Court Improvement Program Grants (Mediation, Technology, Court Navigator Pilot)
Supreme Court of Ohio, Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Ohio's high court re-grants federal Court Improvement Program money to local courts for mediation in abuse, neglect and dependency cases, juvenile and probate court technology, and a court navigator pilot — each with stated outcome expectations.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-award dollar figures are published on the grants page — only the number of courts selected per program. Funding source is stated as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services federal grants.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jul, AugNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The 2026 cycle for all three programs closed 2026-08-05 at 5:00 p.m., two days before this record was compiled. No future date is published; the pattern suggests a summer solicitation with an early-August deadline.
- Who can apply
- Practitioner, Community organisation, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be Ohio courts: up to seven courts for the mediation grant, up to ten juvenile and probate courts for the technology grant, and one competitively selected juvenile court for the navigator pilot. A university cannot apply. A researcher's route is as a partner to an applicant court on the outcome assessment, or separately as a bidder on the companion CIP evaluation RFP.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- abuse neglect and dependency · mediation · permanency · juvenile court · school attendance
- Apply at
- https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/judicial-system/supreme-court-of-ohio/admin-offices/office-of-chief-financial-officer/grants/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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