Expired Funding Opportunities

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.

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.

This solicitation seeks the development of a juvenile treatment needs and progress scale to be implemented and validated in up to two jurisdictions.

The Support for Adam Walsh Act (AWA) Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement 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 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 U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking is seeking applications for planning up to three regional Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) workshop, and a National Symposium on Sex Offender Management and Accountability. Although the award will be made in 2016, it is anticipated that the National Symposium on Sex Offender Management and Accountability will be held in 2018.

SMART's SORNA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Program focuses on providing training and technical assistance to federally-recognized tribal jurisdictions for the purpose of developing and enhancing jurisdiction-wide program and functions to substantially implement the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA).

The SMART Office's Applying Circles of Support and Accountability in Indian Country Project Sites Program will assist selected tribal communities in developing a holistic program for those affected by a crime through taking responsibility to keep a compassionate yet watchful eye on the offender, be supportive of the victim, and bring about changes to their relationships that will minimize the risk of future abuse. This program encourages the entire tribal community affected by the abuse to be involved in changing the norms that allow and even promote abuse.

The SMART Office's Campus-Focused Sexual Assault Perpetration Prevention and Education Program is to prevent sexual violence before anyone is harmed and before anyone sexually abuses, or acts in a sexually harmful way towards another adult, adolescent or child. This program will aim to prioritize community and/or organizationally-based prevention efforts designed to reduce first time perpetration of sexual assault or abuse by focusing on stopping the perpetration of sexual violence.

The Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program assists jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement and maintain requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). SORNA was enacted to protect the public from convicted sex offenders by establishing a comprehensive national system for the registration and notification of those offenders. SORNA is Title I of the Adam Walsh Act (42 U.S.C.