Deadline: 7-Jun-22
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding reentry services and programs focused on strengthening education and employment outcomes for individuals returning from incarceration.
Goals
- Category 1: Improving Correctional Education Improve the educational and vocational education programs available to individuals incarcerated in prisons and jails and upon return to the community. Services should begin prior to release from incarceration and continue throughout participants’ period of reentry.
- Category 2: Improving Employment Services and Connections Provide career training, including subsidized employment when part of a training program, to adults incarcerated in prisons and jails and upon return to the community. Services should begin prior to release from incarceration and continue throughout participants’ period of reentry. Remove regulatory employment barriers for incarcerated individual adults returning to communities.
Objectives
- Category 1: Improving Correctional Education
- 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: Improving Employment Services and Connections
- 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.
- Articulate and implement a robust vision for reentry employment with transitional supports and a focus on employment.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $21,600,000
- Award Ceiling: $900,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Others
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- City or township governments
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339638