Title II Formula Grant

Pursuant to Title II, Part B of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), in order to receive formula grants, states must develop and submit a Three-Year Plan that identifies goals for the juvenile justice system and programmatic priorities to be supported by grant funding. Therefore, ICJI will only consider grant applications that fall under one of the following priority areas and have the greatest impact on Hoosier youth.

Indiana has identified the following priority areas for 2025 Title II funding. Applicants must select only one of the priority areas per grant application. However, entities are eligible to submit multiple grant applications if they wish to address more than one priority area in separate grant programs.

Alcohol and substance abuse: Programs, research, or other initiatives to address the use and abuse of illegal and other prescription and nonprescription drugs and the use and abuse of alcohol. Programs include control, prevention, and treatment.

Mentoring, counseling, and training programs: Programs to develop and sustain a consistent, prosocial relationship between a responsible adult (a mentor) and an at-risk youth, a youth who has offended, or a youth who has contact with a parent or legal guardian who is/was incarcerated (a mentee). These programs may support academic tutoring, vocational and technical training, and drug and violence prevention counseling.

Mental health: Programs providing mental health services for youth in custody in need of such services including, but are not limited to, assessment, development of individualized treatment plans, and discharge plans.

Rural area programs: Prevention, intervention, and treatment services in an area located outside a metropolitan statistical area as designated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Gender specific services: Services to address offenders' gender-specific needs, especially the needs of female offenders in the juvenile justice systems.

Diversion: Programs to divert youth from entering the juvenile justice systems including restorative justice programs such as youth or teen courts, victim-offender mediation, and restorative circles.

Gangs: Programs, research, or other initiatives primarily to address issues related to youth gang activity. This program area includes prevention and intervention efforts directed at reducing youth gang-related activities.

Delinquency prevention: Comprehensive juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs that meet the needs of youth through collaboration of local systems before which a youth may appear, including schools, courts, law enforcement agencies, child protection agencies, mental health agencies, welfare services, health care agencies, and private nonprofit agencies offering youth services.

After-school programs: Programs that provide at-risk youth and youth in the juvenile justice system with a range of age-appropriate activities, including tutoring, mentoring, and other educational and enrichment activities.

Positive youth development: Programs that assist delinquent and at-risk youth in obtaining a sense of safety and structure, belonging and membership, self-worth and social contribution, independence and control over one's life, and closeness in interpersonal relationships.

Deinstitutionalization of status offenders: Programs, research, or other initiatives to eliminate or prevent the placement of accused or adjudicated status offenders and nonoffenders in secure facilities, pursuant to the requirement at 42 U.S.C. § 5633(a)(11).

There is a 10% match requirement imposed on grant funds under the Title II Program. A grant made under this program may not cover more than 90% of the total costs of the project being funded. The applicant must identify the source of the 10% non-Federal portion of the budget and how match funds will be used. Applicants may satisfy match with either cash or in-kind services.

Step 1: Award Amount ÷ % of Federal Share = Total Project Cost
Step 2: Total Project Cost - Award Amount = Required Match

Example: A grant recipient is awarded $150,000 in federal funding. The match requirement is 90/10 ratio (federal percentage/recipient percentage).

$150,000 ÷ .90 = $166,667 Total Project Cost
$166,667- $150,000 = $16,667 Required Match

Additionally, matching funds must:

• Be verifiable from the subgrantee’s records;
• Not be included as contributions for any other federal award;
• Be necessary and reasonable for the accomplishment of the project or program objectives;
• Be allowable and conform to all provisions under 2 C.F.R. 200.400;
• Not be paid by the federal government under another federal award, except where authorized by federal statute; and
• Be included in the subgrantee’s approved budget;

Match is restricted to the same use of funds as allowed for federal funds. If an expenditure is not allowable with federal funds, it is not allowable with match funds. Applicants must identify all sources of the non-federal portion of the total project costs (i.e., match funds), and applicants must explain how the match funds will be used in the budget narrative section of the application within IntelliGrants.

Federal law prohibits the use of federal funds from certain activities irrespective of the federal funding source or the specifics of the grant program. These prohibitions include but may not be limited to:

1. Lobbying, including attempts to influence legislation or the outcome of any federal, state, or local elections. Recent changes to the law have expanded the prohibition to any federally appropriated funding used, either directly or indirectly, to support the enactment, repeal, modification, or adoption of any law, regulation, or policy, at any level of government, without the express written approval of OJP. Violations of this prohibition are now subject to civil fines of up to $100,000 per violation.


2. Fundraising (including financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests, and similar expenses incurred solely to raise capital or obtain contributions).


3. The direct or indirect support of any contract or subaward to either the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries, without the express prior written approval of OJP.


4. Funds may not be used to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of victims who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such victims.

Supplanting Prohibited: Federal funds must be used to supplement existing state or local funds for program activities and may not replace state or local funds that have been appropriated or allocated for the same purpose. Additionally, federal funding may not replace state or local funding that is required by law. If a question of supplanting arises, the applicant or subgrantee will be required to substantiate that the reduction in non-federal resources occurred for reasons other than the receipt or expected receipt of federal funds.

The U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) strongly emphasizes the use of data and evidence in policy making and program development in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. OJP is committed to:

• Improving the quantity and quality of data and evidence OJP generates.


• Integrating evidence into program, practice, and policy decisions within OJP and the field.


• Improving the translation of evidence into practice.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) encourages the use of evidence-based programs and practices. Evidence-based programs and practices generally have one or more rigorous outcome evaluations that demonstrate effectiveness by measuring the relationship between the program and its intended outcome(s). This includes measuring the direction and size of a change in outcome and the extent to which a change may be attributed to the activity or intervention. The methodology of the evaluation should rule out, to the extent possible, alternative explanations for the documented change. Please refer to the CrimeSolutions.gov website and the OJJDP Model Programs Guide for more information about evidence-based programs in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.

For purposes of this solicitation, please be cognizant of the following definitions:

• “Juvenile justice” refers to activities concerning: (1) the prevention or reduction of juvenile delinquency; (2) the apprehension and adjudication of juvenile offenders; (3) the disposition of juvenile offenders including protective techniques and practices; (4) the prevention of child abuse and neglect; and (5) the discovery, protection, and disposition of children in need of services (Indiana Code § 5-2-6-1).


• “Youth” means any individual who is under juvenile court jurisdiction or is an age at which he or she could be subject to original juvenile court jurisdiction within the state of Indiana.