The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 for the development of a gender-responsive foundational training to give the country’s correctional agencies an additional resource to assist them with the increasing number of women involved with the criminal justice system.
Donor Name: National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Training or Mentorship
Deadline: 02/05/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Gender responsiveness is based on the characteristics of justice-involved women, how they differ from justice-involved men, and how the system should respond to them differently. By no means does being gender responsive substitute for accountability or the safety of an institution or a community corrections office, yet it looks at the reasons why women enter the criminal justice system and how the system can respond differently to gain better outcomes not only for the justice-involved women but for the staff as well.
While staff training is a vital component to the operation of any facility or community corrections office, gender-responsive training has not taken hold across the country. Decreasing budgets and staffing shortages have left agencies scrambling to get new hires into their open positions, retain the current staff they have, and continue with the required basic training. It has become apparent that gender-responsive training is not considered a requirement for basic training.
This cooperative agreement is for the development of a two-day Gender-Responsive Foundational Training and pilot for staff working in federal, state, local, and tribal correctional agencies. This two-day program will focus on the management of justice-involved women in custody or under supervision. The curriculum should include modules on the pathways that lead women into the criminal justice system, gender differences, the effects of abuse and trauma, medical and mental health concerns, and the parenting stressors of the women incarcerated and on supervision. It should also include demonstrations and skill building exercises.
Goals
The goal of this cooperative agreement is to enhance the knowledge of corrections professionals throughout the country about the unique management needs of justice-involved women.
Objectives
- Develop a two-day gender-responsive training curriculum incorporating material supplied by the NIC program manager.
- Pilot the curriculum.
- Create evaluations for participants to assess knowledge and skills before and after their training.
- Revise the curriculum upon completion of the pilot.
Funding Information
NIC expects to make one award for as much as $150,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning on March 20, 2024. Requests for amounts more than a total of $150,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
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. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. 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.
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