Assistance program
Juvenile Mentoring Program
$631.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.726
- What it does
- To improve outcomes for at-risk and high-risk youth, and reduce negative outcomes (including juvenile delinquency, substance use, and gang participation) through the provision of mentoring services. The performance measures associated with this objective are: PM1: Number of individuals served PM 2: Percentage of eligible individuals who abstained from or reduced substance misuse
- Who benefits
- See applicable program announcement for details
- Who applies
- Please see the eligibility language under each OJJDP program announcement funded through this program for more details. Past and current program announcements can be found at www.ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding
- Authorized by
- Pub. L. No. 117-328, 136 Stat. 4459, 4538
- Program site
- http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.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
By dollars committed.
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