Deadline: 07-Jun-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding for the Innovations in Reentry Initiative (IRI): Building System Capacity and Testing Reentry Strategies to Reduce Recidivism.
Grantees will work with BJA to identify system gaps and then implement improvements to enhance the effectiveness of their reentry system or to implement or enhance a reentry program to reduce recidivism among a specific target population. Projects should propose to meet the following three-phased approach: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation over the 4-year grant period:
- Phase 1: Planning (up to 12 months) During the planning phase, grantees will have access to up to $75,000 of the grant award, will be required to participate in technical assistance, and will be required to complete and submit an Action Plan to guide implementation.
- Deliverable 1: Task Force Review.
- Engage a reentry task force to examine policies and practices in four capacity areas: data-driven decision making, staff allocation to maximize impact, quality and capacity of community providers to address client needs, and other barriers to successful reentry, such as housing.
- Engage a third-party evaluator in a research-practitioner partnership throughout the award period.
- Deliverable 2: Assessment Results and Action Plan.
- Develop an action plan to address gaps and deficits identified in the assessment.
- Project can propose either general system improvements to benefit all offenders in reentry or a reentry program focused on reducing recidivism among a target population (minimum 150 over grant period) — specific subset or subsets of reentering offenders — identified through data analysis as having a relatively high recidivism rate, a specific demographic or set of demographics (e.g., age, gender), returning to a particular jurisdiction area where a disproportionate population of offenders will be released from prisons or jails (e.g., specific neighborhood or ZIP code), or who are housed in the same facility prior to release.
- Deliverable 1: Task Force Review.
- Phase 2: Implementation (24 months)
- Deliverable 3: Preliminary Process Evaluation Reflecting System Improvements Due at 30 Months.
- Once a grantee’s Action Plan is approved by BJA, the grantee will proceed to the implementation phase to test strategies for addressing gaps and deficits and implementing this proposed project with the remainder of their grant funds.
- Deliverable 3: Preliminary Process Evaluation Reflecting System Improvements Due at 30 Months.
- Phase 3: Evaluation and Sustainability (12 months)
- Deliverable 4: Preliminary Outcome and/or Impact Evaluation Due at 36 Months.
- Deliverable 5: Final Process Evaluations Due at Grant Closeout, 90 Days After End of Grant Period (51 Months).
The goal of this phase is for the grantee to track recidivism and other outcomes defined in the evaluation to assess effectiveness of their project. Recidivism measures must include arrest, conviction, and incarceration.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $1,000,000.00
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $4,000,000.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 4
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 48
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), State governments, Other
- 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.
- To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.
- All recipients and subrecipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333276