This solicitation provides funding to develop intervention and supervision services for adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems, and to provide treatment services for their victims and families/caregivers.
For the purposes of this solicitation, the term children with sexual behavior problems” generally refers to those youth (age 12 and younger) who are in pre- or post-adjudication status for inappropriate sexual behavior with a family member; coresident; or other nonfamily, peer-aged children (i.e., friends, neighbors, classmates). The proposed interventions for these children should also include support services for the victim and non offending family or household members. For the purposes of this solicitation, the term adolescent sex offenders” refers to those youth (ages 13 to 17) who are in pre- or post-adjudication status for serious sexual offenses committed against family members or other nonfamily, peer-aged children (i.e., friends, neighbors, classmates) or adults.
The goal of this program is to prevent sexual reoffending by adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems. The objectives and deliverables include:
- Develop or enhance intervention and supervision services for adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems.
- Develop or enhance treatment services for the child victims and non-offending family members.
- Applicants should have in place a multidisciplinary team that can respond to these cases to ensure offenders are held accountable within the legal system and treatment services are available for victims and offenders. Applicants with an existing multidisciplinary team at the time of application will receive priority consideration and should include an attachment labeled Multidisciplinary team partner list” as a part of their application. This list should reference the lead agency.
- A key consideration for all program sites should be public safety balanced with prevention, early intervention, and treatment. Applicants must describe how they will ensure public safety (e.g., individualized supervision/safety plan) as a part of any proposed strategy to be funded.
None is available.
In FY 2020, and in addition to executing any statutory prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows: