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Second Chance Act Community-Based Reentry Program
Link
https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2024-172024
Additional Links
Notice of Funding Opportunity (Grants.gov)
Solicitation Overview
Deadline
Application Deadline: Apr 29, 2024
Sponsor
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Purpose
Provides funding to organizations and tribal governments to support the provision of comprehensive reentry services designed to help individuals who have been incarcerated. Supports enhance or implement evidence-based responses to improve reentry, reduce recidivism, and support successful transitional planning for individuals who are currently, or were formerly, involved in the criminal justice system.
Funds may used for reentry supports and services, including but not limited to:
- Service coordination and tracking
- Gender-specific and trauma-informed programming and services
- Individual and group mentoring
- Peer supports
- Educational, literacy, and vocational services
- Substance use and mental health disorder treatment and recovery services
- Connections to physical healthcare
- Services to support family reunification and restoration
- Assistance in securing safe and affordable housing
- Civil legal assistance, such as help with securing driver's license or government issued identification, expunging criminal records, litigating inappropriate denials of housing or employment, creating/modifying child support orders, and providing other family law services to help stabilize individuals and families impacted by incarceration
- Staff training on victims' issues and to improve competency in working with current and/or formerly incarcerated individuals
Amount of Funding
Award ceiling: $750,000
Project period: 36 months
Estimated number of awards: 15
Estimated total program funding:
$9,750,000
Who Can Apply
Applications may be submitted by federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education.
Priority consideration is given to applicants that meet the following criteria:
- Proposals designed to meaningfully advance equity and remove barriers to accessing services and opportunities for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
- Applicants that demonstrate their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they are a population specific organization that serves communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.
- Applications that provide for an independent evaluation that includes, to the maximum extent feasible, random assignment of program participants to program delivery and control groups.
Geographic Coverage
Nationwide
What This Program Funds
Capacity Building • New Program • Operating Costs and Staffing
Application Process
Application requirements, instructions, and other relevant information can be found in the funding announcement.
Applications must be submitted electronically through a 2-step process:
- Step 1: Applicants will submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in grants.gov by the April 29, 2024 deadline.
- Step 2: Applicants will submit the full application, including attachments, in the JustGrants grants management system by the May 6, 2024 deadline.
Contact
For questions on submitting in
grants.gov:
800-518-4726
support@grants.gov
For questions on submitting in
JustGrants:
833-872-5175
JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov
For questions:
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Response Center
800-851-3420
TTY at 301-240-6310
grants@ncjrs.gov
Rural Awards
Past awards communities received in fiscal year 2024 can be found on the program website.
Rural communities who have received funding include:
- Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona in St. Johns, Arizona to facilitate the successful transition and reentry of justice-involved individuals returning to the target area after a period of incarceration. The service area for this project is Southern Apache County in the Tribal and nontribal areas located south of I-40.
- Strength In Peers in New Market, Virginia to reduce recidivism and improve behavioral health and reentry outcomes among individuals who are incarcerated in Page County Jail.
Topics This Program Addresses
American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians • Community Planning and Coalition Building • Community Supervision • Crime Reduction • Health and Wellness • Housing and Homelessness • Justice System • Mental Health • Social Services • Substance Use Disorder • Treatment