Deadline: 06-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) are seeking applications for funding training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to help states pursue a Justice Reinvestment Initiative approach to implement data-driven strategies to improve public safety by reducing corrections spending and reinvesting those savings in efforts to decrease crime and strengthen neighborhoods.
Goal
- The goal of this program is to facilitate states’ use of the data-driven justice reinvestment process to examine policies, practices, and outcomes across their criminal justice systems.
- In the course of that work, this program can build capacity for state systems to return to post pandemic operation levels and sustain/advance virtual or other operations that resulted in improved or streamlined operations as a result of the pandemic.
- Additionally, this program seeks to assess the outcomes of those efforts and build states’ capacity to continue monitoring, assessing, and improving them.
Objectives
The objectives of the JRI State-level Training and Technical Assistance Program are to:
- Identify drivers of criminal justice resource consumption.
- Improve states’ capacity to prevent and respond to crime, including reducing the risk for recidivism (as measured by arrests for new crimes, convictions for new crimes, incarcerations for new crimes, and revocations based on technical violations). Specifically, identify individuals’ risks for recidivism and related substance use and mental health needs, and mitigate their risk for engaging in criminal behavior or being the victims of crime in order to promote their successful reintegration into their communities after incarceration.
- Improve public safety through a reallocation of resources in high performing crime- and recidivism-reduction efforts.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $9,400,000.00
- Category 1: Up to two awards totaling $8,800,000 (of which $2,000,000 will pass through to the states in the amount of $500,000 per state)
- Category 2: One award up to $600,000
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Categories
BJA is seeking applications under two categories of assistance to support JRI: (1) training and technical assistance and (2) policy assessment.
- Category 1: Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Up to two awards will be made to entities to provide TTA to four states to use the JRI process. The total amount is anticipated to be $8,800,000, of which $2,000,000 will pass through to the states ($500,000 per state) to support their implementation efforts.
- Category 2: Policy Assessment One award for up to $600,000 will be made to an entity to assess the outcomes of the policy and practice changes that states will make through their JRI engagements.
Eligibility Criteria
- For profit organizations other than small businesses, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Small businesses, Other
- Applicants must demonstrate expertise to conduct complex data analysis and understand and address regional and state-specific criminal justice problems.
- 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=333514