Assistance program
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
$341.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants (Capacity Building and Complaint Processing, Training);Training
- CFDA number
- 16.540
- What it does
- The Title II Formula Grants Program provides funding to support state and local efforts to plan, establish, operate, coordinate, and evaluate policies and projects, directly or through grants and contracts with public and private agencies, for the development of more effective education, training, research, prevention, diversion, treatment, and rehabilitation, compliance with the core requirements and overall juvenile justice system improvement efforts. The objectives are the following: (1) grant funding to states to assist them in planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and evaluating projects for the development of more effective juvenile delinquency programming (i.e., education, training, research, prevention, diversion, treatment, and rehabilitation); (2) facilitate state compliance with the core requirements under the JJDP Act (34 USC 11131(a)(11), (12), (13),and (15); (3) provide and support training and technical assistance to benefit the Formula Grants Program; and (4) support research, evaluation, and statistics activities designed to benefit the Formula Grants Program. The performance measures associated with assistance listing are: 1: Number of individuals served (by population) 2: Percentage of training participants who reported they applied training knowledge or skills within 3 months of attending a training
- Who benefits
- Units of a State and its local government, public and private organizations, Indian tribes performing law enforcement functions, and agencies involved in juvenile delinquency prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.
- Who applies
- States (including U.S. territories and the District of Columbia) are eligible for formula grants; eligibility for discretionary grants varies.
- Authorized by
- 34 U.S.C. § 11131
- Program site
- http://www.ojjdp.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments