Limited Submission Opportunities
Last Updated: September 20, 2025
Below are currently active opportunities for research funding listed in ascending order by the external due dates. Contact the Sr. Grant Facilitator at orsp-preaward@newark.rutgers.edu for additional information regarding any of these.
For details about the limited submission application process, or how an internal competition could happen, please see the bottom of this webpage.
Listed in Ascending Order of External Due Dates
(i.e. if it’s listed first it’s due to the sponsor sooner)
Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers Program
Amount: $1,125,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/6/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID -O-OJJDP-2025-172452
Brief Overview:. The Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCA) provides for the establishment of regional children’s advocacy centers (RCACs) to deliver coordinated information, resource development, technical assistance, and training to assist communities in establishing facility-based multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse and neglect. This program will fund four RCACs—one in each of the four U.S. Census regions*— to improve the response to child abuse and neglect through strategic coordinated training and assistance to multidisciplinary teams, local CACs, and state chapter organizations. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force National Training Program
Amount: $1,500,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/21/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Funding Opportunity Number: O-OJJDP-2025-172449
Brief Overview: The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program supports a national network of 61 multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces engaged in investigations, forensic examinations, and prosecutions related to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. This program will provide training to ICAC task forces and affiliated federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies in the areas of investigation, forensics, prosecution, community outreach, officer wellness, generative artificial intelligence, financial sextortion, and capacity building. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Multistate Mentoring Programs
Amount: $4,000,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/21/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID OJJDP-2025-172455
Brief Overview: This NOFO supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Mentoring services can be one-on-one, group, peer, or a combination of these types. Applicants must initiate mentoring services to youth who are 17 years old or younger at the time of admission to the program. Mentors must be an adult (age 18 or older), or in cases where peer mentoring models are being implemented, an older peer and under adult supervision. Funding is encouraged to support new mentoring matches but can also support existing mentoring matches through program completion. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Post-Secondary Education Opportunities for Child Protection Professionals
Amount: $417,687
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/21/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID OJJDP-2025-172457
Brief Overview: This NOFO will support child advocacy training in undergraduate programming and continuing education (i.e., graduate level and professional licensing courses). Funds will support the training of future mandated reporters and child protection professionals and support efforts to train child protection professionals, including law enforcement officers, social workers, medical professionals, behavioral health professionals, and prosecutors. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence
Amount: $830,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/21/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID OJJDP-2025-172451
Brief Overview: This NOFO will be used to develop support services for children exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities; and to develop, enhance, and implement violent crime reduction strategies that focus on violent juvenile offenders. The goals of the program are to: 1) reduce the incidence of violence through accountability efforts for juvenile offenders; 2) respond to victimization of children whether as a result of violence that occurs in the school, community or family; and 3) increase protective factors to prevent juvenile violence, delinquency, and victimization. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Enhancing Juvenile Indigent Defense
Amount: $400,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/23/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID: OJJDP-2025-172456
Brief Overview: This NOFO will support entities in developing and implementing sustainable strategies to improve juvenile indigent defense. This program supports organizations providing public defense practices and services to address barriers and gaps within the juvenile justice system for indigent youth that result in safer communities, reduced recidivism, improved youth outcomes, and increased public confidence in the juvenile justice system. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children Data System Enhancements
Amount: $900,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/23/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID OJJDP-2025-172453
Brief Overview: The Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program supports a national network of 61 multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces engaged in investigations, forensic examinations, and prosecutions related to technologyfacilitated child sexual exploitation. The ICAC Data System (IDS) assists and supports the ICAC task forces and affiliated credentialed law enforcement agencies authorized to investigate child exploitation in accordance with federal, state, local, and Tribal laws. IDS allows credentialed users, including federal, state, local, and Tribal agencies and ICAC task forces investigating and prosecuting child exploitation to contribute and access data for use in resolving case conflicts. It also facilitates the development of essential software and network capability for law enforcement participants and provides direct hosting and support for online investigations of child exploitation activities. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities
Amount: $200,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/27/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-OJJDP-2025-172450
Brief Overview: This program will support the development, improvement, and/or implementation of emergency planning activities for state, Tribal, county, and local juvenile justice residential facilities. Funding will help ensure that facilities are prepared to prioritize the safety and well-being of youth and staff, keep families informed, continue operations, and reduce risk to the facility during and after an emergency. The goal of the program is to help facilities improve their ability to respond to and recover from these incidents. For the purposes of this program, emergency is defined as an incident—natural, technological, or nonnatural—that requires a response to protect life, property, or the environment. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Expanding Tribal Children’s Advocacy Centers
Amount: $700,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/27/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-OJJDP-2025-172463
Brief Overview: OJJDP, under the Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCA), supports the expansion and enhancement of children’s advocacy centers (CACs) for AI/AN communities. This program will focus on supporting federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native communities to improve investigative responses and treatment services for victims of child abuse and their families. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Programs
Amount: up to $30,000,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/27/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-OJJDP-2025-172464
Brief Overview: This program supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk or high risk for youth delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Mentoring services can be one-on-one, group, peer, or a combination of these types. Applicants must initiate mentoring services to youth who are 17 years old or younger at the time of admission to the program. Mentors must be an adult (age 18 or older), or in cases where peer mentoring models are being implemented, an older minor peer and under adult supervision (age 18 or older). Funding is encouraged to support new mentoring matches but can also support existing mentoring matches through program completion. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: OJJDP FY25 Reducing Recidivism for Female Juvenile Delinquents
Amount: $525,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/27/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-OJJDP-2025-172458
Brief Overview: This NOFO will support the development, enhancement, or expansion of intervention programs for female juvenile delinquents. Funding will be used to develop and implement direct service programs for female juvenile delinquents to reduce reoffending or enhance or expand existing programs to meet their specific needs. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: FY25 Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program
Amount: $300,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/06/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-BJA-2025-172448
Brief Overview: Through the Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner Program, BJA seeks to increase the number of qualified forensic pathologists and enhance the quality of medicolegal death investigations nationwide. Specifically, through this program, BJA will award funding for: • Category 1: Forensic pathology fellowships (up to two allowed per application) • Category 2: Resources necessary for ME/C offices to achieve and maintain accreditation Samples of previous awards and success stories under both Category 1, Forensic Pathology Fellowships, and Category 2, ME/C Office Accreditation, can be found at: https://bja.ojp.gov/program/strengthening-mec/funding. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: FY25 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program
Amount: $1,000,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/10/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-BJA-2025-172470
Brief Overview: The MUHR Program provides funding to implement, expand, or improve programs focused on the reporting, forensic processing, identification, and transportation of Missing Persons (MP) and Unidentified Human Remains (UHR) cases in the United States. Many unidentified remains are victims of violent crime and identifying them is a vital first step in establishing criminality, supporting law enforcement investigations, and ultimately holding violent offenders accountable. This process not only furthers justice but also brings long-awaited answers to families of the missing. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)
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Funding Source: FY25 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
Amount: $1,000,000
Key Deadline: (Grants.gov: 10/10/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity ID O-BJA-2025-172471
Brief Overview: This NOFO assists states and units of local government in defraying the costs associated with postconviction case review, evidence location, and DNA testing in violent felony cases (as defined by state law) where the results of such testing might show actual innocence. (This is a Limited Submission Opportunity. If interested, please contact ORSP)