Deadline: 6-Feb-24
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 for the delivery of two trainings each of Gender-Informed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons and Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach, two training programs designed to assist correctional leaders and agencies in the management of women in confinement.
The applicant for this solicitation should demonstrate at least 10 years of correctional management experience. The applicant must demonstrate an understanding of the challenges of women in confinement and why gender-responsive training is significant. The applicant should also demonstrate experience in delivering face to face training programs to groups of up to 30 adults.
- Gender-Informed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons
- This training is designed to assist senior managers and administrators of women’s facilities with the operational management and correctional policy and practices that are affected by gender differences. Participants will engage in learning that clarifies gender differences while avoiding an over-identification of issues that may be common to male and female populations. NIC will provide the current training program agenda, modules, and the presentation slide deck to the cooperative agreement awardee.
- There are two locations under consideration for Gender-Informed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons and Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach. They are the National Center for Employee Development facility in Norman, OK, and the Bureau of Land Management National Training Center in Phoenix, AZ. Participant travel (transportation) and per diem (lodging and meals) will be the responsibility of the National Institute of Corrections.
- Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach
- The program is delivered in three sequential phases – online learning, face-to-face training, and follow-up coaching. Through blended learning delivery, this 32-hour program leads participant teams through strategic planning to develop an agency plan that provides coordination and direction to manage justice-involved women effectively. The plan will guide the development of agency policies and procedures to ensure that responsive and effective services are provided to meet the supervision and programming needs of justice-involved women. The curriculum is designed to assist agencies in implementing planned change.
- The curriculum is research-based, gender-informed (women), and designed for making systemic changes to improve the management of justice-involved women. Identified outcomes for enhanced policy and practice may include working toward reductions in recidivism and intermediate outcomes such as harm reduction, improved program participation rates, the decreased use of disciplinary sanctions, successful reintegration/reentry, and improvements in community stabilization.
Goal
The goal of this cooperative agreement is to encourage the development and implementation of gender responsive policies, practices, programs and services through the training delivery of Gender-Informed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons and Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach.
Objectives
- The following are objectives the awardee must meet to successfully satisfy this scope of work:
- Kickoff Meeting: The NIC program manager and the awardee will set a date and time for initial kickoff meeting to begin work to establish the project expectations and roles and responsibilities within 30 days of the award.
- Identify a Lead team member to coordinate the pre-work materials as identified.
- Coordination: The awardee will hire subject matter experts to facilitate four trainings (two each of GenderInformed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons and Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach). The awardee will work with the NIC program manager to determine training logistics, such as time, place, and number of participants.
- Delivery of Training: NIC will work with the awardee to select locations, dates, and times to deliver the training.
- Update and revise curriculum and resource materials as needed.
Funding Information
NIC expects to make one award for as much as $150,000.00 for a 12-month project period, beginning on March 22, 2024. Requests for amounts more than a total of $150,000.00, including direct and indirect costs will not be considered.
Deliverables
The successful applicant must complete the following deliverables during the project period. The program narrative should reflect how the applicant will accomplish these activities. The tasks and deliverables to be completed by the awardee under this cooperative agreement include the following:
- Participate in a one-day kick off meeting within 15 days of the date of award. This will include discussion about required elements of the cooperative agreement, pre-training communication with participants, as appropriate, and the program content and agenda for both programs. Minimally, this collaborative meeting must include the NIC project manager and one awardee point of contact or project manager.
- Contract with and compensate NIC-approved facilitators for each training event, minimum of four subject matter experts for each training with varying skill sets and depth and breadth of experiences and backgrounds needed to facilitate gender-informed corrections training..
- Update module statistics for the Gender-Informed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons classroom training, as appropriate, with current Bureau of Justice Statistics researched data.
- For each training, at a minimum of two weeks prior to each scheduled training delivery, provide the NIC program manager with a participant list.
- Facilitate one 36-hour Gender-Informed Practices in the Management of Women’s Prisons classroom training with 24 participants. For this program, provide a participant guide, facilitator guide, pre- and post-test assessments, course evaluations, table tents, name tags, handouts, and a daily icebreaker activity.
- Deliver the program in #7 with a modified three day agenda. This will be one onsite, state-hosted, classroom training with up to 30 participants. For this program, provide a participant guide, facilitator guide, pre- and post-test assessments, course evaluations, table tents, name tags, handouts, and a daily icebreaker activity
- Contract with and compensate NIC-approved facilitators for each training event.
- Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach classroom
- Facilitate one 32-hour Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach classroom training with up to 30 participants. For this program, provide a participant manual, facilitator manual, pre- and post-test assessments, course evaluations, table tents, name tags, handouts, and a daily icebreaker activity.
- Facilitate one onsite, state-hosted, 24-hour Justice-Involved Women: Developing an Agencywide Approach classroom training with up to 30 participants.
- Facilitate two hours virtual pre-work with included for the participants in #2
- Manage six hours of supportive coaching for the developmental plan of the agency.
- Contract with and compensate three NIC-approved facilitators for each training with varying skill sets and depth and breadth of experiences and backgrounds needed to facilitate gender-informed corrections training.
- Awardee will supply a post-test assessments, course evaluations, table tents, name tags, handouts, and a daily icebreaker activity.
- Provide professional printing, duplication, and shipping of NIC’s training materials, including participant manuals, pre- and post-test materials, table tents, name tags, handouts, and a daily icebreaker activity, and evaluations, to the training locations in advance of scheduled delivery.
- The trainings will be conducted at sites approved by NIC. All participant travel expenses (e.g., roundtrip airfare/transportation, lodging, and per diem) are the responsibility of NIC. All consultant (facilitators and subject matter experts) travel expenses (e.g., routine airfare, transportation, lodging, and per diem) is the responsibility of the awardee.
- Provide summary of the training experience.
Eligibility Criteria
- NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education). Recipients, including for-profit organizations, must agree to waive any profit or fee for services. Foreign governments, international organizations, and non-governmental international organizations/institutions are not eligible to apply. Proof of 501(c) (3) status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service or an authorizing tribal resolution is required.
- NIC welcomes applications that involve two or more entities; however, one eligible entity must be the applicant and the others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant must be the entity with primary responsibility for administering the funding and managing the entire program. Only one (1) application will be accepted from a submitting organization.
- NIC may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
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