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

PHOENIX, Ariz. – U.S. Attorney Michael Bailey 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.

“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,” said Katharine T. Sullivan, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. “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

RELEASE NUMBER:  2020-041_Reentry Grants

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