Deadline: 21-Jun-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for the BJA Visiting Fellows Program.
Goals
To leverage the expertise and experience of the criminal justice field to address key gaps in the field for evidence-based training, technical assistance, and knowledge in the following focus and emerging areas:
- Supporting enhanced research partnership efforts to assist in the reduction of substance-use-related crime and overdose.
- Enhancing support for persons with criminal justice involvement that are in recovery.
- Building capacity to implement community violence intervention strategies.
- Supporting law enforcement outreach, communication, and engagement.
- Enhancing Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) implementation efforts.
- Assessing pretrial practices and supporting data-driven pretrial approaches.
Objectives
- Enhance BJA capacity and expertise to assess the technical assistance, training, and capacity-building needs in the focus areas.
- Bring real-world and lived experience and knowledge to BJA that enhances staff ability to deliver relevant and effective tools to the field.
- Support the development of criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and BJA/OJP staff members to advance BJA’s mission.
- Advance and translate knowledge about critical criminal justice issues and strategies and promote innovation.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,650,000
- Award Ceiling: $350,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 24
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Eligible applicants are limited to individuals; as well as state, tribal, or local governments, organizations; or academic institutions seeking to provide federal-level experience for one of their staff members. Organizations seeking to place an employee as a fellow under this program will not have programmatic oversight of that staff person for those activities conducted as part of the fellowship.
- 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.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339854