Closed · OJJDP-2017-11000 · CFDA 16.818 · Discretionary

OJJDP FY 17 Changing Minds: Professional Development and Public Education to Address Children Exposed to Violence and Childhood Trauma

Federal grant opportunity posted by Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1M-$1.8M
Award range
Closed
Status
May 2, 2017
Close date
6
Expected awards

The verdict

OJJDP FY 17 Changing Minds: Professional Development and Public Education to Address Children Exposed to Violence and Childhood Trauma is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention that offered $1,000,000 -- $1,750,000 across 6 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 638 other opportunities from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.

$1M-$1.8M
award range
Closed
application status
6
expected awards
16.818
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

OJJDP FY 17 Changing Minds: Professional Deve… is closed (last close May 2, 2017). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention still indexes 638 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed May 2, 2017

Posted Mar 17 Closes May 2

Est. Total Funding

$6,000,000

Expected Awards

6

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

To extend and continue the important work done to date in educating the public and in professional development on children exposed to violence, OJJDP invites applications to provide training, technical assistance, and resources to state, local, and tribal professionals who work with at-risk children and justice-involved youth in three discrete categories of funding, as described following: Category 1: Master Trainings/Training of Trainers on CEV and childhood trauma for educators and educational administrators in public school and correctional and alternative education settings based on the Changing Minds K-12 training institute; Category 2: Master Trainings/Training of Trainers on CEV and childhood trauma for law enforcement based on the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence curriculum and toolkit; and Category 3: Changing Minds Public Awareness Campaign expansion and enhancement—phase 2.

Market-open applicant set · includes for-profit door

The eligibility set for OJJDP FY 17 Changing Minds: Professional Deve… includes a for-profit door among 6 printed types (Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Private institutions of higher education; +2 more). Competitive traffic can include commercial applicants alongside other listed classes. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL). Only 5 other Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention listings share this exact eligibility-code string (1% of 639).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 12
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 13
Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education
Code 22
For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Code 23
Small businesses

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, or via email to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. An applicant that experiences unforeseen Grants.gov technical issues beyond its control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline must email the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Response Center (Response Center) at grants@ncjrs.gov within 24 hours after the application deadline in order to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. Additional information on reporting technical issues appears under “Experiencing Unforeseen Grants.gov Technical Issues” in the How To Apply section. For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the Response Center by telephone at 800–851–3420 or TTY: 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only), by email at grants@ncjrs.gov, or by web chat. Response Center hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET on the solicitation close date. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2017/FAQ/ChangingMinds.pdf. grants@ncjrs.gov

What to do next

OJJDP FY 17 Changing Minds: Professional Deve… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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