Deadline: 7-Jul-23
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 for the Restrictive Housing Populations Training Program.
This program is designed to build the capacity of federal, state, local, and tribal correctional agencies to develop, establish, and enhance restrictive housing operations and programs.
This National Institute of Corrections (NIC) program will fund training and technical assistance to federal, state, local, and tribal correctional agencies that will build their capacity to develop, enhance, and maintain restrictive housing programs that support safe, humane conditions that prepare people who are incarcerated for reintegration into both the general population and society at large.
NIC’s training approach will address the most challenging questions facing correctional officials: What is the best way for correctional agencies to manage their most violent and disruptive incarcerated population? How can they best protect the most vulnerable and victimized among them? And what is the safest and most humane way to do so? Additionally, people incarcerated with serious mental illness (SMI) and are violent or disruptive pose a special challenge to correctional agencies nationwide. Their behavior often requires their removal from the general population, and yet traditional forms of restrictive housing present many challenges. NIC’s restrictive housing training focuses on best practices around identification, placement, and management of the entire incarcerated population, including those with SMI.
Goals
- The goal of this program is to safely reduce restrictive housing populations by providing training to federal, state, local, and tribal correctional agencies concerning best and promising restrictive housing practices.
Objectives
- The following are the primary objectives of this project:
- Update and revise existing Managing Restrictive Housing Populations ILT and VILT curricula for jails and prisons and develop adjunct and support content and material as needed.
- Provide ILT and VILT restrictive housing training to federal, state, local, and tribal correctional agencies.
Funding Information
- NIC expects to make one award for as much as $400,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning within August 14, 2023. Requests for amounts more than a total of $400,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
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 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.