OJJDP FY25 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children | O OJJDP 2025 172286

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The OJJDP FY25 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children grant is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It is designed to help jurisdictions and community partners build, strengthen, or scale programs that operate within detention or correctional settings and specifically focus on incarcerated parents, whether those parents are in the juvenile or adult system, who have children under the age of 18. The overall intent is to reduce future justice involvement and harm by supporting family connections and stability, preventing violent crime, lowering recidivism, and improving outcomes for the children impacted by a parent s incarceration.

Funding is provided through a grant mechanism under CFDA 16.831, and the opportunity is labeled O OJJDP 2025 172286. OJJDP anticipates making about five awards, with a maximum award amount of up to 750,000 per recipient. The application closing date listed for this solicitation is February 6, 2025, and the opportunity record was created on December 18, 2024. Because the opportunity is competitive and discretionary, applicants generally need to present a clear program model, a credible implementation plan, and strong partnerships with corrections or detention facilities and community based service providers.

Eligible applicants include state governments and federally recognized Tribal governments, as well as local governments such as counties and cities or townships. It also allows Native American tribal organizations that are not federally recognized tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status, as long as they are not institutions of higher education. The emphasis on states, units of local government, Tribal communities, and community based organizations signals that OJJDP expects a mix of public sector and nonprofit applicants, and that collaboration between corrections agencies and outside service partners is likely central to strong proposals.

Programmatically, the solicitation is focused on interventions situated within detention or correctional facilities that address the needs of incarcerated parents and their minor children. While the notice does not list specific required activities in the excerpt provided, the stated purpose points toward family centered reentry and in facility programming that can strengthen parenting capacity, support healthy parent child relationships, and connect children and caregivers to services that reduce trauma and instability. This could include structured parenting and family engagement programming, improved visitation or communication supports, coordination with child welfare or family services, and transition planning that helps parents return to the community with a realistic plan to meet family responsibilities while complying with supervision conditions. The explicit references to preventing violent crime and reducing recidivism frame these family supports not only as social services, but as public safety strategies intended to interrupt cycles of incarceration and victimization.

In short, this OJJDP Second Chance Act opportunity provides up to 750,000 per award to a small number of recipients to implement, develop, or expand correctional or detention based programming that supports incarcerated parents and their children under 18, with the connected goals of improved child and family well being, reduced reoffending, and broader community safety.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY25 Second Chance Act Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Parents and Their Minor Children" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.831.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-12-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-06. (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 $750,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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