OJJDP FY25 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program – Invited to Apply | O OJJDP 2025 172475

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The OJJDP FY25 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program - Invited to Apply is a continuation funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Its central purpose is to strengthen how communities prevent, identify, and respond to cases involving missing and exploited children by improving and expanding the training and technical assistance (TTA) available to the professionals most likely to encounter these cases. The program emphasizes practical, coordinated responses across disciplines, with the goal of improving outcomes for children and supporting effective investigations, prosecutions, child protection actions, and victim-centered services.

The scope of work focuses on developing and delivering TTA that helps multidisciplinary teams operate more effectively. These teams can include prosecutors, state and local law enforcement, child protection personnel, medical providers, and other child-serving professionals. The opportunity is framed around building capacity in the field, meaning it is not simply about producing materials, but about helping agencies and practitioners adopt effective practices, standardize approaches where appropriate, and improve collaboration in real-world settings. In practice, that can include training curricula, workshops, tools and resources, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and ongoing technical assistance designed to help jurisdictions implement and sustain improved policies and procedures related to missing and exploited children.

This funding is offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally means OJJDP expects to have substantial involvement in the project beyond a typical grant. Cooperative agreements commonly involve close coordination with the agency on project planning, deliverables, performance expectations, and alignment with federal priorities. The opportunity category is a continuation, signaling that it is intended to maintain and build on existing work rather than launch an entirely new initiative from scratch. It is also labeled "Invited to Apply," and the named entity in the description is Fox Valley Technical College, indicating that the applicant pool is restricted and that the agency is specifically inviting that organization to submit an application for this continuation award rather than running a fully open competition.

Key administrative details include the funding opportunity number O-OJJDP-2025-172475 and the Assistance Listing (CFDA) number 16.543. The awarding agency is OJJDP, and the activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The opportunity anticipates a single award (ExpectedAwards: 1) with an award ceiling of $1,200,000. The original closing date is November 26, 2025, and the notice was created on November 20, 2025. Eligible applicants are listed as "Others," but the invited-to-apply nature and the explicit mention of Fox Valley Technical College in the description indicate that this particular competition is effectively limited to that invited applicant for continuation funding.

Overall, this program is designed to improve the readiness and effectiveness of professionals responding to missing and exploited children by expanding high-quality training and technical assistance and by strengthening multidisciplinary coordination among justice, child protection, medical, and other child-serving systems.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OJJDP FY25 Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program – Invited to Apply" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.543.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-11-20.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-11-26. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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