Grant Programs
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Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL)
This program provides block and discretionary grants to states to help prevent underage drinking by emphasizing law enforcement, media campaigns, and coalition building. Authorizing legislation for the EUDL program can be found at 42 USC 5783, Section 504 in the JJDPA 2002 link at the bottom of this page.
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Title V-Community Prevention Grants
The JJDP Act was amended in 1992 to establish the Title V Community Prevention Grants program (42 USC 5601 et seq.). This program provides formula grants to the states to fund their community delinquency prevention efforts. Authorizing legislation is contained in the JJDPA 2002 link at the bottom of this page.
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Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG)
Currently accepting proposals for this grant. Click here for RFP
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, Title I--Part R, Chapter 46--Subchapter XII-F: Juvenile Accountability Block Grants.
The purpose of the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant funding is to improve juvenile accountability for offending behaviors through increased accountability programming for juvenile offenders and improved juvenile justice system accountability to juvenile offenders.
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Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act & Title II-Formula Juvenile Justice Grant
Congress enacted the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act (Pub. L. No. 93-415, 42 U.S.C. § 5601 et seq.) in 1974. This landmark legislation established OJJDP to support local and state efforts to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA)is the single most important piece of federal legislation affecting youth in juvenile justice systems across the country.
Currently Georgia receives approximately $3.8 million in federal juvenile justice funding annually to provide delinquency prevention and intervention programming at the local level.
The JJDPA contains four "core protections" with which states must comply as a condition of receiving federal juvenile justice funding:
- Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO)
Status offenses are offenses that are only crimes if committed by children, such as skipping school, running away, breaking curfew, and possession or use of alcohol. Under the JJDPA, status offenders may not be held in secure detention or confinement. Instead, these children are to receive community-based services. - Jail Removal
Juveniles may not be detained in adult jails except for limited ("de minimis") periods before release or transporting them to an appropriate juvenile placement (6 hours). - Sight and Sound Separation
When children are held in an adult jail under the exceptions listed above, they may not have any sight or sound contact with adult inmates. - Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)
Under the DMC requirement, states must assess and address the disproportionate contact of youth of color at key decision points in the juvenile justice system.