Deadline: 22-Jun-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding under the Second Chance Act to develop a strategic plan for integrating correctional and employment programming/systems and/or establishing, expanding, and improving treatment for people with substance use disorders during incarceration and in order to help facilitate the successful reintegration of offenders returning to communities after a prison or jail sentence.
Goals
- Category 1: Improving Correctional Education
- Improve the academic and vocational education programs available to offenders in prisons and jails.
- Category 2: Improving Employment Services and Connections
- Provide career training, including subsidized employment, when part of a training program, to prisoners and reentering adults.
- Category 3: Improving Substance Use Treatment Services and Supports for Adults with Substance Use Disorders
- Enhance corrections systems’ ability to address the substance use treatment needs of offenders in order to reduce recidivism, promote recovery, and, in the process, to improve public safety and public health.
Objectives
- Category 1:
- Implement or expand educational and vocational programs for incarcerated adults that result in improved educational outcomes, as measured by literacy attainment, high school equivalence, high school and higher education diplomas, certifications, and other credentials.
- Demonstrate increased collaboration between educational providers and corrections, community supervision providers, and other reentry stakeholders.
- Category 2:
- Implement or expand job readiness assessments, individualized case plans, and employment-related services for incarcerated adults that result in improved job readiness, employment attainment, and retention.
- Category 3:
- Improve the provision of substance use disorder treatment to people in prisons and jails, through the reentry process, including during a period of parole or court supervision if applicable.
- Provide prison-based family treatment programs for incarcerated parents of minor children or pregnant women.
- Note: the target population for services under Category 3 can include people with substance use disorders as well as people with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $24,300,000.00
- Improving Correctional Education: $900,000.00
- Improving Vocational and Employment Services: $900,000.00
- Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services: $900,000.00
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, State governments, Other
- For purposes of this solicitation, the term “State” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virginia Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Eligible applicants may submit only one application per category but may apply to more than one category.
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333246
