The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks applications for funding to conduct research and evaluation on correctional climate and culture.
Donor Name: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $3,500,000.00
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform their understanding of the impact of culture and climate on the ability of correctional agencies to achieve their missions, most fundamentally: to maintain a safe, humane, and secure environment for both staff and incarcerated individuals in the institutions that they manage; to recruit and retain staff; and to promote and sustain needed changes in their organizational cultures, operations, and programs to better achieve their missions.
NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of study, including, but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers, and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement.
Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable.
NIJ seeks proposals that include robust, creative, and multi-pronged dissemination strategies that include strategic partnerships with organizations and associations that are best equipped to ensure that research findings lead to changes in policies and practices related to the subjects of study. Special consideration will be given to proposals that dedicate at least 15% of the requested project award funding toward implementing such strategies, as demonstrated in the Budget Worksheet and Budget Narrative.
Goals
The goal of this program is to develop evidence to inform their understanding of the factors that contribute to correctional culture and climate, what works to improve correctional culture and climate, and the impacts of such efforts on outcomes related to the health and safety of correctional staff and incarcerated populations and the recruitment and retention of correctional staff.
Objectives
The primary objective of this solicitation is to award research grants to generate and advance knowledge regarding efforts to measure and improve culture and climate and their impacts on:
- the safety, health, and wellness of both correctional staff and incarcerated persons;
- issues of correctional agency staffing, retention, and training as they pertain to correctional culture and the well-being of staff and incarcerated persons; and
- strategies that promote and sustain needed change in the organizational cultural of corrections agencies.
Funding Information
Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $3,500,000.00
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
Up to 60 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Independent school districts
- Small businesses
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
For the 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.
Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign colleges and universities are not eligible to apply. Federal agencies are eligible to apply. (Any award made to a federal agency will be made as an inter-agency reimbursable agreement.)
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