NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults | O NIJ 2023 171630

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The NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults is a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) research funding opportunity, offered through the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), to launch a nationally representative longitudinal study focused on interpersonal violence among young adults. The central goal is to understand long-term trajectories of risk, lived experiences (both victimization and perpetration), and recovery after interpersonal violence, while explicitly comparing young adults who attend college with those who do not. NIJ is interested in interpersonal violence committed by a range of people in a young adult's life, including partners, family members, acquaintances, and strangers, and it specifically highlights topics such as nonconsensual sexual contact, intimate partner violence, and stalking. The broader framing emphasizes OJP priorities like advancing civil rights and racial equity, improving access to justice, supporting victims and justice-involved people, strengthening community safety, and building trust between law enforcement and communities.

A key feature of the solicitation is that NIJ wants applicants to ground their approach in prior foundational work while still updating and improving it. Applicants are strongly encouraged to review the recommended study design from the National Study of Young Adults, Longitudinal Cohort Pilot Study final report and to consult the related data and materials archived through ICPSR's National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). At the same time, the opportunity is intentionally not limited to repeating the pilot study approach. Proposals that modernize the design to reflect current realities and conditions, or that introduce newer, innovative, and efficient research methods (for example, improved sampling, data collection modes, measurement strategies, or retention approaches suitable for long follow-up periods), are positioned to receive greater consideration.

The award is structured as a multi-year effort funded incrementally, starting with initial phase(s) supported by FY 2023 funding. Rather than expecting a single budget that covers the entire project in the standard application forms, NIJ requires a phased plan with clear, discrete deliverables at the end of each phase, and a corresponding phased budget. The SF-424 and JustGrants budget submitted with the application must cover only the initial phase(s) that the FY23 funds would support, but applicants must also attach a separate, full multi-year budget using the OJP budget detail worksheet template. NIJ indicates that if early phases are completed successfully, later years are expected to be funded through supplements, contingent on funding availability. This structure signals that NIJ is looking for applicants who can design a study that is realistic to launch immediately, but also scalable and sustainable over time, with well-defined milestones and products.

NIJ also places strong emphasis on how the research will be shaped by and connected to people most affected by the topic. Proposals receive special consideration if they include meaningful engagement with people who have lived experience relevant to interpersonal violence and the justice system, such as victims, community members, service providers, justice practitioners, and individuals with justice system involvement. NIJ further encourages multidisciplinary research teams that combine complementary strengths, which could mean integrating expertise across criminology, public health, psychology, survey methodology, statistics, victim services, and community-based research. Another explicit expectation is that the study should incorporate measurement and analysis of diversity, discrimination, and bias across characteristics such as age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable, so that findings are informative for equity-focused policy and practice.

Operationally, the solicitation includes clear partnership and data stewardship requirements. If the proposed work involves partnerships with criminal justice agencies or other organizations, the application should include letters of support signed by decision-making authorities from each partner agency. Those letters must acknowledge that de-identified data generated or used through the NIJ award will be archived with NACJD at the end of the award, consistent with NIJ data archiving guidance. If selected, the grantee is expected to have a formal agreement in place with each partnering agency by January 1, 2024, and those agreements must include provisions that enable compliance with the data archiving requirements. The solicitation also clarifies that when multiple agencies will be involved and federal funds will flow to more than one organization, only one entity can apply as the primary applicant, with other partners participating as subrecipients, and the primary applicant is expected to conduct the majority of the proposed work.

Finally, NIJ is looking for proposals that do not stop at publishing findings, but instead push results into real-world decision-making. Applicants are encouraged to propose robust, creative, multi-pronged dissemination strategies that build strategic partnerships with organizations and associations best positioned to translate evidence into policy and practice changes. NIJ will give special consideration to applications that dedicate at least 15 percent of the requested project funds to implementing dissemination strategies, and expects this commitment to be clearly reflected in the budget worksheet and narrative. In short, this opportunity is designed to launch a rigorous, nationally representative longitudinal study on interpersonal violence among young adults, built with modern methods, equity-aware measurement, strong community and practitioner engagement, careful data archiving and partnership planning, and a dissemination plan substantial enough to move findings beyond academia.

Key administrative details included in the notice are: the instrument type is a cooperative agreement; the activity category is science and technology and other research and development; the CFDA number is 16.560; the opportunity number is O-NIJ-2023-171630; the original closing date was April 28, 2023; the award ceiling is $1,000,000 for the FY23 initial phase(s); and eligibility is broad, including various levels of government, tribal entities and organizations, public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status), and for-profit organizations (including small businesses).

• The National Institute of Justice in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.560.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2023-02-27.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2023-04-28. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Unrestricted.

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