Assistance program
Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
$26.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 16.830
- What it does
- Increase protective factors to prevent further delinquent behavior by girls involved in the juvenile justice system. • Improve juvenile justice system responses for girls in contact with the juvenile justice system. •Implement prevention and early intervention programs (including mentoring) based on best practices for girls who are at risk or are currently in the juvenile justice system. • Develop or enhance reentry strategies to help vulnerable girls on a path toward success, stability, and long-term contribution to society while offering them opportunities to heal. There are several different types of reentry programs, such as therapeutic communities, mentoring, case management, cognitive–behavioral programs, and reentry courts. Program models should be evidence-based and consider girls’ unique life experiences and address the effects of past trauma, fear of stigma, and need for trusting relationships with adults. To enhance knowledge and build capacity to address and improve services and treatment for girls at risk of entering or already involved in the juvenile justice system. The performance measures associated with assistance listing are: 1.Number of individuals served 2: Percentage of eligible individuals adjudicated for a delinquency offense 3: Percentage of eligible individuals who exhibited improved mental health
- Who benefits
- See applicable program announcement.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories), units of local government, federally recognized tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), as well as institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). For-profit organizations (as well as other recipients) must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.
- Authorized by
- 34 U.S.C. 11171-72; 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.
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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