Deadline: 16-Mar-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is seeking applications for funding 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 purpose of this program is to provide state, tribal, and local community corrections agencies with information, resources, and training and technical assistance (TTA) on ways to improve supervision capacity and partnerships with other justice agencies to prevent recidivism and reduce crime in their jurisdictions.
Goals
The goal of the FY 2021 Smart Probation: Innovations in Supervision Initiative is to develop, implement, and/or test strategies 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, and admissions to prisons and jails, and save taxpayer dollars.
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, including logic model where the objectives and activities are connected to the problem the applicant seeks to address.
- Final report
OJP Priority Areas
In FY 2021 and in addition to executing any program-specific prioritization that may be applicable, OJP will give priority consideration to applications as follows:
- Applications from federally-recognized tribes
- Applications that address specific challenges that rural communities face.
- Applications that demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent-poverty counties.
- Applications that offer enhancements to public safety in economically distressed communities (Qualified Opportunity Zones).
- Where the application is from a State or local government entity that operates at least one correctional facility (as defined at 34 U.S.C. 10251(a)(7)), applications that go to enhancing criminal justice and public safety by indicating agreement to comply with award conditions related to cooperation with federal law enforcement, as set forth in Appendix D.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 7
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $715,000.00
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $5,000,000.00
Eligible Applicants
- State governments
- Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- County governments
Additional Information on Eligibility
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. To advance Executive Order 13929 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 eligible for FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330946