U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey Announces More Than $60 Million In Grants Available To Support Prisoners' Successful Reentry Into Their Communities

Knoxville, Tenn. – U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee 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 U.S. Attorney’s office will continue to make a concerted effort to cooperate with our law enforcement and community partners to be both smart and tough on crime. Our office components include crime prevention, prosecution of serious and violent criminals, and the successful reentry of ex-offenders," said U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey.

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

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