Deadline: 31-Jul-23
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Facilitating Behavior Change Training 2.0.
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Facilitating Behavior Change Training consists of 32 hours of blended learning that prepares participants to gain the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to incorporate CCPs into one-on-one supervision interactions with persons incarcerated or under community supervision. NIC is currently collaborating with CRJ delivering the training to selected sites nationally; results of the training evaluations from these trainings will lead to adjustments to curriculum and delivery strategies. This cooperative agreement incorporate the changes to the original curriculum and will continue to build on the delivery and development of Facilitating Behavior Change training resources with the delivery of the blended training to jails and prisons (case management and reentry staff), community supervision (pretrial, probation and parole) agencies at the various tribal, local, state, and Federal (BOP) agencies to increase the opportunity for post-release success.
Goal: The goal of this cooperative agreement is to prepare and deliver up to 25 Facilitating Behavior Change trainings to accepted applicants.
Objectives
- Prepare and deliver 25 twenty-five, 32-hour blended Facilitating Behavior Change trainings to agencies identified by NIC through an agency application process.
- Develop and administer a two-staged Participant Readiness Evaluation Tool that identifies individual participant readiness to receive the FBC training and readiness to apply the learned skills.
- Provide up to 4 hours of post training coaching support for each individual as identified by the Participant Readiness Evaluation Too
Components
- The Facilitating Behavior Change blended training consists of three important components:
- Two (2) Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) Sessions – VILT sessions are live, online training events conducted using a virtual classroom platform. The goal of these two sessions are to familiarize and build participant competency with the online platform. This should facilitate participant learning and participation in subsequent modules, help participants establish a baseline understanding of the connection of Principles of Effective Intervention to Core Correctional Practices ( CCPs), and understand how CCP skills are learned and applied using the ITIP framework. Participants are assigned intersession work as part of the training. This component of the training consists of 4 hours.
- Seven (7) Instructor-Led Training (ILT) Sessions – ILT sessions are traditional face-to-face classroom training events and are three days in duration. The goal of these sessions is to allow participants to learn, practice, and discuss CCPs through lectures, small group exercises, guided practice, videos, group discussion and feedback. This component of the training consists is 24 hours (three 8-hour days) of instructor-led training.
- Two (2) VILT Coaching and Feedback Sessions – The goals of these sessions are to discuss participants’ independent practice and experience using CCP skills and to provide them with coaching and feedback. This component of the training is 4 hours of individual coaching per participant.
Funding Information
- NIC expects to make one award for as much as $1,000,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning on September 1, 2023. Requests for amounts more than a total of $1,000,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
Evidence-Based Programs or Practices
- NIC strongly emphasizes the use of data and evidence in policy making and program development.
- improving the quantity and quality of evidence NIC generates;
- integrating evidence into program, practice, and policy decisions within NIC and the field; and
- improving the translation of evidence into practice.
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.
- NIC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
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