The National Institute of Corrections inviting applications from nonprofit organizations to provide training for pretrial decision-makers throughout the United States.
Donor Name: National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/14/2022
Grants Size: $150,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The National Institute of Corrections recognizes the necessity for state and local criminal justice systems to develop pretrial justice systems and agencies with established structures based on the law and evidence-based practices that help practitioners make consistent pretrial release and detention decisions. The pretrial release or detention decision is critical and is known to affect future criminal justice decisions and outcomes for a defendant. Because of the potential of this decision has to influence future criminal justices outcomes, NIC has made significant investments in the development of sound and fundamental information and tools that will support fair, just, and consistent pretrial release and detention decisions that increase public safety and court appearance during the pretrial phase of a case.
NIC’s strategy to meet its mission and goals is to provide the the pretrial services field with a series of responsive trainings, individualized onsite pretrial system and agency assessments, and publications. Individually and collectively these interventions are intended to build the capacity of pretrial decision makers to make legal and evidence-based decisions supported by effective pretrial justice system and agency practices. The result should be the overarching goals of maximizing public safety, maximizing court appearance, and maximizing release.
Goals
The following are goals for this project:
- Provide training to a wide range of criminal justice stakeholders that is delivered by content experts who have extensive experience working and/or training in the legal and evidence-based practices field. This training should be specific to building and managing a high functioning pretrial justice system and agency. Identified content experts must be able to provide coaching and training in various situations, including instructor-led curriculum-based training and peer coaching.
- Identify and recommend trainers whose content expertise will meet the goals of the scope of work. Recommend trainers to the NIC project manager, who will have final approval.
- After the recommended trainer(s) have been approved by the NIC project manager, the vendor will be responsible for all costs associated with fulfilling their scope of work, including fees, travel, and per diem.
- All training will be grounded in the principles and elements outlined in NIC’s publication A Framework for Pretrial Justice: Elements of a High Functioning Pretrial Justice System and Agency
Funding Information
NIC expects to make one award for as much as $150,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning on April 14, 2022. Requests for amounts in excess of a total of $150,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required. NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing.
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