Expired Funding Opportunities

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.