Funding-Limited Submission – USDOJ – OJJDP FY 2016 Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems Program (OJJDP-2016-9004); April 4, 2016

Purpose: This program will fund agencies that use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to provide intervention and supervision services for youth with sexual behavior problems and treatment services for their child victims and families. Award recipients will target services for youth with sexual behavior problems, their child victim(s), and parents/caregivers of the offending youth and child victims. This program solicitation has two parts:

1) Category 1 (program sites) – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will fund new program sites that will provide a comprehensive community-based intervention model to serve youth who have sexual behavior problems and are in pre- or post-adjudication for inappropriate sexual behavior with a family member, coresident, or other child with close social ties to the youth who committed the offense.

2) Category 2 (support, training, and technical assistance) - the goals of Category 2 of this solicitation are to develop, design, and deliver training and technical assistance that supports and guides the program sites as they implement their community-based management strategies for youth with sexual behavior problems and their victims and families. Technical assistance needs may vary greatly depending on the current practices of each program site.

Project Period/Funding Amount:

Category 1 – three awards of up to $300,000 each for a 24-month project period, beginning Oct. 1, 2016.

Category 2 – one award of up to $600,000 for a 24-month project period, beginning Oct. 1, 2016.

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

Institutional Limit: 1 (as the Lead Applicant)

Internal Competition: To participate in the University’s selection process, researchers are to submit the following material, assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday, February 23, 2016:

• Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;
• Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;
• Brief project description (2 pages maximum)

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation. If you have any questions about the submission process contact Ms. Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research at 257-1663.

Agency Deadline: April 4, 2016