Family-Based Alternative Justice Program

Program goal name: Improve outcomes for and reduce impact of justice system involvement on families and children.
Program goal(s) description: Establish new and enhance existing family-based pre-arrest and/or pre-sentencing alternative justice programs for parents/primary caregivers involved in or at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system to improve child, parent, and family outcomes.
Program objective name: Develop programs for parents/primary caregivers and their dependent children impact by justice system involvement.
Program objective description: Increase opportunities for alternatives to incarceration, as appropriate, for parents/primary caregivers to remain at home with their dependent youth; Provide family-based interventions that support family preservation, stabilize families, increase healthy child development, improve parenting skills, and reduce the likelihood of parent and/or child future involvement in the juvenile or criminal justice system; and Enhance cross-system coordination and collaboration that includes criminal justice agencies, treatment providers, probation and community supervision agencies, child protective agencies, community-based organizations, schools, corrections departments, and law enforcement to develop programming that supports the entire family.

Upon approval by the Assistant Attorney General, successful applicants are notified via DOJ's Justice Grants System (JustGrants). The grant award must be accepted electronically by the receiving organizations authorized official in JustGrants. For further information, please see https://www.ojp.gov/funding/financialguidedoj/ii-preaward-requirements.

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