Bureau of Justice Assistance announces 2022 Visiting Fellows Program

Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

State: All States

County: All Counties

U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Type of Grant: Fellowship

Deadline: 06/21/2022

Size of the Grant: $350,000

Grant Duration: 2 years

Details:

The purpose of each fellowship is to make important policy and programmatic contributions in a focus area of criminal justice practice. Fellows will collaborate with BJA and DOJ staff members to provide critical outreach, data, research, and subject-matter expertise to inform the development of new BJA strategies and programs to benefit the field.

Through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program, BJA invests in future and current leaders in the field to advance priority national policy issues and offer cross-developmental opportunities for Department of Justice staff and criminal justice practitioners and researchers. Awards made under the BJA Visiting Fellows Program will fund fellowships for a period of 24 months, including a potential residency period of 9 to 12 months, where the fellow will work closely with BJA staff members and potentially work onsite at BJA in Washington, D.C. on a regular basis.

Goals

To leverage the expertise and experience of the criminal justice field to address key gaps in the field for evidence-based training, technical assistance, and knowledge in the following focus and emerging areas:

Supporting enhanced research partnership efforts to assist in the reduction of substance-use-related crime and overdose.
Enhancing support for persons with criminal justice involvement that are in recovery.
Building capacity to implement community violence intervention strategies.
Supporting law enforcement outreach, communication, and engagement.
Enhancing Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) implementation efforts.
Assessing pretrial practices and supporting data-driven pretrial approaches

Objectives

Enhance BJA’s capacity and expertise to assess the technical assistance, training, and capacity-building needs in the focus areas listed above and discussed further below.
Bring real-world and lived experience and knowledge to BJA that enhances staff ability to deliver relevant and effective tools to the field.
Support the development of criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and BJA/OJP staff members to advance BJA’s mission.
Advance and translate knowledge about critical criminal justice issues and strategies and promote innovation.

Focus Areas

Researcher-Practitioner Partnership Fellowship to Reduce Substance-Use-Related Crime and Overdose
Enhancing Support for Persons with Criminal Justice Involvement That Are in Recovery Fellowship
Building Capacity of Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Leaders to Enhance Community Safety Fellowship
Supporting Law Enforcement Outreach, Communication, and Engagement to Enhance Awareness of BJA Resources Fellowship
Enhancing the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Implementation Efforts Fellowship
Assessing Pretrial Practices and Supporting Data-driven Pretrial Approaches Fellowship:

Funding Information

Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards – $350,000.

Grant Period

Period of Performance Duration (Months) – 24.

Eligibility Criteria

Individuals
State governments
City or township governments
Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
County governments
Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
Nonprofits having 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

For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.