16.730: Reduction and Prevention of Children's Exposure to Violence

16.730

Inactive

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) [DOJ - OJP]

Nov. 8, 2017

Sept. 16, 2017

To develop an initiative for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and reducing the impact of family and community violence on young children. The initiative will help communities expand existing partnerships between service providers (such as law enforcement, mental health, health, early childhood education and others) to create a comprehensive service delivery system. Efforts will involve studying the efficacy of these service delivery systems, replicating the most effect systems, and studying the scope of the problem of children's exposure to violence in the United States.

B - Cooperative Agreements

To be eligible for a Safe Start cooperative agreement, applicants must be public agencies (including state agencies, local units of government, and tribal governments) and/or private organizations who agree to waive any profit or fee.

Eligible applicants for the Safe Start Demonstration Projects are communities that have formed a strong collaborative group (or shown the ability and commitment to expand coordination with key partners such as courts, law enforcement, early childhood development and domestic violence agencies, and mental health services) to prevent and address the impact that exposure to violence has on young children. Applicants for the research and evaluation projects are public and private agencies (private, for-profit organizations must agree to waive any profit for fee), organizations, institutions, or individuals that have demonstrated experience in evaluating broad-based community initiatives and whose experience includes the design of studies capable of analyzing process and measuring impact across multiple communities and the development and delivery of evaluation-based training and technical assistance.