Deadline: 28 April 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding for state, local, and tribal community corrections agencies to improve supervision capacity to prevent recidivism and reduce crime in their jurisdictions.
This program furthers the Department’s mission by reducing recidivism and building a comprehensive violent crime reduction strategy.
The Innovations in Supervision Initiative provides opportunities for community corrections agencies to improve supervision outcomes for individuals they supervise.
The goal of the FY 2020 Innovations in Supervision Initiative (ISI) is to improve the capacity and effectiveness of probation and parole agencies to increase probation and parole success rates and reduce the rate of recidivism for those under supervision. Such efforts would reduce crime, victimization, admissions to prisons and jails, and save taxpayer dollars.
Objectives
BJA will select up to five entities to pursue the following objectives:
- Reduce recidivism and violent crime, in particular.
- Align community corrections agency practices with best and evidence-based practices to improve probationer/parolee outcomes on supervision:
- Focus resources on individuals at high risk of recidivating and at higher risk of committing violence, including using normed and validated risk assessments to inform case management decisions.
- Implement effective community supervision practices, including incorporating incentives and sanctions into the supervision process to encourage positive behavior changes.
- Implement continuous quality improvement plans that measure outcomes and promote accountability.
- Develop, implement and test innovative tools to predict violent recidivism and/or share information with criminal justice partners.
- Promote and increase collaboration among agencies and officials who work in probation, parole, pretrial, law enforcement, treatment, reentry, and related community corrections fields.
Deliverables
- An action plan, which will be a product of collaboration between the supervision agency and technical assistance provider.
- Final report.
Funding Information
- Estimated maximum dollar amount for each award $1,000,000;
- Total amount anticipated to be awarded under solicitation $5,000,000;
- Period of performance duration 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to apply:
- Special district governments;
- State governments;
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized);
- City or township governments;
- County governments.
BJA encourages applications from jurisdictions who have not yet benefited from the Second Chance Act or Innovations in Supervision Initiative programming.
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=324966