Deadline: 6-Jul-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding to prevent and reduce crime and enhance the criminal justice system through innovative approaches that accelerate justice by identifying, defining, and responding to emerging or chronic crime problems and systemic issues using innovative approaches.
Under this solicitation, BJA seeks to accelerate justice by inviting the field to identify, define, and test innovative or promising solutions that address one of the priority focus areas faced by one or more components of the criminal justice continuum (including but not limited to law enforcement, courts, and corrections, as well as with community or behavioral health collaborations) and propose a strategy to translate and enhance capacity of the field overall to address these issues.
All applications submitted in response to this solicitation must address one or both of the following issues:
- substance use disorders, and/or
- precipitous increase in crime or a particular type of crime.
Goals
Within these issue areas, BJA is seeking to address the following goals:
- Accelerate justice and enhance capacity of criminal justice leaders to reduce rates of incarceration, community correctional control, and racial disparities, including alternative strategies and systems such as restorative justice approaches and diversion particularly for persons with substance use disorders and which respond to increases in crime.
- Combat, address, or otherwise respond to precipitous or extraordinary increases in crime, or in a type or types of crime.
- Target and reduce violent crime, particularly hate crimes.
- Enhance collaboration across justice, behavioral health, and public health to address barriers for people impacted by the criminal justice system.
- Improve relationships between communities and the criminal justice system by building trust and confidence, increasing access to justice, and improving actual and perceptions of fairness across the justice system, including crime associated with substance use disorders and/or increases in crime.
- Institutionalize innovative and effective practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $8,425,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Category 1:
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Public housing authorities/American Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the 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
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Category 2:
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education)
- Public housing authorities/American Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the 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
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- For purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Regional applications must be submitted by one eligible entity on behalf of multiple entities that include state, local, or tribal representation.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340199
