OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Child Abuse Training for Judicial and Court Personnel | O OJJDP 2022 171409

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The OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Child Abuse Training for Judicial and Court Personnel opportunity is a continuation funding solicitation issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means the federal government expects to have substantial involvement in guiding or collaborating on the work during the award period, rather than simply providing funds with minimal interaction. The program sits within the Law, Justice and Legal Services funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 16.757.

The purpose of the opportunity, as indicated by its title, is to support training and technical assistance focused on child abuse matters for judicial and court personnel. While the public-facing description in the listing is brief and directs readers to the OJP Invitation Letter for the program-specific details, the intent is clear: to strengthen the capacity of courts to recognize, process, and adjudicate child abuse and related cases effectively by improving the knowledge and practices of judges, court staff, and other court-affiliated professionals. This kind of initiative generally centers on improving court handling of child abuse cases, promoting consistent and informed judicial decision-making, and helping court systems implement practices that better protect children while ensuring due process and appropriate legal standards.

This award is grounded in federal statutory authority under Section 222 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act (34 U.S.C. 20332). That authority is commonly tied to efforts that improve the response of the justice system to child victims and that enhance the professional competence of those working in judicial settings where child abuse and child victimization issues arise. In practical terms, the statutory hook signals that the work is meant to align with the broader federal goal of improving the way child victims are treated and supported in legal proceedings and ensuring that court personnel have specialized training relevant to these sensitive cases.

Administratively, the opportunity is labeled as an invited-to-apply continuation. That language usually means OJJDP is not broadly competing the award among all possible applicants; instead, a limited set of applicant(s) are specifically invited to submit an application, often because the work builds on an existing initiative, an incumbent provider, or an established national training and technical assistance function. The eligibility category is listed as "Others," with further clarification deferred to an additional eligibility field not included in the excerpt you provided. The posting indicates that OJJDP expected to make one award, reinforcing the idea that this is designed to fund a single entity to deliver the training and technical assistance function at scale.

In terms of funding, the award ceiling is $3,556,559, with one expected award. The funding opportunity number is O-OJJDP-2022-171409. The notice was created on August 4, 2022, and the original closing date was August 22, 2022, which is a relatively short application window that is also consistent with invited-to-apply continuation announcements.

Because the listing repeatedly points applicants to the OJP Invitation Letter for program-specific information, key implementation details such as the intended scope of work, required deliverables, performance measures, target audiences within the judiciary, geographic coverage expectations, and reporting requirements would be spelled out in that letter rather than in the short synopsis. Even so, the essential summary is that OJJDP intended to continue funding a specialized national or multi-jurisdictional effort to provide training and technical assistance to judicial and court personnel on child abuse issues, under the authority of the Victims of Child Abuse Act, through a cooperative agreement with a single recipient, up to roughly $3.56 million.

• The Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Training and Technical Assistance - Child Abuse Training for Judicial and Court Personnel" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.757.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 04, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 22, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,556,559.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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