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.
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