Assistance program
Keep Young Athletes Safe
$17.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 16.840
- What it does
- Goals: To support oversight of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and each national governing body to safeguard amateur athletes against sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in sports. Objectives: To safeguard young athletes participating in organized sports from sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. The program is designed to establish effective oversight of sports organizations by providing comprehensive training programs, policies, and standards to prevent abuse; to ensure mechanisms are in place to report to investigative and prosecutorial authorities all forms of abuse; and to establish best practices to address and support victims of abuse. Performance Measure 1: Number of suspected incidents of abuse of young athletes in sports referred to law enforcement; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of random audits conducted to ensure policies and procedures are followed correctly.
- Who benefits
- The program will safeguard amateur athletes through the prevention of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and each national governing body.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are nonprofit, nongovernmental entities with nationally recognized expertise in preventing and investigating sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and each national governing body. Applicants must have a recognized background investigating allegations of abuse and reporting to law enforcement to inform training and prevention activities. Applicants must also have the capacity to develop and implement trainings on the national, statewide, and local levels, as well as oversee regular and random audits to ensure the policies and procedures used to identify and prevent the abuse of amateur athletes are followed correctly. Please see funding NOFO for specific eligibility.
- Authorized by
- 36 U.S.C. § 220531
- Public Law 118-42; Statute 138, p. 25, 147
- Program site
- https://smart.ojp.gov/ ↗
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* 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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