The Minnesota Department of Public Safety is accepting applications for its Minnesota Byrne Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) Criminal and Juvenile Justice Intervention Grant Program.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Public Safety
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/14/2023
Size of the Grant: $150,000-$250,000
Details:
The Minnesota Byrne Justice Assistance Grants strategic planning process identified criminal and juvenile justice intervention for adults and juveniles as a public safety funding priority. Additionally, top concerns include drug and alcohol abuse as well as addressing mental health issues, including co-occurring issues.
The Minnesota JAG Criminal and Juvenile Justice Intervention grants seek to improve public safety by supporting intervention activities for adults or juveniles who have had initial involvement and/or activities that will reduce further involvement in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
An intervention is a program or project that helps disrupt practice/s or behaviors of individuals or communities with the goal of increasing their safety. Interventions happen in different settings including communities, schools, corrections, detention centers, courts, or in the home. Research has shown that interventions create change by:
- Influencing individuals’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and skills;
- Increasing social support; and
- Creating supportive environments, policies and resources within organizations
Funding Information
- Budgets Less than $3 M: 150,000 -$250,000
- Budgets More than $3 M : $150,000-$250,000
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible activities includes, but are not limited to:
- Restorative practices-Providing a safe space to talk and come up with solutions (such as restorative circles)
- Diversion options- Alternative options for people other than entering the criminal justice system
- Bail reform- Removing the barrier of having enough money to be released from detention and instead, focusing on an individual’s chances of harming others
- Targeted Community Engagement through outreach and situational de-escalation
- Systems change work– Getting public support to address a root cause of a problem in the criminal justice system and educating others on the solution
- Case management– Providing support around basic needs and to help a person meet their goals
- Mental health– Using mental health services as a problem solving solution (such as training school staff and students)
- Pretrial services– Supervision and monitoring of defendants during pretrial period
- Reentry services– Providing support and programming for people returning from a corrections institution
- Screening and Assessment– Adding these tools to a process to correctly identify issues earlier enough to address and give information to help with decision making
- Addressing Criminogenic Needs– Targeting criminal thinking, behavior and identity through cognitive behavioral interventions
- Family Engagement– Focusing on the family as a whole and increased family involvement
- Address substance use disorder or behavioral health care– According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Prevention Principles, intervention programs addressing drug and alcohol abuse should:
- Enhance a person’s or a community’s strengths and skills and reduces the risk of dangers that lead to drug use
- Address all forms of drug abuse, including underage use of legal drugs
- Should be tailored to a specific population (age, gender, ethnicity)
- Recidivism Reduction– Reducing a person’s chances of returning to detention should be using the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model:
- Risk – providing services that match an offender’s risk of reoffending, with most intensive supervision and services focused on people most likely to reoffend;
- Need – focusing treatment on the causes that promote criminal behavior in a person
- Responsivity- tailoring activities and services to a person
- Reducing Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Justice Systems– MN Juvenile Justice Advisory Council’s Disparities Reduction Model
Project Requirements
Community and Systems Partnerships Since interventions rarely, if ever occur within one organization or system it is expected that the key stakeholders of your project are invited and authentically engaged with all aspects of this process. Genuine partnerships and collaborations involve clear roles and responsibilities. As well as for partners to be compensated whenever possible. Grantees should work together in partnership with relevant stakeholders, which may be systems partners, other community organizations, local public health, businesses, or other government agencies.
Eligible Applicants
Local units of government including cities, counties, townships, and tribal governments. A nonprofit is eligible to apply as long as they have a valid Variable Pass-Thru Waiver. Agencies working together will identify one agency as applicant and legal grant recipient; budgets can include subgrants or contracts with partner agencies. Eligible applicants must be registered with the Minnesota Secretary of State and not suspended or debarred by the State or the Federal Government.
For more information, visit Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
