships to Manage Sex Offenders
On July 27, 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh entered a Florida department store with his mother. He was abducted by a stranger, and his remains were found two weeks later. The tragedy of the young boy's murder—a brutal crime that was never brought to trial—shocked the nation. His devastated family and supporters channeled their grief and anger in a positive way―to protect other children from sexual...