OJJDP FY 2012 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The OJJDP FY 2012 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program (Funding Opportunity Number OJJDP 2012 3275) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, under CFDA 16.726 (Juvenile Mentoring Program). It was designed as a demonstration initiative to strengthen the quality and impact of youth mentoring by funding regional collaborations of multiple established mentoring program sites. Rather than starting new mentoring programs from scratch, the focus is on improving how existing programs operate by adding more intentional, structured elements to what mentors do and how programs support them.

At the center of the program is the goal of making mentoring more effective by systematically building advocacy or teaching functions into the mentor role. In practical terms, this means grantees are expected to move beyond a loosely defined supportive relationship and toward mentoring relationships where mentors are deliberately prepared and supported to help young people build skills, navigate challenges, and access opportunities. The solicitation emphasizes three specific enhancement areas: improving how youth and mentors are matched (using factors such as needs, skills, experiences, and interests), strengthening initial and ongoing mentor training, and providing stronger ongoing support to mentors after matches are made. The assumption behind the program is that better matching, better preparation, and sustained support can improve relationship quality and ultimately lead to better youth outcomes.

Eligibility is broad but structured. Eligible applicants include states and territories, units of local government (including federally recognized tribal governments), nonprofit and for profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for profit entities), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions). A key restriction is that for profit applicants must agree to forgo any profit or management fee. Another defining requirement is that applications must be collaborative: applicants have to submit a single coordinated proposal that covers three to five separate mentoring program sites within the same regional area. One organization must be designated as the primary applicant for communication, award administration, and overall management, with the remaining partners listed as co applicants. The solicitation is explicitly not aimed at national rollouts or large scale replication across distant sites; it is aimed at strengthening mentoring through regional, coordinated multi site implementation.

The program sites included in the collaboration must already be established and qualified. The solicitation defines an established mentoring site as one that has had key features in place for at least three years at the time of application. Specifically, the site must have been serving a defined target population that will continue under the enhancement, operating in a geographic region that will continue, and using a mentoring model (such as one on one or group mentoring) that will continue. The grant is therefore meant to enhance and refine stable, ongoing programs, applying improvements to their existing target group, location, and core mentoring approach.

Service expectations are also built into the design. Each participating site is expected to serve 75 to 100 new or additional youth under the funded program, meaning the grant is intended to expand reach as well as improve quality. The primary target age group is youth ages 12 to 14, although programs may include youth as young as 11 and as old as 15 at the time of the initial match. Once a match is made, the mentoring relationship is allowed to continue until the youth turns 18, which supports longer term engagement and continuity.

A major condition of funding is participation in a multi site, multi year evaluation. Applicants must agree to take part actively and comply with evaluation requirements across participating sites. This requirement reflects the demonstration nature of the program: OJJDP is not only funding services, but also seeking evidence about whether these specific enhancements (matching improvements, structured training, and ongoing mentor supports tied to advocacy/teaching roles) lead to stronger mentoring relationships and better youth outcomes. The solicitation also notes that OJJDP may make awards in future fiscal years for applications submitted under this solicitation, depending on application merit and available appropriations, indicating that strong proposals could potentially be considered beyond the immediate award cycle if funding allowed.

From a funding and timeline standpoint, the opportunity was posted March 27, 2012, with an application closing date of May 14, 2012, and an archive date of June 13, 2012. OJJDP anticipated making about 10 awards. The listed award ceiling was $1,200,000, with no stated award floor, and there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The funding instrument was a grant, and the activity category was Law, Justice and Legal Services. The program was authorized by the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2012 (Pub. L. No. 112 55, 125 Stat. 552,617), which provides the statutory basis for the initiative.

For support related to the solicitation process, applicants were directed to the Justice Information Center (JIC) for assistance, including phone, email, and web chat support during standard business hours, with extended hours on the closing date.

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