Assistance program
Tribal Youth Program
$70.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.731
- What it does
- Through this program, the Department seeks to assist tribes in responding to myriad issues facing tribal nations. This includes creating, expanding, or strengthening tribally-driven approaches along the juvenile justice continuum that can range from prevention to intervention and treatment .In addition to programmatic funding, this program funds a robust training and technical assistance program The performance measures associated with this objective are: PM 1: Number of individuals served (by population) PM 2: Percentage of eligible individuals served by a prevention service
- Who benefits
- Not applicable
- Who applies
- Only federally recognized Indian tribes, as determined by the Secretary of Interior, may apply. This includes Alaska Native villages and tribal consortia consisting of two or more federally recognize Indian tribes. Applicants will be asked to submit documentation reflective of their legal authority to apply for funds on behalf of their tribes. Recognizing that tribes have different forms of tribal governance and tribal laws vary, no prescribed form of documentation will be required.
- Authorized by
- The Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act, 34 USC 11171-11172; the Department of Justice Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. No. 118-42, 138 Stat. 25,150.
- 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.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$255.7K
<1%
Grants
$70.5M
100%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
Administering agencies
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