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The Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) is pleased to announce a new DSA Supplemental State Aid Pre and Post Adjudication for residential projects and DSA Supplemental State Aid Community Programs for community projects. We are currently seeking applications, with priority given to projects supporting:

Priority Program Areas for Community Projects

Projects that address a regional priority outlined in the Continuum of Care Regional Reports (Section titled Priority Recommendations for the X Region ).

Priority Program Areas for Residential Projects

Projects supporting residential programs that:

• increase regional placement capacity to keep youth in placement closer to their home communities; and/or
• Serve female youth.

Grant Background

The Community and Residential Projects initiative fulfills the requirements of 223.001(c), Human Resources Code.

Community - The grant is for juvenile justice programs and services, including regional programs and services, that are provided in a non-residential setting and that are evidence-based and designed to that improve a juvenile probation department s ability to serve youth locally, improve outcomes, and decrease the likelihood of out of home placement or commitment to TJJD.

Residential - The grant is for juvenile justice programs or services that are either created or enhanced, provided in an out-of-home placement, evidence-based, and meant to improve a region s ability to serve youth locally, improve outcomes, and decrease the likelihood of commitment to

TJJD.

Time Line

                May 21, 2026                      Applications distributed to eligible departments

                July 13, 2026                       Applications are due to TJJD 

                August 17, 2026                Notices of award given to applicants

Contact Information

• Grant/Application Questions: Ashley Kintzer Ashley.Kintzer@tjjd.texas.gov      
• Programmatic/Treatment Questions: Ally Matteson Allyson.Matteson@tjjd.texas.gov
• Data/Logic Model Support: Research Team Research@tjjd.texas.gov

Project Parameters

         All terms and conditions of the State Financial Assistance Contract and General Grant Requirements documents apply. 

         Funding will be managed and tracked in the Grant Portal (FLUXX) under Discretionary State Aid: Pre and Post or Community.

         Grant funds will be awarded to programs focused on identified target populations of need, with specific recidivism reduction goals, and utilizing research-based practices.

         This is a one-time give of grant funds that can be used over the course of two years.

         There must be a single grant application for each project.  Similarly, reporting through the grant period will require a separate report for each project.

Performance Metrics

         All performance measures can be found in the Summary Requirements in the State Aid Contract.

         Grants will be awarded through a competitive application process, with no limit to the number of requests for funding that will be considered. Requests will be evaluated based on alignment with grant program requirements and identified strategic focus, potential juvenile justice system impact and funding availability. 

         Financial and data reporting will occur under Discretionary State Aid: Pre- and Post-Adjudication and Community, and TJJD will issue program naming conventions and data entry protocols within two weeks of awarding grant funds. Departments will be required to report program-defined output and grant-defined performance measures annually. 

         Funding will be subject to the same auditing requirements as all other state aid grant funds, as well as definitions of allowable and unallowable expenditures. Refunds will be due to TJJD if expenditures are determined to be unallowable under the terms of the State Aid and Financial Assistance and General Grant Requirements contract.

Application Components

         Departments must submit application and logic model forms by the application due date to receive consideration.

         Applicants must describe the target population for the proposed project and the manner in which the population was identified. 

         Applicants must describe the proposed residential project in detail, including:

o   specific program interventions, curricula to be used, and intensity and frequency of services to be provided;

o   how the proposed services are consistent with data-driven and research-based practice for the target population.  Applicants may include attachments demonstrating that a proposed program or service is research-driven;

o   the way in which a youth s risk and treatment needs will be identified, how program interventions address identified needs, and how the program will be responsive to individual youth strengths and needs,

o   the expected level of licensure and/or training of the service providers, and

o   organizational structure in place to support implementation of program approaches and interventions with fidelity. 

         Applicants must clearly describe how project success will be measured, including specific project-defined output and grant-defined outcome measures and how data to report on these measures will be collected, maintained, and reported.

         Applicants must provide a cost analysis that gives the total project cost and an itemization of the cost categories included in the analysis.

         Local financial or in-kind matching funds are not required, but may be considered in the review process alongside other requested information. 

Application Submission

            Applications may be submitted to TJJD electronically in the Grants Portal (FLUXX).

            Applications received after July 13, 2026, will not be considered.

Ashley Kintzer

Texas Juvenile Justice Department

(512) 484-9094

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We would like to invite you to TNOYS' upcoming FREE virtual training on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation-Identification Tool (CSE-IT), Wednesday, May 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The CSE-IT is a research-based screening tool that helps improve early identification of commercially sexually exploited youth (CSEY).

We know that juvenile justice professionals make up the majority of all screenings conducted using the CSE-IT in Texas, and probation is now required to assess youth with the CSE-IT before disposition, and we would love for TNOYS' virtual CSE-IT training to continue strengthening the work of the field to identify and support young people impacted by, or at risk of, CSEY.

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If you have any questions about the training, please don't hesitate to reach out to our Practice Team at practice@tnoys.org.

Additionally, for digging even deeper into the efforts to prevent, identify, and address CSEY, our upcoming Annual Conference on Services for Youth and Families has an expanded track of workshops dedicated to research, coordination, and best practices for youth-serving professionals working with young people who may be impacted by sexual exploitation. To see the list of Preventing & Addressing CSEY workshops at this year's conference, check out our Whova digital program preview here [whova.com], and learn more about registering for the conference on our webpage [tnoys.org].

Best,

Lauren Rose (she/her)

Director of Public Policy

Texas Network of Youth Services

512-775-7745

www.tnoys.org [tnoys.org]