U.S. Attorney Announces Nearly $60 Million in Grants Available to Support Prisoners’ Successful Reentry into Their Communities

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito today announced that nearly $60 million in Department of Justice grants is available to help communities address public safety by supporting successful reentry of adult and juvenile offenders into their communities.

“The vast majority of inmates will be eventually returning to society after having completed their sentences,” U.S. Attorney Carpenito said. “We want to make sure that when they do, they have the best possible chance at successfully reintegrating. The programs supported by these grants will help support those who are developing the strategies that will make that possible.”

“Our nation is facing difficult public safety challenges that demand strong and immediate action. The high rate of recidivism poses a dire threat to community safety and is being met with a robust response by this Administration,” Katharine T. Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs said. “The Department of Justice is front and center in the fight to meet this persistent challenge. OJP is making historic amounts of grant funding available to ensure that our communities have access to innovative and diverse solutions.”

The funding is available through OJP, the federal government’s leading source of public safety funding and crime victim assistance in state, local and tribal jurisdictions. OJP’s programs support a wide array of activities and services, including adult and juvenile reentry initiatives and research projects designed to improve our knowledge of what works in reentry programming. 

A number of funding opportunities are currently open, with several more opening in the near future. 

Correctional Adult Reentry Education, Employment, and Recidivism Reduction Strategies Program

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17104

Total Available $7.2 million                                       Deadline 4/27/2020

Improving Community Supervision Outcomes through Swift, Certain, and Fair Responses

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17096

Total Available $3 million                                          Deadline 4/28/2020

Improving Reentry for People with Substance Use Disorders Program

https://bja.ojp.gov/SCASUD20

Total Available $13.2 million                                     Deadline 4/27/2020    

Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity & Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17281

Total Available $4 million                                          Deadline 5/4/2020

Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives            https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-17295

Total Available $6 million                                         Deadline 5/5/2020      

Review and Validation of the First Step Act Risk Assessment Tool             https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/nij-2020-fsa

Total Available: Determined after selection               Deadline 4/10/2020

Second Chance Act Community-Based Reentry Program

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17110

Total Available $13.5 million                                     Deadline 5/4/2020

Second Chance Act Evaluation Participation Support

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/bja-2020-17680

Total Available $4 million                                         Deadline 4/28/2020

Second Chance Act Youth Offender Reentry Program

https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/media/document/ojjdp-2020-17350.pdf

Total Available $7 million                                          Deadline 4/28/2020

For more information regarding all OJP funding opportunities, visit https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities