The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA ) is accepting applications for its Second Chance Act Training and Technical Assistance Program.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/10/2026
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This NOFO will support Second Chance Act grantees, with a particular focus on Smart Reentry program grantees, to assess community reentry strategies and implement or expand interventions to address identified gaps in technical areas to reduce recidivism and improve public safety, including technology adoption and expansion to enhance reentry strategies, and statistical analysis support to inform and achieve identified objectives.
Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: Improve Second Chance Act grantee capacity to implement effective reentry programs that improve outcomes.
- Objective 1: Support adoption and/or enhancement of technology/technical solutions (e.g. data collection and storage solutions/electronic health records; data integration; data mapping and visualization; case management; telehealth; mobile supervision applications; risk assessment software; compliance monitoring and reporting databases) that supports individuals reentering and the professionals supporting them.
- Objective 2: Provide technical guidance on methodologies and analytics to support validation studies, assessing impact, and linking and matching across large administrative datasets that requires advanced statistical and modeling skills.
- Objective 3: To execute formal agreements to ensure direct service delivery is not unnecessarily delayed and to support required program evaluations.
Funding Information
- Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $605,000
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $605,000
- Period of Performance: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Educational Organizations
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For-Profit Organizations
- Organizations other than small businesses
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
