The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to deliver training and technical assistance to SCA grantees and the field.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
States: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Deadline: 07/25/2023
Size of the Grant: $3,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund up to four organizations to deliver training and technical assistance to SCA grantees and the field. It includes four categories for funding:
- Category 1: National Reentry Resource Center
- Category 2: Corrections and Community Engagement
- Category 3: Health and Housing
- Category 4: Education and Employment
Category 1: National Reentry Resource Center
Goals
- The primary goal of the NRRC is to advance knowledge and practice of the reentry field by identifying and promoting evidence-based practices and supporting innovation, serve as the centralized coordinator of the SCA TTA providers and grantees, and educate correctional leaders, service providers, and the public about reentry issues.
Objectives
The objectives of the NRRC are the following:
- Serve as a centralized online location for reentry information for dissemination to the field that includes a mechanism for online technical assistance (TA).
- Provide overall education and other reentry and recidivism reduction resources to various audiences that include tribes, state and local government agencies, U.S. territories, service providers, nonprofit organizations (including faith-based and community organizations), corrections institutions, people returning home to their communities from incarceration, and other stakeholder groups.
- Support BJA, SCA TTA providers, and federal interagency initiatives by translating their products and initiatives to the field.
Category 2: Corrections and Community Engagement TTA
Goals
This awardee will serve as the TTA provider to SCA grantees for the following BJA programs and advance the field at large on related topics:
- Smart Reentry: Expanding Jail Programs and Services
- Community-based Reentry
- Community-based Reentry Incubator Initiative
Objectives
- Corrections: Work with BJA to develop and provide tools, training, and resources aimed at helping jails and prisons and their correctional leadership, agency supervisors, and staff to implement proposed projects; make decisions and allocate resources; operate and scale programs; and manage individuals and reentry processes with the goal of reducing recidivism. This includes testing and developing strategies to identify people at high risk for violent recidivism and referring to supervision and community-based violence intervention initiatives as appropriate.
- Communities: Work with BJA to develop and provide tools, training, and resources aimed at helping community-based organizations to engage with departments of correction and local justice partners, as well as implement or expand evidence-based programs with the goal of reducing recidivism. Provide community-based organizations with tailored resources and tips for partnering with correctional agencies on reentry grants, including strategies for leveraging organizational expertise to meet the needs of underserved and historically marginalized and underserved communities.
Category 3: Health and Housing TTA
Goals
This awardee will serve as the TTA provider to SCA grantees for the following BJA programs and advance the field at large on related topics:
- Improving Reentry for Adults with Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
- Adult Reentry, Education, Employment, Treatment, and Recovery Program (Treatment category only)
- Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Outcomes for Adults in Reentry
- Pay for Success Initiatives
- Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Programs
Objectives
- Health Service Financing: Provide technical assistance to states and facilities that, through expanded state Medicaid plans, are able to be reimbursed for Medicaid-eligible services provided to approved Medicaid-eligible individuals for some period prior to release. This can include assisting state departments of correction and jails covered by these newly expanded, approved state Medicaid plans in changing their policies and practices to exercise this new coverage option. State and local specific ad hoc technical assistance can be provided, as well as materials developed to assist the field at large.
- Behavioral Health: Increase adoption of evidence-based practices to improve access to health services and treatment for people both prerelease and in reentry with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. For example, improve the provision of evidence-based treatment and collaborative case planning during incarceration and the collaboration, information sharing, and access to community-based services and treatment to ensure that treatment plans and medications established while people were incarcerated will continue post-release. This includes efforts to support continuity of care through case management and peer support. This also includes working with jurisdictions to improve the provision of community-based clinical and recovery supports to reentering adults with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders who are at risk of or are in need of crisis support through comprehensive and collaborative crisis stabilization and reentry programming.
- Housing: Address the challenges that people in reentry face in securing stable, affordable housing. For example, identify model programs and/or policies that have been successfully implemented and develop resources for people in the field to adopt according to their local circumstances. Applicants should be prepared to work closely with BJA and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to promote strong collaborations between corrections and local continuums of care and housing providers, with the goal that no individuals who were incarcerated will be homeless upon release.
- Family Support: Help corrections and partners translate knowledge about the value of family connections and support into expanded opportunities for adults to maintain, establish, or otherwise address connections and improve family engagement and reintegration post release. This will include targeted efforts to unique reentry challenges among individuals who were incarcerated as youth and are reentering the community as adults.
Category 4: Education and Employment TTA
Goals
This awardee will serve as the TTA provider to SCA grantees for the following BJA programs and advance the field at large on related topics:
- Adult Reentry and Employment Strategic Planning and Implementation Program
- Comprehensive Adult Reentry, Education, and Employment to Reduce Recidivism Strategies Program
- Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes Program
Objectives
- Education: Improve correctional education, prepare adults for meaningful careers, and increase their employability. For example, identify effective strategies to earn high school diplomas and their equivalents, provide postsecondary education, and/or provide career and technical credentialing prior to release. Assist correctional systems and facilities to build partnerships with colleges and universities and expand access to education via Federal Pell Grants.
- Employment: Improve employment by increasing the number of individuals who are work ready and improving fair chance hiring practices to receive them. For example, reduce barriers to occupational licensing, ensure training programs align with local employment opportunities, and conduct an industry analysis of career opportunities that are viable and of value to adults in reentry. Assist jurisdictions to understand labor market needs and create prerelease and post-release education, employment preparation, and training opportunities to increase success for reentrants in both first chance and second chance jobs and economic mobility.
Funding Information
- NRRC
- Dollar Amount for Award: 3,000,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Corrections and Community Engagement
- Dollar Amount for Award: 2,000,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Health and Housing
- Dollar Amount for Award: 2,750,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Education and Employment
- Dollar Amount for Award: 2,000,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- 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
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
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