SMART FY 2022 Invitation to Apply — Keep Young Athletes Safe Program
Agency: SMART
Assistance Listings
- 16.840 -- Keep Young Athletes Safe
Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026
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Description
The purpose of the Keep Young Athletes Safe (KYAS) program is to support the ongoing implementation of prevention measures to safeguard amateur athletes from sexual, physical and emotional abuse in the athletic programs of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and each national governing body. Under the KYAS program, a grantee designs and implements measures to protect young athletes through the development of educational materials, training programs and policies to help prevent abuse, and the necessary tools and policies to address identified abuse. Additionally, the grantee...
develops background screening policies for new and existing USOPC organizational staff, including coaches, instructors and volunteers; and oversees regular and random audits to ensure that, once implemented, the policies and procedures to prevent and identify amateur athlete abuse are followed correctly. The KYAS program requires reporting of any allegations of sexual and physical abuse, following applicable state and federal reporting requirements.
Statutory Authority: This program is authorized pursuant to the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act of 2018, 36 U.S.C. § 220531; and funded pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, Pub. L. No. 117-103, 136 Stat. 49, 127.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Miscellaneous
- Other
Additional information
U.S. Center for SafeSport
In general, OJP expects that a prospective applicant that is sent an OJP Invitation to Apply Letter will be eligible to receive funding as described in the invitation. Under certain circumstances, however, OJP ultimately may determine that an invited applicant is not, in fact, legally eligible to receive an award.
All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
The SMART Office will consider applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (subgrantees). For additional information on subawards, see the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide.
Grantor contact information
Description
For technical assistance with submitting the Application for Federal Assistance standard form (SF) 424 and a Disclosure of Lobbying Activities form (SF-LLL) in Grants.gov, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726, 606-545-5035, Grants.gov customer support, or support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays.
For technical assistance with submitting the full application in DOJ’s Justice Grants System (JustGrants), contact the JustGrants Service Desk at 833-872-5175 or JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov. The JustGrants Service Desk operates 5 a.m.-9 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ET Saturday, Sunday and federal holidays.
For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Samantha Opong, Program Specialist, at 202-514-9320 or at Samantha.Opong@usdoj.gov.
Samantha.Opong@usdoj.gov
Samantha Opong, SMART program specialist
Documents
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Link to additional information
Closed: September 2, 2022
Award
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Program Funding
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Expected awards
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Award Minimum
$2,248,126
Award Maximum
Funding opportunity number:
O-SMART-2022-171425
Cost sharing or matching requirement:
No
Funding instrument type:
Grant
Opportunity Category:
Continuation
Opportunity Category Explanation:
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Category of Funding Activity:
Law justice and legal services
Category Explanation:
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History
Version:
1
Posted date:
September 1, 2022
Archive date:
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