The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is accepting applications for its Strengthening Community Supervision Agency Operations Program.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/19/2026
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This NOFO will support state, local, and tribal community supervision agencies to develop more effective probation and parole programs and improve supervision outcomes by strengthening operations to prevent recidivism and reduce violent crime.
- Category 1: Smart Supervision
- Category 1 will support the development, implementation, and/or testing of strategies to reduce recidivism among probation and/or parole populations.
- Category 2: Implementing Swift, Certain, and Fair Principles
- Category 2 will support replication of the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) model of responding to behavior of individuals on supervision with swift, certain, and fair consequences (SCF).
Goals
Category 1 (Smart Supervision)
- Goal: Strengthen supervision agencies’ capacity to reduce recidivism by enhancing both external partnership collaboration and internal workforce capabilities.
- Objective 1: Increase collaboration with justice, health, and non-profit organizations to address needs of people on supervision to reduce crime committed by and improve outcomes for people under supervision.
- Objective 2: Support the recruitment, training, retention, and wellness of supervision agency staff to perform critical public safety functions.
Category 2 (Swift, Certain, Fair Principles)
- Goal: Improve community supervision agencies’ operational capacity to reduce recidivism and violent crime.
- Objective 1: Improve effective supervision strategies, such as by implementing best practices that incorporate key swift, certain, and/or fair principles
- Objective 2: Focus resources on individuals at high risk of recidivating and at higher risk of committing violence.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $10,687,630
- Category 1: Smart Supervision: Up to $1,000,000
- Category 2: Implementing SCF Principles: Up to $1,000,000
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
The types of entities that are eligible to apply for funding opportunity are listed below:
- Government Entities
- State governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Other
- Organizing body or association of supervision agencies
- Other units of local government
State Government Entities: For the purposes of this NOFO, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
