OJJDP FY 17 Internet Crimes Against Children Program Support | OJJDP 2017 10921

Opportunity Information: Apply for OJJDP 2017 10921

The OJJDP FY 17 Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Program Support opportunity is a discretionary federal funding solicitation from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention aimed at strengthening the nationwide ICAC task force network. That network consists of 61 multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces that investigate, conduct digital forensic examinations, and support prosecutions involving technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. Beyond casework, ICAC task forces also help build capacity across the broader public safety ecosystem by providing investigative and forensic technical assistance to law enforcement and prosecutors, and by sharing prevention and awareness information with parents, educators, and other community stakeholders concerned with child exploitation.

The central purpose of this grant is not to fund direct local enforcement operations in the typical sense, but to provide program-level support that benefits the ICAC Task Force Program as a whole. The solicitation emphasizes producing specific, concrete deliverables that serve ICAC task forces and their partners, including other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and ICAC National Training Program providers. In practice, the work is framed around continuation, expansion, and enhancement of the national ICAC program through coordinated technical assistance, support for major meetings and events, and improved information management.

Key expected deliverables include a strategic plan for support service delivery, planning and support for the ICAC Task Force National Training Event, and support for commanders meetings that help align leadership across jurisdictions. The grant also calls for activities connected to implementation of the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, indicating a focus on consistency and shared direction across the national effort. Additional deliverables include establishing or maintaining a system for monitoring consumer feedback (so the program can track usefulness and quality of support services), providing training and technical assistance, developing or managing a training and technical assistance website, and maintaining strong overall project administration through general project management, monthly reporting, and completion of special projects as assigned or identified.

The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means OJJDP expects to have substantial involvement in guiding or collaborating on the work during the project period, rather than simply issuing a grant and stepping back. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 16.543 and falls within the Law, Justice, and Legal Services activity category. The solicitation anticipated a single award, with an award ceiling of $2,000,000, reflecting an intent to select one primary organization to coordinate and deliver these national-level support functions.

Eligibility is broad and includes states and territories, units of local government (county, city, township), federally recognized tribal governments, nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)), institutions of higher education (public, private, and tribal), and for-profit organizations, including small businesses. A notable restriction is that for-profit recipients must waive any profit or management fee, meaning they may only recover allowable costs rather than earn profit on the award. The solicitation also allows collaborative proposals where multiple entities contribute to the work, but only one organization may submit as the applicant and hold primary responsibility for administering funds and managing performance; other participating organizations must be included as subrecipients. Finally, the solicitation limits each applicant entity to one submission as the prime applicant, though an organization may appear as a subrecipient on multiple applications.

Administrative details listed for the opportunity include the funding opportunity number OJJDP 2017 10921, an original closing date of January 31, 2017, and a creation date of November 28, 2016. Overall, the opportunity is designed to fund a single coordinated effort that provides national infrastructure-style support: standardized training and technical assistance, convenings and leadership coordination, feedback and performance-oriented information management, and consistent reporting and project management to help ICAC task forces operate more effectively and in alignment with national strategy.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY 17 Internet Crimes Against Children Program Support" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.543.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2016-11-28.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-01-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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