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Children Exposed to Violence

Program Information

Popular name

Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence

Program Number

16.818

Program objective

The overall goal of the program is to build the capacity of families and communities to help children exposed to violence. The objectives include the following: 1) Improve family and community responses to children exposed to violence; 2) Increase protective factors to prevent juvenile violence, delinquency, and victimization; and 3) Support communities to develop, design, and deliver prevention and intervention strategies to support children exposed to violence. The performance measures associated with these objectives are: PM 1: Percentage of eligible individuals with improved parent/caregiver relationships PM 2: Percentage of eligible individuals served by a community outreach strategy PM 3: Percentage of eligible individuals who actively engaged with school PM 4: Percentage of eligible individuals who abstained from or reduced substance misuse

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. 2022

    In FY 2020, OJJDP awarded more than $7 million to seven program sites to prevent and respond to children’s exposure to trauma and violence. Funds awarded under the Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence program are helping grantees develop services for affected children and implement strategies to reduce crimes committed by violent juvenile offenders

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.

https://www.ojp.gov/funding/financialguidedoj/overview.

  1. 34 U.S.C. 11171-72;. Pub. L. Pub. L. No. 118-42, 138 Stat. 25, 150.