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Tribal Youth Program

Program Information

Popular name

(TYP)

Program Number

16.731

Program objective

Through this program, the Department seeks to assist tribes in responding to myriad issues facing tribal nations. This includes creating, expanding, or strengthening tribally-driven approaches along the juvenile justice continuum that can range from prevention to intervention and treatment .In addition to programmatic funding, this program funds a robust training and technical assistance program The performance measures associated with this objective are: PM 1: Number of individuals served (by population) PM 2: Percentage of eligible individuals served by a prevention service

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2018

    In FY18, OJJDP awarded eight grants under the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation – Purpose Area 9: Tribal Youth Program. Funding provides support for tribes to create, expand, or strengthen tribally-driven approaches along the juvenile justice continuum that can range from prevention to intervention to treatment.

    In FY 19, OJJDP proposes to fund approximately eight grants under the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation – Purpose Area 9: Tribal Youth Program to support the development of tribal-driven approaches to improving prevention, intervention and/or treatment for tribal youth.

  2. 2019

    In FY 2019, OJJDP awarded eight awards totaling over $3 million under the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation Purpose Area 9 - Tribal Youth Program to federally recognized tribes to develop and implement programs that support and enhance tribal efforts to prevent and reduce juvenile delinquency and strengthen a fair and beneficial juvenile justice system response for American Indian and Alaska Native youth.

  3. 2020

    An award of $1.3 million to the Tribal Youth Resource Center supported training and technical assistance for tribal grantees and federally recognized tribes. The center offers regional, web-based, and onsite training as well as telephone consultations on topics ranging from court development to grant compliance. The award also helped tribes increase youth engagement and leadership— encouraging youth to support delinquency prevention and public safety efforts in Indian country

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

See program announcement and Uniform Administrative Requirements, 2 C.F.R. Part 200 as adopted and supplemented by D.O.J. in 2 C.F.R. Part 2800.

  1. The Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act, 34 USC 11171-11172; the Department of Justice Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. No. 118-42, 138 Stat. 25,150.