Closed · OJJDP-2020-17390 · CFDA 16.543 · Discretionary

OJJDP FY 20 National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program

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

up to $4.4M
Award range
Closed
Status
April 9, 2020
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

OJJDP FY 20 National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program is a closed discretionary listing from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention that offered Up to $4,400,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 638 other opportunities from Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.

up to $4.4M
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
16.543
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

OJJDP FY 20 National AMBER Alert Training and… is closed (last close April 9, 2020). The parent program page for CFDA 16.543 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. 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 April 9, 2020

Posted Jan 24 Closes Apr 9

Est. Total Funding

$4,400,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The FY 2020 National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program will provide training and technical assistance support to enhance the national AMBER Alert network; increase and improve law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children; increase the recovery rate of abducted children; strengthen child alert systems in the nation's northern and southern borders to better protect American children abducted to or through foreign countries; create greater community capacity in understanding broader issues related to exploitation and abuse of children; continue support of this work in Indian Country while implementing the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018; and enhance public participation in the recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted children.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · OJJDP-2020-17390

Grants.gov marks OJJDP FY 20 National AMBER Alert Training and… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL). This eligibility-code string dominates the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention book (234 peers, 37% of 639).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 16.543

Missing Children's Assistance

U.S. Department of Justice

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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, at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html, or at 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 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 (Grants.gov) section in the OJP Grant Resource Guide. 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) or by email at grants@ncjrs.gov. 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. General information on applying for OJJDP awards can be found at https://www.ojjdp.gov/funding/funding.html. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/media/document/ojjdp-2020-17390-faqs.pdf. grants@ncjrs.gov

What to do next

OJJDP FY 20 National AMBER Alert Training and… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 16.543 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Missing Children's Assistance indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention lists 638 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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