Expired Funding Opportunities

This program assists states, the District of Columbia, principal U.S. territories and certain federally recognized Indian tribes with implementation and ongoing maintenance of requirements under Title I of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

Grantees will design and implement a program that aims to safeguard amateur athletes through the prevention of sexual, physical and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, each national governing body and each Paralympic sports organization. 

The Adam Walsh Act is designed to protect children and adults from sexual exploitation and violent crime, prevent child abuse and child pornography, promote Internet safety, and honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other crime victims. The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) is a critical component of the SMART Office's strategy to provide a comprehensive national sex offender registration and notification system to notify and protect the public from sex offenders.

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) seeks applications to safeguard amateur athletes against abuse in sports through the prevention and investigation of sexual, physical and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the United States Olympic Committee, each national governing body, and each Paralympic sports organization.

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) Support for Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and enhancing programs designed to implement the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). SORNA (34 U.S.C.

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) support for the "SORNA Training and Technical Assistance Program" focuses on providing training and technical assistance to states, tribes and territories for the purpose of developing and sustaining programs to substantially implement the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA),Title I of the Adam Walsh Act (34 U.S.C. section 20901 et seq.).

The Adam Walsh Act is designed to protect children and adults from sexual exploitation and violent crime, prevent child abuse and child pornography, promote Internet safety, and honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other crime victims. The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) is a critical component of the SMART Office's strategy to provide a comprehensive national sex offender registration and notification system to notify and protect the public from sex offenders.

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) seeks applications to safeguard amateur athletes against abuse in sports through the prevention and investigation of sexual, physical and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the United States Olympic Committee, each national governing body, and each Paralympic sports organization.

The Support for Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement the requirements of SORNA. In summary, SORNA requires: (1) all States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and participating federally-recognized Indian tribes to maintain a sex offender registry; and (2) sex offenders to register and maintain a current registration in each jurisdiction where the offender resides, is an employee, or is a student.

The SMART Office seeks to fund up to two fellowship positions focusing on enhancing its capacity to provide assistance and support to public or private colleges and universities on their response to, prevention of, and education about sexual violence and other sex offending behaviors on college campuses. The purpose of the SMART FY 2016 Sex Offender Management Fellowship is to help the SMART Office enhance its capacity to provide assistance and support to public and private colleges and universities on their prevention and response to sexual violence and exploitation on college campuses.

The SMART Office seeks to supplement one fellowship position focusing on enhancing its capacity to provide assistance and support to public or private colleges and universities on their response to, prevention of and education about sexual violence and other sex offending behaviors on college campuses. The goal of this fellowship is to build a foundation within the field of sex offender programming to integrate effective approaches to sexual violence prevention and educational programming on college campuses.

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) seeks applications to safeguard amateur athletes against abuse in sports through the prevention and investigation of sexual, physical and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the United States Olympic Committee, each national governing body, and each Paralympic sports organization.

The Adam Walsh Act is designed to protect children and adults from sexual exploitation and violent crime, prevent child abuse and child pornography, promote Internet safety, and honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other crime victims. The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) is a critical component of the SMART Office's strategy to provide a comprehensive national sex offender registration and notification system to notify and protect the public from sex offenders.

Sex offender registration and notification plays an important role in promoting public safety. However, a much broader scope of activities are necessary to protect the public from sexual violence.

The SMART Office will fund one fellowship position focusing on law enforcement/criminal justice responses to victims of sexual violence.

The Support for Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement the requirements of SORNA. In summary, SORNA requires: (1) all States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and participating federally-recognized Indian tribes to maintain a sex offender registry; and (2) sex offenders to register and maintain a current registration in each jurisdiction where the offender resides, is an employee, or is a student.

The SMART Office Applying Circles of Support and Accountability in Indian Country Training and Technical Assistance program focuses on providing training and technical assistance to jurisdictions interested in developing and implementing Tribal Circle Healing projects.

The Support for Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement the requirements of SORNA. In summary, SORNA requires: (1) all States, the District of Columbia, the principal U.S. territories, and participating federally-recognized Indian tribes to maintain a sex offender registry; and (2) sex offenders to register and maintain a current registration in each jurisdiction where the offender resides, is an employee, or is a student.

Provide training and technical assistance to federally-recognized tribal jurisdictions for the primary purposes of 1) identifying programs and/or tools used in juvenile and adult sex offender treatment and sex offender management services particular to Native American sex offenders; 2) identifying sex offender management experts in tribal communities or expert who provide these services to Indian Country; and 3) developing and enhancing jurisdiction-wide program and functions to substantially implement the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA).

The purpose of this project is to validate an existing sex offense-specific risk assessment tool, or develop a new culturally specific tool, for American Indian/Alaska Native populations.

The Adam Walsh Act is designed to protect children and adults from sexual exploitation and violent crime, prevent child abuse and child pornography, promote Internet safety, and honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other crime victims. The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) is a critical component of the SMART Office's strategy to provide a comprehensive national sex offender registration and notification system to notify and protect the public from sex offenders.

Different standards for assessing and treating sex offenders. The SORNA "clean record" provision, which allows certain sex offenders a reduced registration period, jurisdiction or Attorney General. This requires that sex offenders must successfully complete an appropriate sex offender treatment program certified by the solicitation seeks the development of assessment and treatment standards for jurisdictions to implement and certify.

To provide continuous policy and substantive programmatic direction for the deliverables and task to allow best (or evidenced-based) practices and promising approaches to sex offender management.

This program furthers the work of the SMART Office's Sex Offender Management Assessment and Planning Initiative (SOMAPI), a project designed to assess the state of research and practice in sex offender management and to inform the Office of Justice Programs' research and grant-making efforts in this area.

To provide supplemental funding to up two applicants in the amount of up to $250,000 to continue to develop and implement a situational prevention strategy that includes, but is not limited to, a focus on preventing the perpetration of sexual violence through targeted and universal efforts, strategies that address community level risk and protective factors, and one that is integrated into existing practices so that the environmental, policy or other changes are a part of a more comprehensive strategy.