The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding to provide community supervision agencies with organizational resources for the planning, adoption, and sustaining of innovations that support behavioral change in individuals under community supervision.
Donor Name: National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $200,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
Community supervision organizations are increasing investment in adopting effective supervision interventions as a growing body of research indicates that staff well trained in evidence-based practices improve public safety outcomes. More specifically, the community supervision profession is focusing on interventions that support behavior change and moving away from using only control and containment supervision strategies. Research indicates that when community supervision staff employ evidence-based approaches that reduce risk and need, and couple them with skillful use of innovations such as Core Correctional Practices (i.e., effective reinforcement, cognitive restructuring, and professional alliance), they become adept at helping persons under community supervision identify thinking errors, develop problem-solving skills, and gain the ability to reinforce these new skills. A growing body of research indicates that evidence-based practices with solid quality implementation reach the intended outcome of reducing the likelihood of individuals under supervision engaging in future criminal behavior, better than interventions with poor implementation designs.
Community supervision organizations need the ability to assess organizational readiness and implementation design to initiate and sustain implementation of Evidence-based Practices (EBP) effectively.
The goal of the proposed project is to help organizations identify and address the context (organizational cultures, management styles, policies and procedures, and environments) in which they are delivering evidence-based practices, focusing on characteristics essential to reengineering and creating effective organizations that support behavior change for persons under community supervision.
Goal
Through the activities of this solicitation, the goal of this cooperative agreement is to deliver technical assistance and training to assist organizations with assessing organizational readiness and supporting implementation of tactical plans to improve the use and sustainability of EBPs in support of behavioral change among supervised individuals.
Objectives
The tasks to be performed under this cooperative agreement will include the following:
- Participate in a scheduled virtual planning meeting with the NIC project manager to clarify project goals, objectives, and deliverables, including discussing a timeline of activities and role clarification within 30 days of the award.
- Work with NIC project manager to develop an application process for organizations to apply for training and technical assistance. The application process will include developing a site assessment to determine if the technical assistance and training is appropriate for the applicant. Assist NIC with identifying three sites to receive technical assistance and training.
- Assess organization readiness by the use of virtual and on-site meetings with agency leadership, supervisors, and staff to review agency activities, documents and other materials that can contribute to the readiness assessment.
- Share organizational assessment findings and prepare organizations to process and translate their findings into a tactical plan.
- Assist organizations with implementing individualized tactical plans that focus on developing the appropriate infrastructure to support behavior change interventions and practices.
- Developing a plan and process for how NIC’s virtual learning community will be used to provide the pilot sites with learning opportunities.
- Provide ongoing support and coaching to help organizations implement changes that focus on the four components of organizational redesign.
Funding Information
NIC expects to make one award for as much as $200,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning on May 26, 2023. Requests for amounts more than a total of $200,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
If the awardee demonstrates significant progress toward implementing project activities and achieving project goals, NIC may, in certain cases, provide supplemental non-competitive funding for FY 2024 and FY 2025 to the awardee. With the supplemental funding, the project period can be extended up to two additional 12-month increments for an overall project period of 36 months. Important considerations in decisions regarding supplemental funding include, among other factors, the availability of funding, strategic priorities, assessment of the quality of the management of the award (for example, timeliness and quality of progress reports), and assessment of the progress of the work funded under the Award.
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.
- 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 the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.
- NIC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
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