Uniting and Enhancing Community-Based Violence Prevention, Defending Childhood, and National Forum Approaches: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention invites applications for fiscal year (FY) 2016 funding from localities that will embrace integration of the strategies and approaches of OJJDP’s three youth violence prevention initiatives to achieve well-being and positive outcomes and from existing OJJDP youth violence prevention grantees that wish to enhance their efforts. The Deadline is June 21, 2016.

A webinar is scheduled for Friday, May 6th from 2:00 pm (EST) - 3:00 pm (EST).

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Applicants must convene a collaborative body that includes representation from affected youth and families, city/county leadership, law enforcement, public health, courts, workforce development, housing and urban development, local schools and colleges, career and technical education institutions, the business community, media, faith institutions, domestic violence programs, rape crisis centers, community-based violence prevention programming and other civic and community-based organizations, and community members to undertake the proposed work. Governance of the collaborative is to be shared between the public and private sectors. A recommended approach is for the mayor’s office and a representative from the nonpublic sector to jointly lead the endeavor.

Youth, families, community members, and other nonpublic entities representing or directly serving youth and families must comprise 51 percent of the collaborative body.

In formulating plans, OJJDP encourages applicants to consider implementing the following strategies in their program design:

Racial Justice and Community Healing. This encompasses activities to enhance achievement of racial justice and community healing outcomes as part of overall efforts to reduce youth violence. Racial inequity and its legacy of historical trauma are connected to the violence and to the concentration of crime that afflict disadvantaged and minority communities.

However, communities can choose to develop a shared understanding and undertake community-wide efforts to examine the issues inherent to race, racialization, and structural racism that will undo the policies and practices that perpetuate racial inequity and work toward eliminating racially biased outcomes with the full range of community stakeholders, including law enforcement, policymakers, city officials, educators, community leaders, and youth and families, and to obtain the support of trained facilitators to assist with community roundtables, interactive training, and other participatory discussions and inclusive activities that precede taking action. 

Healing and Indigenous Approaches to Trauma. Trauma from violence that is not recognized and treated has significant ramifications for individuals, families, and communities. Healing-centered and indigenous approaches can provide safe places to integrate and process the trauma, acknowledge and validate the hurt, and connect victims to a positive and supportive network. This can help sustain emotional and psychological healing and restore the dignity and well-being that help support victims through the recovery process. These approaches include hospital-based interventions that engage victims of violent injury as soon as possible while they are recovering in the trauma center or hospital and are culturally specific, indigenous practices. For these programs to be effective, it is critical to have the ongoing engagement and commitment of all stakeholders and staff at the hospital and trauma or healing center.

For the entire solicitation, please click; http://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/so...afe&Thriving.pdf