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Opportunity Summary:

The NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NIJ 2013 3469) was a discretionary federal grant competition run by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ). It invited multidisciplinary research and evaluation proposals focused on childhood exposure to violence, with an emphasis on producing evidence that can inform policy, practice, and justice system decision-making. The funding activity was categorized as research and evaluation under CFDA 16.560 (National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants). The solicitation was posted on March 5, 2013, with an application deadline of May 20, 2013, and it was later archived on August 20, 2013. Cost sharing or matching was not required. The solicitation anticipated making one award, and the award floor and ceiling were listed as zero in the summary data, which typically signals that applicants needed to refer to the full announcement for detailed budget expectations and any constraints.

The core purpose of the opportunity was to build knowledge about "Children Exposed to Violence" (CEV), defined broadly to include children who experience violence directly as victims and children who are exposed indirectly as witnesses, bystanders, or observers. NIJ framed exposure as occurring across multiple settings that commonly shape children's daily lives, including the home, school, and the broader community. The solicitation explicitly identified several major forms of violence and victimization within scope, such as peer victimization, bullying and harassment, child maltreatment, domestic violence, and community violence. In other words, the program was not limited to a single pathway of harm; it recognized that exposure can be cumulative, overlapping, and contextual, and it encouraged research designs that can capture those complexities.

Within that broad umbrella, NIJ highlighted specific priority areas where it was especially interested in receiving proposals. One key priority was polyvictimization, meaning situations where a child experiences multiple types of victimization or exposure to violence rather than a single isolated event. Research in this area would typically examine patterns and combinations of exposures (for example, a child who experiences maltreatment at home while also being bullied at school and exposed to neighborhood violence) and how those combinations relate to outcomes, service needs, and system responses. Another priority was Internet harassment and electronic aggression, reflecting the growing role of digital communication in youth interactions. Examples provided in the solicitation included bullying through Facebook and harassing emails, pointing to an interest in online behaviors that can extend, amplify, or complicate traditional peer harassment and bullying dynamics.

NIJ also called for work on resilience, signaling interest not only in risk and harm but also in protective factors and pathways that help children cope, recover, or maintain functioning despite exposure. Proposals in this category could reasonably include evaluations of interventions, identification of individual, family, school, or community factors associated with better outcomes, and studies exploring why some children show fewer negative impacts even when exposed to significant adversity. Finally, the solicitation emphasized justice system responses to children identified as being exposed to violence. This focus aligns with NIJ's mission and could include research on how law enforcement, courts, child welfare interfaces, victim services, schools, and community-based partners identify exposed children, share information, make referrals, and implement trauma-informed or evidence-based practices. It also suggests interest in evaluating policies and protocols that determine how cases are handled, how services are coordinated, and whether system actions reduce harm or improve child and family outcomes.

While the scope was intentionally broad, NIJ drew a clear boundary around what it would not support under this solicitation: media violence. The announcement explicitly excluded exposure to violence through entertainment media such as television and movies, music advocating aggression, and violent video games. That exclusion clarifies that NIJ wanted proposals centered on real-world interpersonal or community violence exposures and their consequences, rather than debates about the effects of violent media content.

Eligibility was described as unrestricted, meaning the competition was open to any type of entity, subject to any clarifications in the full solicitation. In practical terms, that kind of eligibility language typically allows applications from universities, nonprofits, research organizations, and potentially other public or private entities, assuming they meet standard federal grant requirements and any solicitation-specific conditions. The application process ran through Grants.gov, with technical assistance available via the Grants.gov support hotline and email. Programmatic questions about solicitation requirements were directed to NIJ contacts Dara Blachman Demner and Karen Stern, both listed as Social Science Analysts, with phone numbers and email addresses provided for direct communication.

Overall, this opportunity was designed to push forward rigorous, multidisciplinary research and evaluation on the many ways children encounter violence in their environments, with special attention to overlapping victimization, technology-facilitated harassment, resilience processes, and how the justice system and related institutions respond once exposure is identified. The intended end product was actionable evidence: findings that help practitioners and policymakers better understand the nature of exposure, identify children at risk, strengthen protective factors, and improve system responses that can prevent further harm and support recovery.

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