The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to provide national training and technical assistance to support the local Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) Program sites and share resources with the field to address persistent and high crime in neighborhoods through community-oriented crime reduction strategies that are collaborative, community-led, evidence based, integrated into broader revitalization efforts, and sustainable.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $750,000
Grant Duration: 30 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund one provider to support community leaders from BCJI sites and their law enforcement partners by delivering a wide range of training and technical assistance (TTA) services designed to build trust and promote coordination of community-based crime prevention and reduction efforts with enforcement strategies. The selected TTA provider will support all current BCJI grantees to plan and implement data-driven, cross-sector strategies to reduce crime and violence, and will also work with current and former leaders and researchers in BCJI sites to document lessons learned and research supported over the last decade of this initiative. The results of the BCJI sites’ efforts will be shared widely to assist other communities with improving and enhancing their crime reduction efforts. This program focuses on high crime communities experiencing increases in crime in locations that are distressed and hotspots of crime.
Goals
The goal of the BCJI TTA Program is to support the final cohort of BCJI Program sites to leverage the expertise of the current BCJI leaders and develop tools and share resources with the field to address persistent and high crime neighborhoods through community-oriented crime reduction strategies that are collaborative, community-led, evidence-based, integrated into broader revitalization efforts, and sustainable.
Objectives
The objectives of the BCJI TTA Program are:
- Ensure translation of knowledge developed in the BCJI Program by proactively managing, facilitating, and supporting the last set of 20 BCJI grantees throughout their grant period that ends in 2025.
- Document the BCJI experience and share resources and training by engaging experts from prior sites and incorporating lessons learned into current project sites. These resources should address key issues and areas that can support the BCJI sites and other investments. The TTA provider will conduct a review of strategies and create tools that help communities to implement:
- Place-based, community-oriented strategies in communities experiencing precipitous increases in crime that effectively identify, assess, and target violent and serious crime hotspots or crime problems.
- Collaborative partnerships and trust-building among law enforcement, criminal justice system partners, and community members, resulting in coordinated and/or integrated strategies that are place and community oriented. This will be coordinated with current efforts by BJA, including a curriculum being developed by other providers on trust between communities and law enforcement.
- An actionable set of tools to support local planning processes to clearly define crime drivers and select a set of data-driven strategies that link directly to the identified crime drivers. Tools and resources should be informed by an exploration and assessment of the broad base of strategies to address the drivers of crime, including not only crime prevention and enforcement but using tools that can address conditions of distress and risk for residents in the community, while building capacity and promoting revitalization.
- Outreach to over 100 communities that have implemented data-driven, collaborative community engagement through BCJI to ensure that the final products reflect the full set of data, research, and expertise developed in the BCJI Program since FY 2011, proposing cost-effective partnerships such as using local partners or expertise as experts either as staff, consultants, or through mentor sites or paid stipends for work. Consider organizing event(s) to bring experts together from this work and other efforts.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $750,000
- Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $750,000
Period of Performance: 30 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
