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Community Supervision Strategies

Link

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-bja-2024-172023

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, training, and technical assistance to community supervision agencies to build capacity, reduce recidivism, and improve outcomes for individuals under supervision. Utilizes research-informed strategies and data to engage stakeholders in collaborative problem-solving to enhance responses to client behavior and improve public safety. For this opportunity, community supervision includes adult probation, parole, or pretrial supervision or their equivalents such as prosecutor-led post-adjudication diversion.

Objectives include:

  • Identify a target population for the proposed project using a collaborative, data-driven process that is responsive to local circumstances
  • Develop and implement supervision strategies based on principles of swiftness, certainty, and/or fairness, including responses to both positive and negative client behaviors
  • Reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people under supervision
  • Evaluate strategies' effectiveness in reducing recidivism and improving outcomes through an external research partner

Proposed projects may seek to impact an entire supervision population or a subset of it, such as people under pretrial supervision, probationers and parolees at moderate to high risk to re-offend, young adult and/or female probation clients, and parolees with opioid use disorder.

Past examples of implemented collaborative supervision strategies include expanding access to behavioral health and substance use disorder interventions, such as evidence-based treatment services and recovery housing.

Amount of Funding

Award ceiling: $900,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 7
Estimated total program funding: $4,500,000

Who Can Apply

Eligible applicants include:

  • States and territories
  • City, township, county, or special district governments
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
  • Organizing bodies or associations of supervision agencies that may submit a single application for a project engaging more than one supervision office, district, or agency

Priority consideration is given to proposals that 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.

Geographic Coverage

Nationwide

What This Program Funds

Capacity Building • Operating Costs and Staffing

Application Process

Application instructions, requirements, and other information about the online application process 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.

Applicant webinar recording

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 programmatic and technical questions:
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Response Center
800-851-3420
TTY at 301-240-6310
grants@ncjrs.gov

Topics This Program Addresses

Housing and Homelessness • Re-entry and Community Supervision • Substance Use Disorder • Treatment