Children’s Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities

Program goal(s) name: Improve handling of child abuse and neglect cases in Indian communities.
Program goal(s) description: Provide funding to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities improve the investigation, prosecution, and handling of cases of criminal child abuse and neglect (particularly child sexual abuse cases) in a manner that lessens trauma for child victims.
Program objective(s) name: Support criminal investigations and prosecutions of child abuse cases and provide services to victims.
Program objective description: Establish or enhance a legal system to conduct criminal investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases; provide emergency and crisis intervention services to aid child abuse victims and their family members in recovering from abuse and neglect; and provide trauma-informed support services to criminal child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.

All final award decisions will be made by the Assistant Attorney General, unless a statute explicitly authorizes award decisions by another official or there is written delegation of authority to another official. For successful applicants, JustGrants will send a system-generated email to the Application Submitter, Authorized Representative, and Entity Administrator with information on accessing their official award package in JustGrants. The award package will include key information (such as funding amount and period of performance) as well as award conditions that must be followed. The Authorized Representative for the entity should accept or decline the award within 45 days of the notification.

The review procedure for applications is specified in the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and generally includes eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews.