Deadline: 20-Jun-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications from organizations to build capability and capacity in community-based reentry programs by serving as an intermediary and providing subawards.
This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by reducing recidivism and facilitating the successful reintegration of individuals returning from incarceration.
Goals
- Strengthen communities by providing technical assistance, subawards, and administrative oversight to subawardee CBOs.
- Improve organizational, program, and financial management outcomes for CBOs that are working with individuals in reentry, including enhancing recidivism reduction strategies.
- Elevate the voices of justice-impacted leaders to build awareness and educate policymakers on specific challenges and needs.
Objectives
- Help subawardees develop strategies and partnerships that facilitate the implementation or enhancement of reentry programs at the local level by strengthening their operations which will ultimately improve community reintegration and recidivism outcomes for people leaving incarceration and during their reentry.
- Build the administrative, operational, and organizational capacity of subawardees to serve the target population effectively, which should include the use of comprehensive case management plans that directly address criminogenic risk and needs, as identified by validated criminogenic risk assessments, and deliver or facilitate services in a manner consistent with participants’ learning styles and abilities.
- Provide technical assistance to improve collaboration between CBOs and corrections, parole, probation, local reentry coalitions, other local reentry service providers, and stakeholders with a goal toward ensuring comprehensive and individualized reentry services while strengthening the ecosystem of reentry serves in a given jurisdiction.
- Ensure the responsible and effective administration of subawards to selected reentry service providing CBOs.
Priority Areas
The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
- Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
- In support of this Executive Order, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Applications that propose project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality.
- Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget WebBased Form) identify as a culturally specific organization.
- In support of this Executive Order, OJP will provide priority consideration when making award decisions to the following:
- Additional statutory priority considerations
- As articulated in the Second Chance Act, priority consideration will be given to applications that provide for an independent process evaluation.
- To receive priority consideration, applicants must specify, in the proposal narrative, how they will address the priority consideration(s).
- Note: Addressing these priority areas is one of many factors that OJP considers in making funding decisions. Receiving priority consideration for one or more priority areas does not guarantee an award.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 2
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $4,000,000.00
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 60
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $8,000,000.00
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.